The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-08-07
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You cannot dream yourself into character ;
you must hammer and forge yourself one.
The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
is always the frat to be touched by the thorns.
Without belief in personal Immortality relig.
ion Ia like an arch resting on one pillar, like a
bridge ending in an abyss
The sweat of ones brow is no longer curse
when one works for God: 1t proves tonic for the
system and is actually blessing.
The difference between ladies and ducks-lf
there is any diference-S that the ladlesar often
dressed to kill while ducks are killed to Dress
NJ Y. Graphic.
my son, why ia 1t that you wish to grow up in
absolute ignorance, like the babOon in Central
PaIk?" would have you blush for me, papa
by being rejected for jury duty9 Neverl'-N Y.
Telegram,
Resolve to edge In little reading every day, IL
1t is but single sentence. Ifyou gain but fifteen
minutes day 1t will make itself felt at the end
Of the year, Horace Mann,
Charity toward the weaknesses Of human na-
ture is virtue which we demand in others, but
which we find very hard to practice ourselves.
Memory and hope are set like stars above the
soul-the one shining dimly through the twilight
of the past the other lighting the archway of the
future,
We can easily manage five will only take each
day, the burden appointed for 1t. But the load
will be too heavy for us il we add to Its weigh
the burden Of tomorrow before We are called to
bear it.
What's an old maid made for? Maiden vain
generally.
ElIndians have begun to commit suicide, which
clearly disproves the theory that they can't be
civilized.
Why are good resolutions like q squalling baby
at church, Because they should always be car
ried out, .'.
What did young lady mean when she said 10
her lover you may be too late for the car, but
you can take a bus"
II had no time to stuff the chicken" apologized
slandlady to her boarders. "Never mind, mad.
am, it's tough enough as it is" replied one OF
them. .-r.-.-.-.. ,-r--.
A Texas postmaster has put up notice request
Ing shippers Of rattlesnakes to pull the teeth out
of the thing before mailing, He says he has been
bitten twice already from neglect Of this kind
and it is growing monoonous.
A pickpocket taken with his hand in some ones
pocket endeavOred to invent all manner Of i'm.
possible explanations of the phenomenon. "Wha'
is the use in your trying to lie about 1t so clum
sily?' said the magistrate, benevolenty; "haven't
you lawyer"
II say, Maud" saysa young man to young
woman, really, old girl, you ought to bounce
that old woman you have to do the chores. She
takes snuff and talks like magpie, and is alto.
gether very revolving" II know ought to, but
them, you see it's difficult to do 1t, She's my
mother, However, l'll give her a talking to-"
Diner alta fashionable restaurant, calling the
walters attention TO his plate "What do call this
stuff" "That, sir, that's bean soup" Diner
Well don't wantto know what 1t has been, but
what is II now. Boston Journal r.r,r
A new song is interrogatively entitled Can you
Support Ne, DarlingH" Ifyour darling works in
| shirt factory and doesn't care much for dress
herself and you don't spend her money for beer
and billiards. and she keeps her health, and you
are willing to turn In now and then and earn q
few dollars by digging cellars, or peddling CLANS,
the probabilities are that she can support you.
But we advise her TO shifk you for some fellow
who can support her.-NorrtSt0t0n Herald.
The baby rolls upon the loor
'am " Kicks up his tiny feet
l- And pOkes his toes into his mouth
Thus making both ends meet.
The dog attached 10 tin pail,
Goes bowling down the street.
"N And, as he madly bites his tail,
| He maketh both ends meet.
The butcher Stays the penslve pig,
Iurlva1 Cut of his ears and feet sU
, And grinds them in sausage big
/ Thus making both ends meat
| .1 The farmer coops his skinny hens
And feeds them with choice wheat;
~ The means must justify the ends,
And SO he makes them eat.
| ,.,-rs -s -Hdckelsack Republican.