The lazyest man that i kan think ov now, waz Israel Dunbar, ov Billingsville. He dried up a new milch cow in milkin her 3 times, and planted an aker of beans, last spring, awl in one hill. He iz 45 years old, and hain’t had the meazles yet; he haz alwus bin too lazy tew ketch them. He had one son, who was jist like him. This boy died when he waz 18 years old, in crossing a korn-field; the punkin-vines took after him and smothered him to death. GLASS DIMONDS. If we could see the sekret motives that prompt even the good ackshuns ov men, we should see more tew reprove than admire. The best specimens ov calm resignashun tew their fate that I hav met with thus far, hav been amung thoze who had an inkum ov 40 thousand dollars a year, less government tax. Diogenes and Seneca were two az grate philosophers az the world haz ever produced; one lived in a tub, and the other in a palace. Most ov the happiness in this world konsists in possessing what others kant git. Take all the phools and the good luk out of this world, and it would bother menny ov us tew git a living. Thare iz a grate menny ghosts travelling around loose, but no one ever saw one yet. Honesty iz like money, yu hav got tew work hard tew git it, and then work harder to keep it. I alwus git my boots made bi the shumaker that other shumakers praze. Philosophy iz born in the head, and dies in the heart. I hav noticed one thing, that just about in proporshun that the pashuns are weak, men are seemingly virtewous. Here iz just what’s the matter--if yu shut yureself up folks will run after yu, and if yu run after folks they will shut themselfs up. [Illustration: GLASS DIMONDS.] Thare iz az mutch difference between wit and humor, az thare iz between the ile and the essence of peppermint. It iz a safe kalkulashun that the more praze a man iz willing to take, the less he deserves. Thare iz but phew people in this world underrated. Honesty iz the only aristokrasy that i acknoweledge; an honest man iz alwus a well-bred man and a gentleman. Politeness iz not only the most powerful, but the cheapest argument I kno ov. The more wrinkles i kan see in a man’s face the better i like it, provided a smile lays in each one ov the gutters. The philosophers tell us that “natur abhors a vacum.” This ackounts for the sawdust in sum mens heds. Thare iz now and then a person to whom sosiety owes menny obligashuns, but most people owe all thare iz ov them tew sosiety. If yu pull the sting out ov a hornet hiz moral power iz gone in a minnit. We are all ov us willing tew divide our sorrows amung our nabors, but our plezzures we are more stingy with. Sages and phools are the only two kinds ov people that the world kan afford tew hav liv in solitude. If a man waz kompletely virtewous, i doubt whether he would be happy here, he would be so lonesum. It dont require mutch tallent tew giv good advice, but tew follow it duz.