Ohio College of Dental Surgery - Alethian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Tn the midqt of a stormy discussion a gentleman rose to settle a matter in dispute. and began: 'lGentlemen, all I want is common-seuse? llExactly, interrupted Jerli llthat is precisely what you do want, To miss a kiss TR more amiss Than it would be To kiss a miss; Provided, that The kiss you mlsa The miss- herself Kl'ould never miss. But if you try To kias a miss. Hrith whom a kis: ll'ould be amiss: Yould better alway MisS the kiss. w. Mary had a little lamb, She fed it kerosene; One clay it got too near the fire, Sinca then itl: not heuzine, liHow did you get up here P asked St. Peter. nI diclnlt send for youf' The much-battered man rubbed the dust from his eyes. I stepped in front of a racing automobile, and it sent me sky-high, he said simply, Admitted ! said 51. Pelcr, sympathetically, as he turned the key, - 133 There are said to he fifty thousand muscles in an ele- phant's trunk. Ti mml have been packed by a woman. They were making the usual round of exhibitionsi l'Ohf' he exclaimed, ildo lrmk at that beautiful 'ApOllO Ilelveclerel ! ll 'Fshl'3 she returned. llDon't say Idear' so loud, EV- cryhmly'll know weire just married? THE SENIORS LAMENT. l'lotheration and vexation! Why this fearful c0114ternation, This unusual application To great books of education? Wihy, in all this exploration, Can I find no inwiration That can Check my desperation? Will this strange, new obligation Serve to drive to dissipation All the Senior congregation Hf our Dental population? Oh Will succeed my declamation? , what added degradation XVhat shall be my explanation When the base insinuarion, Nay, the very allegation Shall get into circulation, That I Copied my Thesation?

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Dogmatism is merely puppyism come to maturity. Make your bed are. a coffin, and your coffin will be as a bed. Troubles are like babiesithey only grow bigger by nursing, The character that needs law to mend it is hardly worth the tinkering. Character Hies. lighter it is the quicker it goes. Yes, it has wings. and 0f connc the My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should he able to change her, like a bzmk-note, for two twenties. I never by chance hear the rattling of dice that it doesn't sound to me like the funeral knell of a whole family. TO discover the spots in the sun is to some men greater than the discovery of the laws that govern the sun itself. Honesty without sharpness in this world is like a sword without edge or pointevery well for show, but of no real use to the owner. There are fellows who go every day into billiarrl-romns to get their dinners, just as a fox sneaks into a farm-yard to look about for a fat goose. Married happiness is a glass ball-folks play with it during the honeymoon, till, falling, it is shattered to pieces; and the rest of life is a wrangle who broke it. I31 In their intercourse with the world people Should not take words as so much genuine coin of standard metal, but merely as counters that people play with. He Who in this world resolves; to speak only what is too good for the mass of mankind to understand, and will be persecuted accordingly. EPITAPHS. Mary Ann is gone to rest, With her head on Abraham! breast. liis a very good 1hing for Mary A1111! But kinder hard on Abraham. And be she dead? and 21m she gone? And is I left here all alone? Oh, cruel Fate, thou be'cst unkind To take she lfore and leave I 'hind! Reader, pass on, nor waste your time In bad biography 01' bitter rhyme; For ivhat I am, this cumbrotls Clay inaurex. And what I was is no affair of yours, Beneath this sod and under these stone: Lieth the body of Mary jones. Her name was Lloyd, it was not Jones; But Jones was used to rhyme with stones, Here lies the body of Betsy Bimi, Who was so very pure within She bust this outer shell of sin. And hatched herself a clieruhim,

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