Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-05
Our Free Lunch.

All good conversation. manners
and action, come from spnntaneity
which forgets usages and makes the
moment great. Nature hates calcu-
lations; her methods are saltatory and
impulsive. e.--Emerson.
--Preiudices, it is well known, are
most difficult to eradicate from the
heart whose soil has never been loosen
ed or ferti.ized by education. They
grow t'are firm as weeds among
rocks. Charlotte Bronti.
1t is with men as with trees if
you iop off their finest branches, into
which they were pouring their young
life the wounds will be healed
over with some rough boss, some odd
excresence; and what might have been
a grand tree, expanding into liberal
shale, is but whimsical, misshapen
trunk. Many an irritating fault, many
an unlovely oddity, has come of hard
sorrow which has crushed and manned
the nature just when it was expanding
into plenteous beauty and the trivial,
erring life which we visit with our
harsh blame, may be but as the un-
steady motion of man whose best
limb is withered. George Eliot
--THE MAGNEF.--In the reign of
Queen Elizabeth the book of Shakes
peare's plays hal its origin, and nearly
every one who has read that book (and
who has not?) remembers the curious
s'ying in it, III put a girde round
the worl in fDrty minutes" But how
mtny are there who have read another
great book Of that same reign, entitled
ode Magnetic" or are aware that at
the time when Shakesbeare was writ
ing his now familiar phrases, tie an
| thor of the book on the magnet, the
Queen physician, one William Gi'-
bert, when his daily tolls of waiting
upon the sick were over, was working
with his smith in the laboratory at his
| furnace, needle and compass, was writ
| ing up for the first time the word
electricity, and was actually forg-
! ing the beginnings Of the very instru-
ments that now, in less than forty Sec
onds, put the girdle round the globe !
- Good Nonth
Silence The idea you have
once spoken, if it even were an idea.
is no longer yours; it is gone from
you. so much Iif. ard virtue is gone.
and the vital circulations of yourself
land your destiny and activity are
henceforth deprived of it. If you
could mt get it spoken, if you could still
constrain it into silence, SO much the
richer arc you. Better keep your idea
while you can let it still circulate in
your blood. and there fructify; mar
ticuately melting you to good activi-
ties; giving to your whole spiritual
life a ruddier health When the time
does come for speaking it, you will
speak it all the more concisely, the
more expressiveIy, appropriately; and
If such time should never come, have
you not already acted it, and uttered
it as no words can? Think Of this.
my young friend for there is nothing
truer, nothing more forgotten in these
shabby, gold laced days. Carlyle.
knowledge is at best the pilgrims
j burden or the soldiers panoply, often
weariness to them both and the
Renaissance knowledge is like the Re-
naissanco aruior Of plate. binding and
/ eramplng che human form while all
good knowledge is like the crusaders
chain mail, which throws itself into
! folds with the body, yet it is rarely so
forged as that the clasps and rlvets 90
not gall us, All men feel this. though
they do not think Of it, nor reason out
! its consequences They look back to
/ the days of childhood IS Of greatest
! happiness, because those were the days
Of greatest wonder, greatest simplicity,
and most vigorous imag nation. AID
the whole difference between a man of
g'nias and other men, it has been said
thousand times, and nest truly, is
that the first remains in great part a
chilli. seeing with the large eyes OF
children, in perpetual wonder. not con-
Scious OF mach knowledge, e,-coEsclons,
rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet
infinite power fountain Of eternaf
admiration, delight. and creative force
within him meeting the ocean OF Es-
ible and gpvernahls things around hfm.
- RnsLia.