Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-07-14
Driftings.
Vice often turks close 10 viItue.
Depend on no great men.

Hold yourself 100 good TO do evil.
Fear no man SO much as yourself.
How 10 make people acknowledge the
Icorn--lread on their toes
There are five pounds of pure sulphur
in every 100 pounds of wool.
Why does kiss repeated puzzle young
ladies delightfully."- because il is a re-
buss.
Woman-Sbe is the only endurable
aristocral elects without voting gov
erns without law decides without ap-
peal.
Clay will permanently improve any
soil that is sandy or leachy. Lime and
leached ashes will also benefit leachy
land.
A friend has dog so very serious that
even his tail has not the least bit OF wag
about ii.
In what ship, and in what capacity, do
young ladies like to engage p! In court
ship as marryners.
Learn gladly Of others and whenever
they talk of wisdom, honor, happiness,
light, freedom, virtue, listen atlenIively.
Do not believe at once all you hear.
Words are only words, and when they
drive along so very easily and swiftly, be
on your guard ; for horses that draw a
valuable load travel slowly.
Ii is easy TO despise, but to understand
lis far better.
Teach not others until you have learn
ed yourself.
Scolding and swearing never did any
body any good. 1t hurts the child. it
hurts the parents, it is evil, and only evil,
everywhere and always.
If you would succeed in life attend well
10 your own business.
I Humility is the true cure for many a
needless hearache.
! Lying is one of those things that are
"no sooner said than DONE"
j If a young lady does not wish 10 har-
den her lovers heart why does she steal
lit?
What is a clerical error Preaching a
three hours sermon.
Dr.. Holland describes certain dismal
class of people-ihe grumblers-as sitting
on the north side of the tree of lie and
peeling rotten apples with rusty knife.
Excess of ceremony shows want Of
breeding.
Lorenzo Dow once said Of grasping
farmer, that if he had the whole world en-
closed in single field, he would not be
content without patch of ground on the
outside for potatoes.
To be idle and to be poor have always
been reproaches and, therefore, every
, man endeavors with the utmost care 10
, hide his poverty from others, and his idle
ness from himself.
; When Lord Erakine heard that some
body had died worth two hundred thou
} sand dollars he observed, "Wtll that's a
very pretty sum 10 begin the aext world
with.
Nothing is more odious than the face
that smiles abroad, bu, flashes fury amid
the caresses of tender wife and children.
Tyran,s have invented greater num-
ber OF ,orturiDg instruments than there are
nerves in the human body 10 be tortured.
Dickens says thieves generally seem to
care little for money when they have got
E it. No doub, il is 10 them simple alb
Estraciion.
! A lawyer having asked witness the
value of house, the answer was, "Thal
depends upon what sort Of a wife is in IT..
j The most striking instances Of the
union OF purse and sword are the maria
ges of rich widows 10 neady officers.
There is a man a. Oxford who lives so
fast that he is now absolutely older than
his father.
A clergyman Of Bangor was married in
bis church on Sunday. and Immediately
preached from the text "Ihis thing was
done in corner"
Queer Doings. party of males and
females were arrested on the streets of
Portsmouth, Ohio. the other day. the fe-
males being dressed in male attire, and
men in female attic. Their object was
10 have little fun.
The brother of nobleman in England.
worth 100000. was recently arrested
for stealing candles.
One act of charity is worth a century
of eloquence.
Tell me, angelic hosts, ye messenger
of love, shall swindled printers here be-
low, have DO redress above ? The shi-
ming angel band replied-.fo Us is know
ledge given. delinquents on The printers
book can never enter heaven