American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-11-13
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A thorn in the bush is worth two
in the hand
The largest room in the world-room
for improvement.
The coward says he is cautious, the
miser that he is sparng.
The course of true love is ra ce
where often there is false start
Lay by good store of patience and
put it where you can find it.. H
The most lsudable ambition is to be
wise !; the greatest wisdom to be good.
Why are hogs the most intelligent
things living? Because they nose every
thing.
"A little wrong>going in the begin
ming leadeth to great sia in the end.
Temptation is the fire that brings up
the scum of the heart. ...
1t is pleasant to be cheated we love
sweet wild dreams-the greatest cheats
in the world. .. .... ..
If man cannot readily recognize
merit, it is evident that he has none him.
self
1T Is good thing to have utility and
beauty combined as the poor washerwo
man said when she used her thirteen
children for clothes.pins.
The best quality Of mind that any
one can come in possession of is the
strength to bear up against disappoint>
r,apt and ,uiofort,noa a"f. .....
-Physiogoomy is a true science
The man of profound thought, the man
of ability, aud above all, the man of gen,
ius, has his character stamped by nature !;
the man of violent passions and the vol>
uptuary have it stamped by habit.
He is RIGHT.-An editor down
South says he would as soon try to go
to sea on shingle, make ladder
of fog, chase streak of lightning
through crab apple orchard, swim
up the rapids of Niagara river, raise
the dead or set Lake Erie on fire
with a match, as to stop lovers get.
ting married when they take it into
their heads to do so.
THE FIRST TWENTY YEARs.-Live
as long as you may, the first twenty years
form the greater part Of your life. They
appear so when they are passing; they
seem so when we look back to them !;
and they take up more room in our mem,
ory than all the years that succeed them.
If this be so, how important they should
be passed in planting good principles,
cultivating good taste, strengthening
good habits, fleeing from pleasures which
lay up bitterness and sorrow for time to
come Take good care of the first TWEEN
ty-years.
A Story WITH A MoRAL.-A Con-
necticut exchange tells the following story
of boy, who was sent from Groton, Cons
necticut, to New London one day last
Summer with bag of green corn. Toe
boy was gone all day, and returned with
the bag unopened, which he dumped on
the floor saying:
"There is your corn go and sell it, l
can't" ......
"Sold any ?"
"No; I've been all over London with
it, and no body said anything concerning
green corn. Two or three fellows asked
me what | had in my bag, and | toll
them it was none of their business what
it was !"
The boy is not unlike hundreds of
merchants, who will promptly call him
fool for not telling what he had to SELL
They are actually doing the same thing
on a much larger scale than did the boy,
by not advertising their business.
A Poor MANS WisH-I asked stu.
dent what three things he most wished.
He said
"Give me books, health, and quiet, and
| care for nothing more"
Iasked miser, and he cried "Money
money, money
asked arunkard, and he called
loudly for strong drink.
| asked the multitude around me, and
they lifted up confused cry, in which
| heard the words ''W Wealth, fame and
pleasure"
asked poor man, who had horne the
character of an experienced Christian
He replied that all his wishes might be
met in Christ He spoke seriously, and
| asked him to explain. He said 81
greatly desire three things first that
be found in Christ; secondly, that l may
be like Christ thirdly that | may be
with Christ"
| have thought much Of his answer,
and the moro think of it the wiser it
seems
ETERNITY -"Eternity has no gray
hairs" The flowers fade, the heart
withers, man grows old and dies the
man lays down in the sepulcher of ages;
but time writes no wrinkle on the brow
of eternity. Eternity. Stupendous
thought. The ever present, unborn,
underlying, the endless chain, CONS
passing the life OF God, the golden
thread, entwining the destinies of the
universe. Earth has its beauties, but
time shrouds them for the grave they
are but as the gilded sepulcher /; its pos.
sessions, they are but toys of changing
fortunes, its pleasures, they are bursting
bubbles Not so in the untried bourne,
in the dwelling of the Almighty, can
come no foot steps of decay. Its day
will know no darkeuiHg-eternal splsn
dors forhid tha annroach of nioht Tts