The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1864-08-19
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II is not well for o man to pray
cream. and live skim milk.

Ifyou would render your children
helpless all their lives, never CON-
pei or permit them to help them
selves.
The best pill in the world is a
grain of common sense, but it is not
to be bought at the apothecary's for
it is not drug in the market.
1t is always right to make the
best of bad position, but not to
put ourselves in bad position be-
cause we can make the best of it.
Itissaid that Archbishop Whately,
when excited in preaching, has been
known to get his leg over the pulpit.
He musthave been alegalized preach
or.
InNew Bedford the cows yield pol.
lywogs; at any rate, they are found
in milk, and Of course, the honest
milkmen would not be guilty of wa
tering it.
No man can tell wether he is rich
or poor by turning to his ledger.
II is. the heart that makes a man
rich. He is rich or poor according
to what he is, not according to
what he has.
A countryman wishing to sympa-
thize with his neighbor for the loss
of his wife, said, I" am sorry your
poor woman has gone to heaven"
Thank you," replied the other,
"may itbelongbefore you go there"
An Irishman, swearing an assault
against his three sons, thus conclud-
ed: "The only one ofmy children
that shows me any real filialaffection,
is my youngest son Larry, for he
never strikes me when Pm down."
A printer, whose talents were In
different, turned physician. He was
asked the reason of it, and replied !:
In printing, all the faults are expos
ed to the eye, but in physic they are
buried with the patient, and one gets
gilmore easily.
Iwonder where those clouds are GO
ing?" sighed Flora, pensively, as she
pointed with her thin, delicate finger
to the heavy, funereal masses that
foated lazily in the sky. al think
they are going to thunder" said her
brother.
Men think God is destroying
them because He is tuning them.
The violinist screws up the key till
the tense cord sounds the concert
pitch; but it is not to break it, but
to use it tunefully, that he stretches
the string upon the musical rack.
How many hopes have quivered
for us in past years-have flashed
like harmless lightnings in summer
nights, and died forever !! Memory
can CLEAN, but can never renew. 1t
brings us joys faint as is the per-
fume of the flowers, faded and
dried, of the summer that is gone.
Army pies are so terribly tough
that soldiers call them leather pies.
A poorfellow ofGrant'sarmy, whose
arm had just been amputated, was be-
ing carried past stand the other day
where an old woman was sellingpies,
when he raised himselfin the ambu-
lance and called out, f" say, old lady,
are those pies sewed or pegged?"
The local editor of an exchange
publishes punniug market report,
in which he states that"tin plates are
fiat, lead heavy, iron dull, rakes not
much inquired after, champagne
brisk, rhubarb and SIENNA are drugs,
starch is stiffening, aud paper is sta
tionery. There is no life in dead
hogs,but considerable animation in
old cheese.
A young lady once limited to a
gentleman that her thimble was worn
out, and asked what reward her in-
dustry merited. he sent in answer
a thimble beautifully engraved as
follows:
I send this thlmble
For fingers thimble,
Which hope will ilt when you try IL;
10 will last you long
IL It's half rs strong
As the hint you gave me to buy 1t.
There are some who stand on a
narrow strip of land between two
dead seas, and drink their waters
alternately. The past is filed with
bitter regrets, and ghosts which
will not be laid, but walk still to
haunt them; and the future is filled
with shadowy shapes, which beck.
on them forward to new suffering.
There is a purgatory, and it is this:
it is the point where good, despair.
ed of, touches evils remembered.
A Christian mans life is laid in
the loom of time to pattern which
he does not see, but God does; and
his heart is a shuttle. On one side
of the loom is sorrow, and on the