The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-02-15
Home Reading.
Amclancholy reaetion-Thc top Of a
bald head in . looking glass,

bald head in looking glass,
Most of the shadows that cross our path
through life arc caused by our standing
in our own light. g.ra
"Ncithcr pianos nor children admit.
tee" is the notice in New York boarding
house bill gj d7
When the heart is pure there is hardly
anything which can mislead the under
standing in matters Of immediate person.
al toncernment.
"A little girl worn out by a long sor.
mon, observing the preacher gathering
himself for another point, exclaimed !:
"0h, ma. lie is not going to quit at all j;
he's swelling up again."
People who get themselves up without
regard to expense, arc generally found
to have donc'so at the expense Of others.
They can afford the best, and plenty Of
when it does not cost them anything: .
A worthy Quaker once thus wrote: II
expect to pass through this world but once.
II, therefore, there be any kindness I can
show, or any good thing I can do to any
fellow human being, let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglectit, for I will
not pass this way again.
HARD WoRps.-A very learned man
has said: "rhc three hardest words in
the English language are, I,,cas mista-
KEMP" Frederick the Great wrote to the.
Senate, II have. just lost great battle.
and i was entirely my own fault" Gold
smith says-"T'his confession displayed
more greatness than all his victories"
Charles Dickens says that ','the first ex,
tcrnal revelation of tho dry rot in men is
a tendency to lurk and lounge I; to bc at
street corners without intclligible reason; /;
to be going anywhere when met ]; TO be
about many places rather than;any; to do
nothing tangible, but to:haye an inten-
ton of performing number Of tangible
duties tomorrow Or the day after =,
A TALE Wlru a NlonAL.-Whcn trade
grew slack, and notes fell due, the mer-
chants face grew long and blue; his
dreams were troubled through the night,
with shcriff's bailiff's all in sight At
lust his wife unto him said, tRise up at
once, get out Of bed, and get your paper,
iuk'and pen, and say these words unto all
men: "My goods, wish to sell to you,
ard to your wife and daughters, too, my
prices are so very low, that each will buy
before they go.' Ho did as bis good
wife advised, and straightway went and
advertised Crowds came and bought
Of all he had, his notes were paid, bis
dreams were glad, and DO will tell you yet
this day how we'll did printer'sink repay.
He told US with q knowing wink, how he
was saved by printers ink. r
A TALE OF LovE.-Onc quiet night in
lcafy June, when bees and birds wero all
in tune, two lovers walked beneath the
moon. The night was fair-so was the
maid-they walked and talked beneath
the shade, with mono to harm or make
afraid. Her name was Sue, and his was
jim, and as be was fat aud she was slim,
he took to her and she to him. Says Jim
to Sue, "By all tho snakes, that squirm
among The bushes aud brakes, I like you
bcttcr'n buckwheat cakes" Says Sue to
Jim-"Since you've begun it, ana been
and como and gone and done it, like
you next to new bunnet." Says jim to
Sue, ''My heart you've busted but I
have always gals mislrusted." Says Sue
to Jim-"I will be true if you love me
as | love you. no knife can cut our love
in twop "says Jim to Sue, "Through
thick and thin, if you are true just count
me in-Ill court no other gal ngin."
Jim leaned to Suc-Sue leaned to Jim,
his nose just fetched her jockey brim. .fosr
lips went--went--allcm !-ahem!--all
And then--anl Men-and TnENl Oh
gals, beware Of men in June-undcr-
meath the silver moon, when frogs and
trickets are all in tune, lest your name be
i'll tho paper soon. ~it ''
Giants or OLpEs TiMEs.-In ono Of
his recent lectures, Professor Siliman
alluded to the discovery Of the skeleton of
an enormous lizard, eighty feet long.
From this the Professor Inferred, as no
living specimens Of such magnitude had
been found, that the species which it rep-
resents had degencrated. The verify Of
his position he rather singularly endea.
voredto enforce by alusion to the WE'LL
known existence Of giants in olden times.
The following list is the data upon which
this singular hypothesis is based;
The giant exhibited at Rouen in 1880,
the Professor says, measured nearly
eighteen feet.
Gorapias saw a girl that was ten feet
high. @
The giant Galabra. brought from Ara
bia to Romc, by Claudius, was ten feet
high.
Farnum, who lived in the time Of Eul
gene IT,, measured eleven and half