Smyrna times., 1859-04-07
DRIF TIN G S .


lor," says clever lady, "by looking al the cor
ners OF his pocket handkerchief. If notice in
them any little pieces of red, blue, or yellow
wOrsed-such as washerwomen run in to idcu-
tIty the property of each pdrate customcr-I
know at once that he has no one at home t.
mark his linen, aud that he must be poor
Pltfu, mlsanthroplcal, freudless, helpless old
bachelor"
--Great probity is not essentially nccessa-
ry tor the support of monarchy or despolIc
government. The force Of laws in the former,
IN the latter the arm of the prince lifted up,
commands all. In popular government, ano-
Their engine is necessary, virtue; because
nothing else will keep up the execution OF tue
laws aud the practice OF what is right.
"A gen us once undertook TO name and
classify the different sorts OF fools in this world.
First The ordinary fool second, the fool who
Is one aud don't know 1t; third, the fool who Is
not satisfied with being fool in reality, but
undertakes, in addition, 10 play the fool"
One of the hardest trials of those who
fall from alflueuce and honor TO poverty aud ob.
scurlty, Is the discovery that the attachment of
so many in whom they coutded was pretence,
mask to gain their own ends, or was a mSer-
able slallowness.
1t was smart boy who owned up III II
he Liked everything good but good whiPPing.
The same boy liked good rainy day, too rainy
to go TO school, aud just about rainy enough to
90 fishing.
Persons who are always cheerful and
good-humored, are very useful IN the world
they maintain peace and happ ness, and spread
thankful temper amongspll who live around
them.
An Irshman dropped letter into the
post-oifce the other day, with the following
memorandum on the envelope: Please has Ell
the delay of this"
"A Chnaman went into fancy goods
store and asked for some consistency. He had
heard consistency was u jewel, and he wanted
II specimen.
ALL who have medtated on the art OF
governing mankind have been convinced thai
the fate ofempircS depend on the education o.
youth.
Mrs Fantading says, if it were not in
tended that women should drive their hnsba nd
why are they put through the bridte ceremony
-Blyard Tay lor, after all, is a journey
man printer, and his Tales of Traveller .
might just as truly be termed Travels of =
Faylnr."
1t is a very remarkable fact that however
well young ladies' are versed in grammar, very
few of them can decline matrlmony.
Whose best works are most trampleC
upon A shoemaker's; because good shoes
last longer than bad ones.
BE contented and thankful; chcerfu
spirit makes labor light, sleep sweet, and al
around cheerful.
Among the advertisements in late Lon
don paper, we read that Two sisters wan
Washing"
: He who learns and makes no of hi
learning, is beast of burden with load o
books.
-" Don't harrow up my feelings" as th'
worm said when the pIow was passing owe
, him.
/ The boy who lost his balance on the roo
J, found it on the ground shortly afterward.
There is no landing ON the shore of fe
= lcty without sailing in the bark of fidelity
: -He that knows useful things, and not h
n that knows many things, is the wise man.
: The sunshine of life is made up of yer
u few beams that are bright all the time.
!. "A philosopher resembles cucumber
it when most cut up he is perfectly cool.
II -The man who trusts to the last OmnibU
ST generally has to walk home.
If begin life with but little show; you ma
y increase it afierward.
is There are two sorts of police-the d.
I'd tective and defective.
- Past men, like fast rivers, are general
r the shallowcst.