Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-23
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/ Make yourself as striking as you
please to your sweetheart; but, after
marrying her, don't strike your wife.
Judges should be men of decision. -
Some of them are men of a good many
decisions and all contradictory ones.
a feeble man may subdue a strong
passion; q petty passion may conquer a
strong man. 5f
A man can't hope to leave all the
world behind him till he dies.
Young gentlemen would generally like
to hook the cloak of an heiress-and its
contents. ~
Very probably you will envy thou
| sands If you consider what they possess;
very few, If You consider what they en-
joy.
Poverty often makes men wicked, but
wickedness oftener makes men poor.
The worthy missionaries who go to
supply moral food for savage minds
become not unfrequently physical food
for savage stomachs. -f9 A8
The most miscellaneous liars are those
who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
! Whisky, in New York, is reported
unsettled" u report that is sometimes
made regarding those who use it.
'How do you like the character OF
St. Panl?" asked parson Of his land
lady one day. ''Ahi he was a good,
clever old soul, I know, Ior he once said,
you know, that we must eat what is set
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science sake. 1 always thought should
like him for a boarder,
The body and soul are related closely,
no doubt, but the body is often con-
| sidered poor relation and the soul
pays very little respect to it. The poor
related lives from hand to mouth, while
the soul often banquets in the halls of
Thought with Kings.
God walked In the Garden" The
pure man, who cultivates garden, walks
with God.
The rib, ont of which our first moth
er was made, has proved, a terrible
''bone of contention"
A beautiful woman should never ride
In a wagon. 1t is not pleasant to see
beauty on the ardin. r4.li -aa
Teamsters may do a brisk business,
but wheel-barrow men carry all before
them.
Love turns toward the celestial sphere
and always meets the rising stars. Like
sailor upon wind!calmed sea, it be-
holds no eafth--only Heaven Heaven
IL mp is merely paler Heaven.
Men, women, and cueumbers are gen
orally considered good-for-nothing after
they are fully ripe. ~ c4ii
Life is great poem, and religion,
love- and music are the sweetest of its
stanzas.siliio ao IS "a ~ q GiIag
How strangely the moon lights up the
past; how we can see far-off graves by
its CLEAN; how it shines through the
years that are gone; how the jewels of
memory glitter when it enters the heart;
how it reveals - 81 r,e,
- -'.the tideless shore =
Where rests the wreck OF Heretofore" ,fs.vs
~ Nothing so roughly brushes the ten
der gold-dpst, or fower-pollen, off the
minds of girls as that oldmadish cry of
alarm at the male sex-that prudish
abuse of q sex from which every one
must make exceptions ia favor of her
father and her husband.
Every evil, to which we do not sue
cumb, is a benefactor. As the Sand
witch Islander believes that the strength
and vaior of the enemy he kills pass into
himself, so we gain the strength of the
temptation we resist. - i9iS0ha
Not without ameaninga do people
come forth to see men die. We stand
in the valley, they on the hilltop. and
on their faces strikes the light of tho
other world, and from some sign or
signal of theirs we attempt to- discover
or extract q hint of what it is all like.
No two human beings were ever alike
either IN body or mind. In, other words.
Nature has been engaged IN makiIg
men and women SIX thousand years
without ever making one that She
thought it,worth while to repeat. .'s- :
How to Appreciate. wIves.-sA gentle
man residing in Syria was exceedingly
surprised, on once entering The house of
a leading priest, to find him engaged in
washing the linen of the household; and
on inquiring the rersOn of such an I'M
clerical occupation, the reverend papa
replied: 81 do this to save my wife
labor, that she may live the longer; for
you know, oh Kyrie, that the law of our
Church does not permit me to have an
other, and wish to keep this one as
long as / cam" Some of our fair coun-
| trywomen may think that similar stat
ute elsewhere, embracing the laity as
well as clergy, would do good.