Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-13
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 RkEAn eloquent speaker is like al river ;--grcat at the mouth.
 pa~A crow bar often opens but ncvcrt shuts.
 pss-A competency may be defined asI| a little more than y0u have.
 syAll diseases speak to us eloqtcn- tly and solemlrIy the dumb E aguc. 3ofssf
 De5~ An arch young lady should be an archer, for she can bend her beauas she f plcases. N sssg
 Bsa-Large men are less quarrclsomoI than little ones, The greatest of oceans | is the Pacific,
 BeA public speaker, like [ ahthting- dog, should give careful attention to | his points. s'sssaN ss
 DsyTcnnyson should have excepted | the Dead Sea when hc said "every sea lis full of life. sssss lsss -szss ' fAas7st
 seg-I should not be naturally iilferr- ed that Rome whs built in the night f because itwas not built in a,day.ons
 psr Every women is Tn the wrong until she cries--andlgthcil she Is ni'the ! right instantlyatiga@u aIali4f
 sslrA man only gets into hot wxterI by attempting tol throw cold uponathcI 1 daring schemes of his wife, af
 The ladies sometimes gatsupbon- nets of diminished size, but never of | diminished cost. '3ss''s M s''s ssss FThc man who lends an umbrella is a real philanthropist; he sacrifices himself for his friends R1ss1N's.tAst 1eE-Thc Radical policy IS to suffrage | is plain. It is written in black and white--espccially black. Hea
 gsg>So common has becofis tho shooting of ministers in Missouri, 1t IS now regarded as T branch of sport.
 pas@Ifa bigalnist wcr1 sentenced to live with his two wives in the sam0 house, the crime would soon become extinct. N Dsy- Stupid people smay eat, but shouldn't talk. Their mouths will do well enough as banks deposit, but not 1 of issue.tY sf tK3ss
 Eg~It is said that doctors can miti- gate tho pains of sickness certainly good many of them make dyimgla very easy thing. @
 MIXED. An American was teaching Englishito q German, and on being as- ked if there were no iiTegulaisvefts iii English, replied on giving one solitary example. It was, II go. thou wentcst, he departed, we made tracks, you cut sticks, they skedaddled. "s6 sls7 ~
 
 DSs~ A man, stopping his paper, wrote ! to the editor: I think folxcs ottent spend their mummy fur paptlr, my tlad- Idy dideIt and every bofly suy lie was l tho most intelligentcst man in the .coun- try and he'd the smai'tcst family Of bois tlnt ever duggcd taturs.u ssngH
 Gs1g-A young lady having ssset her cap" for another large specimen of the opposite sex, ndshaving failed to win him, was telling her sorrowst to q couple 1 of confidants. when one Of them cOm- | forted her with these words Never mind. Mollic, there is us good fish in tho sea as ever vet wiis caught. {" "Mol- lie knows that. "replied her little bro- thcr, s.but she wants whale"
 HssHL Learning is likc river, whose head being far in the land, is at first rising little. and easily viewed; but still, as you go, it gapcth with wider bank, not without pleasure and delight ful winding while it is on both sides set With trees and the beauties of yari- ous flowers; but still. the farther YOU follow it, thcsdccpcr and broader it is 1; till at last it cnwnyes itself in tho uniathomable ocean. There YOU seq more water, but no shorc--no end to the liquid fluids vastncss. Ss
 DsS~ 4 few weeks ago baby was taken to church to be baptized. and his little brother was present during fhao sacrament. On the following Sunday. when baby was undergoing his ablu- tions and dressing, tho little brother. asked mamma if she intended to carry 1 Willie to be christcned. .sWhy. no.s' said his mother, '.don't you know. my son, people are not baptized twice !'' Whatw returned the young reasoncr. with the utmost astonishment in his earnest face, mot if it don't take the first tiinc?' KNAPsAcKs.--Among sthe knapsacks now in use in Europe, the eIightcst. when packed with a field kit is that of the Austrian army, weighing ten pounds: the hcaviest, the English, weighing fif- teen pounds. But when to this is ad- ded the weight of arms, accoutrcments. clothing, and provisions, the total car ried by alfoot soldicrhf each nation is as follows: Austria, 5l lbs. & ox; Eng land, 5t lbs. s oz; France, 55lbs. ; oz Prussia, 56 lbs. oz; Russia, II lbs. ' oz.
 Intelligent Women Not Beautiful. Very intelligent women we find hv oh-