Josh Billings

The following, with tho spelling eorrected, are culled írom a couple of columus of his sayings : Anger nhvays hurts us more than the ono we get mad at. Miiko yourself uecessary, yoiing man, and your success is oertain. What a man gets for nothing he is apt to value at just abont what it costs. Pilis will sometimes refuse to act on the liver, bat sawing wood never will. When a mm aiu't good for anything else, lie's just right to sit on a jury. About as low down as a man can get and not quite " spile " is to live on his wife's reputation. I don't bet on precocions children ; the huckleberry that ripens the soonest is always flrst to decay. Everybody seems to consider himself a kind oí moral half bushei to measure tho world's frailties in. He who has nothing to do in this world but to amuse himself has got the hardest job I know of. I have always said, and I believe it still, that the time to be carefullest is when yotl havo a hand full of trumps. When yon strike oil, stop boring. Mnny a man has bored olean through and let the oil run out at the bottom. If you want to find out j ust how mean and dishonest you'vo always been, get nominated and run for some office. Next in point of meanness to doing n mnn an injury is to do him a favor and j eveiy now and then remind him of it. Woman has always been moro than a I match for man. Adam held the best ! cards, but he didn't know how to play thora well. Tho man who is honest from policy nceds as much watching as a hive of bees just getting ready to swarm. One of the most reliable prophets I know is an old hen, for she don't propliesy any egg till the egg has hajpened. Biographies are dcligntsomc reading ; we compare all the virtuf-s of the person with our own, and all his failiugs with our neighbor's.