Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-03-07

persons covet secrets as a spendthrift
does money, for the purpose of circula-
ton.
A bachelor is one whose stock of love,
sympathy, and affection, is so small that
he cannot afford to share it with an
other, but must cen keep it all for him
self.
Avoid arguments with ladies. In
spinning yarns among silks and satins a
man is sure to be worsted and twisted.
And when a man is worsted and twist
ed, he may consider himself wound
up.
Charley, what is it that makes you
so sWeet:' said loving mother to her
little boy, as she pressed him to her
bosom. Il dess when bod made me
out Of dust he put a little thugar in"
said Charley.
An exchange spoke of an eminent
citizen as "a noble old burgher, proudly
loving his native state" which neat lit
tie compliment came from the compos-
itor's hand, ga nobby old burglar, PROV
ling around in a naked state"
"Do you think I shall have Justice
! done me ?" SAID a culprit to his counsel,
a shrewd Kentucky lawyer of the best
! class in that eloquent State" Il am a
little afraid that you won't, >" replied the
| other Il see two men on the jury who
are opposed to hanging"
/ John S. Abbott has given the world
some rather curious biographies, but the
/ climax of all is his last effort to get Nero
/ right. He has discovered that that gent
. leman did not fiddle during the burning
| Of Rome, because he did not know how,
/ and because be was nearly q hundred
miles away from the conhagratiOn.
An Arab says to his son 20, my child,
in the day of resurrection they will ask
/ you, what have you done in the world,
and not from whom are you descended
/ The cloth that covers the KaabOr, and
which they kiss, is not famous from hay
/ ing been manufactured by the silk worm;
/ it associated some days with one who is
! venerable, on which account it became
( venerable like himself"
/ 4 learned gentleman was accOsted il
/ the following manner by an illiterate
/ preacher who despised education "Sir
you have been to college, 1 suppose Z"
/ Eyes, sir, >" was the reply. Il am thank
7 full" rejoined the former, ''that the
/ Lord opened my mouth without learn
/ ing" "A similar event, retOrted the
clergyman, took place in Balaam's
/ time, but such things are of rare occur
ence at the present day
/ An Irish counselor having lost his
. cause, which had been tried by three
. judges. one Of whom was esteemed a
very able lawyer, though the other two
were Indifferent, some Of the other bar
risters were merry on the occasion.
I well, now, said he, who could help
il when there were one hundred Judges
on the bench?" "A hundred" said a
bystander, there were but three. BY
ST Patrick 80 said he, 'there were one
/ and two cyphers :"
COleridge-the melodious and melan-
I chOly COleridge, who was too fastidicus
as we'll as lazy to earn his own living
who left bis wife and babies TO whom
he wrote the most musical Of poetry to
+ be supported by the daily brain-wOrk Of
anOther-he was very much eXasperated
/ one morning at hearing a street yendeI
+ crying. "Old clio! old clio" Cant
/ YOU say old clothes 2" exclaimed the mas
/ ter Of melodies. Il can say old clothes
as we'll as YOU" answered the injured
rag man; but if you had t. cry old
( clothes twenty thousand times a day, a.
/ I do, you'd be glad enough TO stop al
F old clio,