Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-10
Paragraphs from Oliver Wendell
Holiness Elsie Venner.''

scholar il, in large proportion of cases,
the son of scholars or or scholarly persons
Coon ministers will tell you they ave pa
rishioners who beat them in the practice of
the virtues
WHERE'S all the oranges gone ?" said
Mrs. Sprowle. "I expected there'd be ever
so many of 'em left. | didn't see many folks
eatin' oranges. Where's the skins of 'em {?
There out to be six dozen orange skins around
on the plates, and there aint one dozen. Has
anybody counted the spoons? Some of 'em
got swallowed perhaps. | hope they was
plated ones if they didp
WHEN New Englander has lost his self
respect as a citizen and man, he is demoral-
lied and cannot be trusted with the money
to pay for his dinner.
] KNOW the families who have way of
living through everything, and know the
other set who have the trick of dying with
| out any kind Of reason for it, | know the
years when the fevers and dysenteries are in
/ earnest, and when they're only making be-
lieve 1 know the folks that think they're
dying as soon as they are sick and the folks
that never find out they're sick till they're
dead.
CERTIFICATES are, for the most part, like
ostrich eggs the giver never knows what is
hatcbed out of them. But once in q thou
sand times they act as curses are said to-
come home to roost.
WHEN you find a person little better than
his word, little more liberal than his prom
ise a little more borne out in his statements by
his facts, little larger in deed than in speech,
YOU recognize kind Of eloquence in that
| persons utterance not laid down in Blair or
Campbell.
DEACON Shearer got his teachings out of
the " Vinegar Bible" (the one where yjaeyard
is misprinted vinegar, which good many
people seem to have adopted as the true
reading)
DocroRs are the best natured people in the
world, except when they get fighting with
/ each other.
TnE great and good Boerhave used to say
as | remember very well, that the poor were
his best patients; for God was their pay
master. But everybody is not as patient as
Boerhave. nor as deserving; so that the rich,
though not perhaps, the best patients, are
good enough for common practitioners.
suppose Boerheve put up with them when
he could not get poor ones, as he left his
daughter 2,00O, 900 forins when he died.
On yes! country doctor-half dollar a
| NisiI-rlue, rue, rlGe' all Jay -iluo HS"i"
ten miles in a snow storm shake powders
out of two phials. (pulv glycr rhis., oulp.
g'tni acac, aa parties equales,) ride back again,
if you don't happen to get stuck in drift
no home, no peace, no continuous meals, no
unbrolSen eleeP, no Sunday, no holiday. no
social intercourse. but one eternal jog, jog,
jog, in a aulky, until you feel like the mummy
Of an Indian who had been buried in a sit
ting posture, and was dug up one hundred
years afterward.
I HAVE real confidence in young men who
belive in themselves, and are accustomed to
rely on their resources from an early period.
When resolute young fellow steps up to the
great bully, the world, and takes him boldly
by the beard, he is often surprised to find il
come off, in his hand and that it was only
tied on to scare away timid adventures.