The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1867-11-28
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SANDER is n cownrd's revenge, di.si;nu
laton his defence.
tYe live ami1 sartacos, and the art Of
life is to skate well on them.
The grossest Ignorance does not disgust
a sensible man like mpudent KNOWLEDGE.
Those who before glass look most at
themselves, are apsto know least OF them,
selves.
Those nervous folks. who are annoved
by everything that approaches, annoy
everybody they approach.
We make sad mistakes; tu. there is
goodness hiyed, like wild honey, in strange
nooks and corners Of the world.
Oae thousand girls with blue eyes,
coral lips and golden hair are gathering
hops in Bethel, Me. VIII, wouIdn'. be
a hopl
On winters night, when the moon
shone bright, AMI the snow was crus,cG
Ger; with maid as fair as seraphf are,
slid from hill down lower. Ere we
reached the place, Cike a horse on race)
our swift gliding sled cHreened and with
tresses fair, strcaming back on the air,
sweet Sa!lie went oeuG over eend.
Naomi, the daughter Of Enoch was
five hundred and eighty years old when
che was married. Courage ladies'
"Thero never was goose so gray,
But.some day soon or late,
An honest gauGer came that way,
And took her for his mate"
During a cross examination Of d wit.
meas, be was asked where his father was,
TO which he replied with melancholy
air:
"Dead, sir; dropped off suddenly, ur.'
GLOW cumo he to drop OF so sudden.
IyP was the mex. question.
'Foutplay, sir; the sheriff imposed on
his unconscious nature, sir, and getting
him to go up to a platform to look at a
select audience, suddenly lie knocked
trap door from under him."
Not far from Susquohannah county,
Pennsylvania, a clergyman, celebrated
for talent at making bunders, after hav,
ing pronounced a happy couple man and
wife, concluded the ceremony by "wish.
ing them happy and pleasan. journey
through h!e, and hoped that they would
be blessed in their marriage relation as
were Abraham and Sarah in the days Of
old" Before the company diffused them
selves to their respective places Of abode,
ayouth Of Scrip.ural pursui. informed
them ,la, Sarah was one hundred wears
old before she bore Isaac !" That was
30! The Clergyman acknowledged tho
corn, and-"then the band played"
The following infaIlib!e cure for eou,
Is taken from IA old work. Tho inpre.
dients are scarce, and are, lst, the person
must pick up handkerchief from the
pocket OF maid Of fiNy years, who has
never had wish to change her condition; |;
I'd, he must dry ii on parsons hedge
that was reyer covetous 81, he must
send it to doctors shop who never kill.
ed patient; 4lh, he must mark il with
lawyers ink who never cheated client
otb, apply to tho part affected, and cure
will speedily follow.
SrRoHo AEGUMEST-No cat has two
tails. Granted. Then a cat has one tail
more tnan no cat. True. Well, then.
we have proved that cat has three tailf.
lhe above reminds US Of tie smart boy
who on his return from college, attempt,
Cd 70 prove that two were equal to three.
POINTING to roasted chicken on the Z,
bIe he said as not that onei And
then pointing TO another: as not tlrat
twoi Aud do not ono and two make
threer Whereupon his old Dad said /:
WIFE, you take one ADD I'll take the
other, and our smart boy can have tho
.hiid for diuuer."