Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1875 — Billingisms. [ARTICLE]

Billingisms.

The; chief end of most men’s lifes Iz to earn 3 meals a day, and eat them. Pills will sumtimes akt on the liver, but sawing wood will allwuss do it. He who leads a life of plezzure sows wheat and reap tares. About one-hatl the folks go thru life az driftwood floats on the.surface ov the stream, without knowingorcaringmutch vvhare they are going to land. Politeness, even when it iz not the result ov enny real goodness ov heart, iz an agreeable fraud. Tliare seems to be this difference between the foolish and the wizd; the phools kan deceive tliemselfs, but they kant deceive others; the wize kan deceive others, hut kant deceive tliemselfs. ’J'harc \1 no one more often wrong than the one who thinks that lie is allwuss right. Don’t be afrade ov a slander; if it ain’t true it won’t hurt yu; if it iz true it ain’t a slander, A kind-hearted person iz necessarily polite, even if he iz. az rude az a boor. Tricing to do what natur never desighned us for iz the source ov menuy mortifikasliuns and failures; thus we see sum in the pulpit who ought to be in a sliumaker's stall, and others disgracing the bench who would be ornaments in a butcher’s shop. Grate welth iz certainly the poorest legacy yu kan leave vure children; yu had better leave them destitute. I never knew a four-legged dog to desert a man in liiz hour ov misfortune, but i have often known the two-legged ■kind to do it. - . A lasting reputashun iz a plant of slo growth. Thoze men who wake up sum morning and find themselves famous arc very apt to go to bed sum nite and be forgotten. •/.. * ? Things that aint honest are the only things against which ridicule haz enny power.— N. F. Weekly.