The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1864-08-26
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Keen vourself from opportunities,
and God will keep you from SINS.
II il as absurd to live without an
aim as to shoot without one.
The geological character of the
rock on which drunkards split is
said to be the Quarts.
Men are sometimes tried by ju.
ries-but, alas how much oftener
by injuries.
Soldiers in battle, it is said, near
~ always shoot too high. That's
the upshot of the matter.
Charity covers multitude of sins |;
the tailor and dress maker multi
tude of sinners.
Spinsters, take notice! The i'm
proved sewing machines have q "fel-
Ter" attached to them.
He who feels his own deficiencies
will be q charitable man for his own
sake.
The musician who can make his
hearers forget time, may be excus-
ed for not keeping it.
The worlds great men have not
commonly been great scholars, nor
its great scholars great men.
If proud man keeps me at a
distance, my comfort is he keeps his
distance also.
Talk as you will of the sovereign
ty of the white race" there are no
sovereigns like yellow ones.
We hear a great deal about tho
prodigal son. Quite as much might
be said about the prodigal father.
When Sheridan was asked what
kind of wine he liked best, he an.
swered, "Other peoples" There
are lots of Sheridans nowadays.
The faces of soldiers coming out
of an engagement, and those of
young women going into one, are
generally powdered.
Mr.. Shocks was advised to get
his life insured. "Won't do it," said
he at would be my luck to live
forever, if / should"
Generally, as soon as man is sup
posed to have little money, his
wife gets too lame to walk, and must
have carriage.
Never present lady with rose
as token of love, unless you mean
to keep your faith tn uiolet (invio.
late.)
1t is not difficult to account for
the courage of the rebels. Being
reduced to skin and bone, they can
shrink at nothing.
Smith asked Jones what the high
price of butter was owing to. "a
considerable part of It is owing to
my grocer" said Jones, for it is
two months since have paid him."
ARENAS Ward praises the ladies'
dress reform, and says, "to tell the
trooth, the wimin generally know
what they're bout. Ofall the bless
ems they are the soothinest."
A land SPECTATOR having a piece
of land to let, had a placard stuck
up which read as follows: "This
good and desirable land to be let on
lease one hundred and twenty
yards long"
"How are you, John? Pm deuc-
ed glad to see YOU" every well,
Charley. Come and take drink,
old fellow. 'Tisn't often we meet"
"That's fact, John-and when we
do it's meet and drink"
A contemporary says Tupper's
popularity is mainly based upon a
line he wrote to the effect that "a
babe in a house is q welLspring," or
hydrant, or watering-pot, or some
aquatic performance of that sort.
A stranger entering a Methodist
prayer.meeting made some remarks,
in the course of which he said: at
YOU don't believe Pve got religion,
60 and ask my wife - she'll tell
you"
A Western paper announced the
illness of the editor, piously adding:
"All good paying subscribers are
requested to mention him in their
prayers. The others need not, as
the prayers ofthe wicked avail moth.
ing, according to good authority"
A Copperhead had troubled with
his reasonable talk a family in Keo-
kuk, Iowa, the youngest member of
whom was little girl of three years.
She said to him at one of his visits {:
ADO home, toppy head; do homo