The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-12-29
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The best key for a Christina
box-tur-key.
An unpleasant sort of arithme'
tic-division among families.
"Debt, says Josh Billings, "iz a
trap which man sets and bates
himself, and then deliberately gets
into"
The Chicago Journal says: When
man imagines that he is a proph-
ct and philosopher he takes to
long hair and dirty overcoat.
"They who know the truth, says
Confucius, ''are not equal to those
who revere it, and they who revere
1t are not equal to those who find
pleasure in it."
Discrimination is as necessary in
charity as in everything else, and
indiscrimination in charity is in
many respects more dangerous
than anything else.
A new style of boys trowsers has
been invented in Boston, with o
copper seat, sheet-iron knees, riv-
eted down in the seams, and wa
ter-proof pockets, to hold broken
eggs.
"No eatin appuls in school ours !"
reads sign Oh the blackboard of q
school house in enlightened old
Massachusetts, where Education is
supposed to sit on the top rail and
make faces at Ignorance.
When person feels disposed to
over-estimate his Importance, let
him remember that mankind got
along very we'll before his birth,
and that, in all probability, they
will get along very well after his
death.
A young man, who knows all
about it, states that his experience
has taught him that a firt'isa fool
who delights in fooling fools, and
the fool who is fooled by such a
fool is the foolishest kind of
fool.
"Why do you attack me2" said
brilliant glow worm to vile little
insect as ugly as it was venomous.
Because you shine so brilliantly"
This reply is the explanation of a
great many dislikes and rancorous
feelings.
The Charleston News INDUCES
extravagant hopes. "One of these
days." it says, "the ideal president
will take up his quarters at the
white house, and frame message
that can be read in five minutes,
and will leave the public in no un-
certainty as to his views on every
matter of Importance"
Josh Billings says: "After sew
sril years of rehekshun / have cum
% the konklusion that the three
most difficult things in life are
LIST, Carryin' an arn-full nv live
.els up a steep hill without spillin'
IN eel; I'd, Aktin AS referee at q
log fight without gettin' mad; Sd,
Iditin' a.newspaper."
"When l die let me be buried
within the sound of the hammer,
he clang of the workshop, the hum
# the mill, says the candidate in
lis speech. And then he goes
lome and seats himself in the rock
ng chair while his wife carries the
oal out of the cellar to get supper .
With. e.
The Denver (CoL Mirror says:
lie wa- fresh from over the range.
md had Just stepped in to get the
atest news. He listened attentive
y to Jim while relating his expert
nee the night previous with his
solid girl" at a kissing fray, when,
Nth a sneer of derision, he opened
lis mouth and said: "OhI talk
bout kissing! Go away! l have
Used in the North; have kissed
n the South; have repeated the
oul stirring operation East and
Vest; l have kissed in Texas and
way down in Maine; have kissed
Z Long Branch and at the Golden
ate-in fact, in every State of the
Union; in every language and ac-
ording to the manners and GUS
oms of every nation; have kissed
n the Mississippi and all its tribu-
aries; but, young man, for good,
ound kissing give me a full-Aedged
,aribon girl. When you feel the