National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-12-23
Wit and Wisdom.

Passion evaporates by words, rs grief
does by tears.
Likenesses begat love; yet proud
men hate each other.
1t is a maxim of prudence, to leave
things before they leave us.
No man is master of him self so long
as he is a slave to anything else.
When our vices quit us, we flatter
ourselves that it is we who quit them.
As we often hear OF fving bricks, we
ought not to be astonished at hearing a
chimney tue.
e-winks-at-the-sky is the name Of
famous western brave. He generally
writes it II. w. A. T. Sky"
Insults are like counterfeit monev-we
can't hinder them being offered, but we
are not bound to take them.
English breakfast parties find favor
among our fashionables and promise to
be feature OF the social season.
Cards for wedding ceremonies at
church retain their immense and some
what superhuous style this season.
Heightened young gentlemen lin their
own estimation) have appeared with
white satin lining to their dress coats.
Fashionables are making an effort to
have the German begin earlier this sea-
son than usual. Ma and pa are delighted.
Punch thinks it would he real bless
ing to mothers, il somebody could invent
a soap that would enable mammas to get
their daughters off their hands.
At Funchal, MADEIRA it is the fashion
to wear white boots Instead of black
ones. lump of chalk serves instead
of the backing box and brush
Some impertinent old bachelor says :
"Show me all the dresses that a woman
has worn in the course of her life. and !
will write her biography from them"
Let every man be occupied, and occu-
pied in the highest employment of which
his nature is capable, and die with the
consciousness that he has done his best.
There is medium between an excess
sive difidence, and too universal con-
tdence. If we have no foresight we
are surprised if we are too nice we are
miserable.
One of the neatest toasts ever given
Woman-the last word on our lips,
because it comes from the bottom of our
hearts.
a dreadful little for shilling" said
a penurious fellow to n physician who
dealt him out an emetic, "cant you give
more ~
January promises to be prolific in high
life in New York weddings, and ire
pressible Brown expects to have his
hands full
The real way to improve is not so
much by varied reading, as by finding
out your weak points on any subject and
! mastering them.
Hopes and disappointments are the lot
and entertainment of humln life; the
one serves to keep us from presumption,
the other from despair.
Some very excellent people will tell
vou, they dare not hope why do they
dare not hope? 1t seems much more
impious to dare to despair
Who i'll the same given time can do
more than many others, has vigor who
can produce more and better, has talents
) who can produce what none else can, has
| genius.
: Opportunity has hair in front. behind
, she is bald if you seize her by the fore
lock, Won may hold her, but. if suffered
: to escare, not Jupiter himself can catch
7 her again.
Men are like bugles. the more brass
7 they contain the {, ther you can hear
Z them. Women are like tulips. the more
modest and retiring they appear the more
we love them.
A sea captain relating the fact that his
hfnr ont a cheese
t n single meal n wag thought it not at all
: strange that shippers child should he
: fond of that article.
n That man hath hut an i'll life ont who
!, feeds himself on the faults and frailties
e of other people. Were not curiosity
n the purvevor. detraction would soon be
!, starved into tameness.
II Nurse-"I cannot allow buttor and
:. lam. too. on your bread, Master Alfred ;
;. il is very extravngant." Muster Alfred
: -" It cant be cxtravagant, Mary, if the
!, one piece Of bread does for both.
= Familiar conversation ought to he the
h school Of learning and good breeding.
IN A man ought to make his masters Of his
lr friends. seasoning the pleasures of con
verse with the profit of instruction.
= "Tom," said n man 10 his friend q
= think il highly dangerous to keep the
bills of small banks on hand nova.
days." Tim. answered the othcr, "
re find it more difficult than dangerous.
:" - A Gascon having mado portfolio out
j., Of an umbrella Norman, not 10 be be
49, hind in ingenuity, made suuii box II
~ the shape Of pistol, and by means of Q
y small spring fred the snuff up his nose
h, Keep your spirit untnintcd,.. yon'
DO thoughts uncontamnntcd 80 Shnll youl
n life he vrtuous. A. n man thinketh. :,
he he is. Take care of the Thoughts, and
'c the actions will take care of themselves
Wy There is seldom anything uttered II
malice. which turns not 10 the. hurt o
,,o the speaker III reports do harm to hin
''' tbat makes them /: and TO those they ur'
- made to- IA well as those they are mad
h. Of
I'm An nbsen,.mnded Indianinn VIII
rd started out after his cow found the COW
Nv bell in the road and pockcted II. followe
le. its tnkling for over twenty miles beior
he remembered that II was not on tn
IN, cows neck.
ID, When you meet with neglect, let
rouse you 10 exertion, instead of mort
fying your pride. Set about lesscnin
no those defects which expose you 10 nel
III. lect, and improve those exccllcnces whic
command. attention. and respect.