.... If you meet a man on the narrow crossing of a muddy street, stand quite still. He will turn out and go round you, bowing his apologies. It is courtesy to accept them.
.... If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg at noon to-day, the country might be successfully invaded at one o’clock by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.
.... To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil; and to pictures of the latter it has appended a tail, to represent the note of interrogation.
.... We speak of the affections as originating in instinct. This is a miserable subterfuge to shift the obloquy from the judgment.
.... What we call decency is custom; what we term indecency is merely customary.
.... The noblest pursuit of Man is the pursuit of Woman.
.... “Immoral” is the solemn judgment of the stalled ox upon the sun-inspired lamb.
“ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA.
.... A little bit of romance has just transpired to relieve the monotony of our metropolitan life. Old Sam Choggins, whom the editor of this paper has so often publicly thrashed, has returned from Mud Springs with a young wife. He is said to be very fond of her, and the way he came to get her was this:
Some time ago we courted her, but finding she was “on the make,” threw her off, after shooting her brother and two cousins. She vowed revenge, and promised to marry any man who would horsewhip us. This Sam agreed to undertake, and she married him on that promise.