The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-05-27
Gleanings and Gossip.


Tho way most people eat apples is
A good warm colorng-the brown on
a breakfast roll.
Fretting is the doctors best friend all
over the world.
The ladies like to see greenbacks con.
vertod into pinbacks.
Don't preach charity and leave some.
body else to practice it.
We are all poor just as we want more,
and rich as we want less
The grand safeguard for doing right is
to hate all that is wrong.
There is no tomorrow which cannot be
converted into to-day.
The best part of beauty is that which
a picture cannot express
The greatest misfortune Of all is not to
be able to bear misfortune.
Mean souls, like mean pictures, are
often found in good looking frames.
1t is good rule always to back your
friends and face your enemies.
Every affection has its own enjoyment.
and enjoyments tie minds together.
1t is beautifully said that the veil Of
futurity is woven by the hand of mercy
Thefts never enrich, aims never impov.
erish, and prayers hinder no work.
1T man makes worm Of himself he
must not complain when he is trodden on.
Have courage to wear your old gar.
ments till you can pay for new ones.
He that calls man ungrateful, sums
up all the evil that q man can be guilty
How many people are busy 10 this
world gathering handful Of thorns to
sit upon.
The gem cannot be polished without
friction, nor man perfected without ad.
versity.
Waste of wealth is sometimes retriev.
ed; waste of health seldom waste of time
never
The chains of habit are generally too
small to be felt till they are too strong to
be broken.
Most of the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused by standing
10 our own light.
Death is more desirable than a wicked
life. And not to be born Is better than
to lead dsgruceiuI liIc.
Trust him little who praises all him
less who ccnsures all ; and him leas, whc
is indifferent aoont all.
The loud tone in which some people
appeal to reason imply that reason is a
great distance from them.
Society" says Sam Slick, "is like a
pork barrel--Tne middle good, but the
top and bottom leete tainted"
Where there is love iu the heart. there
are rainbows in the eyes, covering every
black cloud with gorgeous hues
There is pure gold in the coarsest
looking ore, there is often the rarest peb.
BILE in the most rugged rock.
For every bad there might have been
worse and, when one breaks his leg
let MIN be Thankful! it was not his neck
No fattery, boy An honest mau can.
not live by it. 1t is little, sneaking
art which knaves use to csiole and soften
fools with.
When rich man becomes poor it is
but just that he should be cut by all poor
acquantances who clung to him in better
days.
Reason is progressive instinct station
ary. Five thousand years have added
no improvement to the hive of the bee
nor the house Of the beaver.
A hungry man desires a situation il
an eating house has had some experience
and is willing to work and make things
generally useful to himself.
There is no hight that cannot be climb
ed, no obstacle which cannot be removed
no difficulty which may not be overcome
by persevering effort.
"How one thing brings up another =
said lady, absorbed in pleasing retro.
spection. "Yes,' replied the practical
Dobbs, ian emetic, for instance
Violent exercise is always hurtiul. II
is steady, persistent work which bring,
roses to the cheek, soundness to the sleeI
and an appetite to the stomach.
A lady OF rank complaining that hel
husband was dead to fashionable amuse,
ments, he replied But then, my dear
you make me alive to the expense"
"My onthankiul hearers" said back
woods preacher, you air like onto hogs
eatin' acorns. They never look up to
see where the acorns come from"
Sour faces and cross words make every
thing 90 wrong Keep in the sunshine o.
Gods love and don't give the frowns q
chance to deepen into wrinkles.
To one who said to Anaxagoras, III as
thou no regard for thy iatherland Soft
ly," said he, 81 have great regard for my
fatherland," pointing to Heaven.
Il like your impudenco' said pretty
girl, when her sweetheart tried to kiss
her. None O. your cheek" quoth hC
as he fought his way to the mouth o.
the crater.
If you would relish your food, labor
for it; il you would enjoy your raiment
pay for it before YOU wear it If yol
would sleep soundly, take a clear con
science to bed with you.