Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-03-30

ACTIVITY doctors willtell you,
and your own observation will confirm
it, that the healthiest men in the world
are the men most actively employed.
The child's hymn has it that Satan finds
mischief for idle hands; and the CHASTITY
goddess of i'll health and disease finds
mischief for sluggish blood and indo-
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Even the mountain tarn, for all the
cool, fresh wind that continually crisps
its dark surface into tiny waves, grows
dull, and stagnates in its inactivity;
and that Christian life which is only a
pool, shut into its own broOdings, must
of necessity stagnate also.
How different the dull surface Ofthe
standing water, with its mating Ol
heavy weeds, from the clear, musical
tideof the streamlet that rushes by field
and wood with song and blessing
wherever it goes.
; Activity is essential to healthy life,
and especially to healthy Christian life.
The Christian life is like the bicycle that
hurries along our roads-while it is in
motion you are borne onward safe and
upright, but whenit pauses you fall
helpless to the arth.- Golden Hours.
The Norwich Conn., Bulletin tells a
pathetic story about a pigeon which be
came fastened by long string hanging
from its leg to telegraph wire on Main
street, in that city. Two or three cruel
boys wanted to throw stones at it, but
a kind gentleman, telling them not to
hurt the poor bird, got a ladder and
carefully unwound the string and put
the frightened, futtering little creature
tenderly into his bosom while he de
scended. The next..evening he remark
ed that it had made much nicer pie
than he expected.
Our Savior never drove his over.
tired faculties. He used to go and rest
in the house of Mary and Martha after
the fatigRes of working in Jerusalem
He tells us all-you and me-to let the
morrow take care of itself, and merely
to meet the evils of the present day
Real foresight consists in reserying oul
own forces. If we labor with anxiety
about the future we destroy the
strength which will enable us to meet
the future.
p Elizabeth Stuart Phelps author O.
"Gates Ajar," is endowed with a set o.
delightfully."- tormenting nerves. The
chirping of a cricket in her room will
keep her awake all night. To such an
organization husband would be an un'
endurable nuisance, of course. To be
compelled to lie awake listening to the
Ftrumpet-toneds snoring of a great, awful
unsentimental, unnervOus savage of 9
mani IntOlerable!
An eccentric man in Massachusetts
has made and published his will. He
Igivesh his body. after his death, to Prof
Agassiz and DIR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, to be placed in the museum al
Cam bridge, but directs that two drum
heads shI1 be made of his skin, on
which " Yankee Doodle" shall be beaten
at the base of Bunker Hill Monument
annually, at sunrise on the II of June
&It is reported from Paris that the gov.
ernment intend to levy a tax on i'm
ported raw material, especially textile
fabrics. The tax on cotton alone is ex.
pected to produce annually from sixty
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The mind has more room in it than
most people think, if they would but
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A thoroughly honest man will not lie
even to his dog, or in any way betray
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Inthis enviOus and calumnious world
every great man walks with his head
in a cloud of poisonous flies.
You may shrink from the far reach.
ing solitude Of your heart, but no other
feet than yours can tread them. a
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