Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-07-02
Proverbs by Josh Billings.

Love is sed tew be blind but know lots of
phellows in love who can see twice as much in
their gals as | can.
The mser is riddle. What he possesses he
haint got, and what he leaves behind him he
never had.
Good phisick is like a fddle-t furnishes the
tune, while natur cuts the pigeon wing and
curis the patient
Caution, tho very often wanted, IL good
risk to take.
Pity IL about the meanest wash that one man
can offer another. had rather have II ten dol
lar greenback that had bin torn in two twice
and pasted together, than have awl the pity
there il on the upper side of the earth-ptty IL
nuthin more than quiet satacshun that am
CRATE deel better oph than you are, and that |
intend to keep so.
Fortune is like a coquette, if you don't run
after her she will run alter you.
Did yu ever hear rich man sing?
The devil IL a mean cuss he never keeps his
own promises, but always makes us keep ours.
There is nothing in this life that men pay so
hi price for as repentance
Men who hav good deal to say use the few
est words.
The road to wealth is highway, but the road
to knowledge is a byeway.
Shame is the dying embers of virtew.
don know of better cure for sorrow than
to pity somebody else.
us if we can get frightened by it, not ground.
Ignorance is the wet nuss of prejudice.
never knu a man trubbled with melankolly
who had plenty to dew, and did it,
Good breeding, as | understand it, is giving
every man his due without robbing yourself
Nature is as honest as a COW.
Talk little but listen out loud young man, is
the way to make the company suspect you of
knowing CRATE deal more than yol actually du.
If you should reduce the wants of the people
of Nu York city down to actual necessitys and
plain comforts you wood have to bubble the po-
lice force to keep them from committing suicide
People, when they find fault with therselvas
generally more anxious to be consoled than
forgiven and, therefor, when man begins tew
confess his sins tew me, and sez there amt no
hope for him, tell him he ort to kno all about
it, and | guess he is more than half right.
What the world wants is good exampes-not
so much advice,
A growing hen and cacklng rooster are
very mislortunate poltry in family.
AS a general thing a man who marrys
woman of more uppercrust than himself, will
find the woman more ANXIOUS to preserve the
distance between them than tew bring him up
tew higher grade or 60 down to his level.
Titles are valuable they make us acquainted
with menny persons who otherwise would be
lost among the rubbish
Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtew
casts.
Habits are like the wrinkles on mans brow
if you smooth out one it will smooth out the
other.
1t is a darned sight easier to find six men who
can tell exactly how thing ought to be done
than to find one who will do it.
Marrying for money is meaner way to get it
than kounterfeitng.
The miser who heaps up gains to goa: over it
is like hog in pen fa:ted for show
MADAGASCAR AND IT'S DANCING DsEAsE.-In
the island Of Madagascar there is a peculiar dis
ease known as the dancing mania The patients
usually complain of a weight or pain in the
pracorda, and great uneasinessi sometimes a
stiffness, in the nape of the neck. Others, in
addition, have pains in the back and limbs, and
in most cases there seems to have been an ex-
cited state of the circulation, and, occasionally,
even mild fcbrile symptoms. II they happen to
hear the sound of music or singing, they get
perfectly uncomfortable, and, bursting away
from all restraint, escape from their pursuers
and join the music, when they dance sometimes
for hours together with amazing rapldlty. 1hey
move the head from side to side with monoto-
nous motion, and the hands, in the same way,
alternately up aud down The dancers never
Join in the singing, but utter frequently, deep,
sighing sound. The eyes are wild, and the
whole countenance assumes an indescribable,
abstracted expression, as if the attention is com
pletely taken off what is going on around them.
The dancing is regulated very much by the mu-
sic, which is always the quickest possible:
never seems to be quick enough. 1t often be-
comes more of leaping than dancing They
thus dance to the astonishment Of all, as if pos
sessed by some evil spirit and with almost SUI
perhuman endurance-exhausting the patience
of the musicians, who often relieve each other
by turns-then fall down suddenly, as if dead
or, as often happens, if the music is interrupted,
they suddenly rush off as it seized by some new
impulse aud continue running until they fall
down. almost or entirely insensible. After be-
ing completely exhausted in this way, the pa
tients are taken home, the morbid impulse,
apparently, in many cases, destroyed. Some
times the disease, thus stopped, never recurs,
but more frequently there is return. The
sight of dancers. or the sound OF music even in
the distance, or anything which, by association,
seemed connected with the disease, determines a
r currence Of the fit.-4Hadaascar and It's People.