Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-23

SUMTHING ov SMALL INsEx-SUCH As
MUsKEETERs, SEWING SosIETYs, AND
GNATs.
l don't kno az think it il a very diffi-
cult thing tew be a good iniun up in heav-
en-, but tew cum dow here and be good
injun, iz just WHARF the tite spot comes in.
Forgiving our enemys haz the same re-
freshing etfekt upon our souls az it duz
tew confess our sins.
What lamentable cuss man IL, he pittys
hiz nabors' misfortunes, by calling them
judgments from haven.
Wize men go thru this world az boys go
tew bed in the dark, whistling to shorten
the distance
The gods help them who help them
sells" Upon the same principle mankind
praze thoze who praze themselfs.
Falling in love IL like falling into molas-
sis, sweet but dreadful dolby.
Hunters and gamblers are poor ekone-
msts, they kill time, species Ov game
that kant be reproduced.
Good breeding il the art ov avoiding ia
miliarity, and at the same time making the
company satisfied with you and pleazed
with themselts.
Tew be happy--take things az they cum.
and let them go jist as they cum.
1t takes great deal of money tew make
a man ritch, but it don't take but little
virtew.
1t IL the little things ov this life that
plague us
Musketeers are plenty elephants skarse.
What an agreeable world this would be
tew live in If we could pump all the pride
and selfshuess out ov it. 1t would i'm
prove it az much az taking the fire and
brimstun out of the other world.
Don't mistake plezzur for happiness; it
IL an entirely different breed ov dogs
There iz CRATE deal ov equisit plezzure in
happiness, but ther IL CRATE deal ov plez-
zure that has no happiness in it.
There IL only one thing that kan think
ov now, that like to see idleness in, and
that IL, in molassis-i want molassis slow
and eaZy.
Experience haz the same effect on most
folks that age haz on a goose, it makes
them tuffer.
"SeWing SOsietys" are generally places
where the wimmin meet to rip and soup
the naborhood,
A lazy man iz one who has no time to
spare an industrious man il one who haz
more time to spare than he knows what to
do with
A lazy man always works harder than
a bizzy one--the hardest work kno of iz
to grunt-it liz harder tew set still, and fite
flies than it IL tew git up and escape from
them.
The man who controls his achuns sits at
the helm ov his ship.
1t IL very diflikult tew kalkulate upon
suckcess, unless man sets up for phool
in this department hev known hund-
reds to succeed, contrary to their expekt-
ashuns.
don't want amy better evidence that
man IL phool than to see him cultivate
eXcentrcitys.
The man who can conceal hiz real kar-
akter when he IL drunk, or in a passion,
has got giant karakter
have found out that happiness konsists
in working bizzy l | hours sleeping hours,
and playing checkures hours, out ov
every "a.
Mankind loves mystery--a hole in the
ground eXcites more wonder than star in
the heavens.
Experience is good school master"
but reason IL a better one.
A Pedant IL lernt phool-pedantry IL
a little knowledge on perade-pedantry IL
Hypocrisy, without any malice in it.
All the good men in this world have got
the same kind of religion, 1t IL only the ded
beats, frauds, and hypokrits, whose relig-
ion differs.
Pride il looking glass, into which men
look, and seeing themselvs, they strut, and
stick up their noze at other folks.
How on arth'c can we trust man kind, or
woman kind, when there aint one out ov
ten ov them dare trust themselvs.
Adversely liz goddess with frozen smiles.
Ii j had the privilege ov making the
Eleventh Commandment, it would be this
--Owe no man.
Young ones and dogs those who are
the least able to support them, generally
hav the most ov them.
Sum folks, az they gro older, gro wizer;
but most folke simply gro stubborner.
People travel to lcarn-moSt of them
(before they start) should learn to travel.
don't believe in fighting; am solemly
against it; but, if man gifts tew fighting.
am also solemly against hiz Citing licked.
After fight IL once opened. all the virtue
there iz in it il tew lick the other party.
Slander iz like the tin Kettle tied to a
dorg's tale-a very good kind ov kittle, so
long az it amt our dogs tale. Ya