Connecticut western news., 1878-03-07
WIT AND WISDOM.

What is it that from which if you take the whole some will yet remain Wholesome.
 The death of the Pope is sad, very sad, but it leaves one consoling reflection. He leaves no children to contest his will.
 A fellow was arrested in Rochester for beating his wife. sAnd his name is Manly, too. Nothing else manly about him.
 If man shovels snow of roof into your neck, and follows it up by coming down himself, that is defined as accumu- lated disaster.
 There is nothing that increases faster than potato bugs, unless it is tho interest on an unpaid note, or the 'spi" in 8 printing office.
 The Yonkers Gazette says tthe most slavish and fawning of all mankind are the kerosene merchants-thelr calling makes them serve ile."
 A negro teamster in Nashville de- clares that he must either give up driv- ing mules or withdraw from the church, the two positions being incompatible.
 Fashion, being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things She must be forever new or she becomes in- sipid.
 No man ever did, or ever will, be- come truly eloquent without being a con- stant reader of the bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of it's own language.
 What is it that makes people poor That's easy. 1t is the effort to keep up two thousand dollars worth of style on every one thousand dollars worth of in- come that's what it IS.
 -"What is to be done with the devilp" asks the Buffalo EGpross. And the Ha,okeye replies " If he is through taking proofs let him distribute brevier until it is time to go for the mail"
 The world throws its light into a hero or shepherd and puts him where he is wanted. Dante and Columbus were Italians in their time they would Do Russians or Americans to-day.
 Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity and the implication of causes was from eter- nifty spinning the thread ot thy being, I and of that which is incident to it.
 A woman will face drowning world fD Aha hn 1nvnu t1,ry,Ys srrfx the most bitter diversity, but she would not wear hat three weeks behind the | style to serve the Government. A clothier has excited public curios- ity by having large apple paintes on his sign. When asked for an explana- he inquired "If it hadn't been for an apple where would the .ready-made clothing stores be to-dayP"
 A child on being shown picture of Daniel in the lions den, began to cry '" Don't cry, pet" said the mother, Y" God won't let them harm hair of his head" "Oh, ain't crying for that but just see that little lion-Daniel is so small it won't get taste."
 --Gov Vance replied to Virginia Colonel who wished to take the Walker Light Guard to Charleston for the cele- bration of Washington's birthday :-- "Permission granted to pass through North Carolina with Jour command. Be virtuous and you'll be happy-but you won't have much fun"
 An ingenious workman near the Town Hall, Hanley. England, in the potteries, has the following sign over his shop door Umbrella and Parasol Hos- pital Broken ribs carefully reset or replaced by new ones, every joint strengthened and made sound, and the whole frame recovered on the most rea- sonable terms"