Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-11-09
Josh Billings Philosophy.


j. a lie has got to be watched az kare
full as sore thum.
e Misery luvs company, but il al
! ways jealous. There never wuz a
: man yet but what he thought hiz
D lame back wuz a good-deal lamer
} than ennybody elses.
Natur haz turned out one so indif.
, ferent that art could duplicate it.
, Ingratitude il wuss than. hypok-
, rasy.
When two literary people git we'd
/ ded together, the chances are that
the fat il going to git into the fire,
J or the fire il going to fat-one or
, t'other.
The hardest kontract that emmy
man ever undertook to fill il to be
strictly honest.
Trying to interest very small au-
dience with comik lectur il good
deal like trying to hit the two cor
ners on a ten pin ale with sin
gle ball.
i No woman was ever a prude yet
from choice. but rather from necesi-
ty. Coquetry iz az natural to wo-
man az perfume is to a flower.
The luv of notoriety never made a
man famous yet; the fear ov it often
haz.
Thare il lots Nv things in this
world that the half ov them il worth
more than the whole.
1t il the truth in natur that makes
it so pleasing and powerful.
Thare Is crate advantage that an
honest man haz--he always gifts
kredit for his blunders.
Adversely binds men together;
prosperity separates them.
1t il a good thing to lauff every
chance we kan git; but laffing il
weakness, and thare il few things
that men tire of quicker, and remem-
Der with more disgust than two much
latter.
/ prefer the gravity of the owl to
the 1ippancy ov the jackdaw; it il
better to look wise than to talk
phoolish.
The only way to whip adversely il
face to face; running fite il always
disastrous.
The hardest man in the world to |
cheat is the man who never cheats
himself
Modesty never wears off, but
when bashfulness duz impudence
generally takes the place of it.
Mankind haz always laft at sheep
tor rushing in body for hole in
the fence; br t don't mankind always
do the same thing, regardless ov their
new bonnets?
If thare is emmy difference between
profesying and guessing, it il in ia
vor ov the guessing, for the man who
guesses has no reputashun at stake.
1t iz fair to presume that the man
who iz always anxious to prave his
posishun haz more or less doubts
about it himself
The man who depends upon
daily nuzepaper for his educashun,
if he happens to miss one, haz lost
pretty much all he knows for the
next twenty four hours.
One quarrelsome dog will demoral- {
ize all the ours in his neighborhood.
The man who il easily influenced, i,
and yet who won't be advised, IL a |
dredful hard kritter to average.
The only time to be kareless, that 9
l know ov in this life, il when a man G
iz dead asleep. h
Genius is the gift ov God, and it's
works are recorded in heaven. q
Independence il good thing, and G
independent poor men are az plenty
az independent rich ones. g
Yung man, git as many friends az
you kan, but hav but few intimates; 9
ntimacys want as much watching as f.
4 tame coon duz. r
Karacter should furnish a man 4
with hiz habits, not habits with his O
The CRATE mass ov man. e
Kind hav no karacters at all distinkt h
rom their habits. +,
Virtew IL the same price all over O
The world; vice varys ackordin to ii
attitude and longitude. b
Selfishness il a mean trait, and n
'anity il foolish one, but revenge o.
s both mean and foolish. h
How few people there are in this W
world who seem to know anything n,
bout what life wuz intended for. W
When l hear man Dragging le
bout what he HAz done, 1 try hard al
o believe him, but l kno that he o]
las got thru and won't do ennythlng
more. lam thankful for one thing;
hat what suspishun 1 hav got the
Torld haz taught me.
From the days of Eve until this
ninnit woman haz been more than a bl
match for man; Adam held the best hi
ards, but he didn't know how to in
lay them. OF
Abuse is the perogative ov the g,
)afer. tn
1t il more ov an art to conceal our sn
ignorance than to display our knowl- til
dge. gi
To git beat in sum arguments il pl
lore kredit to man than to win. Fl,
~;
A Queer Religious Sect. ".
A religious sect, which for some pe
me has been in existence in Siberia, +,
J making many proselytes in the p
government of Tamboff, Russia. In u
lost respects the people are Ortho- an
OK Greeks in their belief, but they
ave adopted some ideas which are WI WI
decidedly revolutionary charac- y
,r. Their leading doctrine is that
Il must marry on becoming of age. Gu