The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-09-19
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Healing mediums-Cobblers.
-Grumbling of whine.
Fuss The idle mans business.
Waste ofT-Putting it in depot.
-Labor-saving machine --Laziness.
Family ties-Nine children and
-Ellip-tical-Girl swapping kisses.
Not miss-A pretty young widow.
How can the sea run when it's tied?
Ever see tooth from the gum of tree.
The nose is the scentre of civiliza-
ton.
For heat Philadelphia rules the roast.
You can't clear your conscience with
an egg.
--Bloomer-A woman who pants for no.
toriety.
"A duck of lover makes a goose of
husband.
What kind of braces do ladies prefer2
Embraces.
Your esteem for child cannot rise
higher than its sauce.
There is nothing can please man
without love.
Where the hedge is lowest the devil
leaps over.
Fancy runs most furiously when a
guilty conscience drives it.
Speech of q mans self ought to be sell
dom and we'll chosen.
Justice is like glass, which cannot be
bent, but it is easily broken.
The wise and active conquer difficulties
by daring to attempt them.
Sermons are addressed to men prayers
should be addressed to God.
We can never die too early for others
when we live only for ourselves.
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds
together the volume of the week.
Know we'll your ncomings, and your
outgoings may be better regulated.
Hope softens sorrow, brightens plain
surroundings, and eases hard lot.
No matter how honorable an equestrian
may be, he always goes back on the horse he
rides.
We hear of men sowing wild oats, but
who ever heard of a woman sewing any
thing but tares?
Man wants but little here below. True
and saeratus in the breakfast biscuit is no
exception to the general rule.
The great trouble with professional
ball clubs is to find a pitcher that will
hold water-only.
1t is the best proof of the virtues ofa
family circle to see happy fireside.
If the philosopher be happy, it is be-
ha ia tho ma fron Whom, 70
take least
The value of thought can be told, but
it is clearly worth a thousand lives like
many mems.
There are two classes generally in the
wrong-those who don't know enough and
those who don't think enough.
| The potter must have his clay and the
mason his quarry, and the mind must drain
ideas from every thing around it.
| My advice is to consult the lives of 9TH
er men as we would a looking-glass, and from
thence fetch examples for our imitation.
III we could read the secret history of
enemies, we should fad in each mans life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
hostility.
"A lie is never necessary, and none
| hupN IL uStttI tbdu tlloSt VINO nave ItdIutu
to tell the truth at all times and under all
circumstances.
The world is full of poetry; the air is
living with its spirit, and the waves dance
with the music Of its melodies and sparkle
in its brightness.
Gould we but prevail With the greatest
debauchers among us to change their lives,
we should find it no very hard matter to
change their judgments.
ANY man may walk up to cannons
mouth, but it is only here and there that one
will walk out against mems opinions be.
cause he thinks it is right.
Time goes at its own gait, and you
cannot hasten it by using the spur Of the
moment You may ask your friend to stop
minute but neither you nor he has the
power to do it.
There is pleasure in contemplating
good there is greater pleasure in receiv-
ing good but the greatest of all is in doing
good which comprehends the rest.
- Soft words do more than hard speeches;
as the sunbeams without any noise will
make the traveller throw of his coat, which
all the clustering wind could not do, but
r make him only bind it closer to him.
/, ---Some men advertise their lives, and the
, public are generally disappointed because
the advertisement promises too much 9TH
ers let their lives advertise them, and the
public always gets more than is promised.
'-.In young, childish, ignorant natures
+ there is constantly blind trust in some un-
! shapen chance. 1t is hard to a boy or girl
| to believe that a great wretchedness will
actually befall them as to believe that they
: will die.
---Speak well of the absent whenever you
have suitable opportunity. Never speak
i'll of them or ofany body, unless you are
sure they deserve it, and unless it is neces.
sary for their amendment, or for the safety
\ and benefit of other.
u He who climbs above the cares of tn,
d world and turns his face to his God ha
o found the sunny side of life. The world
side of the hill is chill and freezing to
spiritual mind, but the Lords presence give
e warmth of joy which turns winter int
Is summer.
ITO live with our enemies as if the,
u might one day be our friends, to be wit
vs. our friends as If they might become ou
ID enemies, is neither according to the natur
"a of hatred, nor in accordance with the rule
= of friendship. 1t is not moral, but reall
political maxim.
y IA young lady advertised for a maic
ct One applied, and in response to the inquir
IS whether she was quick, she replied: c
so quick that | will engage to dress yo
every day in half an hour In half a
I'd hour = reiterated the young lady; IAN
what shall do the rest of the dayP
he 1t was rich widow who wondered th
- the handsomest young man had fallen
~ love with her. Yes, it is wonderful sa
Tie Mr.. Spruceup, but l do love you to distra
IN, tion. Why, / even love the ground y,
walk on, 4 thought so, observed the wi
ow, 'hu' Pun not in want of any landlord