The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-02-18
Way-SIde Gleanings.

ches--in angling.
Bullets can sing and whistle, but they
are not pleasant musicians.
IT'S little trouble to brew beer; but
beer brews much trouble.
Accustom yourself to keep secrets. If
you haven't any, borrow your neighbor's
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men of principle are not its principal men.
In fight, take your friends part; at
feast let him have it himself.
In naval battle the work of death s
scythe is often best done by rake.
A person who has 90 address should
not undertake to address audiences.
Let the young man who bushes take
courage, for it is the color of virtue.
Misses may be wived. but oftentimes
wives, even though they die, are not
missed.
If women do the greater part of the
talking, they also do the better part of it.
Man leads women to the alter; in that
act his leadership begius and ends.
Don't put your watch under your pill
Iowa man should never "sleep upon his
watch"
Few ladies are so modest as to he un-
willing to sit in the lap of ease and luxury
1t is better to be laughed at for not
being married than to be unable to laugh
because you are.
The unhappiest of mortals are those
who have more money or more time than
they know how use.
Many man tries to play the devil who
is not smart enough to act the part: be
makes poor devil.
If a woman's scottish husband is scold-
ing her, let her tie four-bag over his
head, and he will get mealy mouthed.
Generally, the office. seeker who gets
nothing, gets what is good for him and
exactly what he is good for.
Many persons who have raging war
fever before going into battle, are apt to
get the ague afterward.
We hear much Of the romantic evening
rambles of lovers but there is often "a
great deal of moonshine about it.
He who pays more attention to his hat
than to his head, shows which is most
priced.
Nothing is more easy than to do mis-
chief; nothing is more difficult than to
suffer without complaining
Grief knits two hearts IN closer bonds
than JOY ever can, and common sufferings
are Tar stronger than common joys.
A preacher should not have beam in
his eye; but if he looks around him in
his sermon, he will be sure to have good
many sleepers in it.
The man whom you saved from drown
ing, and tie man who never pays you
what ne owes, yon may consider as alike
indebted to you for life.
W hat can be more foolish than to think
that all this rare fabric of heaven and
earth could come by chance, when all The
skill Of art is moi able to make an oyster,
Misery assails riches as lightning does
the highest towers; as a tree that is
heavy laden with fruit breaks its own
boughs, SO do riches destroy the virtue
ot their possessor.
In all evils which admit a remedy. i'm
patience should be avoided, because it
wastes that time and attention in com
plants, which, if properly applied, might
remove the cause.
The avaricious man is like the barren
sandy ground of the desert, which suck,
IN all the rain and dews with greediness,
but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for
the benefit of others.
Small debts are like small shot they
are Iattling on every side, aud can scarce
y be escaped without a wound great
debts are like cannon, of loud noise but
little danger.
A man being asked, as he lay summing
on the grass, what was the heighl
of his ambition, replied, ITO marry rich
widow with bad cough.
Many men fail in life because when
young they frame false judgment touch
ing their mental capacities and inclina.
tions, and are ever after engaged in the
task of proving to themselves and others
that their verdict is just one.
An old bachelor says that Adams wife
was called Eve because, when she ap-
peared, mans day of happiness was draw.
ng to q close.