Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-10-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ECU.  ONE THOUSAND AND ONE PROVERBIAL AND OTHER PLATITUDES, ADOPTED, ADAPTED, AND INVENTED BY OUR ow N nut°.  (Continued ,front Sept. 28.) 106. Singers commit forgery with impunity, for they pass all the notes they utter, and they are aloud. 107. The sky is only the ceiling of the street. 108. Virtue is a horizontal line, strength a vertical line, and cunning an oblique line. 109. Jealousy is a curtain behind which love often hides itself. 110. The body without the soul would be a scabbard without a sword. This has been elaborated by Longfellow, but he copied the idea from us. 111. Ladies like balls, their partners like belles, legislators like bills, drinkers like bowls, and Popes like bulls. The change of a vowel provides for all. 118. It seems a beneficent dispensation of Providence to have caused rivers to run near all large towns. 113. Woman was created to gild the pills of our existence. 114. A puff that will extinguish a candle will light a fire. (This is more profound than it looks.) 115. At first sight one would say that the Times is inconsistent, but on second thoughts one would swear it. The only thing in which the Times is consistent is in being inconsistent. 117 (the last one counting for two). A smile on the lips is a false coin which has forced currency. 118. Flirtation is the fireguard of love, and its barometer of celibacy. 119. Money causes the deaf to hear, and deafens those who hear well. 120. Our affection is usually divided among two classes—those who give us the most, and those to whom we give the most. 121. It is humiliating to be taken far your wife's father, but still more so to be taken for her son. 122. Jealousy is the party wall which separates love from hatred. 123. What an anomaly is a river! Its mouth is larger than its head, and they are far apart, the body being between them. The continual run upon its banks does not diminish the value of its draughts. It runs over its bed, and never reposes in it, although often seen rising from it. 124. It is curious that no philosopher has ever yet discoveredihow many miles it is to the sky. 125. There may be a skeleton in every house, but it need not walk about in all the rorms and frighten the guests. . . .  126. A gramme weighs about nineteen grains; an epigramme is an article of a much lighter nature. 127. "Money makes the mare to go"—especially the grey mare. 128. A history is only a statement of circumstances, whereas a novel is a description of the human heart. A history speaks of others, a novel of yourself. 129. In the days of chivalry men elevated women on to so high a pedestal that they required to render themselves great in order to reach them. We have changed all that. 130. A few tinkling bells, and the cap of liberty becomes a fool's-cap. 131. When a woman says of another, "She is a beautiful figure," it means that she is as ugly as sin; but when a woman describes another as having "an excellent disposition," it means simply that the person referred to is humpbacked, squinting, and stupid. 132. We read in a lately published account of a murder : "The body was found cut to pieces and sewn up in a sack, which excludes the probability of a suicide." 133. I consider verses to be little prison-cells in which , thoughts are confined, or the chains in which poetry is often bound. 134. Life is a cake, devoured at twenty, and crumbled at sixty. 136. Love is the whetstone of existence; it sharpens it, but wears it away. 136. What a musical world is ours! People are either flat, sharp, or natural. 137. What trifles influence human destinies ! The omission of an 0, and the addition of an A, would have made the son of Aaron a macaroon. 138. India-rubber is the most charitable of all substances: there is nothing that gives so much. Swansea. J. C.