Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-02-28
SENSIBLE FOLLY.

ed lecture tour and is greeted with
crowded house everywhere. The fol-
lowing is the text of his lecture in
Columbia:
II don't propose TO speak of the lost
arts, of the rise and fall of the Ro-
man Empire, and the probable pur-
chase by Secretary Evarts of the Isle
of Great Britain, neither shall I dwell
upon the carpet-baggers, nor question
the well-established mathematical fact
the eight spot will always take the
seven; but rather deal for the hour
with the simple things of everyday
life, brought,out in short essays, bits
of natural history, answers to cores
pondents, monographs andproverbial
philosophy.
Mosquitoes are born of poor, but
honest partents, and have in thare
veins the best blood in the country.
They are very couragus. / have known
q musquito to fife a man and his wife
all mite and then draw the first blud.
Nevis are like sum men-yery kor-
rupt ut heart. l have known them
to be good nevis for six months Just
to git 3 chance to kick sumboddy.
Human happiness is like the wan.
dering flea, when you put your hand
on him he don't seem to be thare,
and when you follow him to WHARF he
aetooally is he don'tseem to be thare
also.
Twothurds of the happiness Of
sliding down hill consists in drawing
the sled back again. ] don't suppose
emmy man would want to slide down
a hill eighty-five miles long.
The best way to be happy is not to
want ennything until you've got it.
Pudding and milk is a good thing,
but too much pudding and milk will
worry a man.
If a man begins life by being a first
lootenant in the family he needn't
look for any further promotion.
When l see an old mizer in the
midst of his welth 1 konsidder him
just about as happy as a fiji, who has
fell into a bole of molasses and kant
get out.
man who ran ware a paper collar
a week without Citing it dirty ain't
fit for emmy thing else.
One 1--we man in q community is
like a case Glitch in a deestrikt skule
he sets everybody else to scratch.
ing.
A man who can set and draw New
Orleans molasses in the month ot
January through a half-inch augel
hole and sing ''IIome, sweet home,''
while the molasses is runnin, NAV
have a pood conscience, but he anti
Sudden enoug for 1878.
A live maj don't die rich, but he
dies busy.
Handsum men arc skeerce and I'm
glad of it. Thare's very little power
IN man bnty. Pretty women are
plenty, but beautiful ones not so
much so. | think I'd rather have a
noze 7-l-2 inches long, in the clear
than be kalled the handsumest mar
III the country, for in the first place
would work hard to shorten nv ncze.
aud then | would never be told that I
had more buty than branes.
He who il pleased with everything
IL a big fool but he, who i z pleased
with nothing, il a bigger one.
A busy-body IL like a big cheese
full of little things. 81 g.,
If L had q mewl that would never
kick nor bite / would watch close and
see what part of him his malice laid
i'll.
l don't believe it ever waz wise or
religious if a mewl kicked you on one
side to turn the other.
If a hornet lites on you let him set
fhare and sing, but if he bites then
blot out the hornet.
When 1 waz a boy / would rather
have been whipped twice than post
poned wunce.
An honest man IL the noblest work
ov God, but / have thought from the
great scarcity ov the artikle that a
large share of of the furst edishun
must still be in the others hand.
LET him go mi son." said a father
to his son, when he caught a young
rabbit, land catch him when he's
old" The boy dun so, and has bin
Iookin for that rabbit ever C
Militerry tacktics for the Injun,
will do well enuf when the Iniun is
sixty or seventy miles of, but when
lie Gums in site thc best plan is to kill
the lnjun and make the tackticks to
suite the case. / have kun to the
konklusion that alt the good Iniuns
die young.
L like neetness, but would have
1T conservative. Sum people carry
1T to extreems and it seems an ungur-
ernabi' pashun. / have seen people
who wood not let a weary fiji lite on
the wallpaper long enuff to take breth
and Who wood chase q cockroach up
and down the stars ontil he wore his
legs OIL. Sum people keep his whole
mouse dirty the year around cleaning
it.
PAsnnScE,-Everybody liz in thu
habit Nv braggin on Napoleon Bone