National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-09-09
Wit and Wisdom.

DEEDS are fruits, words are leaves.
Proud looks lose hearts, but courteous
words win them.
Music is good or bad as the end to
which it tendeth.
NOMINATE your family disturbance"
is the Vicksburg style of asking what'll
you take to drink ?"
A LADY, describing an ill-tempered
man, said He never smiles but he
seems ashamed of it. -
BORE is fellow who keeps talk
ing about himself, when you want to
talk to him about yourself.
THERE cannot be pleasant smile upon
the bps of the hopeless. The blow which
crushes the life will shatter the smile.
NEVER deal with an undertaken if you
can possibly avoid it. They are a mean
set, always wanting to screw you down.
A FRIENDSHIP that makes the least
noise is often the most useful; for which
reason | should prefer IA prudent friend
to a Jealous one.
ADELAIDE How do you like your
new piano, Fanny ?' Fanny Well,
dear, the legs are not carved so as to agree
with the other furniture.
AN Iowa bride, according to a journal
of that State, is merry, warm-heart-
ed, leyel-headed, truthful little angel,
manufactured expressly for the chap who
got her.
NEVER be afraid to own the truth. let
the consequences be what they may.
Ever keep truth for your motto and
guide, and you will surely be the gamer
in the end
WAS it your eldest daughter madam,
that was bitten by a monkey Y No, sir,
it was my youngest. My eldest daught-
er had a worse misfortune; she married
monkey"
IT is groundlcss fallacy to suppose
that a child, because he kicks up the
dust, is like carpet, that requires to be
instantly pulled up, and thoroughly beat
en- before it can be put down.
The following advertisement appears
i'll a Canada paper;
3" All dose people what
III not AK em for dat,
But all dose people what owes me,
Must pay me immediat."
IF we scrutinize the lives of men of
genius we shall find that activity and
persistence are their leading peculiari-
ties. Obstacles cannot intimidate nor
labor weary, nor drudgery distract
them.
DIVERSIONS. OF all the diversions of
life there is none SO proper to fill up its
empty spaces as the reading of useful
and entertaining authors; and, with
tl,.N. Il,
friend.
A COUPLE of fellows who were pretty
thoroughly soaked with bad whisky, got
into gutter. After floundering about
for II few minutes, one of them said:
Jim, let's go to another house; this
hotel leaks.
4" How is it, said a man to his neigh
Dor, that Parson W the LATEST
man living, writes these interminable
long sermons ?" why" says the
other, "he probably gets to writing, and
is too lazy to stop"
| A GENTLEMAN who was in the babit of
interarding his discourse with the cx-
preston, " say" having been informed
10y friend that "A certain individual
/ had made some ll-natured remarks upon
this popularity, took the opportunity of
addressing him i'll the following amusing
style of rebuke: II say, sir, hear you
say say, . say at every word say.
Now, sir, although know | say II say"
at every word | say, still l say, sir, it is
not for you to say | say g say at every
word say.
HERE is an affecting scene on ferry
boat crossing rough river: "Oh, Hen
ry, this is terrible" "Yes, it is" he
responded, "but lean on me and will
protect YOU" DO you think it will be
as rough as this all the way across 2"
Il do" responded Henry. Then /
guess I'll have to lean you, returned the
lady. "For life ?" whispered Henry,
turning pale at the thought of refusal.
"I-l don't know-the water is w-ful
rough guess ye-yes, you'd better ask
papa.