Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-17
WIT AND WIsDOSr.

Most men determine to have a living if
they die for it.
the rose.
Keep your eyes wide open before mar
rage, half shut afterwards.
The girl who has address can win
great many addresses
The nOblest question in the world is
what good can do in it.
The human race is Of undoubtedly of
more importance than horse race.
There are three faithful friends: an old
wife an old dog, and ready money.
Marble is hard substance often used as
a table for hard lying.
August is unquestionably IL harvest
month of reapers and doctors.
Make man think he Is more cum
nlng than you and you viii easily out
Wit him
He who has gained the pinnacle Of life
pas everything to hope and everything.to
fear. isil
Second thought is said to be better
than fist, but first childhood is better than
second.
Incredible as it may seem many of the
richest planters of Jamaica live upon cof
fee grounds.
Tricks and treaehery are the practice
Of fools that have not wit enough to be
honest.
After reading a worthless book, one feels
as ifhe had tired his jaws cracking an
empty nut. J
Sampson-s Barr s;1s--s,ssr.-.. -,,-,,---.v,v
eyes time may restore some losses, while
Others are beyond its power
Vegetable life is 1uure -viiqnrous than an
inal life. A tree can stand great deal
more hacking than a man.
Why was Joseph put into the pitt Be
eOuse there wasn't any room for him IN
the family circle"
The meanest man in the world sent in q
bill, against his wifes estate, for half 3
days labor attending her funeral.
He who admits that he has a secret to
keep. has, by doing so, revealed one-half Of
it and the other viii soon follow.
1t is to be hoped that thousands of val
liant noes have this day been spoken,
when others would have uttered ruinous
yeas.
Last Sunday, in an Eastern village, when
the plate was being passed in a church, a
newly appointed editor said to the collect
or, go on, I'm a dead-head. I've got a
pass
A jealous woman cannot be cured either
by word or deed. She resembles a kettle
drum which, of all instruments is the most
difficult to tune, and keeps in tune the
shortest time.
"There are three umbrellas said little
Nell. "The hat is One-the smallest; the
umbrella is another, and the sky is the
third-the greatest of them all, but also the
leakiestn
The prayer of every selfish man is, Hfor-
give US our debt" but he makes everybody
pay who owes him the utmost farthing.
Clouds never send down to ask the grass
and plants how much they need; they
rain for the relief of their own fall bosoms.
What is the difference between church
deacon and ragamuiiln ? One passes the
sasser and the other sasses the passer.
lotdtI az " am I8sfy stupid tEiisl mornings my
dogsl replied his friend
voltaire says, "A physician is an unfor-
tunate gentleman, who Is every day called
upon to perform miracle-to reconcile
health with intemperance.'
Beware Of having time neither to be
GOOD nor to be human. He who gives
himself leisure will have compassion; he
who makes himself an engine viii be Of
iron.
A famous musician, who had made his
fortune by marriage, being requested to sing
| in company, "Permit me" said he, 'to i'm
itate the nightingale who neversings after
he has made his nest.
There is nothing which so surely takes
all the heart and strength and nobblehess
Of character out Of man as the habit Of
doing from morning till night just what he
likes, and doing it because he likes it.
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