The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-07-19
SCISSORINGH.


Conceit: an ass who imagines him
self to be an elephant.
Forgiveness: kiss at the lips to
heal stab at the heart.
Aim high; but not 80 high as not
to be able to hit anything.
Hope may bud under clouds, but
blossoms only in sunshine.
A wealthy man in Milwaukes keeps
his mother in the poor house.
In solitude is self-knowledge; In
society is knowledge of Others
He who would know the height of
JOY must sound the depths of sorrow-.
A Miss Davis, of Norfolk, Va, has
committed suicide because her broth
er is forger.
Human constancy: two fools prom
ising to make starlight journey over
a crooked road.
A Methodist church in Madison,
Wis, lately got up an excursion to
Devils Lake."
At Ellsworth, Kansas Pacific Rail-
road, IS, 600 head of Texas cattle ar
rived in one day.
Some are bora to lead and COM
mand; others are as surely destined
to follow and obey.
The petroleum business has been
run into the ground from the begin
ming Pity. isn't it?
In Detroit they measure the tenn
perature by the number of paper col
lars consumed per week.
Mulberries in Tennessee are SO
poisoned by the locusts that birds
and squirrels will not eat them.
Twelve hundred and fifty dollars
made the ancient "talent." It takes
some talent to make 81, $50 nova
days.
The various charitable societies and
institutions in New York State re-
ceived last year 81, SOC, 900 from vari-
Gus sources.
The Empress Eugene had the
pleasure of seeing her name set up
in an English newspaper as the "Em-
press Engine"
Acknowledging that we have been
in the wrong Is only showing to the
world that we are wiser to-day than
we were yesterday.
In the United States, during pc
Rod of twelve years, 262 persons
were killed by lightning. and 430
more or less injured.
He-never-weeps, is the name of
Red Clouds only brother, and some
of the papers disrespectfnlly speak
of him as Old-Dry-Up.
When couple of young people,
strongly attached to each other, COM
mences to eat onions. it is safe to
pronounce them engaged.
Milton says the hearts of men are
their eloquence. The reason there
lis SO little real eloquence is that
there is so little depth and fervor of
heart.
4 If Bazaine be found guilty of the
charges brought against him, the
martial law of France condemns him
to death. There is no alternative
punishment.
j "Bulwar," cotemporary remarks,
''says that poverty is only an idea.
It's a very bad idea, and one we
should not care to entertain. We
prefer the real, especially in property.
l It is worth in New York just S.
J 500 to break lads leg under q car
wheel and $700 to kill him outright.
Decisions recently rendered in the
I courts settle this proportion accu-
rately.
i Josh Billings says there seems to
be four styles of mind: First, them
who knows it's SO; second, them who
knows it amt so; third, them who
split the difference and guess at it;
! fourth, them who don't care which
way it is.
Old Scotch lady-"Tak' q snuff.
sir?' Gentleman with large Nasal
promontory, indignantly-"Do
look like q snuffer?'' Old lady
} well, / Gamma Jst say you do. though
] maun say ye hae grand accommo-
dations. :
!, A disappointed lover in Tennessee
avenged himself upon the false one
by blowing up her pas smoke house
, during the marriage ceremony, dark
ening the sun at midday with vol
canic eruption Of hams, sides and
shoulders.
AS four or Eve darkies were pnas-
4 ing an agricultural implement stert
down South, ,soEe Of them, poinfinf
ii to . cultiyator, said man ea1
list sit on dat thing and ride while b
I IS ploughing +" Golly = replied ths
n other, de rascals was too sharp X
tink d dat 'icrs de nigeer was f1se-