Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-30
JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY.
GUM DROPS.


dunn Dizziness. / hav alwuss thought
that one live man waz worth two ded
e for most emmy purpose.
Mother-in-laws are the hardest
working and poorest paid wimmin in
all our fair land.
Young man, the best way in a biz
illness ov emmy kind il to ask no priv
liges, and then when yu hav made u
dollar yu kno what it belongs to.
If q man liz determined TO be lazy
and shiftless, 1 think 1 prefer to hav
him devlish also, rather than indiff-
rent then we send him to States
prizon.
/ pity a coward more than L dis
Pie him. / kno how it IL .miself.
If l can hav plenty ov comfort the
rest ov the world can hav all the SUI
periuitys they want.
1t IL Il curious fakt that the thoro-
bred dogs are allwuss the most treach-
Gus.
The instinkts ov the animals hav
allwuss astonished and instruked mel
az much az the reazon ov the hui
mans.
The sanguine make menny very
pretty biunders, but they hav made
most ow.nee beautiful hits.
A very beautiful woman who akts
entirely unconscious ov it, liz
Genius conceived the beetle and
wedges that talent split the dog
with.
The great and good God haz sc
arranged plans ennything that mar
must hav he can git.
A mules memory all seems to lay
in hiz heels.
Thare il lots ov people who pas.
klean thru life and will never kno tina
they hav been hipokrits all the tins
until they stand in front ov the sea
ov Judgement.
A mountain spring oy water, and
beautiful moonlight mite are two thing
that mankind praze without bein:
jealous NV.
L hav known lazysiess to eat up al
there waz good in a name, and the
pitch onto biz vices and eat them u
too.
hav hey met but very few indi
uduals yet who didn't think they wa
a good match for the devil. Thez
are the very sentiments that the dew
luys to kultivate in mankind.
Our friends want full az muc
watching az our enemys do, but yer
few are ever ruined by their enemys
Superstishun, in sum form, IL til
very wust thing We hav to -kontcn
with. We kno but little, and W
guess at or disbelieve the balance
For ages past the philosophers ha
been crying aloud On the streetseoi
ners, but the phools hav allwuss ru
the world and allwuss viii.
L like speedin all things. | ha
rather undertake to steer a streak. o
lightning emmy time than a snail.
Thare liz one karakter in this worl
that 1 allwuss feel sad for, and he
the pious lickspittle, the man fall
from the Lords table, and yet liz red
dy, at emmy time, to rech up and gra
the whole loaf on the sly.
Thare IL nothing that God haz kreaI
ed that liz more expressive ov diyinit
thai. the human eye.
don't care how menny snobs thar
are in this world pervided they pa
literally for the privilege.
The atheist iatters himself that h
liz wiser than hiz fellow beings, br
he simply stultifys hiz reazon, Will
the cheapest pissmlre amung the il
sekts glorifys hiz instinkts.
Walking IL allwuss a sure and sal
way to travel. Inever knu a ma
yet who undertook to reach a certai
spot on foot, but what got thare.
Truth win allwuss win. I dom
kare wether q man guesses at it, q
gitssat II hi the klussest kind ov fig
gerfng.
The only pure lYs In this world tha
never haz to be filtered IL the luv W
bear toward little children.
The painters are a. much happie
race than the poet-just az soon az
discover the reazon ov this, i will lie
yu kno.
Az a general thing the world ar
thankful for small fayors, and un