The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-03-07
Varieties.

The Mayor of Boston deserves the
credit ofhaving furnished description
of Office seekers which is as significant
as comprehensive. He says: " Mum
berless persons solicit situations to take
charge of the city's property, who
never take care of their own"
Every heart has its secret sorrow,
which the world knows not and often
times we call man cold when he is
only sad.
The opinion of fool is Of more val
ue than the oath of hypocrite.
1t is said that one of the questions
asked of candidate for initiation into
the society of Knov-Nothings, is as
follows:
I" Will you DO your utmost on all
occasions to renew and perpetuate the
potato rot, in order to keep the Irish
out of the country ?"
The candidate, if admitted, mus
respond d" | WILL"
Do not lose your faith in human OK
cellence, because your confidence ha:
sometimes been betrayed. nor believe
that friendship is only delusion. and
love a bright phantom which rselts
away at your grasp.
A sound economy is a sound under
standing brought into action. 1t is
calculation realized 1t is the doctrine
ofproportion reduced to practice. II
is the foreseeing contingencies and pro-
viding against thom.-Hannah More.
When the rivers are low, and thcy
wish to praise steamer in Arkansas,
they say she will run anywhere where
it is a very little damp
1t has been stated that the French
language has no word which will cor
respond to the word home in English.
The nearest to it, is joyere, Greside.
but this also means. green room,
hearth rug and centre.
Forgiveness is the most refined and
generous point of virtue that human
nature can attain to. towards have
done good and kind actions; but a
coward never forgaye,-it is bot his
nature.
There is shop kept by an old
maid in New York, i'll the window Of
which appears tho Words" No reason
able offer ever refused"
An iron,horse on one Of our princi,
pal railways having been adorned with
the title, | still i've" wag noticing
the inscription remarked, THAT is
what the passengers should be labeled
at the end Of their journey"
DR.. Boeswax, in ills Essay on Wo>
men," remarks, with some truth, that
beauties generally die old maids"
They set such value on themselves"
he says, "they don't find purchaser
until the market is closed. Out of a
dozen beauties who have come out
within the last eighteen years, eleven
are still single, and they spend their
days in working green dogs on yellow
wool, while their evenings are devoted
20 low spirits and French novels"
The best defence oflying tina; l ever
remember to have read, is the remark
Of Charles Lamb, related by Leigh
Hunt; "Truth was precious, and not
to be wasted on everybody"
A certain secretary Of state being
asked why he did not promote merit,
aptly replied, because merit did not
promote me-"
Endeavor TO tell your own weakness
when YOU are under the necessity of
teaching wisdom to fools and poiti,
clans.
The constitution Of the only military
company ever attempted to be organs
lied in Nantucket, began with the fol
lowing article Article /. In case Of
rar, this company shall Immediately
disbdna.
AS too long retirement weakens the
mind, so too much company weakens it.
Nothing is more dangerous than
friend without discretion even a pru.
dent enemy is preferable.
GooD.-The New York Sunday
Mercury thinks that DR.. Townsend
should place the following motto on his
new palace in that city:
Sarsaparila
Built this villa.
lP You have barren fruit trees, in
poor soils, break up oyster shells finely,
and mix them with ashes, and dig
them in about the roots Oyster shells
have saline matter attached to them,
with some animal matter, and much
lime. The ash Of the wood and bark
of the apple tree shows large per cent
age Of lime, and hence the above APP
plication will generally induce an inn
mediate and decided Improvement.
Hypocrisy, says Burke, delights in
the most sublime speculations; for new
or intending to 60 beyond speculation,
it costs nothing to have it magnificent.
In the current number Of the West
minister Review Mr.. Carlyle relates
the following anecdote of Moritz, one
of the Electors Of Saxony,an immensely
strong man: "Walking once the Streets
of London, he came into collision with