The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1860-08-30
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ring events.
......Why is q bad picture like weak tea ?
Because it is not we'll drawn.
Tomorrow is the day on which lazy
people work, and fools reform.
...... Cultivate true sentiments, and good
manners will suggest themselves.
......Sorrows grow less and less every time
they are told, just like the age Of q woman.
1.-THE wicked are always surprised to
see talent and ingenuity combined in the
good.
. Little drops of rain brighten the mead
ows, and little acts Of kindness brighten the
world.
......Love may slumber in q young maid
ems heart, but not very soundly. 1t always
dreams.
...... Intellect is not the moral power con-
science is. Honor, not talent, makes the
gentleman.
......It is with charity as with money-the
more we stand in need of it the less we have
to give away.
......Timidity in q young man is better
than cold impotence. IT'S a pity the ladies
won't think so.
......During the last fifty years 1888 stu
dents were graduated at Yale College. Of
these 808 have died.
......Miss Fantadling says, if she amt
dead, she has lost her vital 'Spark'-the man
who used to sit up with her.
......Never wear q finer coat than the mer-
chant you owe for it, or the tailor whom you
have not paid for the making.
1--WE pass our lives in regretting the
past, complaining Of the present, and indulg-
ing fond hopes of the future.
1.-THE remembrance of a beloved moth
or becomes the shadow of all our actions
it either goes before or follows.
......Men ofgenius are often dull and inert
in society, as the blazing meteor when it de-
sends to earth is only a stone.
......An i'll tempered mar carries his own
smoke, and makes not only his own eyes
smart, but those Of other people.
. brown says the Estate of Matrimony"
is a slave State. As Brown has q termagant
wife, he certainly ought to know.
......At what period of life does a young
lady devote herself to Arithmetic2 When
she begins to sigh for (cypher) a lover.
..... What is stronger in death than in life?
An old, yellow legged hen. Ifyou don't be-
lieve it, try to dissect one after boiling.
......If you fall into misfortune disengage
yourself as well as you can. Creep through
those bushes that have the fewest briars.
1.-The extreme pleasure we take in talk
ing of ourselves should make us fear that we
give very little to those who listen to us.
...... Whatever is done skillfully appears to
be done with ease; and art, when once ma
tured to habit, vanishes from observation.
......Itis easy to exclude the noon-tide light
by closing the eye; and it is easy to resist
the %clearest truth by hardening the heart.
".s.,1HObc mcH Idlh mUSI WHU uTe III Ine
greatest mental darkness. Frogs cease their
croaking when light is brought to the water.
......Many beautiful women, when walking
in the streets, seem very angry if they are
gazed at, and sadly disappointed if they are
not.
......A young lady says the reason she car
ries a parasol is that the sun is of masculine
gender, and she cannot withstand his ardent
g~lances.
1.-Two girls, cousins, aged fifteen and
sixteen, hanged themselves in jackson coun-
ty, Iowa, recently, on account of loving the
same man.
There are some men so ~rascally that
it is only the fear of showing them our peck
cts that prevents us from turning our backs
upon them.
......A Western editor invites his friends
to look at his beautiful retreat" Ifhe shall
ever be in battle, they will perhaps have an
opportunity.
......A monthly says; "Woman is a link
between earth and heaven" Prentice, of the
Louisville Journal, says: $50 is a sausage
tossed in the air"
...... Perseverance is failing nineteen times
and succeeding the twentieth Blu when you
du succeed, good gracious me how the APP
plause does come down
...... Discomfort will live and be vigorous
on such slender diet that it is next to impos-
sible to starve it to death, when it has once
been brought into existence.
......Jeremy Taylor says that "a good wife
should be a l~ooking-glass to her husband
But we think she might and should make
him see her something better than himself.
......Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, ,
says IF when you visit a neighbor, he tell =
you in a surly voice, to make yourself at
home, obey him literally as soon as possible" '
......Deliver us from a woman who has a =
spirit Of disputation in her soul, who will pick !.
you up on the point of sharp sentence, as
you were a dropped stitch in her knitting S
work. I
......A dry needle will float on water, if
laid carefully upon it, owing to the repulsion j.
Of what scientists call 'the sphere Of repul- 1
sion" between the surface of the steel and /
the fluid. :
..".."0h, Jacob" said a master to his APP
ut is wonderful to see what a guam 4
you can eat" eyes, sir, said the boy,
Il have been practicing ever since l was a =
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.....Lord Bacon beautifully said tIf a !
man be gracious to strangers, it shows he is
a citizen of the world, and that his heart is {