The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-07-01

but they bore our ears as if they thought
We ought to-
When Daphne was changed to a tree to
escape the wooings of her lover, she was
more scood than ever.
Constant motion is the first law Of ma
ture, nething being stationery except pen,
ink, and paper.
Music is the most delightful, rational
entertainment that the human mind can
possibly enjoy.
We can net behold the proportions of
the great ship of the universe, for we are
shut up in the hold.
It is more important to discover new
source of happiness on earth than new
planet in the sky.
A man who cannot command his tenn
per, his attention, and his countenance,
should not think of being a man of busi-
ness.
People with short legs step quickly,
because legs are pendulums, and swing
more times in minute the shorter they
are.
A physician should have cheerful
countenance. A sentence of death on
lis face is as bad as warrant for execu-
ton.
Every man is not so much a workman
in the world as suggestion of what is to
be. Men walk as prophecies of the next
age.
An ostentatious man not unfrequently
sets up his statutes of the heather gods,
and his worship of the true god, alike
for show.
Spiritual life is the ripping of soul
driver between its undulating banks and
beneath It's rejoicing trees.
It is sometimes necessary TO test the
soundness of man as we do that of tea
cup, by giving him few smart thumps.
A lover must have his clothes hand !
somel ly cut out, or he may be handsomely
cut out himself.
Debts are troublesome but, as a gen.
eral rule in these days, they don't give
half as much trouble to debtors as they
do to creditors.
The vocalist who was seen pitching
his voice." besmeared himself with the
tar he used.
Cheerfulness arises half from personal
goodness, half from belief in the good
ness of others.
1t is good to have ones practical sense
of she worlds nothinguess refreshed and
stirred up anew by the sight of a death
bed.
Ladies, if your husbands scold you for
buying too expensive cuffs, give them a
few smart ones to quiet them.
A man comes to church and falls fast
asleep, as though he had been brought in
for a corpse, and the preacher was preach
ing at his funeral.
4 hop on the light "fantastic toe"
may be pleasant, but not when you hop
on the fantastic toe of your neighbor.
He can hardly be prepared to enter the
land of spirits who trembles at the tho't
of encounteri1g solitary ghost.
What is the difference between boy
running after girl and boy running
after carriage? One cbases the miss
and the other misses the chaise.
Apology is egotism turned wrong side
out. Generally, the first thing a mans
companion knows of his shortcomings is
from his apology.
A briehess young barrister says that
any lady who possesses a thousand acres
of freehold land presents sufficient ground
for attachment.
Those who have resources within them
selves, and can dare to live alone, want
friends the least, but know how to prize
them the most.
Some Of the domestic evils of drunk
enness are houses without windows, gar
dens without fences, fields without tillage, |
barns without reofs, aud children without
clothing, principles, morals or manners.
A desperate chap recently made the
determlnate resolution of marrying the
girl he was in pursuit of, if he never had
another as long as he lived
We are often told to initiate Nature. |
Still we shouldn't initiate her too literally. |
We needn't dress in green velvet through
the summer because she does.
There may be as honest difference
between two men as between two ther-
mometers The difference in both cases