Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-06-29

/ ne ge0s 90 are screaming their scTummIest tcram
And the frogs ths, were dreaming are drummlog
drFm.
Buffalo Commercial.
The lille should not be classed among
the living; they are a sort Of dead men
not fl TO be buried
LADIES are like vioIels; the more
modest and retiring they appear, the
more you love them.
A MAN is obliged to die before his will
amounts to anything, but that Of a
woman is always in force.
The Philadelphia Bulletin editor re.
cognizsd a long>!ost shortcake by
strawberry mark near one end
A WRITER says that many women
are never pretty till they are old"
And then they are only pretty old.
MIsTHRFss MULDEYNEY, it was this
blessed mint that ever was, | iist wint
around the cor r-ner for aqusrtpr ovAta,
an lux at the eye got !"-T Hawkeye.
Mr., Edison, the inventor of the phon.
ograph. parts his hair at the top Of bis
collar, and combs it straight up in the
air. When Re walks out he hangs his
hat upon it.
WIT loses its respect with the good
when seen in company with malice and
to smile at the Jest which plants thorn
in the breast OF another is to become a
principal in the mischief.
BE not diverted from your study by
any idle reflections the silly world NAV
make on you, for their censures are not
in your power, and consequently should
be no part OF your concern.
A WESTERN editor throws up the
sponge, with the remark that "it doesn't
pay to run paper in a town where bust
ness men read aImanacs and pick their
teeth with the tsil Of herring"
WHEN disguised in liquor the Russians
are never quarrelsome. They 90 through
an afiectionate phase, during which thew
want to mug their neighbors. This Is
followed by stolid, apathetic idiocy.
HAVE courage enough to review your
own conduct to condemn it where you
detect faults; to amend it to the best of
your ability; to make good resolves for
your future guidance, and to keep them.
Mr. B, did you say, or did you
not say, what | said because c. said
you never did say what | said you said.
Now, if you did say that you did not say
what SAID you said, then what did you
say? -.
IN vain do they pirate of happiness who
never subdued an impulse in obedience
to a principle. He who never sacrificed
8 present To future good, or personal
to general one, can speak of happiness
only as the blind do OF colors
WOMEN outnumber men three to ore
in heaven, and in the same proportion
men outnumber women in hell. do
not say this "a an idle bosst, but simply
present fact that every Christsn must
accept on examination Mary Ellen
Chase.
A MUDDY stream, flowing into one
clear aud parking, for time runs along
by itseif A little further down, they
unite and the whole is impure. So youth,
untouched by sin, may for time keep
its purity in ioul company, but they
finally unite,
some reople sc0rn to be taught; Others
are ashamed OF it, as they would be OF
going TO school when they are old but
it is never too late to learn whatit is
always necessary 10 know and it is no
shame to learn as long as you are
ignorant-that is TO say, so long as we
/ live.
| A CONNECTICUT lover, young and
enthusiastic, who sang and played for
nearly two hours before the house of his
lady love the other evening, was electri'
| hed-tha is, shocked-aiter a short
pause, by cordial thank you" grsce>
| fully pronounced by the other fellow"
who appeared at the drawiDg-roOm win
dow
"MY son, YOU must rise with the sum-
said the old gentleman, knocking at the
door. Governor, mumbled a youthful
voice from under the bed clothes, 81
fear you never studied the COperDican
/ theory-the sun dots not rise or other
wise move" Well, it don't need books
to tell me it is true of my son " replied
the blunt paternal, turning away. And
the Young collegian concluded that pos
siblv the "oll man" was naturally just
about as smart as his boy.
EDuCATIoN- -AccustOm child as
soon as it can speak, to narrate his little
experiences, his chapter Ofaccidents his
griefs, his fesr1, bis hopes to cOmmuni.
cate what he has noticed in the world
within. Anxious to have something to
narrate, he will be induced to give at
tention to objects around him, and what
is passing in the sphere of his instruction,
and 10 observe and pote events Will be-
come one ofhis first pleasures; and this
is the groundwork Ofa thoughtful charao'
ter.
No PERFECTIoN.-- --Naaman was
mighty man, but he was lePer. Every
man has some but or other in his char
acter-something that blemishes and
diminishes him-some alloy in his grams
deur-aome damp to his joy. He may
be very happy-yery good yet, in
something or other, not 20 good as he
should be, nor so happy as he should be:
Nsaman was as great as the world could
make him; aud yet, as Bishop Hall
remarks, the basest slave in Syria would
not have changed skins with him.
WHEN a man goes tc ap evening party
and another man sits down on his Plug
hat, and sits there till The hat resembles
an attenuated pancake, and when
mutual friend takes that hat and jams
! it into shape and brushes it the wrong
wav with his elbow, aud hands it to The
partv OF the first part, and when the
party of the first part places it upon bis
head and goes home without knowing
that any thing has happened, the indica'
lions are that beer was one OF the prln-
cipal features of the entertainment
Buffalo Express.
Pm glad to say that our child Is gen.
erous little body, The other day her
grandfather gave her cent TO buy her.
elf some candy As she was going out,
she discovered little beggar BOY on tns
front steps. She stopped, and looked
first at him then at her cent then iooxsu
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