Des Arc citizen., 1859-05-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

BAxING HAM.-Most people boil ham. It is much better baked, if baked right Soak for an hour in clean water and wipe it dry; next spread it over with thin butter, and then put it into deep dish with sticks under it, to keep it out of the gravy. When 1t isl fully done, take off the skin and matter crusted upon the flesh side and set it away to cool. You will find it very delicious, but too rich for dyspep- tics.
 - When person runs away with wrong idea, can he be compelled to bring it back again?
 - TrinlSets, when worn by man, general man, they indicate self-esteem. = Prosperity is often as great $ foe to man as diversity. In life, as in meat at din- uer, a streak of fat and streak of iean are best.
 - Youth cannot always last. It must give place, ere long to manhood. Streams do not return to their sources, but forever flow on.
 - Give man brains and riches, and he is king; give him brains without riches, and he is slave; give him riches without brains and he is fool.
 - The current coin of life is-plaln, com mon sense. We drive more substantial and thriving trade with that than with aught else.
 --.s tell you fellow that specnates IS like brute driven in circle on barren heath by an evil spirit, whilst fair green meadows lie everywhere around. d.'-Gnthe.
 - If you cannot avoid a quarrel with bIackguard, let your lawyer manage it rather than yourself.
 -- The proverbial fault finder little thinks that, censuring so maliciously and indiscrimi- nateIy he is only painting his own portrait It is a secret consciousness of his own demerit, a gnawing rage at. the superiority of others, whichis the real cause of his want of charity
 - Happiness is much better to distribute than money. It is one of those valuable pro- auctions which money can't buy.
 Let children be children. Let them have their plays in their own way, and choose them for themselves. We only spoil it by in terfering.
 - Do not think you are fated to be miser- able because you are disappointed in your ex- pectations, and batied in your pursuits.
 - An untruth will not always screen us in the present and never in the end.
 = Creditors have better memories than debtors.
 - No man can avoid his own company so he had better make it as good as possible.
 - Washington visiting lady in his neigh borhood, on leaving the house a little girl was directed to open the door. He turned to the child and said, ( am sorry, my little dear, to give you so much trouble." ssI wish, sir" she replied, z it was to let you in.'
 - In one of the departments of Swltzer- land there is said to be over 2,0o0 girls con stantly engaged in making matches. All our girls are thus employed during all their single lives.
 -o The ugliest trades,u said Jerrold, have their moments of pleasure. NOW, were a grave-digger, or even nangman, tnere are some people could work for with great deal of enjoyment !"
 -A A rich man one day asked man of wlt what sort of thing opulence was? : It IS thing,v replied the philosopher, sswhich can give a rascal the advantage over an honest man."
 - The deacon of church over which a new pastor had settled, was praising his many good qualities to the deacon of nelghoorlng church. He declared that the new minister had but one fault in the world, and that was a propensity to become little quarrelsome when he gets drunk!"
 - Mr. Pulup coming home late, pretty full, finds the walk slippery, and exclaims. .'V-ver-very sing'lar, why whenever water freezes, it allus fr-freezes with the slippery side up :; very sin'glar."