Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-05-08


No man is ever Indifferent to the world 5
! good opinion until he haslost all claim to it.
A PERSON who is considered landless has
/ sometimes two or three achers in his mouth
THE gem cannot be polished without
( friction, nor man perfected without adversely.
/ WHAT bites sharper without teeth than
with them2 Scissors.
WHAT is most likely to becom a woman
A little girl.
How to get lady to show her foot
Praise the foot of some one else.
VINO invented matches? Adam and
Eve.
A WORK of art-A widow trying to get a
/ husband
No matter what part other persons may
/ play, grocer is very sure to play the coun-
+ terpart
/ A YOUNG man who is desperately in love.
/ says that he has been electrified with gal
vanic battery.
WHAT resemblance is there between a
fallen man and fallen wave? Both are
crest fallen.
WHAT is that which people wish to have
and then wish to get rid of? \ good appe-
lite
IL all men knew what others said Of them
there would not be four friends in the
world
! THE greatest genius is never so great as
{ when it is chastened aud subdued by the
+ highest reason.
ACKNOWLEDGING we haze been in the
wrong is only showing that We are wiser to
day than yesterday.
FoLIY-To act on the presumption that
( the smallest room in the house is large
/ enough to sleep in.
/ PRIDE and opulence may kiss in the morn
ing as married couple, but they are likely
to be divorced before sunset,
''IF all the world we're blind what a mel
ancholy sight it would be !" said an Irish
clergyman.
1t isn't pleasant to be in the company Of
persons who are only what a sandwich
should be-halfbrcd.
REV. DR.. CHAPLIN says that man, liy-
ing in the activities of the nineteenth cen
tury, is a condensed Methusaleh
CovEToUsNEss terms libcrality spend
thrift, and prodigality calls her churl, she
is alike contrary to both.
THE people who feel burdened with work,
would probably feel yet more 0yerburdened
with entire leisure were they called upon TO
enjoy it.
NATURE has made two kinds of excellent
minds the one TO produce beautiful thoughts
and beautiful actions, the other to admire
them.
'JoHNNY,' said a carpenter to a rather
green apprentice, have YOU ground all the
tools right?" "All but the hand saw. |
could not get all the hicks out Of that -
VICE and igorance are the necessary com
panions Of each other; and we can no more
reverse it than we can reverse the stars in
their courses.
SINCERITY Is speaking as we think: be
lieying as we pretend; acting as we profess:
performing as we promise; and really being
as we preteud 10 be.
THE essence OF true nobility is neglect of
self Let the thought of self pass in and
the beauty Of action is gone, like the bloom
from soiled flower
4 DANCER once said to Socrates, ''You
cannot stand on one leg as long as | can.
True, replied the philosopher, hut a
goose can.
YoU never knew very handsome wo-
man engaged in the woman srights' bust
ness-they can play the cards they already
hold to a better advantage.
LEr US be men, and always children be-
fore God; for in his eyes we are but children.
Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is
but the first moment Of morning.
IT is best to keep your secrets to yourself;
YOU may then feel sure they are yours, aud
that you are not arousing the jealousy Of
others or creating fears in your own mind
that others know how to wrong you.
'PUNIANA" inquiries Why was Bulwer
more likely 10 get tired Of noyel-writing
I than Warren? Because Bulwer wrote
Night and Morning" Warren only Now
/ and Then.
You are at the very bottom Of the bill,
said physician to a sick patient, but !
shall endeavor TO get you up again. Il
/ fear | shall be out Of breath before | reach
( the top, was the reply.
! If going uncovered indicates a reverent
spirit, as is claimed in some countries,
many of our ladies in fashionable circles are
patterns of reverence. They are head and
/ shoulders in advance of the world in gen
eral
An English paper says that Fitz Greene
( Halleck was one Of those American poets
Of the higher class who content themselves
With writing one or two small, but supreme
ly good pieces. Marco BozaEis is one Of
the hnest war lyrics in any language, and
Tor purposes OF declaration 1t probably has
no equal,
EVRYTHING is very spiritual, and wherein
the soul has truly part, recalls us to God, to
piety. The soul cannot move, wake, onen its
eyes, without seeing God. We feel God
with the soul as we feel the air with the
body.
IT is very indiscrcet and troublesome am
bition which cares so much about fame;
about what the world says Of us; to be al
ways looking in the faces of others for ap-
proval; to be always anxious about the
effect Of what we do or say: to be always
shouting, to hear the echo ofour own voices.
VIRTUE has this happiness, that she can
subsist of herself, and knows how to exist
without admirers, partizans, and protectors;
want Of assistance and appreciation does not
only not affect her, but preserves, puriies,
and renders her more perfect.
II men only thought Of their religion a,
they thiuk Of their estates, they would fee
the need aud value Of guaranteed eontinu
ity. They could NOT be nationally and cor
daily at ease in their own religious protes
sions without wishing them entailed on pos
terity. hl0r.
EsTATE of JOSEPH HENRY SgYDER
IA deceased.-Letters FestamentaTy having beer
granted By the Register of Bedford county, to tn,
mn mad ETecutor of the last VIII and Tps