Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

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Indolence is the rust of the mind and
the inlet of every vice f.
Early and provident fear is the mother
of safety.-Edmund Burke.
The star that sets may rise again; but
the star that falls is forever lost.
If individuals have no virtues, their
vices may be of use to us.-JiI'ai'is.
We may despise the world, but We can
not do without it.-BdrOn Wessenbairg.
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 actions; he is neither
hot nor timid.
Objects imperfectly discerned take
forms from the hope or fear of the
.beholder.-JoEHSOn. 49,. -,
The heart that is soonest awake to the
flowers is always the first to be touched
by the thorns-AoOre. ..
Make no more VOWS to perform this OF
that; it shows no great strength, and
makes thee ride behind thyseK
Man wastes his mornings in anticipat-
ing his afternoons, and wastes his after
moons in regretting his mornings.
a A multitude of laws in country is
like a great number of physicians "a sign
of weakness and Yoltdire.
% The common foible of women who
| have been handsome is to forget that
they are no longer so.-RochsouoalIId.
Our natures are like oil; compound us
with anything, yet still we strive to swim
upon the top.-BeuGBlOnt and Fletcher.
Telephones are to be put intoeYerygram-
mar school in New Haven to establish
communication with the high school
building. If they work satisfactory they
will become permanent.
The following awful warning is going
the rounds: "a few years ago Mrs. Kate
Chase Sprague paid $1,000 per yard for
dress material To-day her husbands
paper sells for q cents on the dollar"
There is scarcely any one of US, even
of those who are Tery sparing of speech,
who has not wasted at least one-half of
the words which he ever uttered-and
every word has been mischievous as well
as wasteful.-Sir Arthur Helps.
A man who has duly considered the
condition of his being, will contentedly
yield to the course of things; he will not
pant for distinction where distinction
would imply no merit; but though on
great occasions he may wish to be great
er than others, he will be satisfied in
common occurrences not to be less
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An intelligent reader does often find
out in other mems writings; other per-
fections, and invest them with better
sense and higher construction, and more
quaint expression, than the author him
self either intended or perceived
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Contempt naturally implies mans
esteeming himself greater than the per-
son whom he contemns. He, therefore,
that Sights, that contemns an afront, is
properly superior to it; and he conquers
an injury who conquers his resentment
of it. Socrates, being kicked by an ass
did not think it a revenge proper for
Socrates to kick the ass again.-,South.
The love of solitude, when cultivated
in the morn of life, elevates the mind to
a noble independence, but to acquire the
advantages which solitude is capable of
affording, the mind must not be compell
ed to it by melancholy and discomfort,
but by a distaste to the idle pleasures of
the world, rational contempt for the
deeeitful Joys of life and just apprehen-
sions Of being corrupted and seduced by
its insinuating and destructive gayeties.
Zimmerman.
A 'shoplifter" was arrested the othel
day in Paris, who bore under his arm
very innocent looking box, seemingly
done up in paper and tied with cord
but this box had false bottom, opening
and closing with a spring. It's owner
would set it down on two or three small
articles while pretending to examine
something else, and whenh he took up the
box again the articles that had been un-
der it were inside it.
An elderly gentleman, say about sew
enty winters, was taking his noon cup
of coffee at Mrs. Harrington's few days
since, when a much younger friend Sug-
gested that coffee drinking was very in
furious. 'Is that sop inquired the vet
eran; "well, now, You sit down and tell
me about it, not that I am much inter-
ested on my own account, but should
like to tell my father, who is about ninety
years of age, and who persists In drink
ing coffee. Boston Journal.
In an address, delivered before the
Edinburg University Theological Society,
Prof Flint gave discouraging account
of the condition of theological literature
in Scotland. He said: "No well-informed
man will venture to deny that theological
learning is in an extremely unworthy
and unsatisfactory condition. For genera
tions not single work Of European rep
utation has been produced by the clergy
of Scotland. Theological science is in
Withered and stunted condition among
US. The system is wrong, and theological
science refuses to grow on Scottish soil"
tits not gold nor goods, therefore, that
makes men really wealthy. The best
wealth is of the heart, an enlightened
mind, loyal conscience, pure affections
He is wealthiest who has the largest
stock of wisdom, virtue and love, whose
heart beats with warm sympathies for
his feLOw-men-who finds good in all
seasons, all proyidences, and all men.
The generous man who pities the unfor-
tunate; the poor man who orders well
his life; the loving man who clings closely
to his family and friends; the studious
man who seeks instruction in all things
re the truly wealthy men.
The Department of Public instruction
received educational reports from the
Commissioner of Education of Japan,
which are of more interest as excellent
specimens of printing and binding than
Otherwise, being in the Japanese tongue.
A translation accompanying the docu-.
ments states that, since the present Min
lister of Education, Prof 7. C. MoWery,
formerly of Boston, Mass, assumed charge |
of the Department, about ten years ago.
over 10000 elementary schools are at
tended by over $4,000 pupils. The
school population of the Empire, now
taken for the first time, is 100000.
EDUcATIoN.-Edward Everett gave ut
terance to the following: 'To read the
English language well, to write with des-
patch, neat, legible hand, and be mas
ter of the first four rules in arithmetic,
SO as to dispose of at once, with accuracy,
every question of figures which comes up
in praotice-I call this good education.
And if you add the ability to write pure
grammatical English, I regard it as AMI
excellent education. These are the tools.
You can do much with them, but you
are helpless without them. They are
the foundation, and unless you begin
with these, all your flashy attainments, a
little geology, and all other ologies and
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