Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — Sayings by Josh Billings. [ARTICLE]

Sayings by Josh Billings.

Laughing hides as much sorrow as it ■eveals gladness. Love will live longer on a poof diet than it will on a rich one. It is a great consolation to know that we are right, but it adds great sweetness to the consolation to have others admit it. “ The gods help those who help themselves,” and men are very apt to do business in the same way. Humbugs are like bladders—they can be blown up until they . burst but they can’t be mended and blown up the second time. Good and bad fortune are so evenly mixed in this life that we frequently draw them out of the barrel at the same spiggot. It is what we w r ant and will have more than what we need and must have that makes us all so unhappy. Death is a debt which all admit but none are quite ready to pay. One of the best cures for sorrows that lias been discovered yet is to compare them with other people’s. Prosperity and adversity are what try men—one proves his good sense, the other his courage. The man who depends upon others for his happ : ness might as well depend upon others to breathe for him. Dead men are about the only things that mankind don’t envy. The man who works for notoriety had rather be insulted than not be noticed at all. The man who expects to get safely through this life on advice had better sell out at once and take the back track. It is not uncommon to find the gentlest of hearts in men of the roughest exterior; it is just so with the milk in the cocoanut. He who loves praise simply as a gravy will soon become indifferent about the ways he takes to gain it. young ones have got to be trained just as you do vines, if you expect them to bear good fruit. All kinds of experience is good, but the cheapest kind is that which other people ftirnish us. Overrating themselves and underrating others has been the cause of many a fighting dog getting badly whipped. Young man, if you want to attract the attention of mankind, don’t run after them, but rather o walk, with a stiff upper lip, the other way v Whistling some careless tune as you go. Those who trust all things to fortune, and those ’ who . trust nothing to it, are equally at fault.—A. Weekly. —He founds large black-snake coiled up under that-old sitting duck, the having swallowed the twelve eggs. He” beheaded the intruder, cut him open, removed the eggs, restored them to the care of the plucky bird, and in due season eleven of the dozen hatched. The story from comes Kentucky, and the Owen Newt vouches for its truth.