The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-09-20
WIT AND WISDOM.

''HAvH you had your mornings morning
this morning N is the latest way Of put
tiiIg IL.
The Dsnbury Ns,ss says The use Of
tobacco is a disgusting habit. II weakens
the frame, benumbs the faculties, and
what IS far worse, keeps up the price.
| AN editor once wrote .'We have re-
ceived basket Of straw berries from Mr.
: Smith, for which he will receive our com
: pliments some Uf which are four inches in
circumference
E Biddy (to Pat, in charge about difficult
, ty)-"Never fear, Pat. Sure eve got an
upright Judge to thry ye" Pat -"Ah,
bI,Su} ,.-l..-l, = a. givai ar-,,,e----' 49,
l want. "ris one that1l lane little.
EKoNoNY IL a savings bank, into which
men drop pennies, and git dollars ID re-
turn. Avarice IL hk a graveyard 1t takes
all that it kan at and gives nothing back.
Error viii Slip through a crack, while truth
will git stuck IN door way.-J0Sh Billings
SIX roughs penned Natchez reporter IN
an alley, and we're thinking how they would
batter his head, when four Of them fell
into an old sewer, and woman scalded
the other two. 1t does seem as il Provl-
dence was on the side of reporters.
RESPONSES to prayers and sermons may
he good If they come IN at the right place.
Not SO, however, came IN response, re-
Gently, to minister IN an African church.
He had come down from the pulpit to In
vite a stranger III one Of the pews 70 preach
for him, but was unsuccessful. Brethren,
said he If invited Brother s. TO
| preach, but he declines" GLORY e to
God N ruared cut man from the middle
Of the church.
AGUILELEss New Bedford tippler adver-
tises his intention III prosecuting "a the
utmost extent Of the laX any one who shall
sell or give him, or to any one for him,
| liquor vi any kind.
My mind can take no hold on the pres
ent world, nor can it rest in it a moment,
but my whole nature rushes onward with
irresistible force toward future ard better
state Of being. -Fichte.
The characteristic Spanish Wit IA exCes-
sive stateliness. of their proverbs, He
who has nothing to do, let him buy ship
or marry a wife From many children
and little bread, good Lord deliver US /"
IA fool is never a great one unless he
knows Latin.
EVERY man is the builder of a temple
called lis own body, to the god he wor-
ships after style purely his own, nor can
he get of by hammering marble inatesi
We are ATT scalPtors ana paluter. and cur
material is our Owp fsesit ard blood and
bones, and nobicness begins at once to re-
fine man features, any meanness Or sen
suality 20 imbrute them.-ThOreau.
4 PRIVATE SrlLL-The Madison, wis. }
Courier tells thi' of a revenue officer who
was sent INTO az Illicit whiskey dist ling
district III kentu Ky. He knew Illicit la
tillIng was going on, but he could get nD
basis TO work from. Coming to an Irish
man who was tolerably drunk, the officer
tapped him on the shoulder, and said
Ny mar DO you want to make ten dol
. lars SIS II ten dollars N said Pat :
/ sure and dc. Then, said the officer,
SHOW me a private still " 'I'u do the
I same follow me, yer Honor" The officer
followed across lots and fields to lhe camp
e Of a company Of soldiers that had beun
sent there To aid the revenue officers. The
soldiers were III hRe-dress parade. do
! you see that red headed man 2 asked Pat,
/ pointing % ons Of the soldiers "YsA, Z
X replied the officer ''He is, SAID Pat. INV
= brother. He's been ia the service twelve
Ii years He'll be corporal after awhile,
| bul nt - q private stiil. en-
r gone and no illicit whiskey found, moral
= zed the officer as he wended his way to the
u hotel
Why His WAS UNCLEAN.-Wa heard M
anecdOte Of a schooiboy the olher day,
e which illustrates the honesty Of youth
y The little fellow had a dirty face, and Ma
I. teacher told him to go and wash It,
Al He went out and stayed for few min
;e utes, and then came back with the love-
is half Of his countenancs tolerably clean
r. and the upper half wet and dirty.
~ ~ rhnny, sad the teacher, ''vhy di,
AZ you i wash your face T.
NJ ~ did wash ii, said Johnny
or why did you not wipe it, then, al
al over Z"
d, II did wipe it az far as my shirt tA
~ would reach N was Johnny's conclusive rs
re- Ply.