East Saginaw courier., 1864-03-02
BRENITIES.

Brown was speaking of Joe Holton,
to friend one day, aud said of him,
'Joe is first rate fellow, but it must
be confessed no has his failings. /
am sorry to say it is so, but cannot
tell lie for any man. / love Joe,
but love truth more" "My dear
Brown" said Joe, who overheard tho
remark, 81 never thought you would
prefer a perfect stranger to an old ac-
quaintance.
There have been between 900 and
800 illegal marriages in certain coun-
ties in West Virginia since the war
broke ont, owing to the fact that the
officers authorized TO grant licenses
had abandoned their positions. The
young folks could not wait, and in
somo instances they obtained military
be diG dqto INTO tho hT = asa3SSYTb tS tS
logalizc all these marriages.
He that gives good advice build S
with one hand he that gives good
counsel and example builds with both;
but he that gives good admonition and
bad example builds with one hand and
pulls down with the other.
To pardon. those absurditics in our
selves which we can not suffer in 9TH
ers is neither better nor worse than to
be more willing to be fools ourselves
than to sec others so.
If you see q miserly hypocrite pray
ing on Mount Of Olives, probably he
is about to build an oil-1nill up there
if weeping by the Brook Kedron, you
may conclude he is about to fish for
crabs. l sa
BE If unfortunately you find yourself
riding the devil Of anger, YOU had
better ride the brute half dead, till he
fall down, that YOU may not havo to
,-s.Sent him esein FOR quarter Of q
year.
In the old temples, oracular reyela-
tions were received in sleep. A great
many people seem oseek for oracular
revelations in the same condition in
our modern churches.
2 When we see two young lovers
kneeling at the altar, tho hearts wish
is that they may resemble the married
in heaven, who, according to Sweed-
enburg's vision, always melt into one
angel.
A strong but sinful spirit rises up
ward not like the lark to make music,
but like the falcon TO dart on his prey.
The years pelt a young girl with
red roses till her checks are all on
fire. BY and by they begin throwing
white roses, and that morning flush
passes away. - 20 n
Taking an enemy into ones mouth to
steal away his brains isn't so bad as
swindling friend You had better
take in an enemy than a friend.
Say what is right, and let others say
what they please. You arc response
bic for only one tongue-even if you
are n married.
{ Up in tho heavens the fogs of our
days must one day bo resolved into
stars, even as the mist of tho milky
way is parted by the telescope into
suns.
The reason why woman has her
way so much oftener than a man is
that both he and she are conscious
that her way is the best.
The too frequent use of authority
impairs it.. If thunder wero continu-
al, it would excite no moro sensation
than the noise Of mill.
- An unjust acquisition is like q
barbcd arrow, which must be drawn
backward with terrible anguish or else
will be your destruction.
Ambition often puts men to doing
the meanest Offices !; as climbing is
performed in tho samo posture as
creeping.
If men show their faith by their
works, the fuith Of a goodmany would
seem TO be in tho devil. - lono
Every nan wishes to have his own
individual farm or lot, but the grave
yard is tho common lot. ~ \
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