Des Arc citizen., 1860-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

------lt is all old proverb that boys will be boys.n What a pity t isn't equally true that men will be men,.
 ---sDoctor. what do you think Is the cause of this frequent rush. of blood to my head ?" 70, it's nothing but an effort 0f nature. Nature abhors vacnum.o
 Pew pity us for our misfortunes--r thousands hate us for our success s'A
 Ut is said that Tartars invite man to drink by gently pulling his ear. A good many of o,r people will take a ppll0 without waiting to have their ears pulled
 ---'. Is it not curious,o said an old gentle man, few dayssince, to hisfrieud, s'a watch should be perfectly dry when it has running spring inside Z"
 WISDOM. True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have 1t; and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.-[ TILLorsoN
 Some hearts, like primroses open most beautifully in the shadow of life
 Ut is an old saving, and very pretty one. that blush is like pretty girl, for 1t becomes a woman.
 "A fife of leisure and life of laziness are two different things.
 TO weep is often blessing; the gloom of the skies dissolves in rain, and that of the heart in tears a5laa 8fffsi f7ptA "A woman who makes home reality indeed, works no trivial work.
 - Keep home happy, for there you will Keep men pure.
 Law is a chain which virtue magnifies that it may attract from distance what It cannot even encircle.
 l -.Where are you going 2 asked little boy of another who had slipped and fallen down on an icy pavement--' Going to git up,' was the blunt reply
 ---Cato says the best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new
 -MEN are generally deserted inadversty. | When the sun sets, our very shadows Ieluse | to follow us. e 1 TAKE your place modestly at life's ban quet, and ask for nothing not in the oii' or rare.
 ---If man does not make new acquain, tances as he advaares through Ire, ne VIII soon find himself left alone
 "A wag says that in lourneying lately he was put in an omnibus with dozen persons: oI whom he did not know single one. Turning l a corner shortly after, the omnibus was upset; and then said he I found them all out.' -~Nothing prevents person from being l natural and easy, so much as extreme anxiety to appear so.
 l -'Tis the ready listener, not the tale lbearer, that worketh the mischief. Tns l listener is the match that kindleth the blaze.
 An Indian once brought up young lion, and finding him weak and harmless, never attempted to control him. Every day the lion gained in strength and became more manageable, until at last, when exeieed os rage, he fell upon the Indian and tore nm Q pieces. Our evil habi.s and passions very much resemble that lion.
 The correspondent of the Boston ! Atlas writes from Washington that Senator
 Douglas is reported to have said tna' le a.a
 not believe Le had any chance ef receissins the nomination at Charleston, and adds; . l.' that opinion many prominent politicians nese lconcur most fuilyo ~. FREE NEGROES IN MlssoURi.- ne Mis- souri Legislature has passed ea'' sASsu- ding free negroes from the State' anosf 'ls penalty of becoming slaves.