Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-28
salt and 6dlisdom.

g@Tom-sWhat ails your eye, Joe?''
3Joe-sI told man he lied.'
Why is the letter like sewing
machine. Because it makes needles
needless. e. a->ao-. ssa@
Da There is no man who would not
be mortified if he knew what his friends
thought of him.
p9rIt is sweet sometimes to abuse
ones relations, but bitter to hear them
abused by others. -.aas.5
rea. Better be despised for too anx-
ious apprehension than ruined by too
confident security.
B~ What is that which every man
can divide, but no man can see where it
had been divided Water. -
-.~ Probably the reason why SO little
was written in the Dark Ages, was that
people couldn't see to write.
paL Men of the noblest disposition
think themselves happiest when others
share their happiness with them.
a"You look as though you were
beside yourself as the wag said to a
fellow who stood beside donkey.
B@"Is that sage cheese of reflective
turn?" asked DR.. Spooner of the provision
dealer. "No, sir; not mite" was the
reply.
seA- Good temper is like sunny day,
it sheds brightness over everything; it
is the sweetener of toll, and the soother
of disquietude.
B6In Russia, when Cossack is ex-
travagant, they say, "He is eating his
candle at both ends.' Very fitting for
barbarian proyerb.
pe- An old lady being at loss for a
pin-cushion made one out of an onion.
The next morning she found that the
needles had tears in their eyes.
na.Never meet trouble half way, but
let him have the whole walk for his
pains. Very likely he may give up his
business in sight of the house. gs.
nA- It is great blunder in the pur-
suit of happiness not to know when we
have got it; that is not to be content
with reasonable and possible measure
of it.
HF Little Thomas Tittlebat is FIVE
years old. He was in the musing mood
the other day, and his mother asked him
what he was thinking about2 "Oh," said
he, "I was thinking of old times"
B@a1Iister, I say, I don't suppose
you don't know of nobody what don,t t
want to hire nobody to do nothing, don't
you?"
The answer was: "Yes, I DON'T
nAA gentleman coming into the room
of the late DR.. Barton, told him that Mr..
Vowel was dead.
,ssWhat," said he, "Vowel dead? Let
us be thankful it was neither or a.
nAp Constant success shows us 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
BB All duVeTtiScmeHt VI cHedp SuOeS
and fancy articles, in an Eastern paper,
has the following nota Jene: N. B. La
dies wishing those cheap shoes, will do
well to call soon, as they aca1I not last
longi %8
Da-A lady went to circus not long
since and was very much embarrassed
lest her class-leader should hear of her
being there. Her class-leader was very
much embarrassed in finding her there
himself. Ii
nA- "Taking them one with another"
said Sidney Smith, II believe my con-
gregation to be the most exemplary OBJ
servers of the religious ordinances; for
the poor keep all the fasts and the rich
keep all the feasts."
pA-A man with a moderate appetite
dined at hotel, and after eating the
whole of young pig, was asked if he
would have some pudding. He said he
didn't care much about pudding, but if
they had annother little hog he would
he thankful for it.