The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-02-09
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credit is to take no note of him.
"I see you're on the watch" as the
thief said to the guard chain. r
The prime-evil forest was situated in
the garden of Eden.
Advice to persons in search Of en-
ployment-Westward hoel
Vice is the milestone which sharpens
Times scythe.
For all the several gems in virtue,
vice has counteifeit stones.
To generous spirit it is as hard to beg
as it is harsh to be denied.
A man of business must put up with
many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
Innocence consists in doing no harm,
and occasioning no trouble to society.
Misery loves company-so does o
maniageable young lady.
A youths love is the more passionate
"a virgins love is the more idolatrous.
Music, while it charms nightingales and
canaries to sing, excitcs the dog to ohowl.
Strong-minded women object to the
use of eggs, because they can't tolerate
the yolk. E t gu
An apothecary up town has written
over his door, "An kinds of dying stuffs
for sale here"
A fashionable dress-maker warns 10
dies that o silk dress should never be
sat in, (satin.)
She who mar1ies man because he is
good match must not be surprised if
he turns out lucifer.
A Paris lawyer lately caught the small
pox of his inamorata. She having pit
led him, married him.
In nNrrating an incident some time
since, it was stated that poor old woman
was run over by "cart aged sixty"
Women are described as angels with
out wings. If they were, there would
not be so many fy-aways among them.
Why is q beautiful and fascinating
girl like utcher?-Recause she is o
"killing creature"
Pride is vice whose name is COM
pretended in monosyllable, but its
measure is not circumscribed by world.
The time for reasoning is before We
have approached near enough to the for
hidden fruit to look at and admire.
Actual life makes so much noise about
us that we fancy that there has never
been the like.
Life's smallest miseries are, perhaps,
its worst great suilerings have great
strength to bear them.
We forgive the man who bores us,
much more easily than the man who let's
us see that we are boring him. -a
The happiness of life, like the light of
day, consists not in one brilliant flash,
but i'll u series OF mild, serene rays.
The greatest magiciAns of the age are
the paper-makers. They transform the
boggar's rags into sheets for editors to
lie ON. .4 .. .
Contentment is pearl of great price,
and whoever procues it.at the expense
of ten thousand desires, makes wise
purchase
The perfection of wisdom and the end
Of true philosophy is to proportion our
wants to our possessions, our ambitions
to our capacities. ..
Humility is grace that adorns and
beauties every other grace without it
the most splendid natural acquisitions
lose half their charms.
Charity is never lost. It may be of
no service to those it is bestowed upon,
yet it ever is work of beauty and grace
upon the heart Of the giver.
A Yankee editor advises his readers,
if they wish to get teeth inserted to go
and steal fruit where Watchdog is ON
guard.
Why would the seq make better
house-kceper than the earth?-Because
the earth is exceedingly dirty, and the
sea is very tidy.
"We're in pickle now," said man
in crowd.-"A regular JAM" said an
other.-"Heaven preserve us" mourned
an old lady. ...-
A youngman stepped into book-shop
and said he wanted "a young mans COM
panion."- ."-"Well, sir, " said the bookseller,
"here's my only daughter" KIP
If your sister fell into well, why
couldn't you rescue her? It's well-y
likely you couldn't, because you can't be
q brother and a-sist-her too. f.s
A man in New Orleans court OF JUS
tiee, being examined as q witness, was
asked if lie was born in wedlock. "No," ar
swered the man, II was born i'll Texas.
A man out west, speaking Of the sing
ing of his village choir, says it sis like
driftwood in stream it drngs On the
bars, yet don't amount to DAM"
A Jersey City woman recently entered
a store and tried for half an hour to warm
her feet at an iron safe. She "never did
like them kind of stoves" she said.
Amidst oil disorders, God is ordering
all wisely and justly, and to them that
love him graciously therefore We ought
not to be dismayed.
Though earthbe but desert of arid
sands, that scorch our pilgrim feet, yet
there are sometimes beautiful groves and
cool shades which are delightful to us.
Memory is the cabinet of imagina-
ton, the treasury Of reason the registry
of conscience, and the council-chamber
of thought. -