The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-01-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

Success is always merited-it is earn
ed either by our virtues or our vices.
II is humiliating TO be respected by
those who have no self-respect.
We are responsible for the crimes of
those whom We have wronged.
1t is the privilege of the strong To be
just-of the virtuous to be tolerant.
The triumph of woman is to be loved
deliberately by an impulsive man.
When you see n young goat asleep,
can you call it case Of Kidnapping
'I think I must look over it" as the
horse said to the gate OF the clover
field.
The fool seeketh to pick . fly from a
mules hind leg; the wise man letteth
the job TO the lowest bidder.
Keep the horrors at arms length
Never turn a blessing around to see
whether it has a dark side TO it.
What is defeat? Nothing but edu-
cation, nothing but the first thing to
something better.--[ Weudell Phillips.
Let him who would have me tor a
listener speak positively; OF the prob
lematic fhave enough within myself.
Somebody says: Every failure is Q
step TO success. That will explain why
the oftener some men fail the richer
they become.
An old negro cook says: Sass is
powerful good in everything but child
ren. Dey needs some other kind Of
dressin.
A person always meets with q warm
reception at a hotel. The moment he
arrives he is placed on ths register.
A Chinese lawyer has been admitted
10 the London bar. That's what he
gets for not being woman.
Up in Jefferson county q reverend
gentleman is lecturing on: wine,
Water, Women, Wit, Wisdom, and its
enough, to say. to w up with laughter.
A Fon du Lac, Wisconsin family
numbering twenty-four. The father
and mother are dong will, and all Of
the children live under the same roof OF
the old homestead.
Col. Knox reports that he found in
Japan n woman who did not know the
use of a pin. Her bewilderment when
she was shown q pincushion was very
amusing.
New song by a lady-"Be, il ever so
humbly there's no place like the neigh
bors. Rochester Democrat.
A beautitude for the holidays-Bless-
ed are they that have plenty, for more
shall be given to them Norristown
| Herald
Edwin Booth once said that the best
way TO get rid OF good friend was TO
lend him S5. That was when times
were easy. You can ALLEVIATE him nov
for 80 cents Detroit Free Press.
Scene: Young ladies boarding school
Professor-"What can you tell Of Plu-
tor Miss Die was the son of Ss-
turn, and when his father died be gave
him hell. :"
An applicant for the position OF
teacher Of penmanship, when asked for
A specimen Of his skill, wrote in most
elegant style this sentence: "Sorrer
don't kill folks as fast as green guzs
burys."
The newest styles in dresses are made
with hollow pocket, through which
the train may be drawn; thus .enabliug
a lady 10 carry her train in her .pock-
cts. But how would fellow look with
the bottom OF his trowsers tucked in
his coat tail pockets.-tNsark Gall.
IL ia related Of young lady that. on
being asked by the teacher Of her Bible
class what was her chief counsolation
in life, she blushingly replied: 81 don't
like to tell you his name, but i have
no objection to telling where be lives.
There is no such word as fail in the
bright lexicon Of youth, but when Z
Young man, wandering home at p. m
.. tines 10 put out a street lamp by step
ping on IL with his foot. he very soor
; learns that there are sOme things thai
even youth can't do. Hawkeye.
wealthy old man named John +
A Potts. died q starvation In Brooklyn
New York, few days ago, He ha.
n muuey and papers IN his trunk 10 th
J. value II s50, ,0O0. aud he dsed In abso
n lute starvation. fl0 avsncious TO pro
q vide ST. hs cen --lLs he lived Il
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