Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-03-17
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ONLY solitarY people faIl in love.

ONLY solitary people iall IN love
NEVER attempt to reason man out of an opin.
ion to change him win not help you; and there is
such thing as to be certain of the truth.
PLEASE, Mr.. Smith, papa wants to know if you
won't lend him the model of your hat n Certain
" my son, what for PILE wants to make scare
crow
Or all the actions of mans lie, his marriage
does the least concern other people yet of all the
actions Of a5mans life tbs the most meddled with
by other people
LIFE is constant struggle for riches, which we
must soon leave behind. They seem given to us as
the nurse gives playthiag to a child, to amuse it
until it falls asleep.
LET us so order our cenversation in the world
that we may live when we are dead in the affections
of the best. and leave an honorable testimony in
conscience Of the worst.
"sAIIIE,i said fellow to a girl who hadred hair,
''keep away from me-you'l Il set me on 6re.'
mo dangsr of that said Sally, '.you are too
green to burn"
If are loved by those around us, we can bear
the hostility Of all the rest of the world just as FIVE
are before warm fire, we need not care for all the
ice in the polar regions.
No AccouNTING FOR TAsrEs.-In the gallery of,
the Convert of Jesuits at Lisbon, there is fine
picture of Adam Paradise dressed IN blue breech
es, aoth sflrer buckles, and EUe aoih striped pet
ticoat
GARRULoUs For, who had annoyed by his indi-
vdious remarks, his partner in the ball room, among
other empty things, asked whether ''she had ever
had her ears pierced ~ No,n was the reply; ''but
have often had them bored.n
MoLlERE, it would seem, has been anticipated by
Autigonous. 1t was not the great Frenchman who
first discovered that no man is hero to his valet.
hatterer said to Antigonous, "You are Divine.
"Ask my valet, he viii tell you otherwise
A CHEERFuL life must be busyone. And busy
life can never be well otherwise. Frogs do not croak
in running water. Active minds are seldom troub-
led with gloomy forebodings. They come up only
from the staguant depths of spirit unstrred by
generous impulses the necessities of honest toll
BROAD HIET.-A bachelor sea captain who was
remarkng the other day that he wanted good chief
officer, was promptly informed by young lady pre-
sent, that she had objection to be his first mate
He took the hnt-and the lady
The LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of a shop-keeper
of the Rue st. Denis in Paris, who died recently
ended thus II desire my heirs to take measur res
at once for my autopsy and to place my body in the
hands of men of science, that it may be carefully
dissected, for determined to know the cause of
my DEATH
FRATERNIzrNG.- was great excitement early
one morning few weeks ago in the Jardan d Ac-
climaton, at Paris among the featheredinhebftants
in consequence of the appearance of flock of wild
ducks, which fraternized most amieaby with their
foreign relatives. The appearance of the guardians
by no means disturbed them. The visit lasted some
hours, and it not till late in the afternoon that
the feck winged its way in a northery direction.
Vow FULm4ED.-The Burlington (Yt.) Times
speaks of gentleman who on hearing of the fall of
Fort SUMTER vowed that he would never cut his hair
till "Gld Glory should float again over the fort
His time of trial has been longer than he anticipa-
ted and his hair has grown into anacondalike COILS
his tresses becoming thick plated stout and strong
But he is at liberty TO ply his shears and sweep
away this reminder of She opening scenes of the
war.
SAGE Frenchman has just discovered plan by
which all difficulties eau be ended, and publish
es his scheme in full in the New York Courier des
Etats Unis. The South must give up its plan of
separation and also slavery. Good. Butthe North
owes the South some return for these sacrifices.
Messieurs. Lincoln and johnson, Davis and Ste
phens, have only to sacrifice their places to their
country, by sending in their resignatons and then
let the Congress of Washington and Richmond pro-
claim General Lee President of the Union ri! Oh
yes.
The Charleston Mercury has entered on migra-
foru o,of.4 L
its faith, evident from the following taken from
its 'last dying speech ~
"South Carolina entered into this struggle for no
other purpose than to maintain the Institution of
slarery. Southern independence has no other OBJ
Ject or meaning independence and slavery must
stand together or fall together.
The Mercury used its last breath to denounce the
arming of slaves, preferring to go down in the
struggles to victory even, through such an expedi-
ent.
FILLIBUsTER. word fllibuster is derived from
the river, Wy, in Holland In the Seventeenth CEN
tury, small, fast-saiing vessels of about one bpn
dred tons burden, built on this river and sueb
a boat was rallied by the Dutch a Ylyboot. They
soon became known in England as Ay boats, a term
which transferred to Spanish as llibote. or by
softening of the first syllable as flibote The bue.
cancers of the West Indies found these light Dutch
vessels exactly to their service and from their using
them the French cruisers gave these pirates the
name of fibustiers, or fEbustiers, an appelIation
subsequently introduced into several languages. The
Vlyboot Of Holland occupied two hundredyears ago
the same position in navigation that is now held bv
the American clipper-ship
WoRsHIPPIEG THE DEyH.-The only devil-wor-
shippers known to exist are the Yezidis, singular
race ofpeople living in Armenia. The Yezdis were
formerly Christians, were then converted to Mahom
mechanism, and now apparently disgusted with both
faiths, have taken themselves to diaboEsm. The
theory oi their priests is that although the mighty
angel Satan, the chief of the angelic host at pres
ent has quarrel with C3oa -. 81. >,