The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-04-25
WIT AND wIMDOM.

MEN Of strong minds should not be dis
couraged ur hniing, occasionally, that their
best ideas have been antici pated BY former
writer's. In the path TO greatness such
obstacles are to be expected.
Hurry and Cunning are the two appren-
tices Of Dispatch and Skill, but neither or
them ever learn their masters trade.
He that openly tells his friends all that
he thinks, must expect that they will secret
" tell his enemies much that they do not
think Of him.
\ AcKsowLKDdINs we have been in the
wrong is only showing that we are wiser TO-
day than yesterday.
THINoS I DoS'r LIKE 70 SEE-(By
Young Lady 81 don't Ike, if girl sets her
eyes upon young gentltm N for a minute;
that be should imagiEe she has q "sst" On
him for life
| don'tlike to see two ladies conveFsing in
an undertone in company, wearing a ms
licious look upon their faces, and directing
their eyes frequently toward me.
don't like to be one Of a wedding party
where all the young ladies' ate expected to
damp their handkerchiefs through sympathy
with the weeping BRIDE.
! | don't ike to see nv beau flirting with
L ~"~NAO@ 6-Ai3 aAN DS Ooii gu w 4OOA Kay @hA
unconcerned al the time, lest be accused
OF jealousy.
! don't like those who will tell YOU they
'are plain reople, who speak their minds
and make that a pretext for giving you ail
manner Of impertnent home blows
! | don't Ike, IL girl makes herself agree
able to q gentleman for half an hour, that he
should 20 away and tell all his friends in
4 teCnpHHenCa hat aha fa
/ him"
don't like TO be asked to play ittls
music for the qualification OF the company
and to find that during the performance
| everybody prefers listening To the music of
their own voices.
I | don't like TO see pair Of slippers that
worked at long aud Arduousy to render
beautiful, fiourishing on the feet Of another
girls husband whom once expected to be
my own.
7 don't ike, after conversng in an ani-
mated and sensible strain for FIVE minutes,
to hear at the end Of il, spray excuse me
what were you sAyingy'
don't like " be called Fueartless" os-
cause | cannot sigh over a withrred rose
leaf, Or weep over AN Eieey on a Dead Ca
nary"
don't like, on showing a charming new
bonnet TO dear young lady frieHd, 10 be
told b her, quite patror zingy, that it would
do pretty well only il IL go ''frighIfuIly" un-
becoming.
WIsE SAYINGS. -fBy Josh Bilings.--)It
strains mans philosophers the wust Mud
to laf when be gets beat.
Awl ov Us complain ov the shortness Nv
life, yet we awl waste more time than we
uZa.
Don't mistake arroguns for wisdom; meny
people hev thought they wuz wizs when
they wuz only windy
The man who kent git shed without pull-
in others back, Is s limited cuss.
The principal difference between a luxury
and necessary is the price.
Whenever the soul is in grief it ia taking
root, and when it is in smiles it is taking
wing.
"Give the devil bic DUE" but Be careful
there amt much due ham.
After man has rode fast onst, he never
wants to 20 slow again
Faith that is founded on an earnest aud =
truthful convickshua is beautiful u behold;
but faith that il founded slnpla on c0ur-
age amt sanyihing more than good grit
Evra sorrow has its twin Joy;
Of seratchin' almost pays for having tie
each.
Those familys who is really fust class
never are afraid that thay shall get CHEAT
ed out ov their respe sktability, whilst the
Goldfish famiys ar always nervous lest tha
mite.
4 IL won't do to stir up a man when be is
Y ~ - .w.lf
milk when tae cream is rising
II is easy enuf to raise the Devil, but he's
bard crop TO reap
/ The onla sure resipee to govern mankind
with is the rod; Yol may festoon II with
Y flowers aud case IL with velvet, II you pleza,
but il is the rod after all that does the buzi-
4 ness.
We are told that a contentei man Is hap
py, and we might haV bin told AZ the same
time that o mud turtle could hy If il onls
had wings.
A rogue who was spprehended for picking
pockets at temperance meeting, attempted
to Justify hiIaself by say ing that he had en-
deavored As far as possible to initiate the
lecturer inasmuch a. while the speaker
riveted the attention 4 the audience, he
nailed their purses.
A stupid fellow tried to annoy popular
preacher by asking hrn whether the fattei
calf Of the parable was male or female
@Female, to be sure" was the reply, .'fOr
see the ulale-looking his questioner full in
the f4ce-yet alive N the flesh before me-"
\ AN instance OF the ruling passion strong
in death il thus rela cd of old Cook, who
was known as miser, and had amassed a
large fortune. On bis death-bed, when his
end vas approaching, q tallow candle
was burning upon q st md, Pickering fame
I In the Fireplace Suddenly be lied TO his
son, saying, Woodbury., come here The
son approached bis bedside, when the old
man whispered, Woodbury., blow out that
candle; taIlow's most ts dear as butter"