The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16
CHIPS FROM VARIOUS BLOCKS.

When does a man feel girlish? When h.
makes his maiden speech.
Those who have not suffered know no
what they have to gain.
The less man thinks or knows about hi
virtues the better we like him.-Emerson.
The best help-Help yourself
The height of impudence-Takings shelter
from the rain in an umbrella shop.
He who waits to do a great deal at once
will never do anything.-Dr. johnson.
The fashion for coats this spring is good
deal like that of last spring, particularly
with those who have to wear last spring.
coats.
Mrs. Darlington tells of minister who
served the Lord for thirty years first as
a circus-rider, then as q locust preacher and
last as an exhauster.
James Russell Lowell has invented what
he calls a new beatitude, which is Blessed
are they who have nothing to say, and who
cannot be persuaded to say it"
The New York World is hard on Little
Rhody. 1t says " they have a coal mine in
Rhode Island two hundred yards in extent,
but are afraid to work it, as they would be
compelled to dig into some other State"
1t has been decided by medical authori-
ties that if a man has good appetite, sleeps
well, and feels buoyant after his meals, he
should let his health alone, whether he is as
big as hogshead, or as thin and dry as a
fence rail.
The best heater to resist winter with is a
benevolent heart. Those who have tried
improved stoves, and failed will please to
remember that load of wood given to a
poor person warns you almost as much as
it does him. Try it.
1 remember, says John Wesley, hearing
my father say to my mother How could
you have the patience to tell that block
head the same thing twenty times over p
Why, said she, if l had told him but nine
teen times, should have lost all my labor.
A girl was reproved by her teacher for
making such poor Roadway, with the re-
mark, When l was your age, / knew
twice as much as you do" " Yes, but you
had better teacher than 1 have" was the
reply.
The great art of learning is to attempt
but little at time. The widest excursions
OF the mind are frequently but short flights,
frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics
OF science are formed by the continued ac-
cumulations of single propositions.-LO Locke.
A Kansas papers COW obituary saws
AACAO 10 AO1 a AdEuneI wagon IN the C0un-
try that she has not stolen something out of;
and not gate in the town that she has not
opened; and the stones that have been
thrown at her would make five miles of
turnpike.
"A good deacon once said to the wife of |
clergyman, whose salary was small, that it |
was good thing to have limited means
IL tended to increase their faith and make
them more spiritual. To which it was replied /
that II 1t was good thing for ministers.
the church,
A Boston clergyman, who, on exchange.
preached In brothers pulpit, taking up /
note which he found when he opened the
Bible, he read that Brother A. requested |
the prayers of the church, that the loss of |
his wife might be blessed to him, etc. The /
preacher prayed most fervently. To his |
amusement and modification, he found that /
the note had lain in the pulpit year, while |
the bereaved gentleman was on this Sab
bath sitting with new wife in the congre-
gationl