The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-06-27
The Uribnue.
GOLD DUST.

Keep yourself innocent, if you would
be happy.
Idleness is the bane, the moth, the
gangrene, the curse Of life.
To dispel darkness from about you,
make light of your troubles.
Greet your enemies as if they would
sometime be your friends.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an
invalid as healthy weather.
No one breaches better than tie ant,
and she says nothing.
| What makes the man? Not what he
has, butFhat he is.
Vice stirgs US even in our pleasures,
but virtue consoles even in our pains.
The childhood shows the man as morn
ing shows the day.-Milton.
During distress God comes; and when
he.eomes it is no more distress.-Gallic
| Proverb.
1t is heaven upon earth to have man s
mind move in charity, rest in Providence
and turn upon the poles of truth.-Lord
Bacou.
Men generally put greater value upon
the favors they bestow than upon those
| they receive.
The man who can be nothing but Sc
l.
man.
The superiority Of some men is merely
local. They are great because their as
sociates are little.
l never knew man in my life Who
could not bear another misfortunes per
fectly like Christian.
Judge of thine improvement not by
what thou speakest or writest, but by the
frmness of thy mind and the government
of thy passions and affections Fuller
1t happens often enough when [ turn
a thought over suddenly, as you did that
fve-cent piece the other day, that it reads
differently on its two sides-O. W
Holmes.
PHILosoPHY.-Josh Billings says:-
eff man has got eighty thousand dol
lars at interest and owns the house be
lives in, it amt much trouble to be a
philosopher"
Gods ''ifs' come in and often make
the Humans hang themselves. How
quickly the coed would be swallowed up
of the evil if there were 10 invisible hand
moving in the cloud above the battle
field
Dean Stanley lately said, in a sermon
to the printers of London, that once ar
chiteeture was the press, and told great
thoughts TO tie world in stone but now
the press was architecture, and is build
ing up the world of ideas and usages.
If l were suddenly asked to give
proof Of the goodness of Gee to US, [
think | should say that it is most mani
tested in the exquisite difference he has
made between the souls of women and
men, so as to create the possibility of the
most charming companionship that the
mind Of man can imagine.-Arthur Helps.
The Master says, "For every idle word
you shall give account" By idle"
here is meant the barren and unfruitful
talk which ministers neither to recreation,
nor to profit. That is not an Idle word
which bears upon it the meaning of a joy
Gus, affectionate, cheerfr! spirit, kindling
what it expresses, the happiness Of hui
man hearts.-Rev. Dr. Buddington.
A loving heart and pleasant countenan-
ce are commodities which man should
never fail to take home with him. They
will best season his food and soften his
pillow. 1t were great thing for man
that his wife and children could truly say
of him, He meyer brought frown of
unhappines across the threshold.
whats in dress?'' says a popular
writer Sometimes a great deal, and
sometimes a precious little.
The difficulty In life is the same as the
difficulty in grammar-to know when to
make exceptions to the rules.
Absence destroys small passions and
increases great ones, as the wind extin-
cuisines tapers aud kindles fires.
Men are afraid of breaking down
where they are strongest, but are seldom
afraid Of their weaknesses.