The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

BLAME not before you examine the
truth.
In calamity, think how much may
have been escaped.
He that cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he emust certainly
pass.
HE is rich who saves penny a year
and he is poor who runs behind penny
year.
SMIGGLEs says the most thrilling tale
he ever listened to was that o. rattle
snake.
The times are so hard that one man
says he parted with all his elegant ward
robe. except the armholes of an old
waistcoat.
NEW YORK Herald: The most elo-
Phillips standing on State Street while
an Italian put gill of hot peanuts in
the tail pocket of his steel pen coat.
THEY have curious way Of deciding
law suits in Siam. Both parties are put
under cold water, and the one staying
longest wins the suit. In this country
both parties are got into hot water and
then kept there as long as possible. The
result In the end Is the same.
LOVE will make silent man speak,
modest man most oficious; it will make
dull man quick, SLOW man nimble;
and what is to be most admired, it will
make hard, base, intractable man, as
fire doth iron in the smiths forge, free,
facile, gentle, and easy to be entreated.
The hobby of Boston professor is to
reconstruct the week, giving it only five
days, called Oneday, Twoday, Three
day, Fourday, and Godday, or the Sab
bath. The shortening is intended to
make more days of rest, and the change
of names is for the purpose of discard
ing those of heather origin.
A MAN may carry a load of guilt con-
cealed in his tortured soul for years, and
hide it with veneering of hollow, heart
full, deceitful smiles, but it doesn't take
five minutes for the thoughtless world
to observe and understand the one
shouldered gait of man whose larboard
suspender-button has parted.
In the spring the gentle sere-
Naders tiDkle their guitars,
And the violins make merry
Music underneath the stars;
Thtn, next day, the tntle sere-
Naoers not so jolly are
For fellow can't be merry
Playing on the soft catarrh.
HARVARD Lampoon: Let me see,"
says the nurse of sick man, Z" the doc
tor said one teaspoonful every ten min
utes, that makes six every hour, say
seventy-two during the night. I shall
give him seventy-two spoonfuls right
away, and have little chance to get
little sleep myself"
JOHN WEISS is reported as saying, in
lecture on Emusic" at Boston, that
"the earthquake widens in concentric
circles till the earth's bosom swallows its
own shudder, and ten thousand harp
strings snap at the touch of its ruthless
power" 1t must be worth two dollars
to hear what John says when he slips
down ON banana-skin.
THE most agreeable of all compan-
ions is simple, frank man, without any
high pretensions to an oppressive great
ness one who loves life, and understands
the use oft; obliging alike at all hours; /;
above all, Of a golden temper, and stead
fast as an anchor. For such a one we
gladly exchange the greatest genius, the
most brilliant wit, the profoundes
thinker.
HAYDEN says of Keats: "That because
the world did not bow at once to his
talents, as his friends had done, he dis
trusted himself and flew to dissipation.
For six weeks be was hardly ever sober,
and he once covered his throat and
tongue as far as he could reach with
Cayenne pepper, in order to enjoy the
delicious GOODNESS Of claret in all its
glory"
AL1TTLEgirl was abandoned by her rel
atives in Chicago, after the death of her
father, and she was sent to charitable
institution. Within a few days, two
aunts, grandfather, and cousin ap
piled for custody of her, and were SC
strenuous that they quarreled violently.
| They had learned that an insurance
policy of $1,000 on the fathers life was
PAYABLE to the child.