The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-13
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African Proverbs.

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to be trusted.
A pig which has wallowed in the mire
seeks a clean person to rub against.
An ungrateful guest is like the lower jaw,
which, when the body dies in the morning,
falls away from the upper by night time.
He who strives to shake the trunk of q tree
only shakes himself.
1t is easy to cut dead elephant to pieces,
but none dares attack a live one.
All men are related to one another.
The time may be very long, but a lie will
be discovered at last.
The dust of the buffalo is lost in the dust of
an elephant
He who cannot take up an ant, yet tries 10
take up an elephant, will find out his folly.
A matter dealt with gently, prospers: but
matter dealt with violently, brings vexation
to the author.
He who sees another's fault talks about it
but covers his own with a potsherd.
| When you are warned, warn yourself
| Peace is the father of friendship.
SLOW GRINDING.-Quite number of years
ago there lived in Androscoggin county,
Maine, man by the name of L.. He was
farmer, stage driver and hotel-keeper,. and
was blessed with large family of boys
Among them with the hero of our yarn. Ide
was the name that he was best known by.
He was lean, lank and scrawny--always on
hand to run errands and do chores generally.
One very hot day in July, Ide was sent off
about three miles to mill with large lot of
grain to be ground. Unluckily for him there
was quite quantity in before he got there,
so that it was late in the afternoon before
they got to work in Ide's lot The water was
low, constantly the mill-stones revolyed rather
4 slowly. Ide was hungry, and his inner man
grew uproarious, and looking up to the nil-
Ter, he says:
"Uncle Reub, i can eat that meal faster
than you can grind"
"Ah my boy, how long could you do it."
"Why, till am starved to death ' said
Ide.
Uncle Reub says that he never got such
shot before.
GENUINE ELooUENcE.-Thereis is no peoplein
the world with whom eloquense is 80 perfect
gift as with the Irish. When Leitch Rit-
chic was travelling in Ireland, he passed q
man who was painful spectacle of pallor,
squarlor, and raggedness. His heart smots
him and he turned back.
"If you are in want" said Ritchie, with
some degree of peeviahness, "why don't you
4 beg7"
"Sure. it's begging I am, your honor"
"You didn't say q word"
"oy coorse not, yer honor; but see how the
skin is speakin' through the holes of me
, trousers and the bones crying out through
me skinl Look at me sunken cheeks, and
the famine that's startin' in me eyes. Man
alive isn't it beggin' that am with hun
, dred tonguesi"
nGa-A grand jury in rsbeldom ignored
bill against huge negro for stealing chick
ems, and before discharging him from custody,
the judge bade him stand reprimanded, and
he concluded thus You may go now,
John, but Shaking his finger at him) let me
warn you never to appear here again.
John, with delight beaming in his eyes, and
+ broad grin, displaying beautiful row sf
ivory, replied 81 wouldn't bin here dis time,
judge, only de constable fotch me-"
To LEr.-There are more things "to let"
than are placarded. Hearts are to let every
, day old hearts, yong hearts stricken hearts
all empty-all to let. There are heads to let; I;
to any new thing-to isms, ologies, and lists;
, heads without tenant There are conscien-
/. ces to let; elastic, accommodating, caoutchouc,
at five per cent per month tsixty per cent a
} year,. To let on bond. and mortgage, and
pound of flesh. And SO it goes, from sods to
souls; almost everything with it's price every
thing in the market but griefs. They are never
quoted, never at premium, never TO let.
: aea-A farce was produced in Banistsr's
{ time under the title of I" Fire and Water"
9 II predict its, fat" said he. 81 4 -..--,-
a '.What fatef" whispered the anxious au,
+ thor at his side. I
Q 'What fatef" said Bannister; "why. what
can ere and water produce but hisss''