Des Arc citizen., 1859-04-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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- Half a cranberry bound on corn will soon killit.
 -Whatever economy it is right for you to practice, you should never be ashamed of.
 --Wherever woman is that ''tlicksy god,n Love, must follow her.
 The heavens spread themselves truth fully above, whether they shine serenely or frown with black pretending clouds.
 "A few days since cent was sold in Boston for s2l. It was stamped in 1793. - Prentice says of tobacco, the more men FumE the less they FRET. 8 - A young lady says, that if cart wheel has nine fellows, 1t is pity if 3 woman can't have one. Sensible girl.
 - One of our finest writers says, that athe nightly dews come down upon us like blessiDgs,n How very differently the DAILY DUES come down upon us!
 - "Scrape Russian,'' said Napoleon, "and you will find Cossacls underneath"
 -They who are desirous can find partners to '.take the long path" with them, if they will only try. And, mark it, no man is good for anything until he is marriedp
 ---Conacience, be it ever So little worm while we are in health, grows suddenly to serpent on our death-bed.
 ---The Japanese have very few amuse- ments; the principal ones are wrestling jug glers and top spinners.
 - The best capital to begin life on is capital wife. Perhaps small capital one might suit better. "A Mir. HATE has recently been married in Chicago, to Miss Catharine WRATH. s 10 men of kindly nature and generous impulses it is ever an ungracious and disa- greeable duty to hold up to the light the faults and shortcomings of others.
 If Sickes is murderer. What is But ter-worth? Twenty cents pound in Woods feId.-[spirit of Democracy. - Now, papa, what is shumbug?" fit is, replied pa, "when ma pretends to be very fond of me, and puts no buttons on my. shirts" q saw him kiss your cheeli'' < Iris true" "Oh, modesty p ''Twas strictly kept; He thought me asleep; at least, knew
 He thought thought he thought slept"
 
 - If you are buying carpet for durabil- ity, choose small figures.
 An editor always considers HIS room better than his company.
 - ssKeep your dog away from me P said a dandy to butcher boy. "Blow the dog" replied the boy; he's always after puppies"
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 Picks husbands bones quite clean,
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 Must cry z No fat.'' ssS'a As his wife will cRI-No-LENE
 - Why is a carpenter a person to be summed Because he is continually s'boring and gouging." &
 - How is it that trees can put on new dress without opening their trunks It IS because they leave ont their summer clothing. - A theological professor, speaking of Balaam's ass, says it is wrong to doubt that the ass spoke like man, when we daily here so many men speak like asses.
 It is said in1ammatory rheumatism can be cured by the following simple method: "Half an ounce of pulverised saltpetre put in half pint of sweet oil. Bathe the parts affected, and sound cure will immediately follow.n
 It is generally observed that persons of about forty years--especially young ladies of that age--are very forgetful of those with whom they were acquainted in childhood. This remarkable di1nness of memory, has been appropriately styled !'the darkness of the middle ages.o
 Never marry girl who is fond of being on the street, who will see her mother work while she lies in bed and reads novels, who feigns sickness, yet will set up half the night with her .beau," and who is ashamed to own her mother.
 An editor says his attention was first drawn to matrimony by the skillful manner in which pretty girl handled broom. A brother editor says the manner in which his wife handles broom is not so very nleasing. PERFECTLY SoUND ON THE LEG QUESTION. A gentleman who wore cork leg, ordered his lawyer, who was making his will, dis tinctly to express therein hiseommaad that it should be buried with him, The gentleman saw the lawyers ill-suppressed smile. "Now you may smiIe,' said he, "and be darned; but if Pm to rise again. as am assured on pret- ty good authority that I shall; do you imagine that Pm going to be such ninny as te play shop-scoh' throughout all eternity, eh!" The lawyer saw the s'pint,D and put it down.
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