THARE iz but little, if any, cerimony, between two wize men, but between a wize man and a phool, cerimony iz the only thing that will make a phool feel respektable. WHEN yu find a man who iz very solisitus about the wellfair ov everyboddy, yu kan safely put him down az one who iz hunting for a misfortune. TADPOLES. One ov the hardest men in the world tew collekt a debt ov iz the one who iz alwus willing tew pay, but never reddy. Trew liberty konsists in making good laws, and then obeying them. I suppoze we never shall kno in this life how big a phool a man kan be, bekauze he iz not allowed tew hav all his wants and vanities gratified. When i diskover that all hatred, avarice, ambishun, vanity, and envy, have left this world, then i am going tew hunt for a Christian. [Illustration: TADPOLES.] Yung man, larn tew listen!--i don’t mean at a key-hole. Thare iz plenty ov happiness in this life if we only knu it: and one way tew find it iz, when we hav got the old rumatiz tew thank Heaven that it aint the old gout. Men are blamed for sticking their noze into things; but it iz the only way a dog tracks out hiz game. The man who kan live in idleness successfully, must either be too pure or too lazy to commit enny sin. Poetri iz a disseaze common tew all the literati: sum hav it quite hard, but most hav it dredful lite. Inkredulity iz the wisdum ov a phool; it iz only a wize man who kan afford tew be credulous. Prejudice iz a hous plant which is very apt tew wither if yu take it out doors amungst pholks. The devil holds poor kards, but he plays them mighty well. What iz the next wust thing tew lieing? Gitting ketched at it. I am so phully aware ov the uncertainty ov the law, that if a man whom i had never seen nor heard ov should su me for a _debt_ ov one hundred dollars, and i couldn’t kompound with him for fifty, i would pay the whole rather than defend the suit. I hav noticed this diffrence between people--thare is _some_ who are not az big phools as they look. Most authors in writing neglekt their punktuashuns, espeshliy the _full stop_. I hav seen pholks so melankolly and so gloomy that they wouldn’t admit thare waz a brite side tew ennything in this world, not even tew a nu haff dollar. If wit forms the blade, good sense should be the handle and benevolence the skabbard ov the sword. Experience iz knowledge, and it will stik bi a phellow like the money he gits by hard knoxs. I never hav seen a bigot yet but what had a small and apparently braneless hed--but i hain’t seen all the bigots, yu know. Silence iz like darkness, a good place tew hide. Thare iz no revenge so komplete az forgivness. He that desires tew be ritch only to be charitable, iz not only a wize man, but a good one. Grate welth, in our journey thru life, iz only extra baggage, and wants a heap ov watching. The malice ov the world ain’t haff so dangerous az its flatterys. If i feel that i am right, all the kurs in the country may snap at mi heels.