Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-01-10
BfICELLANEoUS.
Ink is caustic which burns oftenes,
the fingers of those who use II.

Ink Is caustic which burns oftenest
the fingers of those who use II.
Every art is best taught BY examp.s /:
good deeds are productive Of good friends.
An envious man repines as much at the
manner in which his neighbor lives, as if
he maintained them.
II is little troubles that wear the heart
out. 1t is easier to throw a bopb-shell a
mile than feather--eyen with artillery.
Every man cherishes in his heart some
object, some shrine at which his alteration
| is paid, unknown to his fellow-mortals.
1t is a great deal better to say less than
half what you think, than to think onIy
half what you say. z
| Vice stings US even in our pleasures I;
but virtue consolls US, even in our pains.
l-(Coeton.
Good temper il like a sunny day, il
sheds brightness over everything; il is
the sweetener Of toll and the sooth n Of
iisquietude.
A sufficient explanation. - Tom -
What ails your eye, Joe?' Joe-'I told
a man he lied ----
With many, it is a rare circumstance
to hear a thing as il is told, rarcr still TO
remember it as heard, and rarest Of all TO
tell it as remembered. .-a
He is a fool who seeks that which he
cannot dnd he is fool who seeks that
which, if found, will do him more harm
than good he is fool, who. having many
ways TO his journeys end takes the worst.
The influence of men is not TO be con-
fined to the circle of their acquaiatances.
Ii spreads on every side of them, ike the
undulations Of the smitten water, and will
reach those whom they never saw.
Glorify lie, legalize a lie, arm and
equip a lie, consecrate lie with solemn
forms and awful penalties, and after all il
is nothing but lie. Ii rots land and
corrupts people like any other lie, and
by and by the white light of God's truth
shines clear through it, and shows il to be
lie.
An old man said" For a long time
puzzled myself about the difficulties Of
Scripture until at last | came 10 fhe,ean-
elusion that reading the Bible was ike
eating fish. When l find a difficulty. /
lay ii aside and call If a bone Why
should choke on the bone, when there Is
50 much nutritious meat p
a country couple, newly married stop
ped at the Gibson House in Cincinnati 4
few days ago, and the groom called for
some wine. When asked what kind Of
wine he would have. he replied. We
want that kind of wine where the corks
pop out and liquor boils up like soap
suds."
The ciyility Of no race can be perfect
whilst another race l. degraded. Ii l. a
doctrine alike Of the oldest AM Of the
newest philosophy. that man i one. and
that you cannot injure any member without
a sympathetic injury 10 all the members.
America Is not civil whilst Africa Is bar
barous.
II often appears in family al if all the
qualitie, Of the progenitors Were pofted IN
several iars,-some ruling quality in each
son CT daughter of the house, and some
times the unmixed temperament. the rank
unmitigated elixir, the family vice. is
drawn off in a single individual, and the
others are proportionably relieyed.-Eat-
eTsOH.
Our culture Is very cheap and intelligi-
ble. Unroof any house, and YOU shall
find it. The well-being con,i-ts'in having
a. fS,.fs q,
daily newspaper; we'll glazed parlor,
with marbles, mirrors. and center liable;
and the excitement Of a few parties AMI
few rides in year. Such As one house,
such are all - Emerson.
The English travellers complain that
they are 80 hurried in our hotels and 20
little in our stage coaches. \ Irish irav-
eer took different view of the case. Hon
est Pat came in at one-e'clock and was
called up in half an hour. " And what
will We charge for the bit Of lodgingr'
- Twenty FIVE cents" was the reply. And
sure, twas kind of ye 10 call me 30 airly;
if I'd slept until morning, Id not had the
money 10 pay the bill :"
If fate is so prevailing, man is also part
of it, and can confront fate with fate. If
the universe have these savage aeci tents,
our atoms are as savage in resistance.
We should be crushed by the atmosphere.
but for the reaction Of the air within the
body A tube made of d film of glass can
resist the shock of the ocean, If filed with
the same water. If there b eomnipotencs
in the stroke, there is omnipotence OF recoil.
E isrson.