The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-09-06

A lady who wears pretty little slipper
is often loved 10y the foot.
The greatest scandal in the world is the
worlds readiness to believe scandal.
A drop Of the hlockest ink may difl'ise
light rs brilliant as the light OF day.
vehemence creates dislike; excessive
millncss contempt he neither 81 severe as
TO be hated. nor SO tame rs 20 be insultcd.
"Pruy. madam, why do you name your
old hen Macduir2 "Bccnusc, want her to
lay on"
IL was, Of course, the Irishman who said:
"The most eloquent figure in a dogs face
was its tail"
The jewish women were once punished
for a,loring false calf Let the women OF
this country take warning. /.
The most reluctant slave to vice that we
ever saw was poor fellow who had his
fingers in one.
Hanging a mackerel to your Goa, tail and
imagining yourself whale constitutes cod
fish aristocracy.
Honesty is unqucstionably good policy
but under some fiery trials an insurance
policy is better.
Why is the ,olling ola bell like the prcy-
or OF hypoerite' Because IL Is a solemn
sound by a thoughtless tongue.
Why is the eye like severe schoolmass-
teri Because il always has pupil under
the lash.
Why is copper the most harmless Of mst.
ais? Because il is always in-a-ecnt (inno-
cent?
IL cant find bread for my family" said
lazy fellow, in company. "Nor l." said
an industrious miller. 81 am obliged to
work for it,"
Why ought hcn-houscs to be built upon
Shakcspcrian principlcs' Because they
ought to have their eggs sit and their en-
frances.
A down east clergyman says the skunk
is domestic animal, and may be very east
" trained. lie will doubtless enjoy mo-
nopoly Of the training business.
To love something more than ono's self
that Is the secret of all that is great Ia
know how to love for others-that is the
aim Of all noble souls.
II is filter for youth to learn than teach,
aud Tor sge to teach than learn; and yet
filter Tor an old man to learn than bc isno
rant.
Somebody who writes more truthiully
than POLITICALLY, says: IAN angel without
money is not thought 80 much Of now-a-
laws as devil with roll Of grecnbacks."
A cockney. seeing an urchin lying across
n side Of leather, remarked that the boy
could not sec straight because he was cross
hide.
Idleness is tho deal sea that swallows up
NIL virtues, and the sell.mado scPulchrc Of
living man. The idle man is the devils ur-
chin, whose living is rags, and whose diet
and wages are famine and disease. -
"wha, white teeth that girl had" said u
blind man OF aSirl who had just leit the
room. "iow to you know thaiH" he was
asked. Because, "she has done nothing
bu, laugh the las, hour"
Everybody blackguarls rich men, aud
vet everybody shows vast amount OF re-
spcc, for them. Nobody uses rich man
i'll to his face, or speaks well Of him behind
his hack.
What is the difference between shell
bursting on board ship and a tailor pat.
ronizcd by dissipated young menf The
Que rakes the decks and tho other decks the
rakes.
lfa bee stings you, win you SO to the
hive AMI destroy it3 Would no, thous
AMI come upon you lfyou receive a
trifiing injury don, 10 anxious to avensc it..
Let il drop. Il is wisdom to say little rc-
spccting the injuries you have received.
I wish that had been married thirty
years ago, soliloquired an old bachelor.
Oh ! wish had a wife, and half score
Of children would start up around mc, anil
bring along with them all that affection
which we sloull have hal for each other
by being early acquainted. Bu, rs il is, IN
my present state, there is not person in
the wnrli | rnrc n straw for ;and the worl.l
is pretty even with me, for ] don't believe
there is person in ], who cares a straw for