Year: 1864

THE Empress Of France is sweet thirty
eight.


THERE is no fiercer hell than failure in
great object.


LAW is like a scoldiug wife-very bad when
it followsus


In politics, what begins in fear usually
ends in folly.


HEALTH is another word for temperance
and exercise.


The son of the Prince of Wales is to be
called Albert.


A ROGUE is roundabout fool; fool in
circumbendi6HS.


If trator-blood is impatient to flow in a
wicked strife, let 1t.


If laughter is the daylight of the soul a
smile is its twilight.
WORDS, like the rest of the air, are capable
| of great condensation.


1t is better to succeed without precedent
than to fail by example.


LAMARTINE is going to saddle a Russian
princess with his debts,
AsMALL fortune is good servant; large
one is often bad master.
THE battle of life needs no generals; every
man is his own commander.
| PAINTING is the intermediate somewhat be-
tween thought and thing.
WAR is a lottery, in which every customer
may expect to draw a sword.
| The only silent sounds we know OF are
those that belong to a Goldfish.
PIT good face upon everything, unless
you are so ugly that you can't.
MATCHES are not made in heaven, and
match-nakers never go there.


LOVE, law, and bad weather, are things we
had better keep out if we can.
A SHARP tongue makes deeper and more
painful wounds than sharp teeth.
| NorH1SG defes the mouth so much as a
quid of tobacco-cScept impure words.
TOBACCO smoke blown into the wound is
said to be sure cure for the lock-jaw.
OLD age is a relentless tyrant; it forbids
the pleasures Of youth on pain Of death.


THE ship upon which lady best likes to
embark on the sea Of enjoyment is courtship.


THE Devil is no fool; and yet those who
play the devil are necessarily playing the
fool.
4 MAN Of maxims only is like a Cyclops
with one eve, and that one in the back of his
head.
OS most occasions, the importance Of
| calmness is in exact proportion to its dlttl-
Guilty.
MARRIAGE must be favorable to longevi-
| ty; an old maid never lives to be more than
thirty.
| THE earth with its Scared face, is the
| symbol of the Past; the air and heaven Of
| Futurity.
A LOVER must have his clothes handsome
" cut out, or he may be handsomely cut out
himself.


WE sigh for the Past and long for the Fu-
ture (; the Past is child, and the Future is
an angel.
| SOME men are like musical glasses; to
produce their finest tones YOU must keep
them wet.
A TRAITOR to our Country may read his
history in nations eyes," but it will be
very poor reading.
IL literature, our taste will be discovered by
that which we give and our judgment by that
which we withhold.
MANY of the lions Of society, like their
namcsakes of the forest, are unable to look
true man in the eye.
! THE pious man and the infdel always talk
Of religion; the one Of what he loves, the
other of what he fears.
COURAGE is a power which strengthens in
proportion to the jeopardy, as the tree-root
clings in the swaying hurricane.


THE poet says, full many flower is
born to blush unseen and SO is many a
maiden, so far as our observation extends.
The masts of new French iron-clad just
launched, near Toulon, are of single piece
| each. The timber was obtained in Califor-
| MIA.
A TEN-cEST subscription is being collected
| in Ohio for the traitor Vallandigham and his
family, who are said to be in pecuniary dis
tress.
A MAN who puts aside his religion because
he is going into society, is like one taking off
his shoes because he is about to walk upon
thorns.


FRIENDSHIP which flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversely, as the water
that flows from spring does not conJeal in
winter.


A Denmark paper says England's is mo-
rality Of guineas-hcr policy that Of shop
keepers-both well represented by Lord Pal
| merston.


THE way of life through this thicketed will
derncss is palmer and more marked every
time an humble, hearty pilgrim soul goes
through.


WHATEVER the peace societies may say, a
brave soldier is noble man, and our hearts
nod instinctively with the nodding plume of
the hero.


TRULY great men never become vulgarly
intimate with each other. They sit apart as
the gods, talking from peak to peak all aronnd
Olympus.


The Springfield Republican asks what mill
tary orders the ladies execute when crossing
the street on a wet day Dress up in front,
and close up in the rear.