National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-08-12
WIT AND WISDOM.

OF Tomorrow.
TRUTH withheld is sometimes II worse
deception than direct mis-statement.
LIFT not foot until you have previ-
ously ascertained the nature of the ground
on which you are to tread.
A YEAR of pleasure passes like floating
breeze a moment of misfortune seems an
age Of pain.
/ MUCH adversely is requisite to make Us
hate life n beckon from prosperity will
recall this hatred instantly
1F brooks are, as the poets call them,
the most joyous things in nature, what
are they Away murmuring about
SOMEBODY says there are two kinds of
family jars into one ouput your sweet
meats into the other you put-your foot.
A HrsTRoNIC party, who has heard
good deal about the theatre of war;"
suggests that the back seats must be verv
desirable
"A REAL gentleman" said an Irish
man one day, - is one that never earned
haporth for himself or any one belonging
to him.
IT has been well said that beneath
what every man says he believes, and
beneath what he thinks he believes. lies
what he really does believe.
THREE things only are essential to
happiness, namely Something to do
something to love something to hope
for.
IF you would be plngent, be brief
for it is with words as with sunbeams.
the more they are condensed the deeper
they burn.
MELANCHOLY falls upon contented life
like a drop of ink on white paper-which
is not the less stain because it has no
} meaning.
IT is not until the flower falls off that
the fruit begins to ripen. So in life it is
when romance is past that the practical
usefulness begins
Men are frequently like tea-the real
! strength and goodness is not properly
e drawn ont Of them until they have been
= n short time in hot water,
AN old farmer said of a minister whose
: sermons were much wanting point, "Ah,
s yes he's good man, dare say, but he
will rake with the teeth upwards. "
|, A SUNDAY school scholar when asked
e the question, was uncertain who it was
@ that tempted Eve but believed it was the
gentleman who lived in h--l
Q SrANpEp is more accrmulative than
% u SNOWFALL. 1t is like salad, which
VI every one swcetcus to his own taste. or to
the taste of those to whom he offers it.
e WHEN two opposite extremes are pre-
o Sented to you, it is generally safe, as well
~ rs honorable, to play the part of n GO
between.
,e HONESTY. He who freely praises what
n he means to- purchase, and he who enum-
r crates the faults of what he means to sell.
may set up partnership with honesty
4 MAN who went fishing in a private
pond in a suburban town complains that
he only got one bite, and that was from
!. n dog whose master owns the pond
If A BosToN paper says that ten-cent-
ennial hand-organ jubilee is now talked
c of in New York, to cover up the chagrin
OF the Beethoven failure.
v A LITTLE hoy, after thinking a long
time, said TO his mother. Il don't see
d, how the devil came to turn out so when
- there was no mother devil to put him up
TO il.
=. PEOPLE should understand that it is
cheaper, and III every respect much bet
ter to look mp neglected children, and to
y educate them than TO hang them when
y older
MAGISTRATE to dishonest clerk 4" You
n have also stolen $500 from your employ
r Ell" Clerk" Heaven forbid, your
Honor have only commenced the war
is fare against capital
A GENTLEMAN Mt an inn being supplied
Al with two candles which gave a very dim
h light, called to the waiter, Here, waiter,
let me have couple OF decent candles to
n see how these others burn y
It BIZ YOU GOOD ?' asked bright little
chap Of Miss Bud, his Sabbath school
st teacher, the other day "Oh, no, " was
70 the becoming reply. You amt Well,
NJ ! knew you wasn't pretty, but always
thought you was good
,o MAN proposes, but God disposes, "
il said pious aunt to her over-confdent
8 niece. Let II man propose to me if he
dare, was the response. land will dis
pose Of him according to my own views,
" as he suits me
-. JERSEY newspaper advertises "A
Wv Wv first rate milk-and water COW, warranted,
'' with the assistance of good pump, TO
49, yield eighteen quarts day, and on Sun
g days nineteen.
~ 4 PAINTER, Benjamin Constant by
name, has executed striking allegory
W Fortune and Renown knock Mt the door
H. of poor wretch, extended expiring on
his miserable pallet. Death opens the
10 door with this answer to the visitors
H. TOO late.
nr BooTs and slippers are made with the
toes far more pointed than of late. This
ii is thought to be u move in the right iii.
H. rcction. the broad toes never being uni.
1t vcrsally popular
TITLE md ancestry render n good man
a. more ilustrious, but an i'll one more COM
~ temptiblc Vice is Infamous though in
RI, u prince, and virtue honorable. though
in n peasant
%. \ PENNsYLvANiA minister was recently
n. giving donation party, at which the
in gifts were six rolling pms. pen wiper,
aud two quarts of dried apples, vintage
of 1864 TIis flock all have good appe.
l' titcs, aud they discouraged his next
re- winters stock Of provisions severely.
ArAsnIoN writer savs that New Yorh
mothers get up fashionable babies by
rouging the checks OF the little things,
I" and sewing blonde curls inside their caps
~ Then they look "swect
-, ~ \ youNa lady ut Long Branch said the
~ other day II think have lost at leas,
n half dozen husbands by putting on .
~, bathing drcss, and III never do II agai,
|, till my married future is secure"