The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
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a seedy coat may cover heart in full
bloom.
Affliction, like the ironsmith, shapes as
it strikes.
Beauty is but skin deep, and so also
are freckles.
The first aud worst of all faults is to
cheat ones self.
One hour of justice is worth seventy
years of prayers.
Have order, system, regularity and
also promptness.
There are epidemics of nobleneSs as we'll
| as of disease.
To die of love is only metaphor used
to frighten people.
Allow people to think as we'll of each
other as they can.
No man can get rich by sitting around
stores and saloons.
IT'S the girl that waltzes who goes the
rounds of the press.
An inch advertisement in \ paper is
worth two on tree.
The fool thinks he has argued the case
who he offers 20 bet.
II you can't keep your temper at least
try to save your wind.
Women who have not fine teeth only
laugh with their eyes.
| Chance is word void of sense nothing
can exist without cause.
The tradesman who skins his custo-
mers can afford to sealskin his wife.
Women ask if man is discreet, as
men ask if a woman is pretty.
The seeds of our punishment are sown
at the same time we commit sin.
Honor pledges us to morality, fame still
more, and power most of all.
Never strike horse that is pulling it's
best even if the progress is slow.
Ill fortune never crushed that man
whom good fortune deceived not.
Gold is either the fortune or the ruin
of mankind, according to its use.
The world shows tendency to detect
weak fools even more than knaves.
Contact with the world sooner or later
tells man the truth about himself.
One pound of learning requires ten
pounds of common sense to apply it.
Poverty may excuse a shabby coat, but
it is no excuse for shabby morals.
Sensitive people wish to be loved vain
people wish only to be preferred.
Troubles borrowed and stolen out
number by far all Others in the world.
We should believe only in works,
words are sold for nothing everywhere.
The eye is sometimes called the win.
dow of the soul, consequently black
eye must be stained window.
Blobson says that there is only one
thing. to him, whose end is involved in
mystery, and that is the coil of wo-
mans back hair.
A young child in Oregon died from the
effects of swallowing the leaves of an
almanac. We always held that dates
should be eaten in small quantities.
A note made on sunday is void which
may account for some men sleeping all
through church service, and making no
note of what the preacher says.
A poet says, "Oh, summer land. Oh,
sunny South! turn to thee! ope my
mouth and drink thy fragrance once
again. Fragrance in the sunny South
costs about ten cents drink, and its
other name is Old Rye. The poet must
have sold poem.
Fifteen genuine Sioux Indians who are
seeing Gotham amuse the people at ho-
tel by eating with their hands and dress
ing outlandishly. As they wear silk hats
they think they are civilized. This is a
very common mistake among other peo-
pie besides Indians.
1t is the height of meanness to step up
to young man with a section of colorsd
silk handkerchief protruding from his
breast pocket, and say in voice suffi-
GENTLY loud for everybody in the vicini-
ty to hear, 81 beg your pardon, sir, but
the lining of your pocket is sticking out"
"Stlange," remarked Mrs. Brown, 81
have rung at Mrs. Smiths door three
times this week, and didn't succeed in
raising any one, guess the family is out
of town." Possibly replied Mrs.
Jones "but Mrs. Smith was telling me
just now that she could tell your ring
| among thousand.