Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-09-04
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AfIectation hides three times as
many virtues as charity does sin.
Loving souls are like paupcrs. They
live on what is given them.
Half the ills we hoard within our
hearts are ills because we hoard them.
Our acts make or mar us-we are
the children of our own deeds,
The most miserable pettifogging in
the world is that of a man in the court
of his own conscience.
When man owns himself to be in
error, he does hut tell you, in other
words, that he is wiser than he was.
Man passes his life in reasoning on
the past, in complaining of the pres.
ent, and in speculating on the future,
''Can you tell me how old tho devil
y" asked an irrevorent fellow of u
clergyman. "My friend, you must
keep your own family record" was
the reply.
Joaquin Miller has presented Grace
Greenwood with pair of earrings
made of a rattlesnaks's rattles, mount
ed with gold.
An agriculturist of Missouri tells q
story of his having corn thirty.three
feet high, and expects the public to
give ear to it.
IL doesn't matter how watchful and
vigilant q girl is; if rude fellow
kisses her, it ia ten TO one he will do
it right under her nose.
The purest joy is unspeakable; the
most impressive prayer is silent, and
the most solemn preacher at funeral
is the silent ono whose lips are cold.
When Sheridan was asked at an
amateur play which performer he
liked best, he replied, "The prOmpter;
for | saw less and heard more of him
than any one else !"
"Tile Rightp said an officer to his
company, "Bedad," said an Irishman,
who stood near by, sharpening his
saw, "its me property, and III! be
after doin' as please wild it,"
A man has no more right to say an
uncivil thing than to act one; no more
right to say rudo thing of another
than TO knock him down.
There are no words so fine, no fat.
terry so soft, that there is not a senti.
ment beyond them that is impossible
to express; at the bottom of the heart
where true love is.
Beauty, like the Towering blossoms,
soon fades but the divine excellence
of the mind, like the medical virtues
of the plant, remains in it, when all
those charms are withered-
Pleasure and pain, though directly
opposite, are yet so contrived by ma.
ture as to be constant companions;
and it is a fact that the same emotions
and muscles of the face are employed
both in laughing and crying.
"Dear me how heartily tired am
Of this mourning p said fashionable
lady to her maid. "Jane, who is ii |
am in mourning for Z"
An Indiana town has the following
ordinance "Dogs that are not collared
and labeled, no matter how respecta.
bly, connected, will have their nara.
tives amputatcd ono inch South Of
their cars"
Henry Ward Beecher talks on Cal.
vinism in very wild form He says
his first desire is to know what is true,
and then he is glad if John Calvin
agrees with him but if he don't, so
much the worse for Calvin.
Lovers and young gentlemen who
are just getting "on a string" should
remember that cambric waists were
not intended for hugging purposes as
long as laundry work is so expensive
Never attempt to do anything that
is not right. Just as sure as you do
you will get into trouble. Ifyou even
suspect that anything is wrong, do it
not until you are sure your suspicious
ere groundless.
In Springfield, Ohio. a year or two
ago, a few white mice were kept in
stores as pets, and they have propa.
gated so rapidly that many business
places are now infested with them.
No man ever took hold OF q godly
life as men take hold of secular life,
and followed it up with such persist.
ence as men employ in a secular life,
that he did not, by augmenting knowl.
edge and progressive steps, rise to
the realm spirituality and religion.
At the age of three we loved our
mothers at the age of six our fathers
at ten, holidays at sixteen, dress at
twenty our sweethearts at twenty.
five, our wives at forty, our children
at sixty, ourselves,
We are told by tourist that the
following sharp lines are written on
the sash Of a car window -
"Whon / SEQ mans name
Scratched upon the glass