West-Jersey pioneer., 1877-08-09
NO. 1886
GEMS FROM THE WASTE BASKET.
Folly and pride walk side by side.

less good.
Nothing is really troublesome that We do
willingly.
Friendship. like iron, is fragile, if ham
mered to thin.
Where hard work kills ten, idleness kills
hundred men. .. ..
The passions are the only orators who al
ways persuade. ........
By preparing for the worst, you may often
compass the best.
Death is the only master who takes his
servant without character.
The truth is said to be always beautiful,
but some people are afraid of it.
No man has a right to do as he please,
! except when he pleases to do right.
1t is easy too look down on others; to
| look down on ourselves is difficult.
When pride and poverty marry together,
their children are want and crime.
The pursuit of knowledge ought to nullify
egotism instead of increasing it.
1t is glorious thing to resist temptation,
but it is safe thing to avoid them.
1t is confering kindness to deny At once
favor which you intend to refuse. -...
A man that can be flattered is not neces-
sarily fool, but you can always make one
of him.
Only God could create day and night; but
the commonest idler can turn day into night
and night into day.
| He who studies for good purpose, to
him his study becomes a blessing; to him
who does not it grows poison.
An editor, referring to air-tight oofins,
says: "No person having once tried one of
these coffins will ever use any other.''
He that goes too near sin to-day, may
| fall into it tomorrow. Prudence will not
| always venture to the brink of innocence.
1t is one of the most beautiful compensa-
| tions of this life that no man can sincerely
| try to help another without helping HIM
SELF
"Ma! look at the angel store" signif-
| cantly remarked little girl as she passed
| the marble work.
There are situations that are unwhole-
some to the most robust constitutions, and
there are professions and pursuits that are
| dangerous even to honest men. z.--os-.
The training of children must begin with
the very cradle to be perfect. The saying
| hot &c h,,n II <~f Ill. g.
of babies as it is Of grown children. sno 81
A profusion of civility is almost as OBJ
jectionable as a scant measure Of it. The
one belongs to the manners Of dancing
master, the other to those of clown. t-7
If we scrutinize the lives of men of genius,
we shall find that activity and persistence
are their leading peculiarities, obstacles
cannot intimidate, nor labor weary, nor
drudgery disgust them. t
After hypocrites, the greatest dupes are
those who exhaust an anxious existence in
the disappointment and vexations of busi-
ness, and live miserably and meanly, only
to die magnifcently and rich. ...... ..
| A good conscience is better than two
witnesses-it will consume your grief as the
sun dissolves ice. 1t is a spring when you
are thirsty, staff when you are weary, a
screen when the sun burns you, pillow in
death.
| There is no funeral so sad to follow as the
funeral of our own youth, which we have
been pampering with fond desires, ambi-
tious hopes, and all the bright berries that
hang in poisonous clusters over the path Of
life. ..l.. ....., .,,-l..l "
Seal-skin, as we see it, is not in its origi-
nal color. The natural shade is a pale,
muddy, and unattractive straw color. By
treatment with acids, it becomes a rich
golden yellow, and dyed as it usually il, it
is of dark hazel, with just a tinge Of pur-
| pie. '.a 'u;.
Children must have love inside the house,
and fresh air, and good play, and some good
companionship outside-otherwise young
life runs the greatest danger in the world
of whitening, or growing stunted, Or at
best, prematurely old and turned inward on
itself. e.tf;. +s,
There can be no greater blessing than to
be born in the light and air of a ascheeffuI,
loving home. It not only insures a happy
childhood-if there be health and good
constitution-but it also makes sure avirtu-
Gus and happy manhood, and fresh young
heart in old age. '-.#' }|
At public gathering lately in New York,
one of the gentlemen present was called
upon for a speech, and this is the way
he responded: "Gentlemen and women,
amt no speecher. More'n twenty years
back came here poor idiot boy, and now
what are ?' -.--...
81 say, Jones, have you heard that Brown
has failed ?'-"No; has he Well, I'm
glad of it. I've always felt friendly towards
Brown. He's worked hard for a good many
years, and it's time he began to lay by and
take things easy. suppose he'll set up
carriage, won't he?'
A countryman, upon visiting New York
| during the cholera, asked what that board
was put across the street for. Upon being
told that it was to keep the disease from
spreading, he exclaimed, "Well, I've often
heard tell of the Board of Health, but
never saw it before in all my life." 12hao
| A young lady who entered New York
music shop, and asked the young man in
attendance, "Have you Happy Dreams
was astonished when he replied, "No,
ma'am, Pm mostly troubled with the enight-
mare" He didn't know why she went out
so hurriedly, and slammed the shop door
| after her. -.-...-... .--..
OF many young man to-day, whose life
is irregular, if not f1agrantly criminal, fond,
| friends are saying: ''Oh, he is only sowing
his wild OATS" Sowing his wild oats, in
deed, but not in the sense intended, not in