Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1874 — Paper Pellets. [ARTICLE]

Paper Pellets.

Unless a woman haz a large invoice ov good common sense it iz a dangerous thing for her to be smarter than her husband. Stik and hang, yung man; it iz allwuss the last six inches in a race that wins the munny. Tliare iz nothing in this world more skarse just now than a truly humble man. A man kant tell one lie and then stop, enny more than lie kan tap a barrell ov nu cider and draw just a'spoonful out and no more. Thare never, waz a man yet so ritch or exalted but what the finding a gold doliar on the sidewalk sent a thrill of delite all thrue him. Sum men allwuss site the best on the under side, and yu will notiss one thing, theze men are the hardest kind to whip. Weak persons are the wust ones we liav to deal ivith; it takes sum strength ov karakter to be even a respektable fool. We find full az much in the karakters ov our best friends to reprove az we do to brag on. Thare iz nothing so helthy for enny boddy az good honest abuse. Az long az yu don’t want to borrow ennything yu will find plenty ov folks who are anxious to lend you suintliing. The fust three notes i endorsed i had to pay, and i hope it will be just so with the next j If a nia%ifi?int got strength ov karakter enuff to live down lies and slander, he better leave this world for sum other. Philosophy iz not a cure for ail, nor even euny evils, but it duz take the gaul out ov them mightily. Kuriosity iz the same in_all people ; the vulgar stare M’ith their eyes and mouths wide open, but the refined peek thru a„ crack. Thare iz only one man kan stand ridikule without winceing, and he iz a loafer. Tung man, politeness ig a kard thatyu kan alwuss pla and not make enny mistake. It will allmost win on a hornet or a mule. I hav alius been able to trace mi good or bad luck to good or bad management, and i guess others kan if they will only hunt honest!*^** When a man beats us it shocks our vanity more than it duz our morality. One ov the best things and at the same time the most diffikult to do iz to be humble. Men seldom repent az long az they are prosperous. It takes adversity to bring a person down on his kneeze. - Thare iz nothing as rare az good judgment, nor nothing which most people think they hav got so mutch ov. The person who iz anxious to take a sekret to keep iz the last one Mho ought to be entrusted with it. Thare iz noboddy makes enny more blunders .than those who thiuk they don’t make enny. —Josh Billings , in N. Y. Weekly.