Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-01-20
RECOLLECTIONs OF DON QUIx-
OTE.

Here are few extracts from Don
Quixote:
Beauty in a modest woman is like
fire or sharp sword at a distance /:
neither doth the one burn nor the 9TH
er wound those that come not too close
to them.
keep your mouth shut and your
eyes open.
THE absent feel and fear very i'll.
self praise depreciates.
'The dead to the bier, the living to
good cheer.
"All women, let them be never so
hOme1y, are pleased to hear themselves
celebrated for beauty.
'SQuires and knight-errants are sub
ject to much hunger and ill-Iuck.
'Ldoerallty may be carried too-lar in
those who have children to inherit
from them,
Virtue is always more prosecuted
blythe wicked than beloved by the
righteous.
works.
Honey is not for the mouth of an
''No padIocks, bolts OF bars can secure
maiden so well as her own reserve.
Wit and humor belong to genius
alone.
'sThe wittiest person in the comedy
is he that plays the fool.
''There is no book so bad but some
thing good may be found in it.
1--WE are all as God made US, and Of
tentimes a great deal worse.
'sLet the hen live, though it be with
the pip.
eve cannot all be friars, and various
are the paths by which God conducts
the good to heaven.
"Covetousness bursts the bag.
1T is easy to undertake, but more
n Teh q h
tsThis term is equally applicable to
all ranks-Whoeve is ignorant is vul-
gar.
"By the streets Of 'by-and-by, 6ne
arrives at the house of Never.
Between the yes and no of a wo-
the point Of a pin.
Patience and shuttle the cards.
"A soldier had better smell Of gun
powder than musk.
..other mems pains are easily borne.
a bad cloak often covers a good
"Pray devoutly and hammer on
when thing is once begun it is
almost half finished.
Lay bridge of silver for flying
''T6e jest that gives pain is no Jest. y
-s-----
The decrease of the National Debt
during December was s., ,24o, 700 co.
This IS less than for any month during
the present Administration but no 9TH
er country in the world is paying its liza
bllltles at even this rate.
A French lady, on her arrival in this
country, was careful to eat only such
dishes as she was acquainted with s1d
being on one occasion pressed to 49,
take of a dish new to her. she nol!teI,,
replied mo, thank you eat onIy
my acquaintance. She thought she
had expressed herself in admirable En-
glish.
A Kansas paper tells Of 'an Assistant
Quartermaster of the United States army
whose economical habits enabled him to
lay by for a rainy day over one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, in the short
space of hve years, on salary of one
hundred and twenty-five dollars per
month.
A big moon-struck youth was around
the other night in Portland, with a crack
ed guitar and a crealzy voice, singing
''put me in my little bed" A window
was finally opened and the young man
informed that if he didn't dust" they
would stand him on his little head. .
HE busted. "
A candidate travelling through one Of
the rural precincts Of a certain county,
a few days since, rode upto farmhouse
and thus accosted towheaded urehin
who was seated upon the top of gate
post .'Bub, where's your pa p The
youngster replied "Pap's just gone
down beyond the COW shed to dig
grave to bury the old dog Towser. The
darned old fool killed himself barlSin'
at candidates for sheriff"