The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-03-30
and majestic outside is. as it were, the
palace of the soul.''

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palace of the soul.''
France is indebted to one of her greatest
soldiers and .purest men, the Chevalie1
Bayard, for proverb, the translation of
which is, "What the gauntlet gets the gor-
get spends" alluding to the extravaganza
Of spendthrift soldiers.
The famous motto of Erasmus, the
great scholar, was Fsstina lente, Is Hasten
| slowly" and he caused it to be inscribed
wherever it could meet the eye-on public
buildings, and even on rings and SEALS
The family of Onslow, in England and
elsewhere, punning On their surname,
have taken the two Latin words for their
motto.
Sir Amias Pawlet, a great statesman a
few centuries back, when he perceived too
much hurry in any business, would say,
"Stay while, and make an end the SOON
er." One of his class concluded letter
with, "If I had had more time, my epistIe
would have been shorter.''
There is an italian proverb, translated
into ''He is what God pleased he shall be
what God Wills" which has often been
applied to aspiring politicians and soldiers.
Very architectural is the Chinese notion
of government. They say, ga sovereign
may be compared to hall his officers to
the steps that lead to it the people to the
ground on which they stand.''
Many of the ancient Hebrew proverbs
allude to the bondage in Egypt, and the
confidence of change in day of retribu-
tion. One is, ''When the tale of bricks is
doubled, Moses comes.''
Their devotion to ceremonial law, in all
things connected with their magnificent
temple, is finely expressed IN these words:
''None ever took stone out of the Temple
but the dust did fly in his eyes.''
Turkish proverbs are said to be full of
sense, ingenuity and elegance, the surest
test of the intellectual abilities of any ma
tion. One of the favorite adages is erich
es in the Indies, wit in Europe, and pomp
among tho Ottomans."
"Wait-that is the lesson of life, ;" is the
advice of one proverb. But, answers an
other, GA setting hen never gets fat"
To which a third responds, "a rolling
stone gathers no moss.' For the life of
mo cannot see what the stone can gain
by deposit of moss upon it.
Some Syrian proverbs are good. While
we say, Hard words break no bones," one
Of them puts the same idea into GA thou
sand curses never tore shirt.''
A'syrian saying is, ''The egg of to-day,
and not the hen of tomorrow :" and one
Of the oldest of terse aphorisms is ssEat,
drink, and love-the rests not fiillip -
which the luxurious Sardanapalus, the
Assyrian monarch, took for his motto. It
is an expansion Of the materialist, "Enioy
the present hour.''
Syriac, also, is, "Speech is silvern,
silence is gold," made popular by Thomas
Carlyle's translation from the German,
though the original is undeniably orlen-
tai. 4f
81 had many friends when my vines
gave wine,'' embodies the common exneri-
ence that prosperity begets friends, and
adversity tries them. Thus, what is true
in tho West is true also in the East.
The old saying, "Little pitchers have
long ears comes all the way from Egypt,
and is paraphrased in 'sWhat children
learn at home soon flies abroad" 30 the
fact that GA man at five may be fool at
fifteen," is balanced by our plain asser-
tion that "A ragged colt may make good
horse"