vissch Author:William Lightfoot Visscher Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GRIST. The strongest motive for going through the world at a rapid rate is a loco-motive. Many of the rings now-a-days, like the ring of spurious coin, are... more » very bad ones. A great many of the city people who exhibit fruit at the agricultural fairs raise it themselves—in the markets and among the farmers. The most patient object in the shape of humanity is a wooden man. Some farmers have rifles with telescopes on them, and when they see a fellow in a watermelon patch through one of them, there is almost a certainty that the fellow will carry off a puncture in his cuticle, unless the puncture carries him off. A railroad train under way is like a camp of soldiers inasmuch as it makes the fences fly. We are informed that there is a divinity that shapes our ends, but history is provokingly silent about which of them got up the grecian bend. A darkey and a white man eating together are like writing; they are putting it down in black and white. There is a large obligation that we all acknowledge—"our public debt." An editor and his articles take different directions every night; one goes to bed and the other goes to press. Because a blind wood-sawyer can't see is no reason why he can't saw. We are often asked to overlook a "man's faults, but in many instances it is impossible because none of us are tall enough. The man who invented the locomotive wanted a machine to make haste. If a man gets very high with spirits one day he feels very low in spirits the next. A printer " sets M up " oftener than anybody. Opera glasses are used at some of the fashionable churches, but I can't tell why unless it is to see where the responses come in. A great many young gentlemen wish that the ladies would shin-off those chignons. A local editor said he ...« less