Columbia weekly news., 1859-12-08
A STRING OF PEARLS.

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Our life IS nothing but winters day,
| Some only break their fast, and so away;
Others stay to dinner. and depart full fed;
The deepest age but sups and goes to bed;
Hes most in debt that fingers out the day !;
Who dies bctimes has less and less to pay.
[QuERLEs.
Awe BIT OF Roy astOnished
his mother a few davs since. She had
occasion TO chasti~e him slightly for some
offence be had committed Charley
sat very quietly in his chair for some
time afterwards, no doubt thinking very
profoundly. At last he spoke out thus:
Mnzzer, wish pad get anntzzer
house-keeper; I've got tired seein' you
around
AN OH1o editor says: "What can
be more captivating than to see beau
tiful woman, say about four feet eleven
inches high, eleven feet four inches di-
ameter, aud thirty-four feet in circum-
ference, passing along the aisle, just as
divine service commences I"
A PEArTrFrL thought is suggested
in the Koran: ANGELS the grave
will not question thee as to the amount
Of wealth thou aast left behind thee,
but what good deeds thou hast done in
this world to entitle thee to seat
among the blest."
PHILLIPS. the Irish orator, speaks
thus feelingly of his birthplace: "There,
where the scenes of my childhood re-
minded me how innocent was, and the
graves Of my fathers admonish me how
pure I should continue"
In THE CASE of some of the newspa
rers that profess to be emphatically
family papers, the reader is expected to
sit down and make his repast of leg of
nothing and no trimmings.
IT is the great privilege of poverty
to be happy, unenvied-to be healthy
without pbysic-secure without guard
and to obtain from the bounty of ma
Lure, what tbs great and wealthy arc
compelled to procure by the help Of art.
Tho painter plays the spider, and ha tn woven
golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
Faster than knats in cobwebs But her eyes.
How could he see to do them Having
made one, (his,
Metbinks it should have power to steal both
And leave itself unfinished. (SHAksrEAnE
ALL our friends, perhaps, desire our
happiness but then it must be in their
own way what pity that they do not
employ the same zeal in making US
happy in ours!
The same ladies who would faint to
see mans shirt on clothes line will,
in waltz, lovingly repose their heads
on the bosom of the same garment when
the man is in it.
A COURTEOUS answer is as cheaply
given as a rufianly one for the former
you receive thanks and smile, and for
the latter you obtain neither there lies
the difference.
THE violet grows low and covers
itself with its own tears, and of all
flowers yields the sweetest fragrance.
Such is humility.
Those men talk the most who are in
the greatest mental darkness frogs
cease their croaking when light is
brought to the waterside.
WoMAN's eye appears more beauti-
full when it sparkles through tear, as a
| star seems more brilliant when it
sparkles on a wave.
"Do you," said Jane the other day,
g Love me in earnest, as you say
Or are those tender words applied
Alike to fifty girls beside ~
"Dear, cruel girl" cried l, forbear,
For. by those eyes, those lips, swear"
She stopped me, as the oath took,
And cried "You've sworn-aoao HISS
the book
IT is madness to make fortune she
mistress of events, because in herself
she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
IT is an old saying, but very pretty
one, that a blush is like pretty girl,
for it becomes woman.
To take her all in all, Miss Rachel Paul
Was not the worst upon the earthly ball
But then she was so very big and tall,
That no one liked to take her all in ALL
No pupil is so greatly to be pitied as
the pupil of the eye, for it is continually
under the lash.