Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-11-09
Varieties.

Idleness is the sepulchre of living
man.
No fears should deter us from doing
good.
Some persons mistake noise for ar
gument.
A man who opens oysters does things
by halves.
The animal that resembles fruit is
the gray ape.
Poverty and tight shoe stick closer
than brothers.
An American Presidents pay-$50,-
600 a year and bored.
When you take no interest and lose
your principal, is it not good to be a
loan.
Traits of character which you seek
to conceal you had better seek to re-
form.
Let him who regards the loss of time
make proper use Of that which is to
come in the future.
1t is no vanity for man to pride
himself on what he has honestly got
and prudently uses.
1t is hard to persuade the man near
est the stove that the weather has not
moderated very much.
Some people like oysters on the half
shell, others quail on toast but we
prefer eagles on $40 gold pieces.
Happiness is like sunbeam, which
the death shadow intercepts, while ad-
versity is often as the rain of spring.
To what length may the widow go
when she desires a new parent for her
children? She may go one step-father.
The man who knows the world will
never be bashful, and that man who
knows himself will never be imprudent.
Because popular physician is con-
sidered ''duck of doctor" it by no
means follows that he is something of
quack.
1t is said that onions will prevent
the lips from chapping. 1t will GER
tainly keep the chaps from the young
ladies lips.
Write your name by kindness, love
and mercy in the hearts of thousands
you come i'll contact with year by year,
and you will never be forgotten.
Ladies are like watches, pretty
enough to look at sweet faces and
delicate hands, but somehow difficult
to regulate" after they are set agoing.
OF all the actions of mans life his
marriage does least concern other peo-
pie, yet of all the actions of our lives
it is most meddled with by other peo-
pie.
"In an angry instant man will do
what lifetime of repentance cannot
undo" says Henry Ward Beecher.
True, Mr.. Beecher-he may break an
egg
Patrick comes to the Morgue to
claim a lost relative. "Has he any
popularity by which he can be recog-
nized y asks the guardian, Eyes, he is
dumb"
A country editor being asked, "Do
hogs pay?" says great many do not.
They take the paper several years and
then have the postmaster send it back
Refused"
"What blessing it is" said hard
working Irishman, "that night niver
comes on till late in the day, when a
man is tired, and can't work any at
all, at ALL"
When is plant like hog? When
it begins to root When is it like
soldier When it begins to shoot. And
when is it like an editor? When it
begins to blow.
Precision in language is Il good thing.
One Of our city papers speaks of man
who died on Tuesday at his late home
Note the nice discrimination in the use
of the word late.
The truest self-respect lies, not in
extracting honor that is undeserved,
but in striving to attain that worth
which receives honor and observance
as its rightful due.
One of the most eXasperating humil-
iating moment in the life of man
comes about two A. NJ, when he gets
on his stoop and finds that his night
key is in his other vest.
Here is the account of the shortest
courtship on record Rachael, the
Lord has sent me to marry thee" said
the sutton "The Lords will be done,"
was the Submissive reply.
Brooks-"I hear that you and the
boys were out hooking watermelons.
Did you get a good load ?" Crooks
"You Just bet we did, Brooks; and
every bit of it was buckshot, too"
Things of God that are marvellous
are to be believed on aprinciple of faith,
not to be pried into by reason. For if
reason set them open before our eyes,
they would no longer be marvellous.
"In what condition was the patriarch
Job at the end of his life ?" asked
Sunday school teacher Of the quiet
looking boy at the foot of the class.
dead" calmly remarked the quiet
looking boy.
There are some things a level-headed
person should never do. Among these
to walk on a railroad track, to attempt
to get on a moving train, to point
gun or pistol at another, to put his
name on another mans note, to keep
his savings in an old stocking under
his bed, to play game of chance with
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