The Benton democrat. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1871-18??, 1873-01-11
CLUB RAVES: :
Wise and Otherwise.
Chance is an unseen cause.

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The fear of ill exceeds the i'll we fear.
Children are the tomorrow of society.
To know how to wait is the secret Of
success.
No man can be wise on an empty
Study the past. if yoR would divine
the future.
Graves are but the footsteps Of the
angel of life.
There is a foolish eorner, even in the
brain Of sage.
Reprove thy friend privately; com.
mend him publicly.
Innocence is like a polished armor;
it adorns and defends.
All power, even the most despotic.
rests ultimately on opinion.
Lies are hiltless swords, which cut
the hand that wields them.
France discards Christmas Trees.
They are of Germon origin.
Voltaire defines the happy man as the
one who considers himself so.
No one ever knew what friends were
worth, until he lived without them.
IF thou art master, be sometimes
blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
No fountain is SO small but that the
heavens may be imaged in its bosom.
Unlike the sun, intellectual lumina.
ries shine brightest after they have set.
They cure hydrophobia in Indiana,
by making soup of the dogs tail, and
feeding it to the patient.
Tt is said that Charles O'Conor Is to
be made Chief Justice, in the event Of
Judge Chase's resignation.
An enterprising Yankee has opened
an institution in Boston for turning left
handed people into right-handcrs.
In some cities it is the custom Of the
husband to receive his friends on Christ
mas Day, and the wife on New Year.
Some one has defined polite society
as being place where manners pass
for two much, and morals for too little,
A woman named Mary Taylor has
acted as mate of Missouri river steam
boat for two years, earning $45 per
month
If you wish to be called eccentric,
and at the same time be dreaded, and
almost hated. speak the truth on all ec-
casions.
"Do you call this trunk, !" grow1ed
a detected porter, cit only needs
lightning-rod to be mistaken for a board,
ing house. E,
A cynical bachelor, in speaking Of
ladies' ball-dresses. says: "They wear
but little here~helow, but they wear
that little long"
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in
character, and if it be not firmly laid
in youth, there will always be weak
| spot in the foundation. ~
A crusty old bachelor says that
Adams wife was called Eve, because,
when she appeared, mans happiness
was drawing to close.
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| 1t is said that Justice Clifford, Of the
Supreme Court, will retire from the
Bench next year. He will then be
seventy years of age.
Gen. Hood, formerly of the Confed-
crate army, is said to have been led by
his thirst for human life to go into the
drug business, in Georgia.
The young French Countess de Mont.
fort gave birth to son in her carriage.
the other day, while returning from q
drive in the Bois de Boulogne.
The Vermont Agricultural College
fund. amounting to $135. 900. is all in.
vested in the Registered Loan of the
State. and yields an income of $3.50.
In the epizootic regions, the papers
now frequently contain items beginning
like this "a large and powerful, but
skittish young man, attached to hand
cart, ran away, on -- street, yester-
day forenoon, to the great terror of
| numher of ladies' on the side walk