Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-01-31
The true memories and quick SYM

: pathies of.a pure intuitive soul are a
fragmentary revelation of the all-pres-
ent, all-wise, all-powerful love of God
the glory of the sky reflected in a
broken scrap of mirror. The pity is
that some see the reflection and never
look up to find whence it comes.
When cotton waste or shavlngs are
saturated with oil, large surface is ex-
posed to the action of the air; and if the
oil has the property of absorbing oxy-
gen, it may absorb the gas so rapidly as
to take fire. This is the way in which
spontaneous combustion takes place.
AS petroleum naptha does not absorb
oxygen, it never takes fire by sponta-
neous combustion.
Some men are like hand-organs-
their stock of tunes is soon exhausted,
and listeners are obliged to hear the
same old stories year after year. Such
lack of originality is frequently caused
by too great dependence upon self for
inspiration. Individuals are improved
by associating with their fellows, by
the friction of other minds. Few men
by themselves alone are equal to the
task of supplying all the food for
thought required by the healthy mind.
A little child's query may suggest a
train of deepest thought in the mind of
a philosopher.
The hotter the glue the better it will
keep the two parts glued together,
hence in all large and long joints the
glue should be applied immediately af-
ter boiling. Glue looses much of its
strength by frequently re-melting,
hence, newly made glue is preferable to
that which has been reboiled. In melt
ing ordinary glue in the double vessel
containing water, it is well to add salt
to the water in the outer vessel; for it
will not boil then until heated some
what above the ordinary boiling point,
and a larger proportion of the heat is
thus retained, instead of passing off by
evaporation. and the glue wiil be found
more evenly and thoroughly melted.
MalevolenS wit is that kind which
will lose friend sooner than a joke.
To be captious and contradictory is Of
fensive enough, but not so provoking,
30 unbearable, as the spirit of mockery
affected by Writings and coxcombs; for
that, like blighting east wind, withers
up every living and heartfelt sentiment
springing up in conversation, and es-
pecially chills and disheartens the young
in the earliest intercourse with the
world. The weapon infiicting the
wound is so fine as to be scarcely per-
ceptible, but the point has been dipped
In poison. A breeze, itself invisible,
often makes whole lake to shIdder.
Yet one would rather be cut by keen
than by blunt lancet, and q coarse,
supercilious way is almost as hateful as
the freezing irony of more subtle ILL
humor.
The Norwegian lemming is an ami
NAL about the size of a mouse. It lives
under stones in the summer, and I'M
der snow in winter. 1t Kisses and bites.
About once in ten years they emigrate
In the autumn, in large armies. They
march in a straight line, and cross
lakes and rivers They go through hay
stacks rather than go around. Nothing
stops them, not fire, cascades, nor
swamps. If a man stands in the way
they will jump at him as high as his
knee. If struck, they will turn around
and bark and bite like a dog. Foxes,
lynxes, owls, hawks and weasels will
follow and destroy large numbers Of
them, but it does not check them.
They continue their course until they
reach the sea, into which they plunge,
as persistent and progressive as ever,
until the waves drown and exterminate
them.
All ancient writers, both in sacred
and profane history, give the Lily a
prominent place-some adopting the
White Lily as the emblem of purity;
for even the name Lily is said to be de-
IlNtu lIOnl lnc Ncltic "Oiu ~, oiBuuJ-
ing whiteness, on account of the beau
tiful white flowers of Lilium candidum
from the Levant, the best known and
most universally distributed species
of Europe. We usually associate the
idea of extreme whiteness with the
Lily, for certainly nothing can surpass
in purity of color the white Lily; and
on this account it was by the ancients
.leld sacred to Juno. 1t has often been
chosen by the titled nobility in differ
ent portions of the world, as well as by
some nations, as their emblem, or coat
purity; and from this fact we may
justly acknowledge them as the nobility
of the vegetable kingdom.