Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-16
From the Louisville Journal

Paragraphs--Orisinal and Selected.
4 man should stop drinking before his
stomach becomes the theatre Of whisky
insurrcctiOn."
The most cheerful and soothing of all fire.
side melodies are the blcndedtoncs of Il crick-
ct, a teakcttle, and loving wife.
A wit is as necessary ut the dinner table as
the pcppcr-boX or the mustard-pot.
The last part of Il snake to die Is the tail
of Il vixen, the tongue.
Men celebrate their birth days as so many
victories over time without considering how
much they may have been manglcd in the
battle.
Men are but the dust of the earth, and the
storms of war lay the dust.
The most intolcrant and fcrOciouS OF hui
man beings is your philanthropist by trade.
The columns of the newspaper often sup
port the worlds greatest temple donies; no
blind Samson should ever get within arms
length Of them.
Every event that man would master must
be mounted Oh the run no man ever caught
the rcins of a thought except as it gullop-
ed by him. 49,.
You may spade up the ocean as much as
YOU like, and harrow it afterwards If you can,
but the moon will still lead the tides, and the
winds will form their surface.
HAPPINESS is always homemade article.
A goosc-pen is filter thing for many
authors to live in than to write with.
Every political leader thinks, that, like
Church choir, he should have an organ
with particularly big bellows attachment.
Fovc is butterfly that from his wings
shakes dust in mortal eyes.
1t is the most mOmentous question wo-
man is ever called upon to decide, whether
the faults of the man she loves are beyond
remedy and will drag her down, or whether
she is competent to be his earthly redecmer
and lift him to her own level.
A person of genius should marry person
of character. Genus does not herd with ge-
MUS. The musk-deer and the civct-cat are
never found in company. They don't care
for strange scents.
Sections and undcrtakers are the cheerful
est people in the world at home, as comedians
and circus clowns are the most melancholy
in their domestic circle.
Laughter is faculty bestowed exclusively
on man. There is, therefore, sort OF im-
piety in not exercising it as often as we can.
We may say with Titus that we have lost u
day if it has passed without laughing.
If man is laid up with pair OF broken
legs, he can be reconciled to being idle HIM
self if he knows that his legs are knitting.
A maiden, like fish, is often hooked by
the lip. :,
Apublic speaker, like hunting-dog, should
attend to his points.
There is no devil like an enemy i'll power,
no damnation like being poor, no hell like
an empty purse.
A bad writer sins in his grave; he corrapts
others while he is rotting himself, and has a
growing account in the other world after he
has paid natures last debt in this.
1t is being unfaithful to the soul to enfee-
BILE its servant, the body; it is being much
more unfaithful to it still to enslave it to its
servant.
We are often wrong in wishing to prevent
too much of the evil that God himself per-
mits. Souls may be corrupted by an attempt
to purify them.
Virtue has its pains, but the greatest hap
piness is still with it, as the greatest unhap-
piness is with crime.