Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09
Miscellaneous Items.

her husband.
Mover attempt to form an opinion
Of woman by her sighs.
The latest parlor game-sitiing up.
Itonly takes two to play it.
A FREQ agent-One who goes off
with his employers money.
Paris is poor, but she would be bet.
ter off if she had "nary Red"
An carly spring-Jumping out of
bed at five o'clock in the morning.
As daylight can be sccn through
very small holes, 70 little things will
illustrate q persons character.
The greatest charm of books is,
perhaps, that we see in them that
other men have suffered as we have.
We have no right to put the earth
in mourning for our own troubles, but
many of US do it nevertheless.
Never owe man more than you
are able to pay, and allow no man to
owe you more than you are able to
lose.
Titusvillians express value in terms
of oil barrels Thus they speak of
fashionable young lady as wearing an
eighty-six barrel opera suit
The bridal tide is setting strongly
to Saratoga. Twenty.three newly
hedged couples dined at the table the
other day.
Good nature, like q bee, collects
honey from every herb. I'll nature,
like spider, sucks poison from the
sweetest flower.
Real fidelity may be rare, but il
exists in the heart. They only deny
its worth and power who never loved
a friend, nor labored to make one
happy.
BoarderH "This tea seems very
weak, Mrs. Skimp." Landlady "well
] guess it must be the warm weather,
| feel weak myself In fact everybody
complains"
Politeness is in business what STRAIT.
egem is in war 1t gives power to
weakness; it supplies great de6cien
cies. 1t is invincible either in the
attack or defense.
We often live under'a cloud; and
it is well for us that we should do So
Uninterrupted sunshine would parch
our hearts; We want shade and rain
TO cool and refresh them.
A minister asked a tipsy fellow,
leaning up against fence, where he
expected to 60 when he died. "If |
cant get along any better than ! do
now" he said, al shant go anywhere"
An evil is not necessarily unreal,
because il has been often feared with.
out just cause the wolf does some.
timcs enter in, and make havoc of the
flock, although there have been many
false alarms.
We are to work and learn. Life
should have it's qniet pauses, in which
to gather rest for work, but no Idle
hours. The poor are TO be ministered
unto, tho wicked to be reclaimed, and
the sorrowing to be comforted.
The shadows of the mind are like
those of the body. In the morning of
life they lie behind us; at noon we
trample them under our feet: and in
the evening they stretch long and
deepening shadows before us.
"THE GOVERNMENT" The whole
machinery ofthc government at Wash.
ington, during the fashionable water
ing-place season, is in charge of sub
ordinates. Tho duties of tho Presi.
dent and his Cabinet arc subordinate
TO their pleasures.
Sound economy is q sound under.
standing brought into action it is
calculation realized il is the doctrine
of proportion reduced to practice; it
is forcseeing contingencies, and pro-
viding against them it is expecting
contingencies, and being prepared for
them.
Two "colored gentlemen" playing
billiards, quarrelled. One hit the
other over the head with the but end
of the cue, which made the splinters
fly, whereupon the assailed darkey
paused to remark, "now, Sam, stop,
and lot s reason dis yere ting little" !"
And they reasoned.
Brides are very generally discarding
the traditional Lavender travelling
dresses, 60 long considered the thing
for bridal trips. Nowadays, they
try TO make themselves as little con.
spiouous as possible, and thus escape
unpleasant attention on the part of
every person whom they moot on the
journey.
II is currently reported in Wash.
ington and Now York that General
Grant has promised Senator Conkling
that in case a vacancy occurs in the
Supreme Court bench during his Pres
idential term, he will appoint him TO
gil it, This is the reason that Senator
Conkling toadies TO the President with
such persistent industry.
Senator Spencer, of Alabama, does
not abate his opposition to the ap
pointment of Ex-senator Warner, as
Collector at Mobile. lie charges Gen.
Grant with duplicity, and says that
at the next session Of Congress he
will move TO reject the nomination,
and that If the President is bound to
attempt to run things in Alabama hc
will find the party pretty well divided
at the next election.
PLAIS.-Sccretary Boutwell, pro.
nounccs General Plcasonton n "mon.
strous failure" as Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue. The fight between
tho two loyal bloods is very warm,
but tho General is spunky and will
not resign, and with the Johnson
tenure of. office bills hanging over
Grants head he dare not remove him
because II might breed an impeach.
mcnt case.
II has been 90 often assumed and
assorted that Shakespeare knew
every thing, that we are very grateful
for n little rebuttinp testimony. Some