Paragraphs
(From Prenticeana.)
A pin has as much head as a good many authors, and a good deal more point.
The Turkish men hold that women have no souls, and prove by their treatment of them that they have none themselves.
A writer in the “American Agriculturist” insists that farmers ought to learn to make better fences. Why not establish a fencing-school for their benefit?
The thumb is a useful member, but, because you have one, you needn’t necessarily try to keep your neighbors under it.
The greatest truths are the simplest; the greatest man and women are sometimes so, too.
A New Orleans poet calls the Mississippi the most eloquent of rivers. It ought to be eloquent; it has a dozen mouths.
Footnote
12 By permission of Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati.