Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-02-28

10 how to brig lib boy he. rplied
that if a boy tpld the trooth too much
he would put him to clerking in
dry goods 8 store. The best wa to
bring up a boy the wa he should go
is to trayil that wa verself some
times.
MANIFEST Observation-Disclosures des-
tiny broke out in me in the shape OF
poetry. / sent an effushnn to the
Atlantic and the editur wrote back:
"Yung man, you ma be a darned
fool, but yu amt no poet.
Ysres affeetionately."
MERAcIEs.-You can't understand
the meracle of the whail swallerin'
Jonah. ] don't suppose Jonah or
the whail either understood it. I don't
know whut Jonah did while in the
whale's--society; but / know
whut a yankee wuld have dun. He'd
a rugged a radder on the critter and
run him into port.
Great thinkers are not apt to be
good whistlers. When a man can't
do enything else he usooally whis-
ties.
A man was created a little lower
titan the Angels, and he's bin gittin a
little lower ever since.
Pashunee is a good thing, but when
a man has got SO much Of it that he
can fish all day with his line over a
boat, without any bait on his hook,
lsziness IL what's the matter with
him.
The jelous mar IL always a huntin
sumthin, thot he dom expect to find,
and when he's found it he's mad be-
case ke has.
A frog on the jump, y like o rich
man, who waz once poor; he can'tr re-
member when he waz O tadpole; bat
other folks can.
Difference between a mistake and
q blunder: when a man sets down q
poor umbreller and takes up a good
one /; that's mistake. When he sets
down a good one and takes up a mean
one ; that liz a blunder..
T. To lie about a man never herts
him but to tell the truth often doz.
When a man gets to going down
hill it doz seem that everything is
greezed for the occashun.
A mouse lives anywhere to advan-
tage excep in q church. He fats
very little in q church. This shows
that q mouse a t emmy more live on
religion than a minister can.
II yer want to see q mouse enter
his hole you mustn't wink. Ii you dc
you'll have to wait till the next time.
Most people are like an egg-toe
full of themselves to hold ennythine
else.
The deestrickt skule matter has
my profound simpatha. He hasn't 8
friend on the face of the arth. Livin
on 81 a munth he haz no chanses fol
s~teelin. He never saw $500 in his
life. Emma man who has kept a dis
trickt skule ten years and ''borded
round in the naborhood ort to be
turned out to grass.
A hen pecked huzband IL like q
third rate rooster; he dares'nt krow
without fust lookin over his shoulder.
If man IL going to make a biz
ness Of seryin the Lord i like to see
him do it measuring peanuts, az well
az shouting hally looN.ahs.-
Very pore people hay no friends
and no r.lashuns, also. -
A man with a very small he'd IL
like a pin without emmy. He's al
ways gittin into things beyond his
depth.
Yung man, don't cri over split
milk, but pick up your pale and your
milkin stule. and go for the mex cow.
/ know of people SO fond Of confer
dicshun that ] wood not be surprised
to see them stop and dispute with the
glide post as to which is the rite road.
DoGs.-Cn the subject Of dogs the
lecturer was quite prolific and philo-
sophie. 'Dorgs,' he said, "had in
tested the earth as long as men has,
and viii likely chang on" to the end
of time. We hav no reliable account
of the furst dorg. If Adam kept a
tarrier or Eve a poodle the fact has
not KUN down to us. The yellow
dorg has no ~pedagree. He is long
and lazily put together. His tale is
a burden. He has always bin an Or
phun, He travels by moonlitc and
IL hungry by natur. When you speek
to him kindly he looks at you side
ways, and leapeth over the fence.
Life fur him IL maid up of starvashun
and brickbats.
Life il swete and it's cheeper TO
hay it saved by q dorg than by a doc
tur, but dergs are all hydropaths, and
sum people wood rather di than not
be doctered by an allopath. I'm
jest fool enuf that if wuz in a pond
tryin to find bottun, to be willin to
put my case in the hands of q dorg,
provided one waz on the bank out OF
a job, rather than send fore miles fur
q old skule doctur. 4
/ don't no e%npything better In the
spring time to KEEP angle wurms ore
| yunp lettis ontsof~a garden than a