Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-01-08
THE CHRONICLE
Life,s but a perfect death.

Life's but a perfect death.
Patience is the key of content.
Private sincerity is public welfare.
BoOk-markers-Dirty fingers.
Deeds are fruits words are but
leaves.
Trifes make perfection and perfee-
ton is no trifle
No man did, or ever will do, his
duty Shy and by"
Tie only escape from selfish con-
ceit is spiritual worship.
forgiveness /: A kiss Of the lip to
heal a stab at the heart.
Reprove thy friend privately; COM
mend him publicly.
Aim high; but not so high as not to
be able to hit anything.
There is no ghost so difficult 20 lay
as the ghost Of an injury.
Lies are hiltless swords, which cut
the hands that WELD them.
Conscience warns us as a friend be-
fore 1t Furnishes US as a judge.
SehUOl-houses are the republican
line of Notifications.
Civility costs nothing and buys
everything.
An ounce of mother, says the Span.
ish proverb, is worth a pound of cler-
gy.
1t is easier to set a man against the
world than make him fight with him.
self.
1t is right to be content with what
we have, never with what we are.
Two japanese priests have gone to
Berlin to obtain information about the
Christian religion.
A plain old gentleman boasts that
the nearest approach to jewelry he
ever wore was a stone bruise on his
heel.
This is the season of the year when
four-fiftbs Of the american people rise
in their might and throw OFF the gall
ing yoke of depraved appetite.
An exchange announced on the
death of a lady, that "she lived years
with her husband, and died in conf
dent hope of a better life"
A careful observer has noticed that
young ladies with new solitaire dia-
mOnd rings never need much urging
to play the piano.
A Springfield boarding house keep
er las been sued for infringing on the
Goodyear Vuleanite Rubber patent.
1t was the beefsteaks.
Illustrative of the force of habit is
the fact that horses passed through
the e~pizOOtic without carrying a hand
kerchief. Never having used one be-
fore they couldn't do it now.
Every woman thinks her husband
the worst in the world until she COM
pares notes with other women, when
she comes to the conclusion that hers
is the best.
On a Spanish sun dial is written,
81 mark only the bright hours.n This
is wise. There is more sunshine than
shade, more bright hours than dark
hours to be remembered.
An Irishman on being told that a
newly invented stove would savejust
half the usual fuel, replied "Arrah,
then, I'll have two and save it all, my
jeweI!n
a criminal named Shanks having
been recovered from the Governor Of
Massachusetts, by requisitiOn, was
lodged in a Jail in Vermont, were he
got the smallpox and broke out.
Pittsburgh has a missing mani
excitement. An examination of his
affairs show that he was indebted to
his washwOman one dollar and a half,
and it is thought he has fled to Europe.
The blossom cannot tell what be-
comes of its odor, and no man can tell
what becomes of his influence and
example, that rolls away from him
and goes beyond his ken on their mis-
siou.
Cultivate consideration for the feel
ings of Othef people, if you would
have your own injured. Those
who complain of the most i'll use are
the ones who abuse themselves and
Others the oftenest.
Lo, the untutored, has a sick horse,
and writes to the apOthecary /: 81
want J gallon turpOntin, 4 botels Nv
Peridavis pane ciller, 2ounees nv COM
pOr, n bOtel of garglen oil, 10 cts NV
asivity."
Deserve friends and you will have
them. The world is teeming with
kind hearted people, and you have
to carry a kind, sympathetic
heart in your own bosom to call out
goodness and friendship from others.
The late Bishop of Norwich said /:
"Cheerfulness is the daughter of en-
and 1 have known a man
come home in high spirits from a fu-
neral merely because he had the man
agement oft"
In a small New England town a
druggist was surprised and disturbed
to receive, at the hands of q dirty
looking customer, the following pre-
scriptiOn "Please give the bare sum-
phin to flick him Is cts worth"
A little girl at school read thus =
1.-THE widow lived on a small limba-
ey left her by a relative" 'What do
you call that word ," asked the teach
er, 1.-THE word is legacy, not limbaey."
But, Miss Johnson" said the little
girl, "Pa says 1 must say limb, not
The proprietor of a country store
once worked himself nearly into a
brain fever endeavoring to make in
telligible the following note, handed