If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.