JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11818, 16 November 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)

JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY.

(Sive every one you meet, my boy, the time of day and half the road- } and if that doesn't" make him civil don't waste- any more fragrance on the cuss. There is a great deal of religion ia this world that is like a life-preserver-— only put on at the moment of extreme danger, and put on then, half the time, hind side before. ' _.'•'" With all the howling for liberty that men and women engage in; there; ;is, 5. after all,- but very little of it in the world j we are all of us slaves to something. - , ' . . . I never have known a msa to die at three score years and ten possessed of tbe wealth he had got wrongfully. , Side by side of plain truth stands common sense— two of the greatest warriors time has ever produced. ' . Vanity ia the most jealous disease. . 1 have" seen tiien so vain, that they couldn't .look with composure upon a peacock spreading his -appendix to the morning son. : . < ' ; . True valour is like honesty, it enters into all a man says or does. ■ , The man Who thinks ' he can't do it* is" always more than half agbti* ' ! ! The man who is always anxious^ to assume a responsibijity.ii either a foot 11 or a knave, I don't know which. The majority of tbe world are like rats — they live upon plunder and forsake a siaking ship. >

A salmon can leap to a height of ten feet. This has, been, demonstrated by the fishery commissioners of Norr" L way, who, by , means ]of standards erected below. waterfalls, hare measured the leaps of this agile fish. There are in Naples a number of eats that lire in tbe churches* They are kept and fed by the authorities on purpose to catch the mice which infest most of the old buildings there. The little animals may often be seen walking about among the congregation oi sitting gravely /before the alter during, the time of mass, and it is considered a sacrilege to harm4)hem r . |-' '