The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-09-25
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When is woman like dome7 Wher
she Is Jretfed.
Little minds rejoice over the errors OF mer
Of genius, as the owl rejoices at an eclipse.
The individual who "stood on his own re,
sponsibllity." is TO be indicted for infanti
eide. ~ fI.-E -t ei.H
Never take a nap In the railroad carriage,
Cause whyf the train always runs oveI
sleepers. .'-.rs1-f -. -F .rd.
The young fellow who engages himself tt
half o dozen girls is undoubtedly q beau o.
promise. ,. ,g..- .., .. 3,
Generally speaking. the bcggars mos
ashamed Of begging are those who have to
beg pardon.
Nothing Is wholly good or bad. There
are dark spots in the sun and bright ones in
coal mine.
Man and wife arc like pair Of scissors,
80 long as they are together, but they be.
come daggers rs soon as they arc disunitcd.
Probably there is no man, distinguished
from gorilla. that some good and even pret.
ty woman could not shape husband out of.
Whatever situation in life you ever wish
or propose for yourself, acquire clear and
lucid idea Of the Inconvenience attending It.
Foot expressed the belief that certain
miser would take the beam ont of his own
eye, If he knew where ho could sell the tim.
Der. # '.- ... .......
We may not pause at any point Of this
life to take its retrospect. Our full lives
here are to be visible in our finished lives
hereafter.
The more ladies practice walking the
more graceful they become in their move.
ments. Those ladies acquire the best car
riage who do not ride in one.
That was brilliant idea of the scientific
gentleman In New York to connect his door
bell knob with an electric wire and 80 shock
mischievous little boys almost to death.
Man creeps into childhood, bounds into
youth, sobers into manhood, softens into
age, totters into second childhood, and
stumbles into the cradle prepared for us oil.
A man carrying cradle was asked by q
pretty miss, rather archly, IL that "was not
one Of the fruits Of matrimony?" "Oh, no
my little charmer," said he, "this is only q
fruit basket"
A Danish writer speaks Of hut so miser.
able that Ii didn't know which way to fall
and so kept standing. This is like the man
that had such q complication OF diseases that
he did not know what to die Of, and so lived
on.
A bachelor editor, sensitive in relation to
his rights, objects to taking wifc through
fear that IL she should have baby, his CO.
temporaries, who habitually copy without
credit, would refuse to give him credit for
the baby.
A young gentleman having made some
progress in acquiring a knowledge ofltalian,
addressed few words to an organ. grinder
in his purest accent; but was astonished ut
receiving the following response: 81 speak
no Inglis." s..
A Miss Joy was present at party recent
ly and In the course Of the evening somo ono
used the quotation, "a thing Of beauty Is q
Joy forever" when she exclaimed I'm
glad I'm not beauty, for shouldn't like
to be Joy forever."r 7 ..
A musician In Eccles, in Lancaster, ono
Geo. Sharp, had his name painted on his
door thus "a. Sharp" A wag Of a paint.
or, who knew something OF music. early one
morning. made the following significant and
undeniable addition-"is A fat"
Prentice, Of the Louisville Journal, tells
that wag once imposed upon tho editor OF
the Baltimore Post the 9th chapter Of Mat
thew's Gospel as an original article, and that
its origin was not discovered until the fore.
man Of the Office detected 1t In reading the
proof sheet. p
How mysterious Is this human life, with
all its diyersities Of contrast and compensa-
ton; this web of checkored destinies this
sphere of manifold allotment, whore man
lives In his greatness and grossness, o little
lower than the angels, q little higher than
the brutes.
When somebody's" I" Uncle Ned" entered
the house Of IN ancient lady-"staid, tidy
and discreet wiping his feet, the
otfarded spinster exolaimod-"Did you not
observe tho scrapor at the door, sir ?"-
.Yes'm," said Uncle Ned, "and Iintend i
using II when go OUT"
We like fine writing when II Is properly