The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-02-19
GRAVE AND GAY.

boots.
A GAME of pitch and toss-A life o
the ocean wave.
CoBN-FrELDs that require neithe
blowing nor sowing-The feet.
NOTHING is more injurious to a me-
truth than an old error. -GOetbe.
COP appoints our graces to be nurse
to other mems weaknesses. -Bcecher.
A MAN that don't know any thin
will tell it the first time he gets
chance.
WHY is the road of the transgresso
20 hard? Because it is so much travelled
IT don't take as much sense to pick
lock.or forge a check as it do as.:to no
do it.
The first and last thing that is re
Nuired of genius is the love of truth -
Goethe.
DoN'T take too much interest in tn,
affairs of your neighbors. Six PEI
cent. will do.
WE desire Immortality, not as the re
ward of virtue, but as it's continuance.
-Rjchtcr.
MAN must cling to the faith that the
i~nconceivable is conceivable; else he
will not seek.
POETRY is the true expression of an
excited, exalted soul, without aim or
prrpose.-G0ehe.
The chief difference between man
and man is a difference Of impressions
abiIity.-Emerson. .
No man is so insignificant as that he
can be sure his example can do no hurt.
49, Clarendon.
WHEN it rains pudden you hold up
your dish but don't spend your time
watcher for a shower.
How to get all the music out of a
grind piano-Let a steam ~fre-engine
play ON it a few minutes.
A MAN, in this world, is a boy spell
ling in short syllables but he will
combine them in the next.-Beecber.
THIS world is full of compensations.
The o prices go up, the more we
have to "come down" for everything
If wise men never made mistakes,
this would be a hard world for fools
of whom a great many are which.
WHEN Jonah's fellow-passengers
pitched him overheard, they evidently
regarded him as neither prophet nor
loss.
WI must be afraid of neither poverty,
nor exile, nor imprisonment of fear it.
self only should we be afraid.-Epic-
tetu8.
THE superhuous blossoms on a fruit
tree are meant to symbolic the large
way in which God loves to do pleasant
things.
IF q man speaks or acts with an evil
thought, pain follows him as the wheel
follows the foot of him that draws the
carriage.
A YOUNG lady of Is, who had worn
short dresses, positively told her mamma
she would wear them "no longer"
a GENTLEMAN coming into the room
of DIR. Barton, told him that Mr.. Vowel
was dead. What, said he. Vowel
dead? Let us be thankful that it was
neither Il nor j.
The world, nowadays, presses a gem
eral education upon lis we need not
therefore trouble ourselves further
about that, but should rather devote
ourselves to ~specialties.
ALAS if the principles of sentiment
are not within us, the height of station
and worldly grandeur viii as soon add
a cubit to a mans stature as to his hap
piness. -Sterno.
SOME ingenious observer has discov-
cred that there is a remarkable resem-
blance between q baby and wheat, since
it is graded, then thrashed, and finally
becomes the flower of the family.
PLAIN things may be as cheap and
humble as one chooses, or ones purse
oompels, but anything like luxury must
always be good. Cheap -uecessaries are
respectable. Cheap finery is low.
Tire mothers yearning, that CON-
pletest type Of the life in another life
which is the essence OF real human
love, feels the presence Of the cherished
child " in the base, degraded man.
George Eliot.
A WITTY boy, suffering from the ID
plioation of the birch, said, Forty rods
are said to be a furlong. / know better.
Let anybody get such a plaguy licking
as I've had, and he'll fad out that one
rod makes On aeheri
GRAoE il in garments, in movements,
in manners ; beauty in the nude and in
forms. This is true of bodies but
when we speak oF feelings, beauty il in
their spirituality, and grace in their
moderation .-Jou6ert.
'TIs the good reader that makes the
good book; a good head cannot read
amiss in every beck he finds passages
which seems condolences or asides hid
lasl from all else ard Enthusiastically
i his ear.-Eh5efsoa.
Il no despair 10 absoluts as
that which comes with the first moments
our first great sorrow, when We have
not yet known what il Is to haya suffer-
ed and be healed. to have despailed and
10 have recovered hope.-Adqa Bede.
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