Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1874 — Brief Sayings. [ARTICLE]

Brief Sayings.

I know plenty ov people who are allwuss reddy to hed a subskripshun for most ennything, from whom yu kant kollekt a det to save yure life. This iz illegitimate charity. To bfikum famous requires mutch time and pashunce—first, to be entitled to it, and next, to make the world admit it. Giv a man work and yu make him independent; giv him atunny and yu make him dependent. ’ * Tricing to refute lies iz like tricing to kill opli musketozejyu oniy git rid of thoze which are partly satisfied and let in A man would think to hear the menny lies in cirkulasliun that thare want truth enuff in the world' to do the bizzness .with. Every species ov revenge izliarder for the author ov it to bear than it iz for the viktim. Thare iz sum doubt whether a man could be an angeil or not down here belo, but the fust question he would ask would be, “ Will it payl’t. A man without energy iz like an engine without enny steam, good for old iron. Good breeding will make a man polite, but it won’t make him honest. Marriage iz a cluss transackshun and should be figgured down to az fine a point as possible, for most ov the joy and sorrow ov this life hinges upon it. The clusser we git to a grate man the less he appears to us. Distance lends her enchantment in this case az liberal az in enny other. No man ov real genius haz ever been able to eskape notiss, but the world haz allowed thousands ov them to starve to deth. ... Deep waters make a still noise. So do deep men. ; Men will sumtimes admit that they liav been disappointed, but it iz hard to find one who will own up to a blunder. JVlunny iz like time—the more a man haz on hand ov either, the more he wants, and the less he knows how to use it. Thare iz sutch a thing az bringing up rhiklren too carefull. They shouTd-be at--lowed to ruff it once in a jvhile.— Josh Billings., in N. Y. Weekly.