The weekly Butte record., 1862-03-08

- hlttens are but little cats;
Mouse traps are not county jails;
Whales are full as large as sprats;
They don't stuff geese with copper nails;
German waltz is not rhymn
The French are mostly born in France;
Fishes are not afraid to swim,
And'turkeys seldom learn TO dance.'
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THE first apple was eaten by the first par.
The foibles of the weak pallate the vices Of
the wicked.
Slander not others because they have SIAN
dered you.
The fellow who took ofense has not yet
returned it.
If our clothes are not very well cut, we are
apt to be cut ourselves.
Indulge in humor just as much as you please,
if it is not i'll humor
1t is less pain to learn in youth than to be
ignorant III age.
The pebbles in our path weary US aud make
US foot-sore more than the rocks.
Not every man that dives into the sea of
matrimouy brings up pearl.
We reason a good deal as we eat, more from
neces sity than knowledge.
Holiday motto-Presents endear absents.
Songs without words-ThoSe of that blessed
baby.
Responsibility is a thing that many people
are very willing to run in debt for.
A woman without any discrimination at all
has grace the less and sigh the more.
Difficulties and strong men, like strop and
razor. are made for each other.
Many who say they have given up would be
much mortified at being given up by others.
1t is the destiny of the obscure to be despl-
sed; it is the privilege of the iustrious to be
hated.
It is fortunate for Fortune that she is blind,
else she might blush to behold the fools she
patronizes.
Stupid people may eat but shouldn't talk.
Their mouths may do well as banks of deposit,
but rot of issue.
He is a contemplate fellow that sneaks
through life on tiptoe, with his ears at the key
hole of everybodys business.
Spare that you may speed fast that you
may feast; labor that you may live; and run
that you may rest.
Art is the revelation of man and not mere
ly that, but likewise the revelation of nature
speaking through man.
No doubt honesty is the best policy, but
those who do honest things merely because
they think 1t good policy are not honest.
For one half of the human race, says Mrs.
Reed, the highest end of civilization is to
cling like weed to wall
Wise anger is like fire from flint; there is
great ado to get it, and when it does come it
is gone again Immediately.
There comes a time, after mans grief has
become historical to himself, when be owes the
lesson of his tragedy TO some other man.
Humors of the War-To the Commissariat
Department.-Firs c. s. A. Private" say
Jim, look out there. That dog is after your
rationsr'
Second do" Never mind III bet FIVE
dollars he can't eat en-
The Southern government is boasting that
it viii make the war a brief and successful one.
The Southern governments boasts are as emp
ty as its pockets.
D. W. Ide, of Missouri, writes angrily to a
Missouri paper, that he can't see the object of
prosecuting the war. He is not expected to
see very well-he is cross Ide
The most likely thing to make rebel swear
is 10 profer to him, under trying circumstance
es, the privilege of taking the oath of ale
glance.
4 melancholy. but robust bachelor in Wa
do, Oregon, has sent his photograph and a let
ter to the New Bedford ladies, and requests
them to communicate with him on the subject
OF matrinony. He says" l am % years old.
am six feeate inch HE and ways near 200
am well able to take care of wife,
\ Garrison for Fort Warren-Wi William
Lloyd Boston Post.
An lFishman has always IN answer for eve
rything. \ Corkonian, on being asked at
breakfast how he came by " that black eye =