Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — Josh Billings' Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Josh Billings' Philosophy.

New York Weekly. I never have seen a bigot yet out what had a email and apparently braneless hed; but i hain’t seen all the bigots, yu know. Silence iz like darkness, a good place tew hide. There is no revenge so komplete a forgiveness. ~ He that desires to bo ritch only to be charitable, iz not only a wizo man, but a good one. Grate wealth, in our journey thru life, iz only extra baggage, and wants a heap of watching. The malice ov the world ain’t haff so dangerous az its flatter*. A piece ov satire, tew be beneficial, should be so rendered that every man who reads, or hears it', shall say to himBelf, “That iz just, bekauze it hits every boddy but ipe.” * Skandle iz as kefehing ar the smallox; and perhaps thare iz but one real preventive, aud that jtf—tew be vacksinated wijJi deaf and dumbness. Roaiiy wize men pay but little attenshnn to mistery; but one good xnisterv will furnish a dozen phools with vittles and drink for a year, and fat the whole ov them besides.