Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-06-23
PARTICLES,

right.
The Chinese plank-an ironing board
|lKeokuk Gate City.
Prairie chickens are game to the last
New Orleans Picayune.
To drop an acquaintance it is not nee
essary to knock him down.
Promises made in affliction require a
better memory than many possess.
1t is right to be contented with what
we have, but never with what We are.
The founders of large fortunes are
generally themselves too mean to enjoy
them.
Did the man who returned after many
days get themN[Cincinnati Saturday
Night.
Unfortunate for authors: Only men
who can't write make their mark.-(LOn-
don Punch.
We promise according to our hopes,
but perform according to our Fears
Rochefoucauld.
He that voluntarily continues in igno-
rance is guilty of all the crimes which
ignorance produces.
Marriage is a lottery, but the Nycum
Advertiser says there is no law to punish
the match-makers.
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls
He breathes his life, and from their hands it comes
In fair. articulate forms TO bless the world.
Holland.
How many people would remain dumb
were it forbidden them to speak good of
themselves and ill of others?
Our differences should be like mortar.
which separates the bricks that it binds
together.-[Boston Transcript
Wise men talk because they have
something to say; but fools talk be-
cause they want to say something.
Did you ever know a nan who talked
much of himself who did not have a poor
subject for his conversation!-[Boston
Transcript.
A great deal of New Ravens manu-
featuring industry goes to waste; there
are eight corset factories in the city
indianapolis Herald.
1t saves time to fill a kerosene lamp
while burning, even if it is pretty GER
tain to bring about a fire and a funeral.
I-[Detroit Free Press.
Three-fourths of the Parisians arc
poor. There are in the city ga, 952
lodgings, of which 1854 are let for
less than $50 a year.
BY holding a very little misery quite
close to our eyes, we entirely lose sight
of a great deal of comfort beyond which
might be taken.
A young minister should never begin
his career by being very radical in his
abuse of tobacco to the Oldest deacon with
the pretty daughter.-[New York Her
aid.
"Can | give my son a college education
at homer" asks a fond parent. Certain
ly. All you want is a ball guide, a rae
ing shell and a package Of cigarettes
[Chicago Tribune.
A South End man asked a one-armed
organ grinder if he was a survivor of the
late war, and the organist replied:
Hang it, do / act as though l was killed
in it?'-[Boston Post.
Never despise humble beginnings.
What at first you might call an old stick
in the mud may in time grow to be a
beautiful willow tree, shading the brook.
-lNew Orleans Picayune.
"Clothe me in Dreams" says Miss Fan
ME Driscoll in a recent poem. And the
Elmira Free Press man, spreading. his
fingers open before his eyes to hide his
bushes, shouts: "Oh, now, see here,
dear-that's too thin"
All that / have accomplished, or ex-
pect or hope to accomplish, has been and
will be by that plodding, patient, per-
severing process of accretion which
builds the ant heap, particle by particle,
thought by thought, fact by fact
(Elihu Burritt.
It's we'll enough for the poets to sing
of the philosophers and scholars who
draw wisdom from the stars, but if the
poet wants a theme worthy of his pen,
just let him watch the young man who
can stand IN the corner and suck wisdom
out of al ivory-headed cane.
Last week a Bible agent sat down at a
farmers table up in Scott county, play
ed euchre with the old man and won a
yoke of four-year-old-steers from him,
and then made him buy eight dozen BIZ
bles and sixteen pounds of tracts to re-
deem his steers.-[Burlington Hawkeye.
A tramp consented to do n small lob
at digging post holes at Carson, New,
though labor was contrary to his custom.
He returned to his employers house in
an hour, threw down his spade and said
he had changed his mind. He had
found $3.50 worth of gold bars which
some miner had buried.
"How came these holes in your e-
bows?" said a widowed mother to her
only son. "Oh, mother, l hid behind
the sofa when Colonel COOLER was saying
to Maria that he'd take her, ever if you
had to be thrown in; and he didn't know
l was there; and so I held my tongue
and laughed in my sleeve till l burst en-"
A New York medical journal says
that some of the cigarettes which are
smoked to 80 large an extent are said to
be dangerous articles. A physician had
one of them analysed, and the tobacco
was found to be strongly im~pregnated
with opium, while the wrapper, which
was warranted to be rice paper, was
proved to be the most ordinary quality
of white paper, whitened with arsenic.
The Inventor of st~sreotypine.