Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-01-31

music for hours without minding any i'll
teriupton.
We diminish the power of enjoyment by
too rigid devotion to the means.
Never communicate yoar affairs to one
who seems anxious 10 learn them.
Economy is no disgrace; it is better liv.
ing on a little than OUTLYING great deal.
Trifing annoyances are valuable in dis
ciplining Us to bear greater ones.
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in
this world-a kind of hedgehog forgive,
ness, shot out ike quilts.
Why is a man who dosen't lose his TEN.
per like school-master. Because he keeps
cool (keeps school.)
"There was time when almost thought
that your wife had no tongue at ALL" "Yes,
but It's very long since
Reader, whether you are old or young,
you have at This moment in your heart a
wilder romance than was ever written.
Sorrow comes soon enough without des-
pondency; it does man no good 10 carry
around lightning rod TO attract trouble.
II tell you, wife, l have got the plan all
in my head All, then it is in nut
she'll"
An Illinois assemblyman. debating a
question with msch earneslness, moved lis
chair from its usual place, and forgetting
the fact, when he had finished, sat down
rather soldly where it ought to have been.
Above the roar of laughter, his voice was
heard excaming: "Mr. Speaker, still
have the floor"
A family in Akron, Ohio, has in it little
girl about four years old, and little boy
about six. They had been cautioned in
their strife after hens eggs, not to take away
the nest egg but one morning the little
girl reached the nest first, seized an ego and
started for the house. Her disappointed
brother followed, crying" Mother motherl
Suzy, she's been and got the egg the old
hen measures by !"
Some voices are not simply defensive,
but offensive,--a perpetual assault and bat
terry but in every voice should be a posi-
BILE cut; and if we miss this metallic force
and edge, it sounds doughty and insipdly
soft Every one has heard voices with a
whole park of artillery in them, though
they might not be loud, nor in any degree
robbed Of human sweetness.
A Montgomery paper gives the folloping
from a correspondents "On the first night
after my arrival, in passing from one quarter
TO another, | was stopped by sentinel
whom ] recognized as private p Though
he did not recognize mel. / was asked
for the countersign, and replied, "A friend
with bottle The reply was, Advance
bottle and draw cork, which was done. and.
was suffered TO pass on my way rejoicing
The late DIR. Wilson, senior fellow of
Trinity college, Dublin, though very grave
man himself was fond of puzzlius the coun-
try folks, who came to inquire after their re-
lati'es and friends in the college. One day
seeing man in the court with letter in
his hand, gaping and staring about, and not
knowing where to 60 he walked up to him
and gravely inquired what he wanted. The
man answered: :" Can you tell me where
to find Mr.. Delahunt?' Yes" replied
the doctor; do you see that building be-
fore your" 4" Yes, SIR" "Then cruelty
this quadrangle, and take the diameter Of
the plot beyond it, enter the opening before
you, ascend the lisneous grades, then turn
TO your Jeff, and you will find him either
peripa'ounding in his cubicle, dominating
IN his iectory, or periseopounding through
MS fenesira." The poor man, who under
stood nothing of all this and not rememl err
ing one word but the last, said. q And prav
sir, what is ienesira?" at is an or;Gr.
IN an "diaee 10 admit luminous particles. :
a" Oh, thank YOU said the poor fellow.
Newspapers are somewhat cheaper in
tins country than in England. The Lon
don Tunes has lately reduced its subscrip.
ton price from &c, los, (sSl.4s) per an
mum, to "a, l2s, (s222D. The smaller
London dailies, corresponding to our city
penny dailies, charge about $3.50 per an
mum.
Fat you are wearing your stockings
wrong side ouiward.'-a Och and H., +