Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13
Oarittifs.

Give a rogue rope enough and he
e will hang himself.
5 No conflict of man is so severe as his
labors to subdue himself
; Who knows not love in sorrows night
he knows not love in light.
Tomorrow is the day on which idle
men work and fools reform
THERE'S no service like his that serves
because he loves. Sidney.
A judicious silence is always better
than truth spoken without charity.
To my inward vision. things are
achieved when they are we'll begun.
As words can never be recalled, speak
emily such words as you never wish to
recall
Receiver of stolen goods" is the
Courier-J0au1aal's last epithot for Gov
ernor Hayes.
A medical journal says an orange
sucked before breakfast will cure the
appetite for whisky.
Combat all thy discomfort through
prayer, every care through faith, every
fear through hope
Dewdrops at night are diamonds at
morn; so the tears we weep here may
be pearls in Heaven.
If you will add little to little, and do
SO repeatedly, it will very quickly be-
come much -HeSOid.
To those who are half their lives
fercely busy, the remaining half is eften
torpid without quiescence.
There are 325 students at Vassar this
year, considerable falling off; but it
gives the girls more room to trail their
skirts
Men Intellectually great are few and
far between men in whom greatness
and virtue equally combine are still more
rare to be met with
A mountain is made up of atoms, and
friendship of little matters, and if the
atoms hold not together the mountain is
crumbled into dust
Wit is the boomerang that strikes
and gracousl ly returns to the hand. Sar-
casm is the envenomed shaft that sticks
in the victims gizzard.
Hope is the best part of our riches.
What profteth the wealth of the Indies
in our pockets, if we have not the hope
of heaven in our souls?
The stream is the miller's friend as
we'll as servant, and rushes gladly over
the wheel; what good is it creeping list
lessly through the valley?
We seldom repent of speaking little,
very often of speaking too much vul-
gar and trite maxim, which all the world
does not practice .--Bruyere.
Woman has many advantages over
man; one of them is that his will has
has no operation till he is dead, whereas
hers generally takes effect in life time.
1t is vain to cling to the youth which
is past, be our unoelief of the fact ever
so stubborn Rather should it be grace
fully resigned for the cheerful accept
ance
The Bible itself is like an old Cremo-
ma; it has been played upon by the
devotion Of thousands of years, until
every word and particle is public and
tunable-EmerSon.
Never, under any circumstances. as
sumo a responsibility you can avoid
consistently with your duty to yourself
aud others. In other words "mind
your own business"
When we see the shameful fortunes
amasscd in all quarters of the globe, are
we not compelled to exclaim that Judas
thirty pieces of silver have fructifed
across the centuries
It is the result Of practical every day
experience that steady attention to mat
ters of detail lies at the root of human
progress, and that diligence, above all,
is the mother Of good luck
If infdelity wishes to shake the
Christians faith in a personal God, it
must account not for the miracles of the
first century merely, but for those of
the nineteenth. Lyman AJbot
Whatever our place allotted to us by
Providence, that for US. is the post of
honor aud duty God estimates US not
by the position we are in, but by the
way 10 which we Gil TT Edwards.
Before 1870 there were no horse rail
roads in London There are now twen-
ty-four routes in running order, and the
traffic has increased from 100000
passengers in 1871 to 27,000,O00 in
1876.
The mind has a certain vegetative
power, which cannot be wholly idle. IF
it is not laid out and cultivated into
beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot
up weeds or flowers of wild growth
Steele.
We may be sure Of finding that all
periods of life have their compensations.
If our existence is journey we may be-
lieve that the part of it which lies near
est to our destination will not be barren
of joy.
Observe a method in the distribution
of your time. Every hour will then
know its proper employment, and no
time will be lost Idleness will be shut
out at every avenue, and with her that
numerous body of vices that make up
her train.
There is a sanctity in suffering when
meekly borne. Our duty, though set
about by thorns, may still be made a
staff, supporting even while it tortures.
Cast it away, and like the prophets
wand, it changes to a snake. douglas
Jerold
Children must have love inside the
house and fresh air, and good play and
some good companionship outside-oth-
erwise young life runs the greatest dan