Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-13
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4 The Corpus Christi Texas Times
has been studying human nature. 1t
says "To owe is human to pay
4 divine"
1 The other world is to this like the
5 East is to the West. We cannot ap-
D proach the one without turning away
7 from the other.
"A philosopher writes ave own
only what we use" He is the sort Of
man who would use another mans
, horse and sell il.
: Men who would scruple TO utter
+ lie, do not scruple to entertain preju-
: dice, forgetting that predjudice is
I standard falsehood.
There is a GIFT that is almost a
blow, and there is kind word that is
munficence so much is there in the
way of doing things.
Hard speech between those who
have loved is hideous in the memory,
, like the sight Of greatness and beauty
sunk into vice and rags.
=" Madam said q gentleman to his
wife, let me tell you, facts are very
stubborn things" Quoth the lady
"What a fact you must be "
Our guides, we pretend, must be
sinless as If those were not often the
best teachers who only yesterday got
corrected for their mistakes.
4 Meaning goes but little way in
most things for you may mean to
stick things together and your glue
may be bad, and where are you ?
An Irishman having been told that
the price of bread had been lowered,
exclaimed "That is the first time |
ever reioiced at the fall Of my best
friend 1"
How shall you learn to know
yourself2 Not by contemplation, but
action. Strive to do your duty, and
you will soon discover what stuff you
are made Of
The absentm minded woman is con-
(, tinually forgetting the location of her
pocket, and when an overdress is worn
the search for nickel becomes the
work of time.
He sits on the porch and watches
the birds and sings There is rest for
I the weary while his mother breaks
her back plodding around in the onion
bed with a ease.knife.
"A new style of trowsers for boys
has been invented in Boston. The ar
ticles have a copper seat sheet-iron
knees, riyeted seams and waterproof
pockets to hold broken eggs.
=" Can you inform me" said stu
dent TO the bookseller, whether can
find anywhere the biography of Pol
lock ?" ayes, dare say that you will
find i. in the Course of Time.'p
III there bad not been such a thing
as goodness | should long ago have
given up all hope of earthly good. If
not such thing as grace, should
long ago have given up the hope of
heaven.
Agricultural journal: Question
will the editor please inform me how
the Hollanders salt cucumbers ?" An
swer-" The most common way, as we
observed when abroad is to salt them
with salt"
We are too apt, in our wonder
and our applause at the height to
which man has attained against all
odds, TO forget TO note whether his
steps up the incline have been clean
and justly taken.
A whimsical comparison being
made between clock and q woman,
Charles Fox observed that he thought
the simile bad one; "For," said he,
"a clock serves TO point out the hours,
and o woman TO make us forget thcm.'
AT Court martial, young Irish
officer, when questioned whether he
had not given the lie TO certain per-
son, replied "No; only said that
either he or the Colonel had told he,
and that | was sure it wasn't the
Colonel"
When a Certain woman in town
speaks of her "late husband" you
must not conclude that she Is widow.
Her husband is living, but he never
comes home until midnight, and lies in
bed until nine o'clock A. NJ. This is
the reason she calls him her "late
husband
=" Stonewall Jackson was one OF
the most courteous men imaginable.
His wife says He never passed
lady on the street. whether stranger or
not, without raising his hat 1t is
reasonable to suppose that "Stone-
well had his hat in his hand pretty
much all the time he was out.
A boy tried his first pipe the other
day. When his father came home to
dinner, he found deathly pallor over.
spreading his face.
"What is the matter with your" in.
quired the amazed parent
/" My-teacher is-sick," gaspcd the
boy.
"Well, you must not feel so badly
about it, Tommy said the father,
kindly "She will get well again,
without doubt And then, stepping
aside, he observed TO his wife that that
was the most sympathetic boy he ever
saw.
TO live uprightly and purely in
this age is no play. A Young man who
resolves to do il must put himself, as a
fencer does when about TO be attacked,
on his guard. A mild and dove-like
disposition does not hold man up to
the line of duty at all times. There
are the mild, and there are also the
heroic virtues Of Christianity and
both find their proper moments Of ex-
preston. There are times when
young man must say no, and no that
has no hint Of possible Eyes" in it,
There are times, also, when he must
say yes, and make il ring like the blast
of trumpet. Never did young men
need this quality and temper more than
they do to-day never were there more
opportunities for their exercises.
"A change in wedding ceremonies
is suggested by Miss Yonge, the novel.
ist "Why should not the marriage
Replace In really early morning, with
the celebration at its fit time, and only
attended by the brides maidens, the
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