PROVERBS FOR THESE DAYS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4644, 22 November 1883, Page 2

PROVERBS FOR THESE DAYS.

Beware of false prophets and patent toothache drops. » ■ ; Look not upon the horse race and monkey with the pool seller, for it is not wise, to bet unless you can win. ' '.* "t'.-.' Try not to guy. the stranger who sojourneth in thy land and seemeth meek and sad ; for of such are three-card monte men made. » A wise woman will not light the fire '■ with kerosene, but will invite the servant girl to whom she owes three months' wages to do the same. If a man smites thee on the right cheek, turn also to him thy left cheek, and perad« venture thou canst with great ease plant a kick that will cause him to become dis« couraged and repent of his folly. "• ' The young man who drinketh too copiously of firewater and trieth to "run a y town," will 3urely come to grief, when in the fullness of time he hath everlastingly hammered the stubborn limestone;

Experience is a high grade school-* . thorough, tuition free—but incidental ex* penses enormous.

The foolish man sayeth to himself: " I will blow in the muzzle of this empty gun," and. tho wise coroner will say in his report: "' Accidentally blowed to the hereafter/ - *.- -.