Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-07-18
1aiIu 1sellaebff Sournal.
Josh BILLINGS on CHICKEN FEED.

There il one kritter in this world whoze
trnbbles WI kant console, and she ia
setting hen. ...-.,
Thoze persons who spend all ov their
spare time watching their symptoms, are
the kind who enjoy poor health.
Weneyer minister has preached ser
mon that pleazes the VIII lie congregation,
he haz probably preached one the Lord
won't endorse.
Every boldly seems tew he willing to be
a phool himself but he kant bear few have
emmy body else one.
Truth is the edict of God.
The Philosophers az class, are sett ov
old grannys, who possess CRATE knowl-
edp5, part of which haz bin handed down
tew them and the balance they guess at.
About the fust and last thinga human
being duz in this world is tew shed tears.
There il no CT alter proof OF the power
of love than that the crimes committed In
its interests are in measure hallowed.
kan tell exactly how mi nabor's yung
ones ought tew be fetched up, but Amt so
clear about mi own.
A loafer il person who is willing tew
be ab,lzed for the privilege of abuzing
others.
There is some folks in this world who
spend their whole time hunting after
righteousness, and haint got any spare
time tew to praktiss it.
Alyersitv haz the same effekt on u man
that severe training duz on the pugilist-
it reduces Aim few his fighting weight.
Natur kan he improved upon often with
good effelt, but altering il generally spiles
the whole thing.
Aaiiktious are like the summer sun
they wilt for the purpu>s Of llpening
Ii YOU want to find out q mans real dis
posishun, take him when he IL wet and
hungry If he IL amiable then, dry him
and fill him up, and you have got an angel:
The man who Asz never been tempted
don know how dishonest he IL.
There il nothing like sick bed for re-
pentance. A man will become SO virtew-
Gus that he will often repent of sins that
he haz never committed.
Three score years and ten IL the time
allotted to man, and it IL enuif. If a man
kant suffer all the misery he wants in that
time, he must be knumb.
1t don't take much tew prove truth.
1t is only lie that requires CRATE argu-
mentatitf ability.
listen tew every mans opinuns, disa-
gree with none, but coniide in your own.
This liz a kind ov battery that wrongs no
one.
What a maj, gains in cunning he always
loses i'm wisdum.
He who won't beleave anything he kant
understand, ant so wise rs mule for they
will kick ut thing they don't expekt tew
reach.
An ov us are anxious tew liv few be
very old, bat not one in ten Thousand kan
fill the karakter of an old man.
Money il Ike grain-it IL never so well
invested az when it IL well sown.
A bigot IL "a religious coward trying to
play the autokrat.
Money never made man disgraceful
vet, but men have often made money dis
graceful.
How many people there IL who only go
into society Just Tor the purpose OF telling
over their axes and pains their gripes and
grunts Such people ought to be sent at
once to the pest house.
Health can be bought, but yu have got
tew paw for it with temperance, ut the
highest rates.
Give me warm friends and bitter enc
mys about haif aud half. He who haint
got an enemy on arth kant show friend
that will stick to linn thru thik and thin.
Every time a man laughs harty he
takes q kink out ov the chain that binds
him to life, and thus lengthrns it.
Beauty is the melody of the features.
| have always bore it in mind that, jist
about in rasho that person or individual
is proud and hauty, they are ignorant.
Behaving and disbeleaving IL oftner an
effort ov the will than the understanding.
1t il lucky thing that epitaffs don't APP
pear upon a mans tumestun until he haz
gon dead. If they were published while
he waz living, what an insult most Of them
would be tew his reputashun.
l think Adam was the weakest man
ever read ov. He committed the most sin
with the least amount of temptashun ov
emmy person history IL familiar with.
Onc oy the surest signs of an intelli-
gent siyilizashun IL to see amung the mas
ses a bekunling respect and reverence for
the aged
Before you undertake to chang mans
politiks or religion be sure yu have got
better one 70 offer him.
Attic the world il chuck full Of liars,
there il but few men who don't prefer tew
listen tew the truth.
No man ever got his bread by preaching
wisdom. Philosophy is good thing tew
preach, but cussed poor thing to live on.
Few pc forgiven weakens us; but to for
give others weakens them.
/ have lived in this world just long
enuf tew look karefully the second time
into things that am the most certain OF
the fust time.
Great men are seldom intimate. They
are too calous to love or esteem each 9TH
er.