The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1867-10-25
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WHAT do we often drop yet never
sto1p topick up? a hint.
Iln who refuses forgiveness breaks
the bridge ovcr which he must pass.
so cloud can overshadow the Chris
tain, bnl his hitl will discern rainbow
in H.
WHY are kisses like the creation?
Because they arc made out of nothing
and are very good.
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WHEN alone, we have our thoughts
TO watch in our families, our tempers;
and in society, our tongues.
"MY dear husband, am | not your
only treasurer" Certainly, I should
like to lay you up in Heaven"
\ MONSTER in human FORM" says
that the only time woman does not
aNaggcratc is when she is talking of her
own age.
WHAT is the difference between o
town and it, people? 1t is layed out at
The beginning of its existence and they
at tho cnd Of thcirs.
lie gave good advice who said: If
YOU are in trouble don't tell it to every
person YOU meet. Not one man in
hundred will sympathize with you.
LOVE is the shadow of the morning,
which decreases as the day advances.
Friendship is the shadow of the even
ing, which strengthens with the setting
sun life.
Mrs. PARTINGToN has been reading
the health officers weekly reports, and
thinks that "total" must be an awful
disease, since as many die of it as all
Of the rest put together.
OUR devil says that when you see a
young man and woman walking down
the street, leaning against each other
like pair of badly matched oxen, it is
a pretty good sign that they are bent on
consolidation.
WHAT CAN SHELTER Me THE fine
comparison ola Chinese who was anX-
ious about his salvation was, GLOW can
a man think of trusting to his own
ri L, Il ItnTncnn..- NhN II is lilo .oaly inrr
shelter under ones own shadow"
WE shall see now what are the ne
ccssaricS of life, said country store
keeper during n severe storm, rs no one
will venture forth to-day except to pro-
euro thcm.' In the evening he found
that most of his sales We're yellow snuff
! and New England rum.
TnE following are among the signs
over the shops of traders ut Fort Smith,
Arkansas: "Camphcin And burned
hewed, "Ches Nuts billed and Roar"
"Cainseet chccsr Resceted Hear"
"Woshing, Ironin, and goin out duin
dois wurks dun here"
ooh, ,dearw blubbercd out an urchin,
who had been suffering from the appli-
cation Of the birch. "Oh, my! they
tell me that forty rods make iurlong,
but can tell bigger story than that.
Let 'cm get such plaguy ickin as I've
had, and they'll find that one rod
makes an ucher.n
y DIVINE in Georgetown, ID. c., in
u one of his sermons lately, used as a quo
y tation the scriptural query: "Whcrc are
e the uiuo?' On repetition of the qucs
Il ton, 4 demure looking young gentle
e man who had been nodding, suddenly
u reused up and was heard innoccntly t'
u respond: "Thcy'rc playing Washing
s ton club
Il \ CLERGYMAN one sunday at tn,
close Of his sermon, gave notice to th
congregation that in the course of tn
y, week he expected TO go on Il mission f
i The hrlthon. one of his parishioner
exclaimed. "Why, my dear sir, yor
have never told us one word of this be
y, fore. What shall we do ?'
" "Oh, brother!r said the minister. 3"
~ DON'T CEpcct to go out of town.
% lN IL school, recently, Il teacher too
f. ~, ca,iun to relate an anccdote of the lii
a tie girl vino tried to Overcome evi
If with good" by giyinga New Testamen
a toa boy who had ill-treated her. Th
4. story was appreciated, for few mil
.o utter afterwards, one boy struck anOthe
nj aul ON hcingaskod tho reason, said h
" was trying to get q Testament" TIL
. was auracticai hoarng altogether uneA
r- pccJ,d.
j. a. Sllu,Ip like that beautiful spotte
little Tiger cat aid a lady, while vi
IS itinethcmmagcrie last Friday. "Wh,
.I t1r:" said her husband "Oh, to ha,
.l fora "a, and TO sleep With," said IL
"a lady. "Wha, do you want to slee
ld E'.''i such a thing for?" "Why just
tn see b." difference between that an
he sleeping with a bear" The husbar
.n suddenly proposed to take Il look
G- the monkey.
: LIVERY stable keeper named Spu
" WuulducNcr let a horse go out witho
requesting the lads not to drive fas
, one day man called for horse to &
''' tend afuncnl. "Ccrtainly," said Spur
- "but,n he added; forgetting the solen
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