Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-27
THE DAILY PRESS.
WIT Ann wIsD9NI.

Some fellows never pay debt, except
when they owe grudge
The ocean, which is forever sounding,
sometimes gets sounded.
Who let's one sit on his shoulders, shall
have him presently on his head.
Men wounded by the explosion of bomb
shells are wounded mortarly.
Although you count yourself a brighter
fellow than | am, yet l can round you, as
the earth said to the sun.
Some persons think that the two most
precious things now inclosed in hoops are
girls and kegs of whisky.
A good many chairmen at public meet
ings don't know how to put question.
Young ladies think it should be popped.
A mans mouth is made to talk and eat.
yet he often hurts himself by talking and
keeps himself by eating.
Love, justice and fortune are said to have
no eyes but all three make us mortals open
ours pretty wide sometimes.
Don't carry your antipathy to royalty so
far as to break the crown Of your own head.
A simple flower may be shelter for the
IEOuDleu SOul llOlu iLG SlOEluo VI lll6s
A ducking in cold water destroys the
temper of hot steel, but increases that of
fiery woman.
The man who makes a boast ofextraordi-
nary shrewdness hasn't got o particle.
Handbills should be frequently "stuck
up" young ladies, never.
Many man who is proud to be quarter
master, has a wife at home who is whole
master.
There are many graceless preachers on
grace, many uncharitable ones on charity.
Independence in thought and action is a
luxury far beyond the reach of poor folks.
The most miserable pettifogging in the
world is that Of man in the court Of his
own conscience.
When poor fellow is about to be burned
by the savages, his very existence is at
stake.
If a man sitting on a chest is shot at, he
would prefer, if hit at ALL to be hit in the
chest.
If man is murdered by his hired man,
should the coroner render verdict of killed
py his own hands
good man is kinder to his enemy than
bad men are TO their friends.
Dress plainly-the thinnest soap. bubbles
wear the gaudiest colors.
It.seems a hard case that when man
dies, his better half is entitled to only
third.
A good action may be go clumsily done
that it shall pass for bad one.
That wondrous book, whose leaves are
the strata of rocks, waited six thousand
years for readers.
Marry if you would prosper; pair are
always four handed-an individual never.
A mans life is too long when he outlives
his character, his health, and his estate.
Men should be like wine-they should
grow better as they grow older.
The heart is book which we ought not
to tear in our hurry to get easily at its con-
tents.
Some bachelors go to war because they
like fghting and some married men 90 be-
cause they like peace.
Awoman, in a New York paper, gives no.
tice that she is willing to take a respecta-
BILE baby to nurse.
1t is an old proverb that "boys will be
boys What pity 'tisn't equally true
that men will be men.
In the interchange of leaden and iron
compliments between soldiers it is thought
more blessed to give than to receive.
To judge of Christianity from the lives Of
ordinary, nominal Christians is about as
jusAas it would be to judge of tropic fruits
and flowers from the produce which the
same plants might bring forth in Iceland.
"A queer genius being asked why he die
not attend the funeral of his wife, replied
"Thpt he could not leave his shop, and il
was better to attend to business befor,
pleasure
"Tdeclare," said Aunt Betsy, che was tn,
oldest creature that was ever put into
skin. He wasn't like other men in any
thing; he never eat his breakfast till the
next day at noon.
"A >traveler telling General Doyle, an
Irishman, that he had been where the bugs
were so large and powerful that two Of
them would drain mans blood in one
night, the General replied-"My good sir
we have the same animals in Ireland but
they"are called AumJags"
Gentleman-'Is Mics NJ. in?" Servant
"No, sir, she is not at home" Gentleman
"Wel, l am sorry, as l owe her some
moneyand have called to pay it," Voice
from over the balustrades-"Oh, am in.
To be sure am. Why, Sally, didn't you
know that Ask the gentleman in"
Prentice, speaking of villainously trea-
sonables article in the Louisville Courier
says: "The mission of the pen in this con
test with tebellion in Kentucky is well nigh
fulfilled; what remains belongs especially
to the sword and the hangman's rope"
A Mormon woman thus writes to fe
male friend "While you of the North and
South have gone to killing each other off
we of Salt Lake are populatiny the country
with extraordinary rapidity. One of ouI
elders recently had no less than nine chill
dren born to him in one week"
The following conversation took plac
between PTthshire laird and one of hi
tenants. The lairds son was rather a sim
pleton. Laird says, "Pm going to send tn
young laird abroad "What for?n aske
the tenant Answer, "To see the world.
Tenant replies, "But gudeness sake, laird
Wlll not the world see him."
oliver Wendall Holmes calls kiss lin