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Proverbs_----

_LOOK before you leap--Wise Men think twice before they act
once--Avoidance is better than late Repentance--Put your
Hand in the Lion's Mouth, then get it out if you can--Haste
makes Waste--Fast bind fast find--A Wedge once enter'd, the
Log flies--You may add, when you cannot take away--Cut your
Coat according to your Cloth--A rash Beginning makes a
foolish Ending--Better late than never--He that acts for
others, should act with Caution--Once well done is twice
done--A wise Man foreseeth the Storm and secureth
himself----Of all Murderers, Self-Murderers are the most
stupid--A Snake in the Grass may bite before it is seen._

A Word to the Wise is sufficient. AMEN.

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BOSTON IN OLDEN TIMES.--The "Boston Transcript," in a notice of the
newspapers published in Boston in 1767, of which there were ten, says:
The printer in those days was a man of "all work." If a negro or horse
was up for sale, the printer was the seller. The advertisements in these
old papers are curiosities in their line. The following notices appeared
in the advertising columns of the "Boston Evening Gazette," in 1741:--

"To be sold by the Printer of this Paper, the very best
negro woman in this town, who has had the small pox and the
measles; is as hearty as a horse, as brisk as a bird, and
will work like a beaver."

"To be sold by the Printer of this Paper, a negro man about
thirty years old, who can do both town and country business
very well, but will suit the country best, where they have
not so many dram-shops as we have in Boston. He has worked
at the printing business fifteen or sixteen years; can
handle axe, saw, spade, hoe, or other instrument of
husbandry, as well as most men, and values himself, and is
valued by others, for his skill in cookery."

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This item, from a paper of 1767, seems to show that the Government was
not then obliged to have a "bill" to uphold silver, for it was evidently
in the ascendency; but there was no Western territory at that time, or
rather, it had not been discovered.

Gold as well as Silver will be taken for the Tickets, and
the Prizes paid off in like Manner. Prizes not demanded
within Twelve Months after Drawing, will not be paid, but
will be deem'd as generously given for the Purp