Des Arc citizen., 1859-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

l ious to revenge it. Let it drop. Itiswisdona
 to say little respecting tic injuries you may
 have received. m ssNia
 --The mist that hangs like silver scpssains
 around the plains before sunrise. and is lifted I by days golden cords out of our sighs. has
 death in tha wool; it is woven, here and there,
 of fatal threads.
 "A horse jockey, who incautiously Burn ed his fingers by taking upshs toast from tha fire, aud broke his plate by letting it fall obs served that 1t was too bad to lose the p,asc after winning the heat
 l - A fat man in an omnibus. tall man in n crowd, short man on parade, and q lady in a huge bonnet sitting before you at a public lecture, are declared to be four of the most un- popular personages of the day; the bonnet isa decided nuisance. TAI saa eAy 1 ---- My hairis eighteen years older than my whiskers," said a lawyer, "and I cannot understand why my whiskers should turn gray hrst?'' Because you have worked 50 much mofu with your jaws than your brains," re pe.ied Brown. ---- A facetious exchange, says the Hart- ford papers, gives list of births us well as Edeaths; but one fact does not speak we'll for the morals of the Nutmeg State--she births ali come BEFORE the marriages! 1 --They tell story of bachelor member of the Arkansas Legislature, who made asset speech'' to bouncing widow of his county and she sskicked him." To get revenge he goes upto Little Rock, the Capital, and in- troduces bill to prevent widows from msrry- l ing. The wretch!
 - One might as well attempt to calculate mathematicaly the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in kaleidoscope, as to look through the tube of the future and fore- tell its pattern. hss Fss a3 est
 No doubt there is room enough in the world for men and women, but it may be a serious question whether the latter arenot ta- l king up more than their share of 1t.
 --The water that has no taste is purest the air that has no odor is freshest and of all 1 the qualifications of manner, the most general 1 ly pleasing, is simplicity. M
 --As in literature we shall find some things that are true, and some that are new, but few things that are both true and new; SC also in life, we shall find some men that are great, and some men that are good, but few men that are both great and good. X m,&
 - A lawyer at Lowell. having found nine ty-five dollars, and returned the money to the owner, one of the papers says the act may De honest and honorable, but it iscxceedingly un- professional. a1ss s@1a form State association. Their seal will be a molar, with the motto, We pull together" - Never owe any man more than you ale able to pay, andnever allow any man to owe you more than you are able to lose. vg --I cannot call to mind that l have ever seen face bearing the impress of bad passions that did not also have upon t the stamp of suffering. sk
 --sssir," ]" said q young wife to her husband a few days after marriage, .you were hottest enough to toll me that your chimney smoked, but why didn't you tell me that you smoked yourself ?'' s'.s -----Doctor Charles Wilson has writsena volume of some hundred pages to explain the pArHoogy of drunkenness. Diogones dehnes 1t in two syllables--zig-zag laN as s.3 GENUINE FocLs -- He who vi pes his nose on a nutmeg gater, and picks his teeth with T razor. a4a M ssEt saa
 She who says "no,'' to proposal of q gen t:aman when she has reached the age of thirty He who gets so drunk at night, that he puts his clothes to bed, and hangs himself on the back of a chair.
 She who rubs her cheeks with brickbats In order to give them color.
 Heswho puts on his hat, and takes his'cApes and starts out in pursuit of an honest andf4la- interested politician.
 She who pinches aud slaps child to make it quit bawling.-[ Punch.
 ~-"What are you doing with that ium- ber?'' cried a steamboat captain to an Irish- man who was staggering toward the boat be- meath the weight of huge plank, just as the bell was ringing for the last time. "What am doing?, Sure, wasn't 1t yerself as said, | All ye's as going, get board,' and isn't tnis an illegant one entirelyYo said the HibernIan, ltriumphantly, amid the laughter of the specta- tors. The captain gave him his board and passage that trip. s M
 -Ata spiritual circle in Greenfield three cent piece, a five cent piece, and an old fashioned four-penee were thrown into the room through the window, without any yisi- ble or supposabe human agency. It is sup posed they came from an old grogdrinker, who haaleft this sphere without squaring his score at the tavern. ss tsiai
 COMMON ExPERrENcE.--John Wesley says; "When was young was sure of everything; in few years, having been mistaken thou- sand times, was not half so sure of most things as was before; at present am hardly sure ofanythiug but what God hadrssealed to man.n sHs W fas
 An ingenious down-easter has con structed miniature factory village, with eif- zines. wleels, windmills, carriages, water
 fails, persons walking, playing, swinging, etc, etc.. and the whole so delicately arranged,
 and so nicely adjusted, as to be put In eom-
 plete operation by single mouse, which travels in small circular cage, as squirrels '