The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-12-16
NUMBER %.

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FARMERS ALLMINAX. Josh Billings has
Just prepared a burlesque upon the old fash
ioned Farmers Almanac, full of weather prog
nostications, family receipts and moral advice
to farmers. Carleton Of New York, is tie
publisher. We make the following extracts
from this work for 1870, which is stated to be
stew years since leap-year, and ninety-four
years since the American people left Crate
Britain tew take care ov herself, and started
a snug little Dizziness ov their own, which
am instructed to state IL paying well. Con-
tanning all that IL necessary for an allminax,
and good deal besides
When II rooster crows, he crows all over
A nu milk cow is stepmother to every
mans baby.
Fools are the Whetstuns ov society.
Ii Il man haint got well balanced head
like tew see him part his hair in the middle
Flattery IL like colone water, TO be smelt
oV, not swallowed.
There IL only one good substitute for the
endearments ov Il sister, and that liz the en-
dearments oy some other phclow's sister.
He whom the good praze, and the wicked
hate, ought tew be satisfied with hiz reputa-
shun.
Men generally, when they whip mule,
SWaft tlt nlttlt remembers tnP SWtflNT, DQt
lorgits the licking.
About the hardest thing phelow kan do
is to spark two girls at onst, and preserve n
good average.
Going tew law IL like skinning u nu milk
COW for her hide, and giving the beef tcw the
lawyers.
The time tew be carefullest IL when we
have . hand full oy trnmps.
The man who has lust found out that he
kant afford to burn green wood, has taken hiz
fllst lesson in ckonomv
A lie IL like q kat, it never comes tcw vou
in straight line.
The longest-lived thing kno ov IL a nick
name,
Most men 60 through life az rivers 90 tcw
the sea, by following the lay or the ground
The CRATE cry of the world now dazc il,
''What's trumps?'
Friendship il like carthenwarc, if il IL,
broken it can be mended, but love il like Il
mirror, once broken, that ends it,
don't kno oy emmy thing on the face ov
this earth more remorsclcSs than per cent
interest.
There IL a crate deal ov difference between
enduring mistoruncs, because we cxpekt to,
and enduring them because we are obliged
to; one IL pashuncr, the other il mere sui
lenness.
When | see an old man marry Young
wife, ] consider him starting out on il bust,
for | am reminded ov the parable in the Bi-
hlc about new wine and old bottles
A MOVING SERMON. We havethc subioin-
ed discourse, delivered by Il southern divine,
who had removed to new field Of labor
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fara ,.a wail prothnr W-atl,ins oL :, p.find i
them sot the bows and oirIs that | bantizeJ
a,,d oatbnrnd intn no S.I1I,atb .nhoal XIX,
/ fines thnv bad hoen rnJn and 7,niyto,.o,,y h,,,t
now ,hci,. ,,orrr 1anrb u.as bnlbnd anI ~
the s;lnnrn Irn,,id hoaT--f,rc We vnn Hrotbor
| Wat,ins-ah, Around or the bac1 scats and
in tho aisles stood and 81, H. ,nlo,nJ hroth-
erino. with their black tnccs and homes hearts
and as looked mon them Tcorld see a-fare
We well Brother WatEins-ah, When had en-
ished nv discourse And shaken hands Win The
brptherino-ah, Inasscd ont rn tnkn a ms,
the Hopping blinds and moss covered root
suggested only-tarc We well, Brother Wat
kins-ah! mounted my old gray mare, with
my earthly possessions in my saddle bags,
and as passed down The street the servant
| girls stood in the doors, and with their hrooms
wavp1 mo faro yn unll Rrothnr Watkins