Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-05-16
sALMAGUNDI.


 s@-The clock of the tongue should set by the dial of the heart.
 pa. .Fancy runs most furiously when guilty conscience drives it.
 R@-A wise book is true friend it's author, public benefactor..
 tH-It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. p~To taste of Paradise, all that is necessary is to taste of virtue.
 pgThere is much difference between initiating good man, anc counter feiting him. Say The speaker who "took the floor" has been arrested for stealing lumber. py-Why are good resolutions like fainting ladies' They Dant carrying out.
 BeTWhat would this world be with out woman? A perfect blank-like a piece of paper-not even ruled.
 ng-Josh Billings says two old maids kissing each other looks like 1.-two old iints trying to strike fre."
 pay Why is a pig in parlor like a house on fire? Because the sooner it is put out, the better.
 1@AAn old maid speaking of mar riagc says it is like any other disease while there is life there is hope:
 bB-1 know every rock on this coast" cried an Irish pilot. At that moment the ship struck, when he ex- claimed, "and that's one of them."
 n@-"Oh she was jewel of wife ]" said Pat, mourning over the loss of his better half; 'sshe always struck me with the soft end of the mop!"
 n9-Every man will be your friend as long as you have money to spend. n9Always moderate as far as possi- ble unkindness expressed towards others.
 BHrAs bees can breed no poison, though they suck the deadliest juices, so the noble mind, though forced to drain the cup of misery, can yield but generous thoughts and noblc deeds.
 DEATH.-It is doubtless hard to die 1; but it is agreeable to nope we shall not live here forever, and that better life will put end 10 the troubles of this. If we were offered immortality on earth, who is there would accept so melancholy n gift? What resource, what hope, what consolation would then pv i>r. --- -s.~:-->. 4h- ..;e.~- ~s c~--' 2 tune and the injustice of mang D1rWhat was true with ancients, is true with us--that man must have Q love for his calling if he wishes to succeed eminently. He then has an inclination to urge him on, which is an ever-present inducement, making his work light, pleasure, and not task. Such a man cannot we'll avoid success. Rg~ Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always ill progression i; we must always purpose to do more or better than in past times. The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere. pur- poses, though they end as they begin, by airy contemplation. We. compare and judge, though we do not practise.
 @- Papa, didn't you whip me once for biting little Tommy?' Yes, my dear, you hurt him very much Well, then, papa, you ought to whip sisters music master, too; {; he bit sister yestcr- day afternoon right on the mouth, and l know it hurt her, because she put her arms around his neck and tried to choke him.
 p6s- Said an Irish Justice to an ob- streperous prisoner on trial: We want nothing from you but silence, and but little of that
 Dsy- The pursuit of knowledge under ifficulties--trying to master the Ger man language by drinking lager beer and eating sour-loout.
 DT Mark Twain enters the Ball, Akers and Florence Percy controversy about the authorship of "Rock me to sleep" and demolishes Mir. Ball, the noisiest competitor In the following measured strain: Backward, speed backward, ohl Ball, in yonr flight Make not an ass of yotrself-Gust for to night ) pull tho silver thread out of your hair, fill up and varnish those furrows of care-care that was born of attempting Fame's steep, which you couldn't climb, Ball, whom none rock ed to sleep. 0, Bally, come back from the echoing shore! Cease for a season the public to bore, with your infamous rhymes and your stupid complaint, for you know you are claiming to be that which you ain't. Oh, drivel no more don't sniffie, don't weep--hang ur your Tyre, Ball-Ill rock you to sleep
 THE AIR.-The quality of the air we breathe, and it's influence upon health,