Richland beacon., 1873-07-26
GRAVE AND GAY.
The roar material-Baby.


It When half-gods 60, the gods a
r rlve.-EmcrsOn.
, The present moment is a powerf,
deity.-GOcthe. rt
What once were vices are now I'll
v manners of the day.-Loucoa.
: "A traveller without observation is
a bird without wings. .-Sdadi.
! The busiest of living agents al
certain dead mems thougtt Borcc.
In the commerce of speech use onl
coin of gold and silver. er.-JOur6ert.
They that stand high have man
blasts to shake acknowledgement.
i No one is more profoundly sad tha
he who laughs too much.-Richtcr.
Women have more heart and NOR
Imagination than men.-Lamartinc.
I ! The desire of appearing clever of
ten prevents our becoming so.
l If you wanted to stop the mouth O
a river, would you do it with lock an,
\ quay?
| What isthat from which, if Won tax,
the whole, some will remain? Whole
i some.
+ Repentance without amendmen,
lis like continual pumping without
mendipg the leak.
! Virtue is everywhere the same, be-
cause it comes from God. while every.
thing else is of men, VOltaire.
Wealth after all is a relative thing.
since that has little wants less, is richer
than he that has much but wants more.
Cotton. -
If you do not wish q man to do a
thing, You had better get him to talk
about it, for the more men talk, the
more likely they are to do nothing else
carlyle.
Hook said to some man with whom
bibliopolist dined one day and got ex-
tremely drunk Why, you seem to
have emptied your wine-cellar into your
bookseller. =
There is good deal of sound wis
dom in the suggestion of the farmer
If you want your boy to stay at home.
don't bear too hard on the grindstone
when he turns the crank.
AT one of the ragged schools in Ire
land clergyman asked the question.
What is holiness? A pupil in dirty,
tattered rags jumped up and said !:
Plaze yer reverence, it is to be clane
inside. ssE Il
An inquiring man thrust his fin
gers into horses mouth to see how
many teeth he had. The horse
closed his mouth to see how many fin
gers the man had. The cufiosity of
each was fully satisfied.
She certainly Is mo- true woman for
whom every man may not find it in his
heart to have a certain gracious and ho-
ly and honorable love; she is not q wo-
man who returns no love, and asks no
protectiOn.-Bartol.
Wilson. the celebrated vocalist. |
was upset in his carriage near Edin-
burgh. A Scotch paper, after record |
ing the accident, said: We are happv
TO state that he was able to appear on
the following evening in three pieces.
The dogma is the poem reduced to
PROSE ; an artists study used as an en-
yineer's plan psalmist's outburst of
ceiling read before social science
board. 1t is like measuring Noah's
mythical ark with a yard-stick.
The French writer's of the present
lay remind me of the restaurants that
urnish dinner for two francs. The
meals are to ones taste, uutil one dis
overs that they are composed of Sc
ond or third-hand material.-Heine.
Douglas Jerrold said, one day, he
TOuld make a pun upon anything his
riends would put to him. A friend
sked if he could pun upon the signs
4 the zodiac, to which he promptly re-
lied: By Gemmini, Cancer.
The negro king desired to be por-
rayed as white. But do not laugh at
he poor Africsn, for every man is but
mother negro king, and would like to
ppear in color different from that
vhich fate has bedaubed him.-Heine.
When a man thinks that nobody
ares for him, and that he is alone in a
old and selfish world, he would do
Iell to ask himself this question 4: |
What have I done to make anybody
are for and love me, and to warm the
Torld with faith and generosity? It is ,
enerally the case that those who COM
lain the most have done the least.
In the woods a man casts off his j
ears, as the snake his slough, and, at |
hat period soever of life, is always a &
hild: In the woods perpetual youth. a
Within these plantations of God a deco
nm and scanctity reign, q perennial r
,stival is dressed, and the guests sees 6
OF how he should tire them in thou \
md years. In the woods we return to
easOn and faith.-Emerson b
i like to read about Moses best. in |
le Old Testament. He carried hard t
nsiness well through, and died when b
her folks were going to reap the o
ults; a man must have courage to s
ok at his life 80, and think whatll p
'me of it after he's dead and gone. A a
'od solid bit O. work lasts if it's onlv n
Yng q floor down, somebody's the p
,tter for it being done we'll, besides d
e man as does it.-George Eliot. d
"A little boy with an inauiring- II
oughtful mind asked his father wha- =.
as meant by full dress, as if every one II
ould not be fully dressed at all times. g q
he father, who had three grown-up u
lughters and wife, who yearned af- " "
e early loves of fashion, was thought ~ :,
! a pOment, but replied with a heavy ID
Oh, indicating deep feeling: Full
ess is where the wearer puts one-third o
her dress on her person and drags u
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