Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1863-11-10
PARAGRAPHS.

: IT'S said that figures can't lie, but figures of
speech seldom do anything else.
A fellows eye may be cowardIy when his nose
is pug-nacious.
A thrifty husbandman cradles his wheat or cribs
his corn while the thrifty wife cribs orcradles the
babies.
"What o'clock is til! +" don't know, but tits
, only question of time" }
Never travel to escape the sorrows of great
bereavement. Familiar objects may keep them
present with us for time, but nothing multiplies
them like absence. .- -
More beautiful than Apollo is the soldier, lying
face forward on the battle field, grimed with pow
der and smeared with blood, if for sacred cause
he dared to die.
The sword cuts through the dense forest and the
tangled underground highway for the Prince of
Peace.
! 1t is always right to make the best of bad po-
sition, but not to put ourselves in bad position
because we can make the best of it.
No punishment is too severe for him who roots
up a thrill and plants in its place only fact
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul which every
new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.
1t is the putrefaction of stagnant lfe and is
edied by exercise and motion.
If the wicked flourish, and you suffer- be not
discouraged Perhaps they are fatted for destruc-
ton, and you dieted for health.
Anything may become nature to man, The rare
thing is to fad a nature that is truly natural.
He that has no friend and no enemy is one of
the vulgar, without talents, powers or energy.
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward
and merit without modesty is insolent.
Money and time are life's heaviest burdens; the
unhappiest of mortals are those who have more Of
either than they know how to
A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well %
under adversely. A strong and deep mind has two
highest tides-When the moon is at the full and
when there is no moon.
It is often better to have great deal of harm
happen to one than a little; great deal may
rouse you to remove what a little will only accus.
tom you to endure.
God needs be sureIier God to bear with US than
even to have made us.
Those smile but sadly who have no face in all
the world to smile back to them.
To determine what is chiefly useful to man, it
is probably necessary first to determine the use Of
man himself
In privste places, among sordid objects, an act
of truth herOism seems at once to draw to itself
the sky as its temple and the sun as its candle.
To think is not merely to have ideas-to be the
theater across which images and emotions are
marched, but to sit in the midst as the master OF
ones conceptions.
NOG only commission makes SIN. a man ID
guilty of all the sins he hates not.
Listen to every zephyr for some reproof; it is
surely there, and he is unfortunate who does not
hear it.
A charitable untruth and uncharitable truth are
both to be carefully avoided.
There are some faults slight in the sight of love-
some errors slight in the estimate of wisdom but
truth forgives no insult, and endnres no stain.
NEw.-Latest term for marriage in Washoe
. consolidation" Thus, Eliza Walker and Tom
Belcher consolidated on Sunday last. They will
soon incorporate and commence the issue of stock.
Mrs. PartiDgton is of the opinion that Mount
VesuVus should take sarsaparia to, cure itself of
eruptions. The old lady thinks it has been vonl-
ting 80 long that nothing else would lay on its
stomach.
War is the surgery of crime. Bad as it is in
tsef, it always implies that something worse has
rome before.
The Geographic cable which is to unite the coast
# Spain with England will extend from'Coruna
o Falmouth 600 miles.
OPENING LETTERS A Massachusetts, judge has
ecided that husband may open his wife's letters
q the ground so often and tersely stated by The
philus Parsons, of Cambridge, g that the husband
nd wife are one, and the husband is that one"
gentleman, says an exchange, who is CONVEX.
ant with military affairs, states as the result of
ecent examination of the records that since the
OuIueuCeneHG vi the war, we nave lost thirty
even Generals by death, twentysix Of whom were
He'd in battle, or died from the effects Of casual
les; and in addition, siXty-one Generals have
cen wounded who have recovered.
The Norfolk Daily Vrginian SAYS; "Slaveryis
cad IN this part of Virginia if peace should
: established tomorrow and Fernando Wood die
tie the terms. Yankee immigration has set in
ready, and merchants from New York Phila.
'lpha and Boston transact nearly all the bust
eSS III Norfolk and Portsmouth
SWELLs.-Great men never swell. II is only
e three-cent individuals, who are saaried at the
tie OF two hundred dollars year, WHO put on
rs and tiashy vests, swell, puff and blow, and en-
aVOr to give themselves consequential appear
zee. No discriminating person need mistake the
urlous for the genuine article.
A highly civilized New Zealander, now a part
r in a Sydney commercial house says in
younger days he was greatly addicted to the
e Of human flesh; and being a candid and
lily high-minded man, he admits that though
has now acquired different tastes the relish with
lich he partook of cannibal feasts, especially
len young female was served up il still a
tter of by no means disagreeable recollection
lim.
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