The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-04-13
EXCERPTS.

It's exceedingly bad husbandry to bar-
row up tho feelings Of your wife.
The poor birds are not very bold race
aud yet great many Of them die game.
What goes most against farmers grain
Ills reaping-macLine.
A splendid ear but very poor roicr, as
the organ grinder said Of the donkcy.
A quack advertises compound that
will cnrc everything from bad character
to a temper.
What means Of conveyance by land and
what by sea, are ladies fondest of a-Busscs
aud smacks.
Somebody says that the best way to keen
food upon weak stomach is to Dol. it
down.
Moderation is the slken string running
through the pearl chain of al!,virlues.
On frosty day, what two fish ought we
to tie togetber?: S6ates and soies.
Falseliood is often rocked by truth, but
she soon outgrows her cradle and discar:!s
Ler nurse.
Boys should be very careful how tljcv
steer their life-barks if they would arrive
without shipwrccE at tile Isle of Man.
Fake not too much pride in mere man,
ners. Ihe finest dandy is not better at a
DOW than puppy is at a bow.wow. ,
An Indscreet person is like an unseal-
ed letter, which isseldom worth reading.
ltmav fairly be contended that inveterate
lazneas is the most effective labor-sapino
machine ever invented.
A villain gennerslly plays the coward
as If hesuPposed that the blackness of his
heart might be redeemed by the whi,eness
Of his liver.
Ihe bread Of life is love the salt Of life is
work; the sweetness of life, poetry the
Ndt0I VI Iilt ldlFr.
The secret Of ones Success or fa;l.ra in
nearly every enterprise is usually con,a ned
in the answer to tie question How earn
est is lie?
Natural wants are few and easily graft
bed ; only those which are artificial perplex
us BY their mulliplicity.-Borce.
'Doyou believe, sir, that the dead ever
walk after death NO doubt gift, madam
have heard the Dead March in SAUL
AN AFFEcTIoNATE BUILDING.-In the
advertisement of a new hotel, it is said, it
embraces about sixty rooms.'
a. tennessee paper announces that the
'napguratioalef the governor was celebrated
firing minats guns every half hour
'1don't think, husband, you are very
smart No. indeed, wife, but everybody
knows am awfully sbrewd.'
A young lads who had lost or mislaid her
beau' was advised to hang up the fiddle.
She said the advice did great violence to
her heart strings.
A1man is, in general, better pleased
says Dr.. Johnson, when he has a oood din.
ner upon bis table, than when his wife talks
Creek
Noth'ng is ever we'll done in small
household if the master and ministers are
ignorant OF the mode in which il should be
done:!sl
n ben his cousin Charlotte Dunno was
mafrIea: Jones said, 1t was Dame before It
was begun, Dunne' whilst it was doing and
It was not DnnDe when it was DONE
ZAP old lady once complained to her doc.
tor'lbat she could scarcely breathe. Don't
try, my good soul,' replied the candid
physician nobody wants yeu to do it.,
fhssssfea ;bcok Of The ancient Persian,
says :yon wish to be saint. iustruc,
your . Ss,nIe0' because all the good they
~ WIN peHnputed toyou.r'Ty
When Jemitha went to scboo. sbe "a,
asked wbyabe noun Bachelor was siupular :,
-Besaass She replied, 1T is q ,s;,s ysss s;no.
olar atthey don't, get married. E s. A, :
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estsf sesdi5 rude offences. Tiers 10
material @ifyshesbstweeu prettily a.kiu,
for laase Asa1hd ataliss the Who'll
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.sgsti aray nit de green horse b :ia, 40, },
broke at~xls,tree of do brick hodsss. u
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