The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-12-31
FACTS AND FANo1Es.

WHY are good resolutions like faint
ing ladies? They want carrying out
FAvoRs easily repaid beget affection !
-fayors beyond return engender ha-
tired.
MORAL truths are prophecies of ends,
but not of the forms and succession OF
events.
IT is sound policy to suffer all ex-
tremities rather than to do base ac-
ton.
Does are valuable to tanners on ac-
count of the immense quantity of bark
they yield
The reason that many persons want
their desires, is because their desires
want reason.
FoRTUNEl-There is no fortune; all
is trial, or punishment, or recompense,
or foresight.-Voltaire.
He who carries the torch behind
him makes shade for himself, and a |
light for those who follow.-ItGioas
Procerb.
PRENTICE said of an editor, Gwho
smelt a rat" that if he did, and the
rat smelt him the rat had the worst OF
it.
The blue of heaven refreshes the
eve of the soul when it rests upon it,
as mnch as the green of earth does that
of the body.
Mrs. BROWN says her husband is
such blunderer that he can't even try
on a new, boot without putting his
: foot in it.
THERE is heaven in woman's heart,
full of beauty, but dim I; and it is hard
for man to count and classify all the
stars that adorn it.
He that marries for beauty alone is
like buyers of cheap furniture-the
varnish that caught the eye will not
endure the fireside blaze.
THERE are some lessons which ad-
n versity viii be sure to teach us, and
is among others thisz-that goodness in a
W woman is more admirable than beauty.
II "RoBERT, compare the adjective
s1 cold" said schoolmaster to an ur-
ne chin. "Positive cold, comparative
'e cough, superlative coffin" said the boy
. SECRET kindnesses done to mankind
- are as beautiful as secret injuries are
- detestable. To be invisibly good is al
:: - godlike as to be invisibly evil is dia
:. bolical.
. "I am indeed very much afraid o
-er lightning" said pretty lady. "Ant
mt well you may be-" replied despair
re ing lover, when your heart is mad
he of steel"
S. "DoN'T you think tight lacing ba
nd for the consumption, doctor| asked
nd young lady of her physician. " Nc
hat at ALL" said the doctor, "it is jus
all what it feeds on"
me ANGER is the most impotent passio
Ike that influences the mind of man
ly; efscts nothing it undertakes, and hur
ern the man who is possessed by it, MOI
ten than the object against which it is d
ike rected.
an. IT may be remarked, for the con
fort of honest poverty, that avari'
.'' reigns most in those who have b
- few good qualities to recommer
-. them. This is weed that will gro
only in barren soil.-HagheS.
,sas A pEDAGoGUE was about to fog
,etb pupil for having said he was fo'
dav when the boy cried out
ted "Oh, don't! don't, sir! I won't CT
,an you so any more! I'll never say wh
la think, again, in all the days of 4
red life."
ton "SAMBo, whar you get dat wat
rad you wear to meetin' last Sunday 2"
can allow you know hab watch?"
the cease l seed de chain hang out
rtar, front"
and $50 way! Suppose you see hal
) al round my neck, you tink dar's ho
hard inside of me 2"
seal ssMADAM," said doctor one day
the mother of sweet, healthy ba
i" the ladies have deputed me to
qnire what you do to have such h
ven py, uniform good child ?" The mo
have AZ nnsod for q moment over
'h 10 strangeness of the question, and Il
one she replied, simply and beautifully
criD' "Why, God has given me heal
epth, ob;1d ond re .1oNpn