Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-08-30
Our Cmpipus 8adget,

We can often best learn manners
from the unmannerly.
As everything else grows dear,
promises generally grow cheap
of all the dust thrown in mems
eyes, gold dust is the most binding
- Beautiful young girls and good
cork-screws are very insinuatlng'
Undoubtedly it is necessary that
the whip should be as thick as the skin.
A man will have no fine springs in
his body if he seldom or never drinks at
one.
The Presidents family, including
his two secretaries, when all assembled,
will number fifteen persons.
- Many writer's have all quantity of
sheet-ligbtning which they can never
condense into a thunderbolt.
- When two opposite extremes are
presented to you, it is generally safe as
we'll as honorable to play the part of a
go-between.
There are now 10000 Americans in
Europe, who spends on an average SO
per day in gold. That's where our
specie goes.
- There are few who do not think Of
you more kindly if you meet theirrequest
with an afFectionate denial than with a
cold compliance.
- Seek not for your sweetheart at
large and fashionable party. How are
you to find a diamond in field covered
with sparkling dew drops,
- A young lady refused to go into
the Watervliet Arsenal the other day,
because she heard that some of the
muskets we're without breeches.
:. Emotion will dissolve the gentlest
spirit in the fame of JOY, as the most
delicate flower in the voluptuous sum
mer's night throws out the electric spark.
A French critic, writing Of Millions
" Paradise Lost, says: "What's most
beautiful in this Paradise is hell and in
this history of God, the first part is that
of the devil"
- It is a curious fact that President
johnson was married, at Greenville,
Tennessee, by Mordeoai Lincoln, Esq,
distant relative of the late President.
- Women are complained of by men
as raising a great fuss in the world
They certainly raise great deal Of dust
when they sweep where dirty husbands
and children have been.
In darkness and silence rest the
dead children in the arms of the cold
mother, but at last, when the sun Of
eternity rises, they shall arise, and she
too shall bloom again.
- The latest style Of hoop skirts is
the self-adjusting, double-back action,
hustle etruscan-face expansion, Piecolo-
mini attachment, gossamer indestructi-
bic, pOlOpticomOrama. It is a very
sweet thing.
"A big Indian" strayed away from
his camp and got lost. Inquiring the
wav back, was asked, +" Indian lost2"
"NO," said he, disdainfully, Il Indian no
lost; wigwam lost" striking his breast;
Indian here"
"A pure soul mirrors, without stain
ing itself, the unclean one, and feels
darkly the distressing neighbOrhood,
just as doves, they say, battle themselves
in Tmpid water, in order to see therein
the image of the lowering birds of prey.
The original secession ordinance Of
Virginia is now in possession of Sergeant
A. s. Twitchell, 7th Maine Battery, who
boughtit of rebel officer with bread
and butter. Henry A. Wise and Jubal
Early are among the forty-three signeri
to the document.
At a recent catechising in Paris
the rector asked the little girl: How
many saeraments are there?" "TherC
are none now" What-none ?" " No
none; for cousin Francois died last Sat
urday, and ma told me they gave hin
the last"
- The Jackson Mississippian says
ave learn that unbleached domestic
in this. city have fallen from seventy-fv,
to forty-fve cents per yard" On which
the VicksBurg Herald sagely observes
Unbleached domestics have fallen her,
from eighteen hundred dollars to zero pc
head"
- To men thestar oflOve is ike venu
in the sky. In early yOuthitis dream!
Hesperus, or an evening star, filling thei
world with a twilight Of flowers and tht
songs of Rightbirds; later, it is the morn
ing star o. ority and power, that make
known the day and they can become
united so as to be only one star through
the fit time Of their appearance.
Mario is an inveterate smoker, anC
especially before going on and after leav
ing the stage. Bagler, the Parisiar
manager, tried to dissuade him from
smoking in his dressing-rOOm but Marie
vent to Baglers private Office and smoked
there, while the latter was guarding the
green-room to prevent any cigars from
entering there.