Litchfield enquirer., 1831-09-29

being better off is extremely problsmatic- al, even though they possess by inherit ance large estates.
 Vermont contains all the elements of happiness that any part of our country OF any other country can afford. There is land enough and good land enough. True, it is more laborious to cultivate hills than plains but industry will obtain . competency, and in the end wealth, even on hills; and he that desires to get rich faster by cuItivating fertile plains rather than fertile hills where kind Providence has placed him, had need inquire if he is not hasting to such wealth as tendeth to poverty.
 Mountainous countries always contain the best population.-witness the Tyrols Switzerland, and Scotland, compared with their neighbors respectively, as the 1talianss the French, the English. Whether this results from more etherials atmosphere. aud the absence of great wealth which is always corrupting, or from the cheerful buoyance which mountain scenery gives the mind, as the eye habitually views it. we will not say, though we suspect the lat- ter has much to do with it.
 Wkat is khe wse oft?-This is ques- ton in every mans mouth, but it would be we'll for the community were it oftener put. How many hours of pains taking would it save us how many vexations2 how many disappointments Hundreds of men plunge into difficulties headlong, without even put- ting the question. Hundreds of men waste whole lives in discussing petty quessionss the solution of which can do no good. The grammarian Didymus wrote 4OOO books, in which he seeks to discover where Homer was born, who was Eneas's true mother, and whether Anacreon was a greater debauchee or drunkard. Critics puzzle their brains to know how many ears Ulysses had, or which was written first, the Iliad or the Odyssey. Wk0t 6 the use of t? In the multiplicity of occupa- tions, there is but little time to spare for such frivolities. Put the question to ana- bition, why this pains-taking, this struggle for honors Happiness is the end and aim of man. n,Tand is he not happier who lives at home, than the war-worn soldier, or the time-serving politician, whose prospects are as variable as the popular gale
 Wkat is tke use of it?-when Q man vexes himself with triAes, and is in tenn pest of passion for nothing? A bad cup of tea will deprive some men of whole nights sleep. A single inattention may make man or woman unhappy tor week. Every body has heard the story of the lady who drowned herself because her gallant said how dye do.' instead of h@u rl~ 1o RM petually working themselves into fever because they think they are neglected. or sighted. One man brides himself on be- ing neat, and speck of dilt would shock his sensibility, perhaps into its-another in saying little thing in fine way, and vulgar word let slip would shock him to the hearts core. Some are perpetually can't ing about words, and will put short senten- ces together like masses of granite in Doric church. Others are of the corinthi- an order-prctty-bee like-wandering hither and thither, slipping from every Aow- CT little honey for their cell. Thousands of volumes have been written about sub- stantial forms, vegetable souls, intentional species, &c. Some men lavish life on such fripperies. They use words as glad- tdtOTS uO SWOEuS-SO uSuS Wbns uOS eO susA and be understood with. We have always been amused with Bion's dilemma, who proved all men sacrilegious, and at the same time proved there was no such thing as sacrilege. "He who takes to himself (says he) what belongs to God. commits sacrilege-grant it-but all things belong to God-grant it-well then, he who ap- plies any thing to his own use, commits sac crilege." Now to prove the rifling of temple no sacrilege, he argues that it is only " the taking of something out of ono place that belongs to God, and removing it to another that belongs to him also." A very ingenious sophism, but WhGt $ tks Hse Of ofn?-Portland AdvOcate.
 No Monogamist.-.-" Matrimony," says a writer, "is nineteen times in twenty, tho happiest condition in life. In my opinion they do well who embrace it at an early period of life, and renew the connexion as often as it is legally dissolved, waiting couple of months or less to testify suitable respect for the memory of the deceased" 4 Witty Buteker.-During the late election Ut Stamford, violent Tory went into the shop of a Whig butcher. What is your pleasurel' demanded the knight of the cleaver. I want calf's head, was