The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-08-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

When the will is ready the foot is light.
Query from the studios When man
marrles lady artist, ought he to become a
model husband
Better be unhappy with the one we love.
than happy with one we love not.-E.
Bui,oer Luton
In this theatre Of mans life it is reserv-
ed only for God and angles to be lockers
on.-Pythagoras
The day that the little chicken II pleased
e the very day that the hawk takes hold
OF him .-Haytten Prouerb.
The first step towards greatness Il w w
honest, says the proverb. But the Droverb
tails TO state the case strong enough.
Honesty is not only the first step toward
greatness-it Is greatness itself.
A Columbia professor, reproving a
youth for the exercise of his fists. said
We hight with our heads here. The
youth reflected, and replies that buttinp
wasn't considered fair at his last school.
I'll put it to anybody who has ever been
IA that fix, # it isn't worse to be dead in
love with somebody that don't care I'D
tor you, than to have somebody dead m
love with you that you don't care fig for
-IAoA
WOMAN AND MAN.-The natural posi-
tion Of woman with respect 10 man, Al the
sottener, the reiner Of his existance-and
her own natural constitution. AZ weak III
frame, but powerful in moral influence
make 4 appear proper that man should ap-
proach her with sentiments w Difference
and respect.
do you get off here III asked the purser
Of the steamer City of Newport of a lady.
as the boat was within two wv three hum
dred rods Of Bullock's Point Tuesday
afternoon. go she responded. ana
Just AZ the purser was about To tell her that
she would have to buy a return ticket she
she continued, 81 get off when the Boat
reaches the wharf "
He KNEW HOw.-At an auction az
household goods on Harrison avenue. yes
terday, when a woman had made bid on
an old bureau worth about 81. a bov
slipped around to another woman ana
whispered
'You see that woman over there with
a blue bow Oh ~
yes
We'll she says that no woman with a
red nose can buy anything AZ this sale .'
The woman with the red nose rushed
her way into the crowd and run the price
Of the bureau up to Sl2. Ana as w was
knocked down To her she remarked
Il may have red nose but uO cross
eyed woman with blue bow Oh can bluff
me - Detroit Free Press.
FLEEING FROM TEMPTATION. A mem
ber Of the colored church was the other
evening cunversIng earnestly with All ac-
quaintance, and seeking 10 have hun
change into better paths, But the friend
said that he was too often tempted tO per
mt him to become a Christian.
"Whar's yer backbone, dat w can't rose
UP and stand temptation ,' exclaimed the
good man 81 was dat way myself once.
Right In dis yere town ] HAD a chance tO
steal par q boots-mighty nice ones.
too. Nobody was dar w zee me. ana
reached out my hand and de debbil said
take en-. Den a gopd sperit whispered
for me To let dem boots alone"
''An' you didn't take em h"
No, sah-not much. ! took par %
cheap shoes Of de shelf au left dem boots
alone r' Ticks5isfg Herald
The death 6.--sa- EI ninent Cincinna-
tian, who recently hgnrs l>saRsllcgoqz.I in
m all the newspaper, ~ thus touchingly
alluded to in the ~. Louis Etpttdiicdn:
His end has cast a shade Of gloom upon
the entire community every other Cincin-
NATHAN feels as though he had lost
brother
ga honess from rs bms desert waste
With uttlIug heels he boldly dared 10 PASTE
She scratched hIm ANN the scratches mortified
Ia seventeen weeks the little iAckas, died
Gone W meet Sergeant Bates"