Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-30
Josh RillHng's KintsIing wood

find words big tcnuf tew convey yure
meaning, yu Kan make up yure mind
yu don't mean much.
We admire tnodesty In woman for
tho same reaso u that NO admire brave-
fy In q man. ~
Genuine grief is like penitence, not
klamerous but snbdued sorrow from
the hous tops and penitence In a mar.
ket place shows more ambishun than
piety.
About the best thing that experience
KAN du for us 10 tow larn us how tew
enjoy mizery. asgg....r.' "a.
1t lisa great art tow know how tew
"gather figs from thistles," but philos-
ophy reaches it.
The reazon viii go phew people are
happy in this world IL bekause fhev
mistake their boddys for their souls.
We are poor not from what VIC need.
but from what We want !: neee ssitys are
not only natral, bnt cheap.
had ratherhav drop ov. pepmint
lie than q quart ov pepmint eSsence-I
had rather drink out ov a spring than to
drink hundred yards belo. for this
reaxon, when I read book II is one
written by an old Auther whoze
thoughts the modern writer haz Mt
tempted tew improve bi lilutinQ, @
This world il phull of heroes and
hero:nes, and reazon VIII; sn mamv
ov them live unnoticed = bekanse tlev
adorn everyday life and not an ocka-
shun. z -, I : : 80
All suckcsssful flirta have sharp ses,
one they Keep on yu and one on the
Vanity 10 called a discreditable pa
shun, but the good things that men do
Kan oftner DO traced tew their vanity
than tew their virtew.
Man ID lilly dedicated animal,
Dor. Z never phrovesy, yong man, for
Il W phrovesy wrong noboddy will
forY, et it, and If WI phrovesy right no.
90 ddy will remember It.
Toung-tied wimmen are very skarse
:, and very valuable. u
Excentricity when they are natral are
sum indikashun of q superior mind
those who think different from others
are apt tew ackt different.
Vain men should be treated az bows
treat bladders, bio them up till they
| bust.
/ 1t IL a crate art tew be superior tew
others without letting them kno it.
1 Thare iz'not only phun but there il
virtew in a harty laff; animals kant
laff and devils wont. - So.
Don't never quarrel with loafer.-
Skurrility il hiz trade; yu never kan
make him ashamed, but he IL sure tew
make W.
have alwus noticed that he IL the
best talker whose thoughts agree with
our own.
He who acquires wealth dishonestly
IL tew corrupt tcw enjoy it.
j When beset with misfortinr we
should do az the sailors do in q gale
run before the wind.
| Adversely IL the fire that tempers the
| iron Ov man into steel. i}
never had man cum tew me for
| advise yet but what soon discovered
that no shought more of hiz own opin-
yum than he did ov mine.
E.dukashan that don't learn a man
how tew think, IL like knowing the
multiplication forwards but not back.
wards.
Sukcess in this life IL like watching
fora rat--the rat il quite as apt -tew
cum out at the other end ov the hole.
Adversely haz the same effect ON a
phool that q hornet duz on q mule-it
sets them to hiking bak.
Ono of the privileges ov old age
seems tew be tew give advise tbrt no.
body will phollow, and relating exper-
fences that everybody distrusts.
AN ill-natured man and an old chaw-
ed up bull tarrier are just the things
tew set side sumwherc in the sun, and
ute flies for amusement.
Vice IL, the young fills us with hor-
or--in the old. with disgust. ".
Ambishun IL as natural tew the soul
oy man as blood IL taw biz boddy.--
T.are amt a shu black on the face oy
the earth but what be believes hc kan
"shinc EN- up leetIe better than eny
I one else. $3.50 Isl ~. Il. n d :
The only thing that we are positive
ly sure ov IN this life seems to be the
only thing that we think, amt never q
going tew happen, and that iz--pEArH.
The CRATE desire ov mi life il tew
amuse sumbody. I had rather be able
few set the multiplicashun table to sum
| lively tune than tew hav bin the au.
thor ov it.
The man who never makes enny
blunders seldom makes eny good hits.
Truth ia the only thing tha time
cannotdestroy and eternity cannot dis
pense with. -
Life IL short. but If yu motifs the way
most people spend time, yu would sup
pore that life was everlasting. So
The CRATE advantage ov good breed.
ing IL that it makes the phools endura-
bic. '9
The snobs arc all either half.breeds
or dung-hills. 1880 49,
Forms and ceremonys are Just az
mutch necessary in the church is mt
forms to the field /; "trip On army of It's
cockades and brass buttons, and 1t will
beknm mob.
Ill-bred people are alwus the m ost
ceremonious, the kitchen alwus beats
the parlor in punktillio. t 49, Ill.
Ifyn want tew be good, all you hay
tcw do IL tew obey God, luz man, and
hate the devil. 81 an9r
Politeness IL the. cheapest investment
! kno ov, It IL like lighting another
nuns handle bi yours. sss 81 m ~
rather admire the insolent civility
of bull-tarrier, who only growls
when pass by him, but never did
like 1t in nlau. saEsosf nT uss x1a
To be q good critic requires more
brains and Judgment than most men
possess. = y sF Rss
Itrequires moro good Judgment to
kn0 when tew talk, than what tew
say.
The reason viii comik lektring Is SO
hard to do, IL bekause most people 90
tew bear. it ont az, kuriosity, and ku-i
riosity IL the hardest kind ov thing
to suit. = q ~ PSI 1ssississi'fi ss'ssS IS
Good books, mi dear are the best
friends yu. kan hay; they never will
cloy and never will betray VI.
+ A complasent man makes everybody
pleazed with him, aud what izImore,
pleazed with themselves.
If we couldn't neither laF nor kry,
what miserable kritters we should be.
Whenn man gifts SO low down that
he il willing tcw be despised, he. haz
tutched bottom. M n sssf
After all, crate conversational pow