Spirit of the age., 1853-05-11
Sentiment, Wit and Eumcr.


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TgUE charity is not that which gives and
proclaims it from the houSe-top. and boast
in the highways Of it's bounty. But it meek
ly gives, seeking silently amid the miserable
and destitute of the verld opportunities to
afford relief, and from the by-paths returns
to her home, and in her closet humbly thanks
God that she has wherewith to feed the
hungry and clothe the naked. We should
endeayour to practice the pure principles Of
charity, not only in giving of our substance
TO the needy, but in our intercourse with our
feIow-men, covering tkeir faults and foihles
with cloak Of charity.
When adversity assails you, don't grow
cfoss. 1t prevents not only all sympathy
for your misfortune, but Also ali offers of as
sistance. People Of benevolent feelings are
repulsed BY your snappishness. They are
obliged TO stand afar of, lest you bite them.
Take the matter cody, and like Christian,
aud then God will help you-and your fell
low-men, also.
The rich have the more meat-the poor
the better appetite. The rich lay the softest,
and the poor sleep the souudest. The rich
bang themselves through fear Of poverty
the poor (such as have always been poor)
laugh and sing, and love their wives and
babies, (with which they are generally most
bouutifully supplied too we'll to put THEN
necks into the nosse.
HopEFULNEss.-True hope is based on
energy of character. A strong mind always
hopes, and has always cause to hope, because
it KNOWS the mutability Of human affairs
and how slight circumstance may change
the whole course of human events. Such
spirit too, rests upon itself it is not coufn
ed TO partial views, or to one particular object
And if at last al should be lost, it has saved
itself, its own integrity and worth.
| CAUSE OF GRAY HAIRS. .-Douglas Jer
rold is well known wit, and often cracks
good joke with his literary and other friends
in the social circle. At private party il
the city of London, lady-who though il
the autumn of life, had not lost all dream
of It's spring-said to Jerrold-'I canno
imagine what makes my hair turn gray;
sometimes fancy it must be the essence @
rosemary. with which my maid is in the habi
ofbrushingit What oyou think 2 shoul
rathe. be afraid, madam replied the di
tinguished dramatist dryly, that it is th
a essence of Time (Thyme. ')-Peobody
Q Am. Chrom.
We have all got certain ways Of doin
: things. Ask yaller kiver' writer to de
l. cri5e bis heorine without flashing ey'
: and diStended nostril, aud he'd be as niue
I tongue-tied as if he had beea attacked wit
t paralysis. A whig orator never gets fair
D underWeigh till he has introduced bunke
hill while democrat only gets on bis elo
, quence when he Las alluded in fitting torn
J to the principles of ninety eight
I The GREAT law Of Nature is, eat an
q be eaten,' The Epawn-eater swallows tn
4 worm, the shark swallows the spawn-eater
Ghe hawk pounces on the chicken-the eagl
on the hawk. and the sports,nen on the eagle
>, rogues feed on honest men, pettifoggers q
roguesand the devil on pettitoggers. Qae'
arrangement this, but who will say that it
not all tor the best? Let US turn over an
- reflect.
.aI II there be class of human beings
5 earth who may properly be denominated 10y
n it is that class who spend without earn'n
Il who consume without producing. who dis.
70 pate on the earnings of their fathers or rel
n rives, without being anything in and Of ther
. selves.
I'd Now Now is the constant syllable tic
ie ing from the clock of time Now, is t
s watchword Of the wise, Now is on the ba
"a ner of the prudent. Let US keep this lit
le word always in our minds; and whenev
90 anything presents itself to us in the shape
ey work, whether mental or physical, we shou
I'd do it with ak our might. remembering til
I'd Now is the only time for US. 1t is inde
". sorry way to get through the world by pu
ing off till to morrow saying, then "
doit. No ! this will never answer No,
no. is ours then nay never be.
a HANa me, if don't believe the worl
NJ wheeibarrow,' said jolly inebriate, as
ne rolled along the pavements, and Tn I
ur wheel revolving on baxis- Now m
5ty the mud, said be, as he fell headlong in
For gutter, and now I'm on dry land, down
ne breaks, mumbled he, as be fetched up on
III curb.stone His concluding remark. as
ng boots followed bis bead down an open eel
ON way, was, Now the wheel is broken. a
pt the whole tram has run down the embaI
led ment.
- A boy was caught in the act of steal
dried berries in front Of store the other d
: and was locked up in dark closet by
grocer. Then the boy commenced begg
as 'b;s most emphatically to be released, and a
using all the persuasion that his young
o+ agina'ion could invent, proposed, Nov
~ you'll let me out, aud send for my dac
!, e : he'll pay you for the berries, and lick
.od besidesr This appeal was too much for
grocery man to stand out against.
did Tis strange, muttered young mar
ow- he staggered home fran supper party.
the evil communications corrupt good mann
Pve been surrounded by tumblers ali
evening, aud now am a tumbler.
as It is a bad sign to see a man with his
, as off at midnight explaining the theory of
own democray to lamp post 1t is also a
sign to see a fellow lie down in the gu
Il -, ,oe;,,c, - n ho his bad and ss,,,nuo