Des Arc citizen., 1860-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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Humboldt said ten years ago; "govern- ments, religion, property. books are nothing but the scaffolding to educate man. Earth holds up to her Master no fruit but the fin- ished man. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thous htful man"
 STRANGE, HUT TRuE.--Ifa mans aim in this world be good, the chances are that he will miss fire in the next. .--[ Vanity Fair.
 Why. Tom. my dear fellow, how old you look P "Dare say, Bob, for the fact is, never was so old before in my ife."
 An old lady being asked to subscribe to newspa per, declined on the ground that when she wanted news she manufactured 1t. -. Bob. is that dog of yourn pointer" l" No he's half hunter and half setter he hunts bones when he's hungry, and sits by the stove when he's satisfied" "A rose without thorn-a woman without nails.
 ---The Salem (Mass) Gazette says that 1t is against the law to smoke in that place on Sunday.
 "A good question for debating societies: Which is the most delightful operation ssTo kiss fair woman on dark night or dark woman on fair night ?a
 An English wag, in defining an AL derman, said he was u citizen into whose Mediterranean mouth good things were perpetually flowing although none came out. tooth is the only wise thing in his head, and he has nothing particularly good about him but his digestion.
 It is Walter Scott, we think, who gives the pithy saying of the old Scotch wife, speaking of some turbulent highwayman, who had been beheaded She says: .slt was na great thing of held, to be sure, but it was sair loss to him, puir man."
 -Dissimuation is but faint kind of policy or wisdom, for it asketh a strong wit, and strong heart, to know when to tell the truth and to do it: therefore, it is the weaker set of politicians that are the great dissem- blers.--[ Bacon
 --'sI say landlord, that's mighty dirty towel for man to wpe.o Landlord, with look Of amazement, < We'll you are mighty particular. Sixty or seventy of my boarderss have wiped on that towel this morning, and you are the first one to find fault.o
 ---'s Why did you leave your last placer" inquired young house-keeper about to engage new servant. sWhy you see, ma am," moa- esty replied the applicant, .I was too good looking, and when l opened the door, most folks took me for the missus"
 The s' Local'' Of the PhiladeIphia North American thinks ( the day nay yet come when men are propelled by steam power, tue poiitfs ociHB PidScu " thcai Soos s@AA pockets"
 --Dr. Franklin. to kill turkey by an electric shock, received the whole battery himself, when he good natnredly observed that instead of killing turkey, be had nearly put an end to the existence of goose.
 THE OLD MAN's SEcREr.-An aged clergy man, who had known not one days illness, was asked his secret. ssDry feet and early risng,'' was his reply; Ssthese are my only two precautions"
 At fashionaby party in Washington City, few evenings since, gentleman was en- gagged in lively irritation with handsome young lady, when, happening to take ont his handkerchief, to his intense dismay, there dropped our of it roind ivory token known among gamblers as a "red check" whichroll- ed forth on the carpet and lodged directly under the brilliant gas light in full view of the company.
 ----If a lady yawns half dozen times in succession, young man, you may ger your hat.
 Running accounts will run away with persons credit more rapidly than anything else.
 The man that broke his arm in pulling whiskey punch out of a tumbler, has taken to sling.
 A Suspicious man would search pn- cushion for treason, and see daggers in needle case.
 "A man with a scolding wife moved into a swamp, where the dumb ague was prev alent. His wife was efectually cured.