AMERICAN HUMOUR
CURRENT PHILOSOPHY. I It's a wise goose that knows its own feather. — Lowell Citizen. 'Tis a wise sausage that knows its own dog. — Hartford Sunday Journal. Youth paints the circus bill for old age to tear down. — Whitehall Times If you cannot lick a man, be lenient with his faults. — New Orleans Picayune. As a red rag to a bull, so is a red nose to a Prohibitionist. — Sfc. Paul Herald. An ounce of vaccination is worth a pound of smallpox. — Yonkevs Stateman. You can't learn too much, but you can half learn too much. — Merchant Traveller. It is the miserable little corn which feels the biggest when it is in a tight place. — FalLEiver advance. It is easier to fall between the rounds of the ladder of fame than to mount it. — Hartford Sunday Journal. " Time and tide for no man is known to wait." He gets the best who first sends up his plate. —Whitehall Times.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 6 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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160AMERICAN HUMOUR Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 6 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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