The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-22

IL man is not tall 1T twenty,
handsome ut thirty, wise ut forty,
rich at fifty, he never will be tall,
handsome. wise nor rich.
North Carolina furnishes a larger
part than any other State of the
100000 adults in the country who
can neither read nor write.
Those men talk most who are
in the greatest mental darkness;
frogs cease their croaking when
light is brought to the water-side,
Happiness consists in a virtuous
and honest life, in being content
with a competency of outward
things, and in using them sePa-
rately. ~
A company in Chicago have IN
vented a process for preserving
wooden telegraph poles. Its es-
sential feature is the substitution
of iron ones.
BY a recent purchase the propr1-
etors of the London Times have
acquired the whole Of Printing
f10 the superficial foot.
A mocklng-bird in a tavern near
Lake George initiates the buzz Of
a rattlesnake so well that when
men come into the house they kick
off their boots and run away.
A Titusyille poet is going to pub
lish a book, that is to say, he
thinks he will. He has seven cords
of original manuscript already
ground out of his fruitful brain.
The Gar is so thankful for the
benefit to his health from the wa
tiers of Ems, that he has given
three thousand thalers toward the
building of a Russian Church
there.
Nothing makes societies so fair
and lasting as the mutual 0ndear,
ment of each other by good Off
ces; and never any man did q good
turn to his brother, but at one
time or the other did eat the fruit
of it
If conversation be an art, like
painting, sculpture, and literature
it owes its most powerful charm
to Nature; and the least shad o
formality or artifice destroys thu
effect OF the best collection o
words.
Everything which tends to com
pose or agitate the mind, whethe
it be excessive sorrow, rage or feaI
envy or revenge, love or despair
in short, whatever acts vIolentl,
on our mental faculties tends t,
injure the health.
There is no art or science tina
is too difficult for industry to al
tain to. Industry makes q ma
understood and valued in all coun
tries, and by all nations; it is tn
philosophers stone, that turns a
most everything into gold.
The OFFERING OF Coop DEED.
We celebrate nobler obsequie
to those we love by drying tn
tears OF others than by sheddin
our own; and the fairest tuners
wreath We can hang on their tom
is not so fair as a fruit-offering {
good deeds.
Christian graces are like pei
fumes-the more they are pTesse
the sweeter they smell; like star
that shine brightest in the dark
like trees, the more they are shall
en- the deeper root they take, an
the more fruit they bear.
Let no one suppose that by &C
ing good part through life, b
will escape SANDER. There will /
those even, who hate them for til
very qualities that ought to pre-
cure esteem. There are some folb
in the world who are unwillin
others should be better than the.
Good nature is more agreeab
in conversation than wit, and giVC
certain air to the countenanC
which is more amiable than beat
". IL shows virtue in the faire.
light; takes, in some measure, frol
the deformity of vice, and max,
our folly and impertinence SUI
portable.
Nothing on earth can smile bu
human beings. Gems may has
reflected light, but what is dii
mond flash compared with an eye
flash or q mirth- flash? A face thG
cannot smile is like a bud tbs
cannot blossom, and dries upo
the stalk. Laughter is day, an
sobriety is night, and a smile
that twilight that hovers gent
between both, and more bewitcI
ing than either.