Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1883-12-06
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"He u very spry atgetting tired. .
isomebody said Of . lazy man.
| Halt the Ills we hoard in our hearts
are ills because we hoard them.-Bar.
Iry Cornwall.
The highest effect Of eloqnence re-
quires an eloquent speaker and an
eloquent 'hearer. -Shedd.
Taking penny that does not be.
long to one removes the barrier be-
tween integrity and rascality.
A guilty conscience is like whirl-
pool, drawing In all to itself which
would otherwise pass by.
No man should complain of being
poor. or Of hard times, who can at.
ford to use rum or tobacco.
Garlic is said TO be n sovereign
remedy Tor goat. There il no REM
edY for garlic.
Simple pity amt much better 10 q
person than an insult: but to pity
him with a five-dollar bill is bizzness.
J.. Billings.
"Bredren," said a darkey in a
prayermeeting, ''I feels II could
talk more good in Eve minutes dan 1
could do in q year. %
The philosopher Antisthenes used
to say that like as rust consumes
iron 80 does envy devour the envi.
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Indulging in dangerous pleasures
is like licking honey from knife
and cutting the tongue with the edge.
They who can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little Temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety.-Franklin.
Prof. Winchell says that there
were men before Adam. Let the
Professor back his opinion by giving
us their names.-Graphic.
The head Of an empty barrel in the
corner grocery may support the
curbstone orator, but it won't feed
bis family.-Waterloo Observer.
As by dattery man opens his
bosom to his mortal enemy, so by
detraction and slander he shuts the
same to his best friends. Bishop
South.
Frivolity, under whatever form it
appears, takes from attention its
strength, from thought its original
ity, from feeling it's earnestness.
A dull old lady being told that a
certain lawyer was "lying at the point
OF DEATH" exclaimed: ssMy gra-
cious! Won't even death stop that
mans lying"
Native to stranger: eve have
always an east wind in Galveston"
but l see the wind is right now from
the west" go, that's the east wind
coming back" "Ah!"
1t will afford sweeter happiness in
the hour Of death to have wiped away
one tear from the cheek of sorrow
than to have ruled an emp,re, toI
have conquered millions, or enslaved
the world. ,
DR.. Arthur Mitchell says thst "a
savage differs from an average Eu-
ropean mainly in the fact that his SO. |
ciety is less highly organized than
that Of France or England" We
always thought that this was what
ailed the savage. So"
Two Of the most respectable citi-
zens Of Galveston got to talking po-
litics recently. ''Yos are as obsu-
nate as mule" said one. "But
l lever make an ass Of myself, like
you do" ''Gentlemen,' SAID by
stander, ''such near relatives ought
never to talk politics in public"
Prof. Phelps tells Of burglar who
could not plumber q room tall be had
turned to the wall the face Of a mar
BILE bust Of Jesus. The Catholic versions
make it q picture Of the Virgin Moth
er which thus looked the robber out
of countenance. In either case the
lesson Is the same.
A droll fellow fished rich old gen.
tlemen out Of q miIl-pond, and re-
fused the offer Of twenty-five. cents
from the rescued miser. 30, that's.
too much!" exclaimed he; 'tain't.
worth it: and be handed back twen-
ty-one cents, saying calmly, rs be
pocketed the four cents, That's
about right"
They begged him to play a little.
He seemed to feel bashfui at first, but
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