Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
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SALMAGUNDI.

-of no use without fellow.
 pI-H He who lives for himself alone, lives for mean fellow.
 sJ-France proposes to tax bachelors for not proposing"
 p9- Troubles are like babies-thcy only grow bigger by nursing. bad
 aE- Speaking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim. isl
 HJ- When is literary paper like smoke? When it comes in volumes.
 nE- Man looks forward with smiles, but backward with sighs.
 He who puts bad construction on good act, reveals his own wicked edness at heart.
 ISN'T IT.-"Katy, have you laid the table cloth and the plates yet?" "An sure, have mam-everything but the eggs, and isn't that Biddy's work p
 by-Every hour comes to us charged with duty, and the moment it is past is registered how it was spent, for or against as in the final account which all must give of their actions.
 B@-A young lady says there Is but ono word in the Bible she wishes 10 be altered. She would have the word smite changed to kiss in the following passage: .Whosoever shall smite thc6 on thy right check, turn to him the other also.' df i'tf% s H
 gsyAs young lady was worship- ing the other Sunday, her waterfall burst, flying into a hundred pieces.-- Her brother had put some combustiblc material in it, and the thing went up. The young lady suddenly changed her prayers to something else.
 R%Lessons of virtue and wisdom, inculcated by another in early youth, act as guardian angels through life, and finally overcome the evil passions of our nature. The disregard ofparen- tal authority hardens the child's heart and is generally followed by degrada- ton and crime, which ends in death. sI-"What is the use of living 5' snarled veteran grumbler the other day. "We are flogged for crying, when we are babies; floggcd because the schoolmaster is cross, when we arc boys; obliged to toll, sick or well, or starve, when we are men; to work still harder (and suffer something worse.) when we are husbands; and, after ex- hausting life and strength in the service of other people, die, and leave our children to oquarrcl about tho possession of our watch, and our wife-to catch somebody else"
 p-The editor of country paper, who no doubt, has more delinquent patrons than he ought to have, appeals to them ill the following touching strain: .ta4 f ,s..s.s "When other bills and other duns
 Their tales of woe shall tell,
 Of notes in bank without the funds
 And cotton hard to sell
 There may. perhaps, in such a scene,
 Some recollection be s;as,Mssa. Of bills that longer due have been,
 And you'll remember mel" NONE STAND ALoNE.-"It is the provi- dence of God that none stand alone; we touch each other; man acts with man, heart on feart. We are bound up with each other; hand is joined in hand wheel sets wheel in motion; we are spiritually linked together, arm-in- arm we cannot live alone; we cannot die alone. We cannot say I will only run risk with my own soul--I am pre- pared to disobey the Lord for such pleasure or such a gain, but I do not want to duplicate others--I only want to be answerablc for myself" This cannot be. Each living soul has It's in- fuence on others in some way or 1 lotbAra F9 0A VI ,fNd tN itAaf NF a r~ A good story is told of an ec- centric old gentleman who, although occasionally addicted to the habit of swearing, was still punctillious in re- gard to saying grace at the table, and this he never omitted on any occasion. I The story runs that on certain occa- sion the old gentleman invited q sea captain, jolly old weather-beaten tar of his acquaintance. to dine with him. They sat down to dinner, and the old gentleman, according to custom, com menced saying grace but the captain, whose attention had been diverted for a moment, hearing the old gentleman speak, thought he was addressing him, and turncd to him with-"What did you say, Squire!' at .s
 "Why, d--m it, man, Fun saying