The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-11-19
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying vir-
tuous pleasure at the cheapest rates.
The speaker who took the floor "
has been arrested for stealing lumber.
Why is an unweicome visitor like a
shady tree? Because we are glad
when he leaves
To improve a man is to iberalize
and enlarge him in thought, feeling
and purpose. ; o.-
Men want restraing as well as pro-
Ipelling power. The good ship is pro-
yided with anchors as well as sails.
Men are sometimes accused of pride,
merely because their accusers would
bePFoud themselves if they were in
their places.
Hasty wordsoften rankle the wound
(which iiijaFyy iiiij;sFy gives gives but soft words
assuage it, forgiving cures 1T, and for
getting takes away the scar.
| Though reading and conversation
may furnish US with many ideas of
men and things; yet it is our own
meditation that must form our judg-
ment. s - - -
Misfortunes are moral bitters, which
Frequently restore the healthy tone of
thesmind after it has been employed
and sickened by the sweets of pros
lperity.
! There are many doublings in the
human heart; do not think you can
find out the whole of mans real
character at once, unless he is fool.
Old Ben Franklin's mother-in-law
wouldn't believe that he could live in
America, when, he started his news
paper, because, forsooth, there was
"oneapaper in America already
Beware of such food as persuades
man,sthough he be not hungry, to eat
it; and those liquors that will prevail
with man to drink them, when he
is not thirsty III M a 5Lgs
1t was not Snooks' wife who "loved
to make bread cause it cleaned her
hands SO beautifully" nor who want
ed dark-colored tea-set, that
wouldn't show the dirt, It was a
base SANDER upon Mrs. Snooks; and
we are happy to record the fact.
Daniel Parsell, thee punster, being
desired deessK to make pun extempore,
asked:
i "Upon what subject?p ..o5A
|. "The King" was the answer.
i cob, Sir" replied Daniel, e" the
King is not a subject"
A lecturer, addressing an audience,
contended, with tiresome prolixity,
that Art could not improve Nature,
until one, of his hearers, loosing all
patience set the room in a roar by ex-
claiming-"how would your head
look without wig?' esv
A proposition must be plain to be
adopted by the people. A false no.
| ton, which is clear and precise, will
always meet with a greater number of
adherents in the world than a true
principle whichis obscure orinvolved.
True courage is the result of rea-
soning. A brave mind is impregna-
bic. Resolution lies more in the head
than in the veins, and a just sense of
honor and infamy, of duty and of re-
llglon, will carry us further than all
the force Of mechanism.
"Do you believenin second love,
Misther McQuaker ?" edo 1 believe
in second love? Humph! if man
buys apound of sugar, isn't it sweet? +?
and when it is gone, don't he want
another pound? !? and isn't that pound
sweet, too? Troth, Murphy, I believe
in second love-" - -,
ENcoURAe1Ne.-'H How do you feel
this morning, James ?n
! !" Very much better, thank you. 1
did think while ago, I was not as
well; but know I am better now.
forI just met old Mr., the under
taker, and he looked shocking cross at
me !nEfi5a .la's' ssa.s 1,s..
Some wag remarks truly when he
saysthat j" the popularity in politics
is to see your name in large type pos
:. tied to- a fence. Somebody will in
quire as to who you are, and when the
first rain comes you vii disappear.
During a siege, a water-carrier was
crying his water through the town,
"'Six sous a gallon !! six sous gallon !"
Bysand4by a bomb-shell carried off
one of his barrels, whereupon, with
: out moving muscle of his face, he
continued, "Twelve sous gallon
twelve sous gallon ="