Some Of Prentice's Sayings

A recent writer reproduces from the Louisvillo Journal somo of George D. Prentico's witticismp, -wliich were not dependent npon time and cireumstances, as most of them nnturally were, for their point and forco. Following are a few of them: " To keep your friends treat them kindly; to kill them, treat them of ten." " Ho who reels and staggers most in the journey of life takes the straightest. cut to the devil." " Men should not thiuk too much of themselves, and yet a man should be careful not to forget himself. " " A dinner to whieh a man is not invitéd generally sits hardest on his Btomach." " Theré are many men whose tongnes might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. " "The doctors ought to escape calumny. No man living has a right to speak ill of them." " Th o working of a corkscrew is abont the only thing ' best achieved by indirection.'" "The reduction of postal facilities has gone too far. The mail passed through town Üio other day in a couple of Htockings tied over the back of a bulldog." "A few days apro the freedom of Ne-w York city was presented to Mr. Van Buren in a gold snnff-box. There was plenty of room in the box for all the freedom that New York has enjoyed for many years." "Tliere are two periods when Congress does no business. Ono is bofore the holidays and the other af ter." " Were it not ungenerous to remind a man of his natural deformities, we Bhould inform the editor of the Grand Gnlf Advertiser that he is a natural fooi." " An opposition editor offers to bet his ears on somethiDg to our diBoredit. He shonldn't carry gambling to such extreme lengths." ' ' If the editor of the isn't a rogue, he ought to bring a libel suit against his own face."