Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-02
bid YOU ever hear a very rich man

Did you ever hear very rich maj
sing?
If / was going to paint picktur .
Faith, Affection and Honesty, | woul'
paint mi dog looking up in my face ant
waggen his tail.
The devil IL a mean kuss; he neve
keeps his own promises, but alwus max
us keep ours.
Truth liz az artless az child and al
purswasive-
There liz nothing in this life that meI
pay so hi price for az they do for re
pentance.
Laws are made, customs grow-law:
hav tew be executed, customs execute
themselfs-laws begin where custom:
end.
Men who have good deal to say use
the fewest words.
The road tew wealth il a highway
but the road to knowledge iZ "a byeway
Shame il the dieiEg embers of virtue
don't know ov a better kure for sOr
row than to pity somebody else.
Experience is a grindstun, and 1t il
lucky. for US if we kan get frightened 10y
it, not ground.
We Shouldn't forgit one thing, that
there is not single fee simple on this
futstool; even the best tooth in our head
may fall to aking before sun set aiC
have to be jerked out.
Ignorance is the wet nuss of preju
dice.
Anticipation is constantly nibbling
expekted pleasure until it consumes 1t
iiss so the skoolboy who visits his bas
ket during the forenoon too often has al
re .dv discounted his dinner.
never knu man troubled with mel
ankolly who had plenty to dew, and
did it.
Good breeding, az l understand it, il
giving every man his dew, without rob
bing yourself.
Natur il jist az honest as a cow.
Talk little, but listen out loud, young
man, is the way to make the company
suspekt you of knowing a crate dea
more than you aktually. do.
If you should reduce the wants of the
people of Nu York city down tew aktua
necessitys; and plain comforts, yu wood
have to double the perlice force tew keeI
them from committing suicide.
People, when they find fault with
theirselfs, are generally more anxious tc
be consold than forgiven, and, therefore
when a man begins to confess hiZ sins tC
me. and sez, 'there amt no hope foi
him" 1 tell him he ought tew know awl
about it, and L guess he is more than
half right.
What the world wants il good exam.
plies, not so much advice; advice may
be wrong, but examples prove themselfs
Pride il bogus. Adam at one time
had right tew be proud, but he let sin
beat him out of hiz birthright.
a growing hen and a cackling ruesteI
are very misfortunate poultry in g
family.
Az ginral thing, man who marrys
a woman ov more uppercrust than him.
self will find the woman more anxious
tew preserve the distance between them
than tew bring him up tew her grade ol
go down to his level.
Titles are valuable; they make US ac
quainted with menny persons who 9th
erwise would be lost amung the rubbish
Peace is the soft and holy shaddel
that virtew casts.
Habits are like the wrinkles on {
mans brow, if you will smoothe out the
one it will smoothe out the other.
1t is a darned sight easier tew find six
men who kan tell exactly how a thing
ought to be did than tew find one who
will do it.
Marrying for money is a .neaner way
tew git it than counterfitting.
Dispatch is taking time bi the ears
Hurry liz taking it by the end ov the tail
The miser who heaps up gaiEs tew
gloat over is like hog in pen fatted
for show.-[New York Weekly.