Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-10-01

Its intenseness. When the good and lovely
die, the memory Of their good deeds, like
tie moonbeams on the stormy sea, lights up
our darkened hearts and lends to the sur
rounding gloom beauty Sc sad, so street,
that we would not if We could dispel the
darkness that enyirons us.
A LITTLE 10y came to school, the other
day, with very dirty face The teacher
sent him out to wash it, and after a while
be returned With the lower part Of his face
clean and dry, but the upper portion was
streaked with mud. and looked worse than
before why didn't you wash your face
Johnny ?'-I did wash it, replied Johnny.
Then, why didn't you wipe it all over?"
Il did wipe it as high as my shirt tail
would reach, - was Johnny conclusive an
swer.
A HEALTHY BUa-Old Hanks said
Some years ago, / took bed bug to an iron
foundry, and dropped it into a ladle where
the melting iron was, and had it run into a
skillet. Well, my old woman used that skill
lot pretty constant for the last six years, and
here the other day it broke all to smash,
and what do you think, gentleman, that ere
insect just walked out of his hole where he
had been layin ike frog in rock, and
made tracks for his old roost up stairs
But, (added be BY way of parenthesis,) by
George, gentlemen, he looked mighty pale
II is terrible thing to begin to let con
science grow hard, for it soon scars as with
a hot iron. Itis like the freezing of pond.
The first film of ice is scarcely perceptible;
keep the water stirring. and you viii pre-
vent the ice from hardening it; but once
let it film over and remain so, il thickens
over the surface and it thickens still, and
at last it is so solid that wagons might be
drawn over the solid water So with con-
science; it films over gradually, and at last
it becomes hard, unieeling, and it can bear
up weight Of iniquity
SOME suppose that every learned man is
an educated man. No such thing The
mad is educated who knows himself, and
takes accurate common sense views of men
and things around him. Some very learned
men are the greatest fools in the world the
reason is they are not educated men.
Learing is only the means, not the end its
value consists in giving the means of acquir-
ing the use of that which, properly managed,
enhghtens the mind.
As gentleman was walking under the
arcade of the Horticultural Gardens at Ken
sington, looking at the works of art display
ed there, he came upon two well-dressed
ladies' examining a statuette of Andromeda,
labelled, Executed in Terra Gotta Ike
cuted in Terra Gotta, says one; where is
that?' Il am sure don't know, returned
the other; but pity the poor girl, wherev-
er it was.
An ANCIENT ARTIST. Count de Wal
deck, of Paris, although one hundred ard
three years of age, has sent to the Paris
Fine Arts Exhibition picture representing
no fewer than two hundred and fifty per-
sons. The veteran artist enjoys excellent
health, and takes strong walking exercises
every day. He is married to an English
lady of forty, and has a son aged eighteen
years.
The shortest will extant is possibly that
of Lord Wensleydale, which was proved on
the sth ultimo. Ii runs thus: This is the
last viii of me, James, Lord Wensleydale.
l give all my property, real and personal,
and all l have in the world, and all that 1
have power to dispose Of, to my beloved
wife Cecilia, her heirs and executors abso-
lutely This 25th day Of November, a D.
1862. -WENsELYDALE. The estate was
sworn under fI20,O9Oi
S-
In making some excavations recently near
the old castle of Creveceus, near Bourigues,
in Belgium, the workmen discovered mines
in which were canvas bags filed with gun.
powder They are supposed to have been
placed there by the troops of Henry IL, Of
France, when they besieged the town in
1854. The articles were in good state of
preservation.
GOLDSMITH says: True eloquence does
not consist, as the rhetoricians assure us, in
saying great things in a sublime style, but
in a simple style, for there is, properly
speaking, no such thing as sublime style
the sublimity lies only in the thing; and
when they are not SO, the language may be
turgid, affected, nietaphorical, but not af-
fecting
PLEASURE unattained is the hare which
we hold in chase, cheered on by the ardor of
competition, the exhilarating cry Of the
dogs, the shouts of the hunters, the echo of
the horn, the ambition Of being in at the
death Pleasure attained, is the same hare
hanging up in the sportman' S larder, worth
less, disregarded, despised, dead.
LET all troublesome topics be avoided at
meals. Do not dwell upon the difficulties of
business, the delinquencies of domestics, or
discipline the children at the dinner table,
for cheerful spirit not only gives relish for
food, but good start at digesting the same
THE only way for man TO escape being
found out is to pass for what he is. The
only way to maintain good character is to
deserve it. Itis easier to correct our faults
than to conceal them
soFF she goes, said lady, speaking of
the train as it was starting. you have
mistaken the gender, madam, " gentleman
said, this is mail train. =
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| so;s Tom With n sigh, and so broke that