Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-10-25
Hords Of Wisdom,

The only way to have a friend is to be
One.
A fox sleeps, but counts hens in his
dreams
If you act with a view to praise only
! you deserve none.
We seek to control others, yet how
few of us are masters of ourselves
Always be as witty as you can with youl
| parting bow; your last speech Is the
one remembered.
knowledge, when possessed by only
few, has almost always been turned to
iniquitOus purposes.
It is easy to pick holes in other peo-
ple's work, but 1t is far more profitable
/ to do better work yourself
We appreciate no pleasures unless we
are occasionally deprived of them. Re
straint is the golden rule of enjoyment
There is nothing so easy as to be wise
for others; a species Of prOdigality, by
the way, for such wisdom is wholly
wasted.
Give little to those who ask, even
though you suspect them to be impostors
1t may not do good to them, but it will
to you.
Good-nature, like a bee, conects its
honey from every herb. Ill-nature, ike
a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest
flowers.
Insult not misery, neither deride in
trinity, nor ridicule deformity; the first
/ is inhuman, the second shows folly, and
the third pride.
In the moral as in the physical world,
/ II logfTTloss fha
forced to unnatural luxuriance of bloom
bears it and dies.
Beauties often die old maids. They
set such a value on themselves, that
they don't find a purchaser until the
market is closed.
The mind is weak when it has once
given way; it is long before principle
restored can become as firm as one that
has never been moved.
Bad habits are the thistles of the
heart, and every indulgence of them Is
a seed from which will come forth a
new crop of rank weeds.
Great effort from great motives is the
best definition of a happy life. The
easiest labor is a burden to him who has
no motive for performing it.
Precept and example, like the blades
of a pair of scissors, are admirably
ADAPTED to their end when conjoined: :
separated, they lose the greater portion
of their utility.
Men think it no shame to give hand
some obsequies to those dead, whom
living they had suffered to starve un-
noticed; but the struggle of sinking
poverty passes unseen in its corner.
1t can not be too deeply impressed
upon the mind that application is the
price to be paid for mental inquisitions,
and that it is as absurd to expect it with
out it as to look for harvest without
seeds.
An obliging gentleman, who thinks
that personal favors do not cost much,
while they make friends, was appealed
to by a negro for a certificate of charac-
by which he might get situation. The
testimonial proving to be more compli-
mentaTy than Scipio himself expected,
that worthy. on recovering from his
astonishment, exclaimed: "Say, Mr.,
won't you glib me something to do your.
self, on dat recommendation? ?'
"A medical practitioner of the last
century proclaims the following as "a
certain method of knowing whether a
dog, when he hath bitten any person, be
really mad. Rub the throat, teeth, and
gums of the dead dog with a piece of
dressed meat, then offer it to a living
dog. If he refuses it with crying and
bowling, the dog was certainly mad
but if the Yictuals are well received.
there is nothing to fear"