The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-07-21
WIT AND WISDOM.

WIT AND WISDOM.
/ SUBLMfTY IN HuMuITY.--The soul goes
highest when the body kneels lowest.
LovISG hearts are like beggars they live
ON what is given them.
NEIrHER false curls, false teeth, false
calves, nor even false eyes, are as bad a.
false tongues.
" YOU would Be nothing gust wait to be
something.
By aotingas we ought to think, we end by
thinking as we ought to act
/ MAKE no enemies he IS insignificant in-
deed Who car. do thee no harm.
4 MES may blushs to hear what they were
not ashamed to act
lF mans opinfons and arguments can
Be dispr0ved and refuted, he il in no danger
Of being prosecuted on account Of them.
"Is anybody waiting on yous" said po-
lite dry goods clerk to a girl from the coun-
try. "Yes, SIR said the bIushing damsel.
shat feIler outside; be wouldn't come in"
I GREAT talent renders a man famous, great
merit produces respect but kind feeling
alone produces affectoD.
SonE ladies sprinkle their husbands with
tears In order that they may sweep the cash
out Of their pockets-jnst an people usually
sprinkle the floor before sweeping.
"SIR," said young wife to her husband,
few days after their marriage, "you were
honest enough 70 tell me that your chin
ney smoked, but why didn't you tell ~ that
you smoked yourselfS"
/ PowkR.-Sldney Smith wisely said
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as
wine the strongest heads. No man i good
enough ~ wise enough TO be inrrusted with
despot- power-for, when possessed Of il,
others can no longer answer for him, be-
cause be can no longer answer for himself"
! MANNERS are what vex OF scothe; exalt
or debase, barbarize or refine US, by con.
slant, steady, uniform, insensble operation,
like that Of the ar we breathe in. They
give their whole foEm and color to our lives.
According to their quality they aid morals,
they supply them, or totally destroy them.
J, FAnuRE--The only failure q man ought
. to fear ID failure ia cleaying to the purpose
|, he sees TO De the best. As to the amount ar
result he may see from bis particular work
Il-that's tremendous uncertainty: the uni
verse has not been arranged for the gratifi-
cation Of his feelings.-Eaix Holt, the Rad
icai
WHo's AFRAID,-A quaint writer says :
II have seen women so delicate that they
were afraid to ride, for fear Of the horses
running away Maid. to sail for fear the
boat might upset afraid To walk lor fear
the dew might fall but | never saw ons
afraid to be married, which is far more risk
fui than all the others put together"
"TuET say am growing old because my
nair Is silvered, ana there are crows feet
upon my forehead, aud my step is not so
trm and elastic Ms Of yore. But they are
mistaken. That is not me. The knees are
4 weak, but the knees are not me. The eyes
are dim, but the eyes are not me. The
brow is wrIakled, but the brow l. not me.
This is the house in which l hive Blu. / am
young; younger than l ever was before
Dr.. Guthrie
An old lady, well known in the east of
: Fife for her learning and sallies upon lofty
minded people, had an evening purity, where
q young man was present who was about TO
leave for an appointment ia China, and
formed the object Of attraction during the
evening. As he was extremely extravagant
In his conversation about himself, the old
lady was all but silent during the evening
until leaving, when she shook him heartily
by the hand, telling him TO "tak. guide care
o himself when he went sw' for mind We,
they eat puppies in Cheena I"
Interesting and Hnstrnc tive Tfems.
The largest space continuously occupied
) by basalt seems TO be In India, where there
are rocks Of it occupying 100000 square
! miles--A fine quality Of bllaninous coal
has been found in the Falkland Islands.
The British Government have determined
on fortifying the islsnds.-Ouring the
past year yS,2T9,72I individuals have
travelled in Paris by omnibus, Of whom
Z 53,sl4, I66 occupied inside seats, and S9,-
= 454, 955 preferred the outside.-Conmon
phosphorus bears for twenty or thirty sec
= onds without ignition the acilon OF radiant
y heat at q focus where, In the fraction Of a
second, platinized platinum is raised 10 a
white heat.-France will this year pro-
duce on her own soil more beetroot sugar
than 81 icient for her consunptioa.- fhe
a quantity made to the end of March from
The beginning Of the season was 259. sos
, tons, or an increase Of ll4,8lO tons over
|, last year.-The long day in Spitzbereen
: extends over several months, during which
: sne sun never sets it becomes intensely hot
after month or two by the unceasing heat
OK the sun. Ia this period vegetation
springs up IN great luxuriance and abun-
idance.-The Belgisns claim to have been
q the first to discover the uses of coal and
this discovery, they say, was made by one
Huilos, blacksmith Of the village Of Plene-
: lvaGx, near Liege, in the year IO49, from
y whose name they derive the word /" houille''
dI-Of all European nations France shows
II the slowest rate Of increase in population.
}. The p 200, 900 Of 1901 had only increased
glb BY 100000 in 1861. During the same
, period Great Britain had increased from
! iO,ooo,0oo to %, 700, and this in spite
u Of enisration----rhe operation of cutting
y the koh-i-noor diamond occupied thirty.
: -leight days OF twelve hours per day without
v intsrmissicn. Some parts or tie stone
y were 80 hard that An six hours time. with
2 the wheel revolving 2, 400 times per minate,
! scarcely any progress was mads.--rhe
hnest steam coal in the world is found near
Pskin lChina), where there Is a coaI-ield
Q OF 300 square miles in extent.
NAPoLEos Ill Is said TO be concentrating
III one hundred thousand troops &C Challons.
81 No one who has read the two difruse volumes
sIof AJulius Cesar" already published.
! would suppose thar Napoleon IIi. had sHy
d power Of concentration.
Ei fs
q RnnH0r ron BUxs.-It u said By laying
I pisos Of charcoai upon bara the paio