Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-08-09
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
WAIT not for difficulties to cease; glo
ry lies in overcoming them.

WAIT not for difficulties to cease; glo-
ry lies in overcoming them.
When an actor "brings down the
house." where does he take it to.
Az old bachelor is a traveller on Iife's
rail road who has failed to make the
proper connections.
He who is impatient to become his
own master is most likely to become
merely his own slave.
The quickest way to make tall man
short is to borrow all the money he has
got.
| WE pass our lives in regretting the
past, complaining of the present, and in
dulging false hopes of the future.
The remembrance of beloved moth
er becomes the shadow OF all other ac-
tions; it either goes before or follows.
\ WISE man will desire no mole than
he may get justly, use soberly, distribute
cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
a coBwEB marriage is thus noticed by
one of our contemporaries; married last
week, John Cobb to Miss Kate Webb"
Men of genius are often dull and inert
insociety, as the blazing meteor when it
descends to the earth is only stone.
IF You are too timid to lay your hands
on the girl to whom you are making
love, she will think you are an unfeeling
monster.
THERE is no policy like polteness; and
good manner is the best thing in the
world to get good name or to supply the
want of it.
Ir is great blnnder in the pursuit of
happiness not to know when we have
got it; that is, not to be content with a
reasonable and possible measure of it.
THE best dowry to advance the mar
rige of a young laa is when she is in her
countenance mildness, in her speech wis
dom, in her behaviour modesty, iu her
life virtue.
A MAN that hath no virtue in himself,
ever eDvieth virtue in others; for mems
will either feed upon their own good, or
upon others evils; and who wanteth that
one will prey upon the other.
The Home Journal is responsible for
the latest and best definition of beauty
that which has troubled the brains Of the
wisest philosophers. 1t says: "Beauty,
dear readers, is the woman you lore
whatever she may seem to Others
"How is your husband, DEAR" asked
one lady of another.
"Oh, he's in very bad state" was
the reply.
"And pray, what kind of state is he
in?" persisted the other.
"In State Prison"
He that has never known adversity is
but half acquainted with others, or with
himself Constant success shows ms but
one side Of the world, for as it surrounds
us with friends who will tell us only our
merits, so it silences those enemies from
whom alone we can learn our defects.
"HALLo! say, what did you say your
medicine wonld cure?'
"Oh it will cnre anything-=heal any
thing"
"Well, I'll take hottie; may be IL
will heel my boots--they, need it bad
enough"
A friend of ours has Just returned from
the capital of a neighboring State, where
he succeeded in lobbying a bill, in which
he was personally interested. through the
Legislature. We'll did you persuade
them to pass yor bill?" was asked OF
, him. "les," said he pulling out his
! pocket book, Il parse swoyed them"
: $50 you are going to keep house are
e you?" asked an elderly maiden OF young
: woman recently married. YES" was
: the reply. "Going to have i,. girl sup
G pose?" was queried. The newly made
J. wife colored, and then responded that she
T. did not know whether ii woald be "gi'!
!, or boy"