Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-08-25
Driftings.
He hath no leisure who use it not.
The worst pig often gets the best po

envy.
Fame a! how we profess 10 despise it,
and yet how we run after it.
The paper that is full of rows-ihe pa
per of pins.
Blind confidence is as much an evil as
open-eyed suspicion.
The stupid son of a stupid father is
chip of the old block head
A man is obliged to keep his word
when nobody vii! take it.
Take little gum arabic dissolved in
water, or lozenge previously to singing.
Murmur al nothing if our ills are re-
parable, it is ungraleiul if remedlless, il
is vain.
If you can say nothing wisely, hold
your peace.
you would be wise, learn justly to
estimate heaven and earth, the soul and
the body, time and eternity.
Small farms are, generally speaking the
most profitable. Too much territory is
the creates. evil farmers have 10 cope
with.
Patience, like children, becomes strong
by exercise.
Teach your children to help them
seIves-but not to what doesn't belong to
them.
The sun is every mans servant, work
ing every day in the year for hin, and
.sXacling no wages.
Let your tongue be guarded when in
company with talkslive people.
A man advanced t. greatness, who
makes others find their fortunes in his,
Joins great merit 10 great happiness.
Despise nothing because il seems weak.
The flies and locnsts have done more
hurt than ever the bears and lions did.
TO live truthlulIy and faithfully to-day
is better than to have died yesterday get
ting ready to end well is only to begin
we'll.
Woe to him who smiles not over a cra-
die, and weeps not over tomb.
When you do not know what 10 do, do
nothing.
What comes next to an oyster : The
shell.
In Utah, a man that has not more than
two wives is rated bachelor.
Dobbs says he is always glad when he
jams his toe, because il feels so good
when il is over
TO be hung around a girls neck till
you are dead. dead, dead, is a new defn-
ton OF the term capital punishment.
A bachelor friend Of ours is willing TO
unite himself in malrmony with any eli.
gible young lady who has large fortune
and cough!
Why is young lady just from board
ing school like building committee
Because she is ready to receive proposals.
One of the census takers in New Ha.
ven county, Connecticut, reports having
found | pairs Of twins in population Of
about 5000.
Sevenly-two white fe males were mar
ried TO negroes in the State of Massachus-
ellis last year.
young lady in Rails county captured
beaver lately and also The man who was
carrying it about on his head. Young la
dies are given 10 such tricks.
Some land was recently sold in the ci-
'ty of London at the rate of nine hundred
Thousand dollars per acre.
A pretty girl was lately complaining to
Quaker friend that she had cold, and
was sadly plagued in her lips by chaps.
Friend, said Obadiah, thee should never
suffer The chaps to come near thy lips
lady remarked of a very ignorant
man who was compIimented OIL his good
sense "Iie ought 10 have a great stock
of good sense, for he never spends any.
Better to be alone than in bad compa-
n.y. True, but unfortunately, many per-
sons are never in SO bad company as when
they are alone.
If the spring puts forth no blossoms in
summer there will be no beauty, and in
autumn no fruit. So, if the youth be lri.
fled away without improvement, ripper age
will be contemplate, and old age misera-
Die.
Many tender tie is broken,
Many gentle heart distressed,
By careless sentence spoken,
Spoken only as jest.
1t is a man who makes the most noise
that secures the attention of the world. A
silent elephant may remain unobserved
amid the foliage Of the wood, but cFoak.
ING bull frog will be sure to attract atten-
ZION in the darkest night.
Children whom grandmohers doat up
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