Pickings From Josh Billings' Allm Nax.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 457, 28 June 1871, Page 2

Pickings From Josh Billings' Allm Nax.

Natur never makes any blunders ; when she makes a phool, she means it. y To find but whether a man has got a g6od ,nxpral karraktor or not, ask him pleasantly; AJ coqudtt in l»vo iz az tame az a bottle ov .ginger pop that has stood sum time with the MJoirok palled out. • Tew pick out a good husband!—shutjup bothijeyes, grab hard, and trust in Providence. I ft On, tho Pardunk Valley Railroad, con- , "duktors are positively forbid tricing tew pass each other on a single track, but no changes are made on that road for coroners' an* r que«>ts.-j .■ _ )■■: j <l fi- i ""•"*' • j :;'-, \ ' thnig^thare « not a sm'o thing "on IMs'"footstool*—even "tho ,' be>| tboth in our head may fall tewakeing.be* fore sunset, and have tew be jerked out. > JPtfennum awarded to a velosipedo rider hi , 1870—To Nimford Sturgiss, a copper medal with nine dollars, and a nu pair ov dorg skin glove's; for riding a velosipede into a millpond, and gitting drowned. • It is-se'd (by naturalists) that angleworm*'Je" rubbed on the back ov the neck will cure; $, Vaan ov lieing. I don't beleavo this, unless it, kills tho man. Death iz the only safe cure, (that haz bin diskovered yet) for the falsehood 'disieaz. : FATHERLY .AT) VICE. ! Dear girls and boys, take mi advice, , ~' And,don'tgc>on the rotten ico ; tf ;«■'. 5 For rhany a:gal has fell Jchuck in, '•' \ j tin J \ And'thus has kctched her final duc-^itig. j"' MB mm uaj,Mimgiw ; CT'H' -'■■) , nivs i.-.-A»-v;tel"'■'•iZi; I i

, JBr^gh'atn ..Young says some very clever' 'things'it he?is one of the barbarians. For in-f stance, he says : "JLot one hundred men g0 to I in.ipihg,,4.n4 ten to farming, and at the encMtffu the ten years the farmers will bo worth niorel*' »fe¥r ers" • . Tl