Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-12-16
poINrED p.,nAanApns.

The easiest way to catch flrt is
not to attempt IT,
A man must always pay the debt OF
nature as he goes
1t is the rolling wheel that gathers
the most punctures.
No man is ever justified in borrowing
money to buy dog.
Samson wont at rapid pace after he
got that cato on him.
Polteness will often lose man his
seat in crowded car.
A man always has cold in his chest
after the iceman fills it.
You can't convince an editor that
mo news is good news. "
Crying babies and good suggestions
are not always carried nut.
There is remedy for everything ex-
cept some Of the remedies.
Blockheads are net the kind that
produce burning thoughts.
Some men grieve two dollars worth
over every dollar they lose.
Any fool can lay plans but it takes
wise man to hatch them out.
II is always the self.unmade man
that lays the blams on others.
It's IA poor road that will allow bicy
Gle to indulge in mud slinging.
1t is the unwritten poems anu unsung
songs that make life endurable.
tbs postage stamp that carries love
letter seldom sticks to cold facts.
y mans only chance to got AHEAD in
this world lie to lie born With one.
Whisky may improve with age, but
age doesn't improve with whisky.
A cheap watch is usually 10 sympa
thy with the eight hour movement.
A druggist would rather sell pounp
OF cure than an ounce Of prevention.
When a man is candidate for Office
bis check is mightier than his word.
Nothing takes man down go much
as to have some woman blow him up.
A desire TO mind one's own business
is taste that is often hard to acquire.
Some writer's never disturb the truth
that lies at the bottom oil the ink well.
1t is always hard on a man when love
or the measles Attacks him late in life.
The girl who doesn't try to conceal
her age is too young to go into society.
The lower down a man gets in the
world the nearer the roof you will find
him.
The man who votes ona way and bets
the other is hound to be on the winning
side.
Misery likes company. but IL 10 better
TO have rheumatism In ono foot that
both.
A fool may have brains enough but
lack the sense required to mako use OF
them.
Cows are now milked by machinery
but the milk is watered by hand, as
uHual.
The man who is entirely satisfied
with himself wants but little here
below.
The man who has a good opinion Of
himself ia often poor Judge of human
nature.
Occasionally a girl is pressed for
time-but it's usually for some other
reason.
A great many people make their mark
in this world owing TO their inability
to write.
He who runs may read. but If he's
running for Office the less he has to say
the better.
All the worlds stage and to the
tramp is assigned the part of walking
gentleman.
A clever girl is one who knows what
you do mean when you say things you
don't mean
Every cloud has q silver lining. The
hoy who has the mumps doosn' t have 10
attend school.
The world will never got any better
until children arc an improvement on
their parents,
Our first impressions ara usually full
of errors. That is why proofreaders are
Indispensable.
Some of the most successful magazine
writer's devote their talent to the ad.
vertising pages.
1t is hard to convince the father Of
bowling twins that perpetual motion ia
an impossibility.
When a man is too sick to rio any
thing else he puts in the time making
good reHulutions.
The man who takes his whisky
straight is neyor accused of tampering
with a mixed evil.
A man is sometimes compelled to put
up with those he does not ove-pawn-
brokers', for instance.
Dead men tell no tales; but they
sometimes leave large quantities of I'M
| published manuscript
/ The man who ia unsuccessful 10 love
at least escapes the horrors Of war that
frequently follow SUCCESS.
A man never appreciates the gift of
solitaire diamond more than when he
holda tho other three aces.
Women will never be paid as much
for lecturing az men because they do
too much of it for nothing.
There is many slip 'twixt the Gun
and the lip. hut there is only enc be.
tween man anu the sidewalk.
Bread may be the staff of life. but
that does not justify man in making
his existence one continuous loaf.
If all the lies told in political cam.
paign were nailed, tue nail factories
would have to run "a hours a day.
All doctors do not practice the fuith
cure, though SONS of them heal by
touch. They have to live somehow.
The man with swelled head doesn I
usually suffer as much US those who
are compelled to associate with him.
The young gentleman who Beeks a
situation isn't Rs likely to succeed as
the young man who huatles for job.
1t would keep half-dozen harvest
ing machines busy gathering in the
crop of wild outs sown by some yorng
men.
Electrocution has taken the place of
hanging in many Statos, hut the patrons