Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-30
wit and Wisdom.


Wit and Wisdom.
How to serve dinner properly-Eat it.
Thorns form foOthOlds by which to reach
the rose.
DeHIn, llKe criminal courEsi 1ITes Ins ap-
oplectie three times
The best of friends fall out. Our teeth
are no exception.
The best way to cut a swell-DOp'tspeak
Reproye thy friend privately commend
him publicly.
A round Of pleasure sometimes renders
it difficult to make things square.
When person declares that his abraia
IS on iire, it's etiquette to blow it out.
BE who lives only to benefit himself
gives the world benefit when he dies,
When God breaks our idols in pieces
1t Is not for US to put them together again.
Why say that thing is without the
color Of truth2 The truth IS never col
A rsscally bachelor calls the friendship
Of two women "alwsys plot against a
A smile is ever the most bright and beau
tiful with tear upon it. What Is the
dawn without its dew2
When we hear novice playing the or
gan, we think the instrument has one
stop too few. -- i7a1 ~ a
The music Of good many performers
should be like the famous music Of the
spheres-never heard. e-r - III
Virtue does not give talents, but it sup
plies their place, Talents neither give
virtue or supply the place Of it.
A French soldier recently went to
Paris exhibition, and wished to enter At
half price, because he had but one eye
Many don't know how to drop an ac-
quaintance. How hard it is for some
people to get out of room after the visit
is really over r
We have heard much of the power of a
woman eye, but the eyelids are still more
powerful; they can wink down reputa-
tion.
Aphysician once boasted to Sir Henry
Halford, saying, I was the first 10 dis
cover the Asistic cholera, and communi-
cateit to the public"
Adult person does some things better
than man of genius; as an ivory paper
folder cues the leaves of books better than
keen blade.
A hypoerlte may spin 50 fair thread
that it may deceive his own eve He may
admire the cObweb and not know himself
to be tho spider.
Certain persons have, exactly at the
melting point, the greatest appearance Of
hardening, as snow freezes just before
thaw.
Those men have the worst opinion of
women who are conscious that women
ought to have the worst Of them.
| The spirit of edudation is nothing more
than an endeavor TO iberate BY means OF
freeman, the ideal human being that lies
concealed in every child.
Great as you may be, the cradle ysss vogr
world once, and over it, the OILY horizon
you beheld, bent the heaven Of 4 mother's
eye, as you rocked in that little bark Of
love.
II you want 10 have man your friend,
never incur the i'll will Of his wife. Pub
hc opinion in great measure depends on
the average prejudices of womankind.
An editor at a dinner table being asked
if he would take some pudding, replied in
fit Of abstraction lowing to a crowd
Of other matters we are unable 70 find
room for it"
When you see man on moonlight
night trying to convince his shadow that it
is improper to follow gentleman, you may
be sure that it is high time for him to join
a temperance society.
There are three things which always
! loved without understanding anything
about them: Painting, music and pretty
women.- FontaneLIo.
A eoachman of afistocratie prociivfties
advertised for a situation, with the pFovisO
that None need apply who have not kept
their carriages over three years
aNobody ever lost anything, by love-
said sage-looking person. =" That's not
true, said young lady who heard the re-
mark, for lost three Fights sleep"
A person whose ayarice was notorious,
boasted Of having lost a considerable sum
at cards without uttering a word OF CON-
plant, l am not surprised at IL replied
wit, "grest sOrrows are dumb
Jennie June in recent Talks on Wo-
mems Topics" says that in almost every
instance where = man marries q sensiLle
woman, it is after he has met with a severe
disappointment in not marrying a fool,
Mrs Macauley having published her
Loose Thoughts" Sheridan was asked
whether he did not think it a strange title
for lady TO choose BY no means" re-
Piled be, the sooner woman gets rid Of
such thoughts the better"
Love, like men, dies oftener of excess
/ than Of hunger; it lives on love, but it re-
semhles those Alpine flowers which feed
themselves by suction from the wet clouda
and die If you besprinkle them
A woman is worth great deal or she Is
worth nothing. If good for nothing she
Is not worth getting jealous for; if she is
g true woman, she will give no cause Bor
Jealousy. A man is e brute to be Jealous
of woman.
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