Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — Josh Billings' Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Josh Billings' Philosophy.

1 Hew York Weekly. In great, crowds ov persons, like grate flocks ov birds, thar iz match more noise and clattering than sense. There are but dredful few people who kan talk ten minnits tew yu without lugging into the eonversashun their bak or stummuk akes. Sins are the only things that i repent ov. I never could make eanything repenting ov blunders. Whisky friends are the most unprofitable ones i kno ov: they are alwuz reddy tew drink with them, then they din’t dry. I look upon a pure joke with the same venerashun that i do upon the 10 commandments. Yon kant hire a man tew be honest. He will want hiz~ wages raized every morning. The most suckcessful men I ’ hav ever known are those who are konstantly making blunders, but never seem tew kno it