, 1864-07-22

"WELI, don't know nothing of mems hair,
but thereis our friend, Mrs c., of Biddle
street.-the lady who has been just twenty-nine
years old for the last fifteen-her husband died.
you know, last winter, at which misfortune her
hair turned completely black within twenty-four
hours after the occurrence of that sad event"
He who, in hisperplexity, resorts to falsehood,
may seem secure for little while but is sure to
be soon overwhelmed with greater perplexity
than before just as the man who, in a shower
takes refuge under tree, is protected at first
and then finds himself worse drenched than
ever.
COURAGE does not consist in feeling no fear,
but in conquering fear. He Is the hero, who,
seeing the lions on either side, goes straight on,
because there his duty lies.
Do not affect motive in love. 1t is not a
question of motive, but of fact. Don't marry
to do good. The end does not sanctify the
means.
THE credulity of ignorant people never works
by halves; they believe without proof, and soon
perceive the cause of what never happened
EVERY townsman, every villager, thinks his
own place the most scandalizing one in the uni
verse.
IF you cannot please without being false to
yourself you had better displease.
OF all animals, man is the only one that is
upright in his posture. Let him be so in his
conduct.
THE freedom of the press, to be practical
one, must be a common benefit to ALL else it is
no freedom, but privilege
Never take too much of anodynes and stimu-
lants. One weed one toddy, one wife, one mill
lion, one presidential term-whenever wisdom
whispers salts, pause and echo, "satis ts."
An oil farm in Western Pennsylvania has been
sold for the enormous sum of $550,00O. 1t is
small, but contains several oil wells.
Patchen, the great trotting horse, died at the
Long Island Union trotting course, the lst
inst. A few days ago his owner, it is stated
was offered 900 for him.
A debating society has under consideration
the question, "Is it wrong to cheat lawyer?"
The result is expected to be mo / but impossi-
ble."
Josh Billings says he never owned but one
Shanghae, and he got choked to death by the
kink of a "close" line after he had swallowed
eighteen feet of it.
'That was greedy of you Tommy, to eat your
little sisters share of cakeP
"You told me, ma, was always to take her
part" said Tommy.
One firm in Boston paid at the Custom House
in one day over 100000 in gold, duties on sugar
and molasses.
John Jacob Astor was forty years old before
he made his first thousand dollars.
William Cullen Bryant paid ST., 900 for por-
trait of Richard Golden at the recent New York
Fair.
To make boots last four years. Grease them
well with a mixture made of tallow and lamp
black and set them away in the closet and go
barefoot
Speaking of rising with the lark, Artemus
Ward says he would prefer to rise with gold.
SOMEBODY who pretends to know says that
there are seventy thousand kernels of corn in
bushel and over fourteen thousand seeds in an
ounce of tobacco.
Washington paper describes beautiful
young lady as having a face a painter might
dwell upon. That would be a delightful resi-
dence.
Why is old Abe bad architect? Because he
is all the time busy making "drafts" to supply
the deficiency Of his previous drawings"
aLindenwald," n Y, the country seat, of the
late Martin Van Buren, consisting of about 800
acres of excellent farming land, has been sold to
New York broker for $36,000