Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-04-29
FACT, FUN, AND FANCY.

ES- The lady who knit her brows, ha
commenced pair of socks.
Gy- If o young lady yawns half
dozen times in succession, young man
get your hat.
ES" Ii man cannot find case With
himself, it is to little purpose to seek
anywhere else.
gE- Roast beef, serenity of mind,
pretty wife, and cold water baths, viii
make most any man healthy, wealthy
and wise"
FEY n little one, after undergoing tht
disagrceable operation of vaccination
exclaimed: "Now, | won't have to be
baptized, will 2"
EB- Politeness goes great ways.
Henry Ward Beecher says an impudent
clerk can do almost as much injury to a
store as the neglect of the proprietor to
advertise his wares.
FIXING. Waiting to get things fixed
before getting married, is like waiting until
we get ready to die. IT'S chance whe-
Their people ever get ready in either case.
PROSPERITY. We often live under a
cloud, and it is well for us that we do.
Uninterrupted sunshine would parch our
hearts; we want shade and rain to cool
and refresh them.
Gsy- From the cradle to the grave,
mankind need the aid of their fellows
we cannot exist without thigh or low,
rich or poor. 1t is condition of our
being all who need aid have right to
ask it; none who are able to give it can
refuse without danger.
IN EXAMpLE.-The Savannah Repub.
lican notices that ladies go out shopping
in that city sin calico or some similar
fabric, instead of costly silks, sweeping
the pavement with them," and recon,
mends it as an example worthy of imi-
tation.
Ey A preacher out west, while en-
deavoring to impress the gospel upon hi
hearers, pointed to a corner in which al
editor was quietly taking nap, and re
marked, There are some in the corner
who sled the gospel just like a goost
sheds rain"
Eg- An awkward man, in attempting
to carve goose, dropped it on the floor
There, now!' exclaimed his wife, eve
have lost our dinner" "Oh, no." an.
swered he, ''it's safe; I've got my fool
on it."
EaT The sprightly and--we must say
it--pretty editress of the Ashland Ken.
tuckian, in reply to correspondent who
asks her if she wears hoops, exclaims:
Hoops, indeed why, zee don't ,cea,
anything elser'
The italics are her own. We suppose
she tells the naked truth.
RESPECT PAID TO MONEY. I'm an ar
ticle in late number of the christian
Examiner" VIC find the following para,
graph;
mo race in this country will be des.
pissed which makes money. If we had
in Boston or New York ten Ourang- Gu
tangs with a million of dollars each,
they would visit in the best society; we
should leave cur cards at their doors,
and give them snug little dinner parties.
Eg- The Utica Herald gets off the
following good one:
''In his recent charge to the jury in
the Stephens murder case, Judge Roose-
welt, with remarkable candor, said: We
have the highest authority for saying, all
that man hath will he give for his life. ;
Now, by reference to the I'd chapter and
4th verse Of the book of job. we find
the high authority referred to by the
Judge: And Satan answered the Lord
and said, Skin for skin; yea, all that a
man hath will he give for his life"
E1- Avoid quotations, unless you are
well studied in their import, and feel
their pertinence. My friend, -, the
other day, while looking at the skeleton
OF an ass, which had been dug out Of o
sand pit. and admiring and wondering al
the structure Of that despised animal,
made very mal-adroit use of one. -
"Ah !" said he, with the deepest humili.
ty, and simplicity worthy Of La Fon
taine, "ice arc fcarfully and wonderfully
madep'
JuDGE NOT HARsHLY.--It is our dut,
TO view with charitable eye the doing
Of our fellow beings. Every man think
he can justify bis own acts, or else h
would not he guilty of them. Even th
scoundrel who desroils his neighbor {
either property or honor, will indulge i
specious argument 10 prove that he
not half so bad as you think him. !
viewing the transactions Of the errine
we should. for the sake Of humanity
Judge with mercy and allowance whilt
for the sake Of the world ut large, an
the benefit Of example, we should ncvc
hil 70 nliudicaic, either socially or leea
~. with ltrici Justice