The constitutional union., 1860-11-23
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

of society.
 To surpass the fashion, says Balzac, is to become carlcature. Bill posters practically obey the injunction stick to your business.
 Then who confines himself to the drink best for him is 'eeH-supplied.
 A large quantity of sorghum is being grown in North Carolina this season.
 He that finds a thing steals it if he endea- vors not to restore 1t.
 In the game of life we should watch for the ''last trump"
 He that is drunkard is qualified for all vice
 Bury not your faculties in the sepulchre of idleness
 The consciousness of sin is the first step to- ward amendment.
 Tomorrow is the day on which lazy peo- pie work and fools reform.
 The toilette is at once science an art. a habit and a sentiment.
 Little drops of rain brighten the meadows, and little acts of kindness brighten the world.
 Persons must surely rise to eloqucnce not by distinction, but by seeking worthy end
 Charity would lose its name if influenced by so mean motive as human praise.
 Intellect is not the moral power; consci- ence IS. Honor, not talent, makes the gen telman.
 Men arc said to admire that which they look up to- and love that which they look down upon.
 Generosity consits not in the sum given, but in the manner and the occasion ot its being bestowed
 To quell the pride even of the greatest, we should reflect how much more We owe to others than to ourselves.
 What difference is there between forms and ceremonies? You can sit upon one and stand on the other.
 Cincinnati has 23 3,1G1 men engaged as operatives in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits.
 An artist proposes to build "Bachelor's Hall, which will differ from most houses. in having no Ewes.
 In England every child is required by law to be able to read and write before it is per mitted to enter the coal and iron mines.
 The brute covers himself; the rich man or the fool arrays himself; the elegant man dresses himself
 John Vine Hall writer of religious books ! ', | T, land. aged eighty-seven years.
 So long as men are imprudent in their diet and business, doctors and lawyers will ride in carriages
 Hawthorne is among his acres in concord once more, engaged, it Is said, on romance of English Lie.
 The question now is not so much who shall be President of the Union as whether We shall have Union.
 Love can excuse anything except meanness; but mcamess kills love and cripples even natural affection.
 Happiness must arise from our own temper and actions, and not immediately from any external conditions
 The vibrations comunicated to the air by the human voice are occasionally sufficient to break glass vessels
 Time never passes so slowly and teliously as to the idle and listless. The best cure for dulness is to keep busy.
 Rain never falls in Peru The trado-winds blowing across Brazil condense all their moisture upon the Andes.
 The name mIlinor is derived from Milan, the city from which lIlan-ery goods were first imported into England
 We must not undervaIue physicians Per l haps the fabric of society would fall without them. They are its .pillers."
 Figures won't lie" is an old homely ex- pression but few man can look on fash ionabe women's figure now-a-days and say as much.
 \ man advertises for a competent person to undertake the sale of a new medicine, and adds that will be found profitable to the undertaken \ grocer's apprentice hung himself in Paris lately. and desired his parents to grave upon his tombstone: Born to be man, but died grocer.
 Seneca says that love is a disease It seems, sometimes, to be combination of dis eases-an affection of the heart and an infa- nation of tbe brain
 A Yankee according to the latest author ity, is a driving man. He sees aqueducts in bubbling springs, buildings ill stones, and cash in every thing.
 A proposition tn introduce German into the public schools of St. Louis has been de- feated in the board of Education by vote of nine to eleven.
 Sounds are more intense as the air is dcn- ser. In the arctic regions persons can con verse with ease at more than mile distant, when the mercury Is below zero.
 Madame George Sand, now in the sixtieth of her life, has just written a book in inlita- tion of Jane Eyro-that is in making the heroine a governess.
 The new United States Arsenal at San An tonic, Texas, is progressing rapidly The.