The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-08
Josh billings Papers-Dew Drop.

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Josh Billings Papers-Dew Drop.
Faith IL the only thing kno ov
that nothing can beat.
i Everybody applauds a virtueous
aektiOn; even the devil himself re-
spekts it.
Hipokrasy IL never successful
/ Sooner or later the mask drops of,
4 and the curtain falls.
! When man IL angry be feels ter
rible strong, but aeks dredful weak
You viii notiss that those whoze
advice IL worth the least, are alwuss
I the most reddy to give it.
The man who begins at the bottom
ov the ladder and works hiz way to
the top, is a hard one to shake of
/ Make yurself necessary young man,
and yure success IL certain.
/ All the virtews, ike the muscles,
kan be made to grow by using them.
/ There IL nothing in the world that
ought to be so plenty, and yet IL so
skarse, as simple common sense.
If thare waz nothing but truth,
man would find but very little to
argy about.
Cunning makes a man sharp on
one side and dull on the other.
Bashfulness IL often like the silver
plating On spoons; when it wears of
it shows the brass
A good deal of putty and a good
deal ov sense are seldum found to-
/ gether.
True criticism konsists in hunting
for butys, not faults.
He who IL pleased with everything
IL big phool, and he who is pleased
with nothing IL a bigger one.
The only pedigree worth having IL
the one we leave to our children, not
the one we got from our fathers.
Cerimony IL often mistaken for
good breeding but thare IL az mulch
difference as thare IL between a kast-
iron suit ov clothes and one shat sets
easy and elegant
Two-thirds ov all the toll and anx-
ity ov this life IL to supply ourselfs
with the luxuries-the necessitys
are almost az eazy 70 git az the air
we breathe.
Wit seldum makes the p0ssessor ov
/ it beloved: it IL dangerous gift, and
those who haT it viii use it alike on
friend and foe.
The man who at all times controls
hiz wants no doubt IL happy, but sho
me this kind ov a man. will W?
Kontentment haz been so much
praised bi everybody that have cum
to the konklushun that thare amt no
such thing in the world
Good clothes are bekuming to ever
yboddy, and they are all there IL ov
sum pholks.
Abuv all things learn yure child to
be honest and industrious. If theze
two things don't enable him to make
fgger in this life, he IL only
cipher, and never waz intended for a
fgger
The devil kant phool with q bizzy
man emmy more than loafter kan
with hunnv bee
We owe our enemys more than we
do our friends. 1t is they who keep
our wits bright. and our tools in or
der.
Itvaz a wise phellow who put on
his spektakles when he ct strawberrys
to make them look larger. This is a
hint to make the most ov the good
things we hav in the world
Epitaffs are too often like the bills
OF cirkus company-thare iza heap
more in the bills than in the perform
ance.
Debt is az eazy to fall into az
well, and often IL az hard to git out
oE.
There may be sum phun in Icing,
but thare IL no profit in it Lies all
wus cum home to roost, and kant be
driven away
Vice IL SO attraktiv that find, bi
aktual fggers, it takes the example
ov three good men in emmy commui-
ty to overkum the influence ov one
bad one.
A CRATE man IL CRATE example, |
and he should be guarded well in all
be sez or duz; for even if he toes in |
when be walks, thare IL lots ov peo-
pie will want to toe in to.
Thousands hev spent their lives in
search of afiuence and fame, and
found refuge at last in an almshouse.
A fanatik is tie wust man we hev
to contend with, reazon haz no
power over him, and it IL against the
law to klub him.
1t IL quite common to find all thru
Ma England, people who have lived |
to be ninety. but the last ten years OV
their lives seems TO hav been wholely /
spent in nussing the.rumatiz.
Beware oy the fatterer, he IL either |
a Phool or araskal, and the one wants
watching just az much az the other. |
If w are going to Civ man emmy |
thing, Civ it to him cheerfuIly, and |
quick, don't make him git down on
biz kneez in front of YOU and listen
to a moral sermon an hour and a haff
long, and then give him 10 cents.
| often see mea who are possessed
of most all the virtews, but who are
natrally sour and morose; tbeze i
call human hege hogs. with tier
piekers all turned outside in.
Good breeding seems TO be kind
ov art which enable men at all times
to maintain their self-respekt, and at
the same time secure the respekt ov
others.
Little Hero
A correspondent of the Boston
Globe, writing of the Mil River dis
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