Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-02

lime never passes so slowly and tedi-
ousiy as to the idle and hstless. The
pest cure for dullness is to keep busy.
4Ilile Is what We want most, but what
we use worst and for which we must an
account when time shall be no more
Inc moment that anything assumes
the shape of duty, some neTSons faaI
themselves incapable of discharpin0 n
Envy pursues its victims thronobo,,t
life. 1t ceases to gnaw only when tbe
grave-worm, its brother reptile, bepns
The poor man has often recently CON-
planned that he has nothing to live on
the rich still oftener that he has nothing
to live for.
There are many doubllngs IN the hu-
man heart don't think that you can
find out the whole of a mans real char
acteT at once.
The expectation of future happiness is
the best relief for anxious thoughts, the
most perfect cure of melancholy, the
guide of life and the comfort of death.
1t is far from being cne Of the best
features of human nature, that, whilst
we love those whom we have benefited.
we often hate those who have benefited
us.
Say nothing respecting yourself, either
good, bad. or Indifferent; nothing good,
for that is vanity; nothing bad, for that
is afectatiOn; nothing Indifferent, for
that is silly.
The friend who pardons wrong, ac-
uuires a superiority that wounds the self
love of the pardoned man and, howev-
er mucn the Atter may admire the gen.
erosity of the glver, he can love as he
had previously done-no more.
Nature has strange ways of doing the
mos: beautiful things Out of the Oozy
earth, the mud and rain of early spring,
come the most delicate flowers, their
white leaves born out of the din, as IN
soiled and pure as if they had bloomed
in the garden of Paradise.
The best thing to give your enemy
is forgiveness; to your opponent, toler-
anee; to friend, your heart; to your
child, good example; to a father, de-
ference; to your mother, conduct that
will make her proud of you; to yourself
respect: to all men, charity.
We are amused at hearing the story
of an old lady whose only exclamation
on hearing of the execution of a man
who had once lived in the neighborhood,
vas, ''Well, 1 knew he'd come to the
gallows, at last, for the knot in his hand
kerchief was always slipping round un-
der his left ear"
Providence has so ordained it that
only two women have true interest in
the happiness of man-his own mother
and the mother of his children. Besides
these two legitimate kinds of love there
is nothing between the two creatures
except vain excitement, painful and idle
delusions.
Wax has been used for sealing since
the earliest ages. The oldest seals ap-
pear to have been impressed on white
wax. Subsequently yellow wax was
used. At a more recent period, sealing
wax was colOred red; and about the
fourteenth century it was oolored green,
and sometimes black.
The Journal, of Rio Janeiro, SAYS
positively that ammonia will cure yellow
fever. The general treatment is the
same as now pursued; but as soon as
the presence of albumen is detected in
the secretions, doses of five grammes of
ammonia in glass of water are given
with astonishing results.
"A Yankee minister, being threatened
with deprivation, said to some Of his
flock, that if he were "deprived" it
would cost hundred men their lives.
On being asked what ne meant by such
threat, he explained that if he lost his
benefice he should set up as a quack
doctor, and if so, he had no doubt he
should be the death of at least hum
dred patients.
"A gentleman wishing to improve his
garden, ordered his gardener to be very
diligent with his work. When the
gentleman next went into the garden
he sought for the gardener, and after
some time he found him sleeping under
large apple-tree, He awoke him, and
said, 'EIs this the way you are working?
You do not deserve the bread you eat
You are not worthy the sun should shine
on youp 'I know it, sir" replied the
gardener; "and for that very reason
laid myself down under this shade"