Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1875 — Plain Explanations of Obscure Proverbs. [ARTICLE]

Plain Explanations of Obscure Proverbs.

“ Th® more the merrier." Multitudinous assemblages are the moat provocative of cachinatory hilarity. “ Birds of a feather flock together.” Habitants of ether, similarly plumed, gregariously assemble. “ Out of the frying-pan into the fire.” Emergence from the culinary utensil into the devouring element. “ Too many cooks spoil the broth.” A superfluity of artists deteriorates the mock turtle. “A stitch in time saves nine.” A connecting cotton link, properly established, is ninefoldly economical. “ It is a long lane that has no turning." That rustic pathway is indubitably longitudinal that has no circumlocution. “Love me, love my dog.” Evince an amatory disposition toward myself; let your department toward my anine be also affectionate.

“ Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Dwellers in crystal palaces should refrain from the propulsion of irregularshaped particles of granite formation. u *Rs an ill wind that blows nobody good.” The blast of JEolus is indeed malevolent that benefiteth not, though homeopathically, some portion of humanity. “ A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” A natural production of the feathered tribe, properly secured, is more than equivalent to a neater number in a comparative state of freedom.