The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-16
PENCIL AND SCISSORS,

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Indianapolis People.
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.
LIFE becomes useless and insipid when
we have no longer either friends or
enemies
AN able man shows his spirit by gentle
words and resolute action; he is neither
hot nor timid.
A SCRANTON hotel is advertised as
'kept by the widow of Mr.. Brown, who
died last Summer on new and improved
plan."
To him who mas thought, or done, or
suffered much, the level days of his child
hood seem at an immeasurable distance,
far off as the age of chivalry, or the line
of esostris.-IdJfourd.
This is the season of the year when
you step on soft brick in springy side
walk and have quart of mud squirted
up the legs of your best pantaloons as
reminder of the fact.
DAILY trials, little troubles,
In our lives must bear part
Struggle through them strongly, bravely,
With steadfast, hopeful heart.
Blessed voice of God within us,
Guide us ever day by day,
As we journey onward, upward,
By the sure and narrow way.
The rural districts are literally alive
with tramps, and poultry do not enjoy
their usual facilities for growing old. A
pious farmer says he does not see why
Providence did not teach chickens to
roost under the barn.
X. COMEDIES secret to a friend, who
hastens to repeat it. Meeting him, x.
says to him pointedly: "What would
you think of the man who divnlged a
secret intrusted to him ?'' "Think
Why, should think that he had only
initiated the other man."
"ENGLAND is the home of eccentric
ity," say foreigners. 1t might be added,
more especially of eccentric testators.
Early in the century rich Englishman
left his daughters their weight in one
pound bank-notes. The eldest got 951,-
200, and the youngest e57 ,344.
WAITING FOR HIS STEW.
He waited for his oyster stew
And drummed upon his plate
solo with his plated fork,
And thus did mediate:
"I think one plate will not suffice;
I think would not rue it,
If should take another dish,
PHI do it, yes, Tnduet."
He took his stew, he took his two,
And then he raised sigh, o,
And mHrmured in the walters ear,
/" Another dish I'll trio.''
Another, and another still,
In fact, when he had ceased,
This human oyster depot had
quart ate at the least.
SOUNDS rather attractive, don't it?
Il Ponanaes de terTe a la Ndvorrdise!" Yum
This is the way to do them up: Peel some
large potatoes and cut them in half-inch
cubes; fry them of a yellow color and
we'll done in sweet oil; drain in a cloth,
sprinkle fine salt over, dish up brush
like On folded napkin, and serve. And
then throw them out of the window and
order mashed potatoes.
SPEAKING of education, Sydney Smith
said: "Never teach false morality. How
exquisitely absurd to tell girls that
beauty is of no value, dress of no use!
Beauty is of value; her whole prospects
and happiness in life may often depend
ON new gown or becoming bonnet,
aud if she has five grains of common
sense she will find this out. The great
thing is, to teach her their just value,
and that there must be something better
under the bonnet than pretty face, if
she would have real happiness. But never
sacrifice truth"
AMONG other wonders of the Centen-
NAL Exposition, there was clock which
the man who made it says will run a
hundred years without winding, though
it is hard to believe this. If it had been
weund up and set going at the beginning
of the Revolutionary War, it would
have run till this time without stopping
or winding But 1 think some of the
wheels would have worn out, though 1
didn't tell him so. There was another
curious kind of clock at the Centennial.
1t was fixed in carriage, and tells just
how many times the wheel turns round
ON journey, and Just how many miles
have been travelled, and how long time
the carriage has been in making the
trip.