Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-09-02
WIT AND WISDOM.

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more to you after being embraced.
FRUGALIrY is founded on the princi-
ple that all riches have limits. = B1rke.
APPRECIATION is a greater euemv to
the face than the small-pox.-[S st.
Evremond.
IT Is the nature of the human disposi-
ton to hate him whom you have in
!ured.- Tacitus.
PRESENTS which our love for the
donor has rendered precious are ever
the most acceptable. Ovid.
CovEroUsNEss, like a candle ill male,
smothers the splendor of happy for
tune in its own grease Osborn.
Commend fool for his wit, or kuave
for his honesty, and thew will receive
you into their bosom.-[ Fielding.
TRUE Hope Is swift. and flies With swallows
| wings.
/ Kings II makes gods, and meauer creatures
kings. -IShakespeare.
ADVERSELY has the effect OF eliciting
talents which. in prosperous circum-
stances, would have lain dormant
Horace.
TIE proper means OF increasing the
love we bear our native country IS TO
reside sometime in foreign one.-
Shenstone.
ASSUMED qualities may catch the
affections OF some, but one must possess
qualities really good to fix the heart
De Moy.
A WASHINGTON clerk who had keg
of specie drop on his fingers is one OF
the few people who ever had too much
cash on hand.
A MILWAUKEE woman has kept
kettle of hol water on the stove every
night for twenty-five years past IN order
to scald burglars.
MY ADVICE is to consult the lives OF
other men as he wonld looking glass,
and from thence fetch examples for his
own imitation. - Terence.
1T is said that soup plenty good
enough for church festival can be
male from watermelon seeds and
| afforded for ten cents dish.
TOURISTS are sometimes suggestive.
sWhy, a donkey couldn't climb that
hill," said one of them; and then ne
added. sand I'm ot going to try it."
IT IS very often more necessary to
former being never forgiven, but the
latter sometimes forgot Chesterfield.
To HAVE freedom is only to have that
which Is absolutely necessary to enable
Us to be what we ought to be, and to
possess what we ought to possess
RaheI.
sDoEs your wife take much exer-
cise?" asked Fenders IN of Fogg, whose
family is q. the seaside. Exercise +
exclaimed Fogg; 81 should say SO. She
changes her dress six times every day.
We ought always to look at life cheer
| fully. When an old man crawied
ashore after having fallen into the river
from log he simply remarked that he
could have crossed on that log easily
enough, but that he didn't want to.
"THE average woman," remarked
some cynical paragrapher, 'does not
care so much whether her costume is
warm in winter or cool in summer. All
she requires is that it shall look warm
in the one case and look cool In the
other"
The small bov climbs the apple tree,
And, with delighted mien.
Down to his mat S below doth he
Let fall the apples green.
They grip the fruit with noisy gee,
Just wrested from the stem;
But soon with grim ienacity
The apple green grips them.
CONGRESSMAN FARwELL, OF Illinois,
explains the passage of the River and
Harbor steals by quoting the story OF
the man who was acquitted of hog-steal-
ing although the proof against him was
overwhelming. Upon subsequent in
auiry 1t was found that eleven OF the
lurymen had some of the pork.
A PHYSICIAN who had colored boy IN
his service noticed that his alcohol
seemed TO be rather weak; and as he
had occasion to go to the bottle from
time to time, it seemed to grow weaker.
He was about to complain to his apoth-
ecary for selling him such poor stuff,
when it occurred to him that the colored
boy might know what the trouble was;
so he said, suddenly, "Tom. how much
water do You turn into the alcohol when
Won take a drink out of the bottle ?"
"Oh, sah," responded Tom, taken on
his guard. 81 calkerlates to leave 1t
about as full as I finds it, sah." No
complaint was entered at the apotn-
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