The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-01
DICTIONARY OF SMILES.
Valuable Collection by Man Who Felt
Its Need for Quick Reference.

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political story. Being interested he
bought several papers. all of which
agreed in informing him that the
news had spread like wildtire.' He
sought out "a journalistic friend. rs
there no other way" he asked. lin
which news can spread?" The jour-
nalist had never heard of any so Mr..
Wildstach sought a publisher. Il want
a dictionary OF SMILES" he demanded.
He was told that there was none,
Forthwith he decided that there would
be. That was in 1894, and now, in
1916, there is.
compilation of comparisons drawn
from such varied sources as the Bible
and Mr.. Josh Billings-that is MI
Widstachs work, recently published
by Little. Brown eco, of Boston. And
it's object?
1T is very hard to find a good sim
lie when one wants one" said George
Moore, the novelist.
Mr.. Wildstach chose this complaint
as the motto for his treasury of $4,000
SMILES drawn from the best literary
sources. Here are appended a few of
the most striking that meet one in a
perusal of the book:
From All Sources.
Doing business without advertising
is like winking at a girl in the dark.
You know what you are doing but no.
body else does.-Anon.
About as much chance as man
with wooden leg in a forest fire
George Broadhurst.
Bob up like the hammers of a piano.
Dickens.
A house without books is like
room without windows.-Henry Ward
Beecher.
Busy as IA cross eyed boy at a three
ring circus.-ReX Beach.
Casually as John Drew counting the
house.--Irvin Cobb,
About as much chance as a prohibit
ZIONIST candidate in a democratic
ward.--Harry Cross.
Cold as an enthusiastic New Eng
land audience.-Anon.
Costly as an election.-Pierre de
Coulevain
Coughed like a COW who finds feath-
ers mixed with the hay.-Balzac.
Cowardly as a mob.-Anon.
Crooked as a snake with the collie
Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Difficult as to forgive the virtues Of
our enemies.-Anon.
Back to Shakespeare.
His speech was like a tangled chain;
nothing impaired but all disordered.-
Shakespeare
Eager as a cry for life.-George
Meredith.
Earrings like chandeliers.-Thack-
cray
Expressionless as a cheese.-Anon.
He faded away like a pound of soap
in a hard days wash.-Anon.
Flat as an excuse-Sydney Munden.
Freer than a jailer-Shakespeare.
Friendless as an alarm clock
Thomas Hardy.
Grand as a floorwalker.-O. Henry.
He had hand like a bunch of ba-
nanas--R. F.. Outcault.
Irritating as hundred needles for
gotten in an armchair.--Daudet.
Law is like a sieve; it is very easy
to see through it, but a man must be
considerably reduced to get through
its. G. Morton.
Lies like truth.-Shakespe
Love, like cough can't be hidden.
Anon.
Some men are like musical glasses
to produce their finest tone you must
keep them wet-Coleridge.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when
they are smoothest-J P. Richter.
Great men are like meteors; they
glitter and are consumed to enlighten
the word.--Napoleon.
Modest as a squash.-Anon.
Out of place as a faro layout in a
Sunday school.--Alfred Henry Lewis.
Rosy as victorious candidate
George Meredith.
Robbers are like rain: they fall on
the just and the unjust.-Josh Billings.
Scandal, like dirt, will rub out when
dry.--Sir T. Bernard
Silent as the growth of flowers
Aphra Behn.
Single as the sun.--Sw inburne.
Sly as submarine. Anon.
| As sprightly as jumping jack in
the hands of a man with st. Vitus'
dance.-Anon.
Stale as the hot rolls dug out of
mpeii.-Anon.
AS straightforward as a tile falling
on your head.-Joseph Conrad.
Success is like sunshine--it brings
out the rattlesnakes.-Pau Morton.
Tuneless as a bag of wOod-George
Eliot
Unconditional as frozen founder -
George Broadhurst
Worked like miner in a landslide.
Anon.
Wrinkled like a raisn--Anon.
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