Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-01-22
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name for trusting to laziness.
Do bn natural; a poor diamond is
better than II good imitation.
It takes two women, his mother and
his wife, to make,a great man.
There is no bigotry like that of Stree
thought" run to seed.-New York
Tribune.
In character, in manner, in style in
all things, the supreme elegance is
simplicity.
The Athenians were the first agnos-
tics-they erected an altar ITO the un-
known god Lebanon Herald.
Slander is -bladed sword, with
hit in the middle, and no hand-piece.
Itcuts the striker first and deepest. /
Therecan be no study without time;
and the mind must abide and dwell
upon things, or be always a stranger
to the inside of them. -Sonth.
A Chicago communist has astonished
the world by killing himself. The tel
egraph fails to inform us whether The
means imployed was too much beer or
too much talk.
A witty Scotchman calls the 'Sun-
day sickness" which keeps the people
from the house Of God but interrupts
no weekday work, Morbis Sabbaticus.
Those who suffer from it should call in
'sthc Great Physician"
81 have been unfortunate in love
matters" /" said a we'll bass singer
at the Paris opera the other day. "My
first sweetheart entered convent,
death robbed me of the second, and
the thild-is my wife. Figaro.
A disciple of Blackstone at Albany,
Ga, was met carrying home 'possum.
He was asked: "Hello, J., what is
thatg" sePossum!" "What are you
going to do with him!" '.I'm going
to have a big 'possum supper "How
many viii Le theref" 1.-TWO; me and
the 'possump'
God calls some to be pioneers, to
take positive ground, to repudiate any
compromise with evil And such ex-
tren,ists, walking in all the light shin
ing at any particular era, have almost
invariably triumphed, although five
year might be filed with conflict.
IT. S. La Due.
AS every officer in our late war
seems to feel that it is necessary for
him to s'yindicate" himself; and as in
vindicating himself each one must
strike down another, it begins to. look
as if in the end everybody and no
body will be yindicated. The advan-
tage of having the last word is some
thing to the warriors who survive
their former comrades or foes.
1t is a matter to be thankful for,
and in good sense proud of it, If a
man can say that, as. to the popular
of outbreaking vice, he never knew
any thing about them; that he never
entered a place of debauchery; that he
does not know the taste Of intoxicating
liquors. Happy is the man who can
humbly declare to friend such blessed
ignorance, such wise ignorance, as that.
John A. Broadus.
"And SO the Romans once invaded
Great Britain, said Miss Gilligan, to
whom her Uncle Charles had been
reading of Caesars conquest. 'eTbat
accounts for it, then!" Accounts
for whatp asked Uncle Charles. 'For
there being SO many Latin words
which resemble our English ones
The Romans very naturally picked mp
a good many of our expressions while
in England. Wonder never thought
of that before"
my imported sheep jumped the
fence last night" Tennessee farmer is
quoted as saying, "and bit down into
the ground the last vestige of my i'm
ported fruit-trees. Soon after that
my shepherd dogs went in and killed
most of nay imported sheep. And
then took down my imported breecb-
loader, and killed the dogs. The next
man that talks progi essivo farming to
, me will get a few buckshot of the same
caliber. I'm going back to cotton my
SELF
A certain queer old character, when
asked what was his opinion on any
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subject, would never answer till he
. asked his wife about it The Dntch.
man here seems to have fourished in
very much the game sort of second,
hand wisdom: During the trial Of a
case in Louisville, recently, a witness
persisted in testifying to what his wife
told him. To this, of course, the at
torney objected, and it was ruled on
by the judge. lie would proceed
again to tell "shust how it vas" wher
: the attorney would sing out, "How dc
you know thatl" "My wife told me,
was the answer. This was repeate,
d several times Presently the Judg
n became unable 10 contain himsel
], longer: aSanDose vour WIFI. were I