Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-10-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

IMAGINATION rules the world.-Na-
poleon.
REooLLECTIoNs is the only paradise
from which we cannot be turned out
Richter.
"GIvE us a rest, was invented by
Archimedes when he oferel 70 move
tha world with his lever. -Net0 YORK
NeWs.
LABOR is discovered to be the grand
conqueror, enriching and building up
nations more surely than the proudest
battles.-Chauniug.
SAID little Brooklyn boy the other
day, eve don't have mlnv nice things
to eat at our house, bnt mo,her's got
over dozen cook books"
A YOUNG lady says that males are OF
kissing them as infants till they coYa-
mence kissing them as lovers.
THE latest: The coat-tail Irritation is
the latest. A wrinkled coqt-tail b saring
dusty toe-marks means, 81 have spoken
to your father"
IT is now estimated that the Chinese
were 8 900 years building the great wall
to keep the Tartars off. Why need We
despair of the Brooklyn bridge?
FRATERNITY is the reciprocal affec-
tion, the sentiment which inclines man
to do unto others as he would that
others should do unto him -Mezzini.
To ACT the part of true friend re-
quires more conscientious feeling than
to fill with credit and conplaceucy any
other station or capacity in social life
Mrs. Ellis.
THOSE people who want to know why
printers call the boy ''the dsvil" clu
readily bring themselves to understand
it by EMPLOYING boy for few days.
Boston Post.
"MARIE, what's that strange noise at
the gate ?" Seats, sir" Goats Well,
when l was young. cats didn't wear long
hats and smoke cigars" "Times are
changed, SIR"
A KNOCK DOWN: "Can vou find room
for scribe on your paper 2" mot un-
less you want to subscribe" And again
was that scholarly youth crushed. .-Syr-
acuSe Sunday Times.
'FHE war made us military people,"
said an Austin politician. il a recs1t
speech. That's fact. The m Dr plrt
of our people are generals and cJlonels.
-Ieras Sittin9s
"OH, YES, my husband is running for
office, said one suburban laly to
another, "but he better not be dafe tel.
You don't suppose l will stand il to
scrimp aud ecenom'z, to bny rum for
voters for nothing do you?"
"MAMMA, there's a mosquito on the
back of papa's neck; shall [ hit it?'
''No," said the mother, considerably;
''your father might not approve of it.
He's a member of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. -
Brooklyn Eagle.
THEY are telling in New Hampshire
the story OF woman vino is a member
OF the society with the long name, that
during the summer, she has clught
house flies in wire cage traps. aud then
relieved her conscience by taking than
up to the other end of the street AMI
setting them free.
THIS is the way to get rich in the
West, farming: Take all of your pro-
duce to the m arket; what you cant sell
bring back and feed to the cattle, and
what the cattle won't eat, eat yourself.
Ii you follow this rule strictly for ten
years you will become as rich as an
editor. Express.
AND now the Young lady who has been
off on her uncle's farm, working lika an
army mule at churning and meadino
clothes, comes back to the city, aud the
society paper announces that Miss Eva
Golddust, of East Fortieth stree, he's
returned from an extended tour through
the northern part of NJ line. .-Puek.
"SEE here, my dear. how baautir lily
the sun bring out the dewlron1 this
morning. They glisten liks-lika-"
Like diamonds. pa. They remini ma
ever so much of some saw Yesterday"
The old gentleman turrei the con-
versatlon Immediately, but h diamonds
have got to be bought. -Bosto Go5e.
Told by The Country G4ntlea1an:
A little boy had his long curls cut off
the other day, and was annoyIngly re-
minded of the fact by the remarks OF
all his friends, Going with his family
into the country, soon after his arrival
he came running into the house in great
sorrow, crying: "Mamma, mamma, even
the hens laugh at me; they all say:
'Cut-cut tcut-got-your-hAir-cut ="
"CoME, Mary" said Henry, the other
evening as they were preparing the
church vestry for the monthly meeting,
you can lend hand, can't you?'
Said Mary, quite demurely:-" Aud il
did lend hand are YOU quite sure
You wouldn't keep it?" "No, by
George" exclaimed Henry, his face
r'aning up with new revelation.
conduit give it mp,
they