The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-09-26
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COUNT SCLOPIS.
JACOB STAElIPELI.
BARON d. ITAJUBA.

A word spoken in season is the
mother of ages.-CdrLyLe.
Men blush less for their crimes than
for their weakness and vanity.
Sometimes it requires one to be gen.
erOus in order to accept generosity.
To prescribe physic for the dead, ad-
vice to the old, is the same thing
DiOgeHes.
"If idleness docs not pr, duee vice or
mslevOlence, it commonly produces
melancholy"
Let the toast be-, dear woman" as
the man said To his wife, VIXEN he
wanted to eat it all himself.
Every real thought on every real
subject, knocks the wind out Of some
body or Other.-HOiHles
The door between us and heaven
cannot be opened, il that between Us
and our fellOw-men is shut.
The following eouplet from Pope is
almost as true as il is sarcastic:
tsThe good no doubt are Gods peculiar care,
But who but God can tell Us who they are ?
A nice person makes no difficult
ties, is never misplaced, is never fool
ishly affrOnted and is void Of affeets-
tiOns.
According to a writer in BldckIUOod,
every man who is not monster,
mathematician, or a mad philOs Opher,
is the slave OF some woman or other.
"I am not myself at all to-day"
said q bore to a wit. mo matter"
was thereby "whoeVer else you may
be, you're a gamer by the change"
A gentleman in cheap restaurant
the other day was heard to give the
fearless order, 'waiter let that cheese
move this way ~
"Driver, are you running on time
to-day?r asked passenger in an ON
nibus. "No, sir,n was the keen reply,
1--WE are running for cash."
"The happiest Of pillows, says Per-
icles, sis not that which love first
presses; it is that which death has
frOwned on, and passed over"
"The verb to love-" says a wicked
French writer, sis an active verb,
which runs until il sinks exhausted 1
into the easy chair Of marriage"
The man who called for tea, at an
ordinary eating house, "as strong as
the kick of q mule" complains that
he got it "as weak as q good resOlu-
ton"
Base ball is of much greater anti
guilty than is supposed. 1t was played
in the Ark when the dove was 'put
out on fly"
Man is never wrong while he lives
for others the philosopher who con-
templates from the rock is less no
ble image than the sailor who strug-
giles with tine storm.
A man must be bOlted and screwed
to the community before he can work
well for its advancement: and then
there are no such bolts and screws as
ehildren.-Beeeher.
Wit loses its respect with the good
when seen in company with malice
and to smile at the jest which plants
a thorn in anOther's breast is TO be-
come a principal in the mischief
He who betrays another's secret, be-
cause he has quaTrelled with him, was
never worthy Of the sacred name Of
friend a breach Of kindness at one
side will not justify a breach Of trust
on the other.
4 writer on physiOgnOmy sagely
saws: "a human face without n nose
doesn't amount to much;" WhereUpOn
BOggs observed that "a human nose
without a face doesn't amount to
much either"
A schoolgirl during her examina-
ton, repeatedly miscalled patriarchs
patridges: whereupOn one OF the au-
dience remarked: "She is making
game Of patriarchs." This, Sydney
Smith said, was the most perfect pun
ishment.
Hardness IS 4 want Of minute at
tentiOn to the feelings Of Others 1t
does not proceed from malignity, Of a
earelessness of infiieting pain, but
from a want Of delicate perception of
those little things by which pleasure
is conferred or pain excited.
An old sea-eaptain, who attended a
full-dress party,after his return from
long voyage, was astOnished at the
costume Of the ultra fashionable Ia
dies, but finally reeOnciled himself TO
il, saying, Il suppose they wear their
dresses at half-mast as q mark OF re-
spect to departed mOdesty."
.Ring out Wild beIls-lnd tame ones, too
Ring out the lovers moon,
Ring out the little slips and socks,
Ring In the bib and spoon;
Ring out the music, ring In the nurse,
Ring in the milk and water
Away with paper, pens and Ink
Slydaughter, OH. my daughter"
We say for tenderness my spar
row" "my dove" 'my chicken" OF
even "my kitten" though we know
that the eat Is famed for treachery,
and yet when We are angry we call
I people dogs. When r LOndOner sees
a man who, by his dress or manner
| has the appearance Of having been
born on the hanks Of the Seine, he
calls him a French dog, a figure Of
rhetoric which is neither just to the
dog or polite 10 the man.