The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-02-25
Dailp ARGUS.
OFFICIAL CITY g. COUNTY PAPER
Josh Billings Papers.
REMNANTS,

REMNANTS.
Customs are like grease-they make envy
thing slip easy.
There is some things that kant be conn
ter6tted-a blush is one ov them.
Goodness IL jist AZ mutch ov a study az
msthumsticks IL.
II "a man expekts tew be very virtew-
Gus he musns mix too muteh with the
world, nor too mutch with himself neither
There IL more deviltry in the world than
there IL ignorance.
People who acktually deserve tew liv
their lives over Agin are the very ones who
don't want to do it.
The richest man ov all IL he who hsz
got bat little, but haz got all he wants.
Natur makes ell the mob oblemen-wealth,
eduksshun, nor pedigree, never made one
yet
When a man duz me vavour alwus try
tew remember it, and when ne duz me an
injury, aiwus try tew forget tiff i don't,
| ought to.
II man il honest he may not alwus
be in the right, but he kan never be in the
wrong
Crate takers are generally crate liars.
for them who talk so mutoh must sooner or
later run out ov the truth, and tell what they
dou's kuo.
don't bet thare IL emmy sich thing az
a perfektly good man, or a perfektly bad
mGn.
kno ov emmy quantity ov people whose
v,rlews are at the mercy ov other folks, who
Ara gooi simply fur the reputsshun ov it.
VINO haven't got emmy more real eppetite to
trw Their conscience than q klam haz.
have studdyed mi own karakter, aud mi
oga impulses fur SO years clussly, aud
kant tell to-day to save a bet) whether
an On honest and trew man or motif ther
il enuy body who knows about this matter !
wish they would address me letter, encos.
la- postage blister.
Iher il no sekts, nor religious disputes
among the hesthen they all of them cook a
missionary the same way.
Ole crate rezun viii Jordan IL sich 6
rlE road tsw travel IL bekRuze almos
every bYddy works inside ov their own lot
aud lets the turnpike take care ov itself.
Tnare il lots ov folks who expect tew es>
kane he'll jist bekAuze the crowd IL so graf.
that ore going there.
Every man makes biz own pedigree, and
the best pedigree, IL a klear conscience.
To be a gentleman-git ritch and keep E
hoss and buggy.
Vrtew iu poor man is looked upon as
swel in tud's nose.
The man who IL tyrGnt IN hlz house
hold IL an sbjekt cuss among his equals.
Atlsr man il fairly born the next grstt
blessing ls a square deth.
Ertew IL ike strength, no one can tel
how mutch he has got of it till he cum
skrost sumthing he kant lift.
/ have cum tew the konklusion that wha
every boldly pra:zes wants clus watching.
Thara il nothing the wurld will pay 8
musch for az fnst rate nonsense, and Their
IL nothing in the market 80 skAse.
Thase IL menny folks who are like mules
the only way to their affeckshuns is :hroug
the kindness Of klub.
There ainI but phew people who kno'
how to give gifts, and the number VIII
know how to receive them IL less.
The strongest propensity in woman
nature IL to want to know ''lCh0t gOJR' on
and the next strongest, il tew boss the job
>zoru not the day of little things, 70
bare IL no man in this world 80 CRATE bu
VII at sum one kan do him favor, or q
injury.
Thase il one witness that never is guilt
Of perjury, aud that IL conscience.
Thare IL such thing 81 being tew quic
i am ov that kind miseH, slwus miss
rsls rode train by being thsre haf an OF
too sooD.