Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-17
Facts and Fancles.

The three great conquerors of the
world are Fashion, Love and Death.
Let your expenses be such as to leave
a little balance in your pocket Ready
money is friend in need.
If thou wouldst live long, live we'll
for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Quiet house weddings will be the cor
rect thing this fall and winter A sensi-
Bile fashion at last.
The gentle spring and the mellow au-
tumn go for nothing with the soldiers
only give them good March weather.
What an unlucky suitor did-He
wooed and she wouldn't, He cooed and
she couldn't
The majority Of women at seaside re-
sorts spend seven hours out Of the twen-
ty-four at their toilets.
An old gentleman being asked what
he wanted for dinner, replied can APP
petite, good company, something to eat,
and clean napkin"
A Wisconsin man applied for divorce
on the ground that his wife had bccome
weak, and couldn't work on the farm
as she used to-"
Benefit your friends that they may
love you still more dearly benefit your
enemies that they may become your
friends.
Smiles and Frowns.-It is always in
your power to make an enemy by smiles /;
what folly, then, to make an enemy by
frowns.
Education is incompatible with self
indulgence, and the impulse of vanityis
too often mistaken for the impulse of
nature.
Difficulty excites the mind to the dig
nifty which sustains and finally conquers
misfortune, and the ordeal refnes while
it chastens.
True Friends Value the friendship
of him who stands by you in the storm +;
swarms of insects will surround you in
the sunshine.
Fate and necessity. We cannot con-
quer fate and necessity yet we can yield
to them in such manner as to be great
er than if we would.
Keep Away from Bad Habits. -No per-
son ever got stung by hornets who kept
away from where they were. 1t is just
so with bad habits.
A young hopeful's mother reached for
him with her slipper, the other evening,
for hooking the jelly; and, after the
busting she was surprised to hear him
laugh over it, and demanded the cause
of it. 81 was thinking how had fooled
you it was Carrie who hooked the jelly"
Chow many children have you ?"
asked gentleman of one Of his labor
ers, looking around in surprise upon the
family. "Better than dozen sir. 81
only make out eleven" said the gentle
man. "Faith, an isn't that better than
dozen, when one has to feed 'em !"
exclaimed the honest fellow.
At all times in this wintry life the
presence of those we love is like CLEAN
of sunshine through the clouds, lighting
up one particular spot amid the shad-
ows, and giving warmth and lustre and
loyeliness to all beneath the ray. The
passing CLEAN seems still brighter than
the full sunshine.
Content converts everything near it to
the highest perfection it is capable of.
1t irradiates every metal, and enriches
lead with the properties of gold ; it
heightens gold into flame, flame into
light, and light into glory a single ray
of it dissipates pain and melancholy from
the person on whom it falls. In short,
its presence naturally changes every
place into kind of heaven.
Little Evils.-It seems to be law of
our nature, intended perhaps for our
preservation, that little evils, coming
home to ourselves, should affect us more
than great evils, at distance, happening
to others but they must be evils which
we cannot prevent, and over which we
have no control for perhaps there is no
man who would lose his little finger TO
save China.