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

a scholar ia, in large proportion of cases,
the son of scholars or or scholarly persons.
Coon ministers will tell you they have pa
rishoners who beat them in the practice of
the virtues.
WHERE'S all the oranges gone to % said
Mrs Sprowle. al expected thered be ever
so many of 'em left. ] didn't see many folks
eatn' 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. l hope they was,
plated ones if they did,"
WHEN a New Englander has lost his self
respect as a citizen and a man, he is demoral-
lied, and cannot be trusted with the money
to pay for his dinner.
] KNOW the families who have a 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 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 cut Of them. But once in q thou
sand times they act as curses are said to-
come home to roOst.
WHEN you find person little better than
his word, Il little more liberal than his prom
ise a little more borne out in his statements by
his facts, a little larger in deed than in speech
you recognize a 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 yineyard
is misprnted 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 100000 horins when he died.
On yesl country doctor-half dollar a
visit--ride, ride, ride. all day-ride again
ten miles in a snow storm. shake powders
out of two phials. (puIU. glycr rhiz., pulv.
g't0' acdc, aa parties eq"ales) ride back again,
if you don't happen to get stuck in drift
no home, no peace, no continuous meals, no
unbroien sleep, no Sunday, no holiday, no
social intercourse, but one eternal Jog, jog,
jog, in a suky, 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.
l 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 it
come off, in his hand, and that it was only
tied on to scare away timid ndventurers.