Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-02-22
GRAVE AND GAY.

broil.
How to prevent fts-Buy ready-made
boots.
A GAM of pitch and toss-A life on
the ocean wave.
O~oRN-FIEIDs that require neither
blowing mol sOwing-The feet.
NoTmNG is more injurious to a new
truth than an old rror.-GOCthe.
COP appoints our graces to be nurses
to other mems weaknesses. -BeechGr.
A Man that don't know any thing
will tell it the first time he gets a
chance. tM
WHY is the road of the transgressor
50 hard? Because it is 50 much Travelled.
IT don't take as much sense to pick a
lock!or forge check as it do as..to not
do it.
The first and last thing that is re-
CURED Of genius is the love of truth
GOethe. .
DoN'T take too much interest in the
affairs of your neighbors. Six per
cent. will do.
WI desire Immortality, not as the re-
ward of virtue, but as its continuance.
--Richter.
Man must cling to the faith that the
inconceivable is conceivable; else he
will not seek.
POETRY is the true expression of an
excited, exalted soul, without aim or
puipose.-G0ethe.
The chief difference between man
and man is a difference Of impression
ability Emerson.
No man is SO insignificant as that he
can be sure his example can do no hurt.
- Clarendon.
WHEN it rains pudden you hold III
your dish but don't spend your time
watcher for a shower.
How to get all the music out Of
Grand piano-Let a steam ire-engin'
play on it a few minutes.
A MAN, in this world, is a boy spell
ling in short syllables but he vii
combine them in the next. -Beecher.
THIS world is full of compensations
The more prices go up, the more W,
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-passengerI
pitched him overheard, they evidentl!
regarded him as neither prophet no,
loss.
We must be afraid Of neither poverty
nor exile, nor imprisonment Of fear it
self only should we be afraid.-Epic
tetus.
The superduous blossoms on a fruit
tree are meant to symbolic the larg
way in which God loves to do pleasan
things.
IF a man speaks or acts with an evi
thought, pain follows him as the whee
follows the foot of him that draws tn
carriage.
A YOUNG lady Of Is, who had wor
short dresses, positively told her MANN
she would wear them "no longer"
A GENTLEMAN coming into the rool
of DIR. Barton, told him that Mr.. Vow,
was dead. What, said he. Wow,
dead? Let us be thankful that it WI
neither II nor i.
The world, nowadays, presses a ge
eral education upon us we need n
therefore trouble ourselves furth
about that, but should rather deyo
ourselves to specialties.
ALAS if the principles Of sentime
are not within us, the height of STATE
and worldly grandeur, will as sOon az
acubit to a mans stature Is to his ha
piness. -6terne.
SOME ingenious observer has disco
cred that there is q remarkable resel
blance between a baby and wheat, sin
it is Graded, then thrashed, and final
becomes the flower Of the family.
PLAIN things may be as cheap q
humble as n chooses, or ones pun
compels, but anything like luxury mi
always be good. Cheap n-eeessaries .
respectable. Cheap fnery is low.
THE mothers yearning, that Co
pletest type Of the life in another
which is the essence Of real hum
love, feels the presence of the cherish
child even in the base, degraded man
George Eliot.
A WITTY boy, suffering from the
plication Of the birch, said, Forty n
are said to be q furlong. I know bett
Let anybody get such q plaguy lick
as I've had, and he'll find out that
rod makes an aeher
GRACE is in garments, in moyemer
in manners beauty 10 the nude w
forms. This is true Of bodies !
when we speak Of feelings, beauty j.
their spirituality, and grace in th
moderation -Ioubert.
'TIs the good reader that makes
good bOa goe5 head cs1nct :.
amiss; in every book he 6nds paesal
which seems condolences or asides b
den from all else ard unmistakal
meant for his eaE-Esfcrson
THERE Is me despair 70 absolute
ihat whi6A comes with the lrst momeI
9onr A great sorrow, when we hi
npty ct known what Il Is 10 have sun
"a and he healed, . have despaired 4
a hare 1nnnFarad hope.-AdQm, Be
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