Connecticut western news., 1878-10-02
WIT AND WISDOM.


 stream has gone astray.
 He who smiles at another's mistake forgets his own ignorance.
 The Bosnians are on the Save, and so is about everybody else these times.
 Tt is sad that the mail in Colorado arrives on time when the carriers are chased by Indians.
 A smart woman suggests to us that what is needed in our public schools are principals, not men.
 When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that should know them in misfortune only. u
 The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
 The label upon c. bottle of chil remedy, requesting the patient to shake we'll before using, is rather tantalizing.
 That family is the best who obtain not uniustly, keep not Snfaithfully and spend in a way that produces no repent ance. .H a ~
 Tread not in crooked paths. De- ceive not in the secresy of your house. Rectify your own hearts that you may improve others. H@.
 A young lady, on being asked where her native place was, replied: " l have none; I am the daughter of a Methodist minister" rryt z. rgt
 Be careful not to let fall 8 note re- fecting on friends character. By sim ply dropping letter, you know, friend is changed into fiend.
 Applause waits on success. The fickle multitude, like the straw that floats along the stream, glide with the current still and follow fortune.
 Give bread to stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds all men together under the Com mon Father of Nature.
 --The path of duty is near, yet men seek it afar off. The way is wide, 1t is not hard to find. Go home and seek it and you will not lack teachers.
 The old ought to treat the young with benevolence, and men should be kind to children, remembering that childhood is especially dear to God.
 Suppose should work myself up to the interrogation pointf" said beau to his sweetheart. ssI should respond with an exclamation l" was the reply.
 -"Spell love" said a young man to his girl one night. "Y-o-u," she timid- ly essayed. The oourtship had been protracted one, but they are married now. A..
 A patent two-horse street sweeper is not pleasant thing to meet, but 1t IS not quite so bad as to pass hallway containing determined woman and broom.
 What is even poverty itself that man should murmur under it It IS but as the pain of piercing malden's ear, and you hang precious jewels in the wound
 IA hackensack boy about four years old said to his mother the other day "Oh mamma, looked up at that little star in the sky and he winked at me. Wasn't it naughty ?"
 Sergeant Sanders, of Parkersburgh, Ohio, is fifty years old, and says that he has not slept for fifteen years. It he could only sleep as hard as he lies he would never wake up.
 About this time look out for the old Indian from the backwoods of Name, who is getting ready to remark that the muskrats are building their houses un- usually strong, and therefore 1t IS going to be hard winter te
 On being asked why he went into bankruptcy, he replied We'll, my liabilities were large, my inabilities nu- merous, and my probabilities unpromls- ing, and so I just thought I'd do as my neighbors do, you know"
 In case of robbery tried at Aber- deen recently the prosecutor identified 8 .e1 note by the following which had been written by previous owner on the back of it: This came to me in time of need 
 and went away with railway speed.
 =" Captain, please give me light" said a private at camp. Certainly, my good man but if we were in the regular army such liberty would not be, allow able" els that SOP" said the private .'but if we were in the regular army, you wouldn't be captain, perhaps"
 A young lady at Harwinton, Conn.,, received an admirer the other evening. He sat down in newly vanished chair and damaged his clothing to the extent of $2.5O. The dear girl offered to pay the bill, possibly through gratitude at her miraculous escape, as she had been sitting on the same chair.
 "There are no circumstances under which honesty and integrity of purpose will not stand @ man in good stead, :" says some philosopher but we would like to know how it will help the man who finds himself suddenly forced to as- sociate with bulldog in an orchard with high fence around 1t.
 The force of example. CThis is the second time that Madge has pricked her finger. The first time it bled so much that mamma felt quite faint and had to bring a glass of sherry. Now it's Jacks turn.) Mamma" Well, what's the matter with you, Jaekp" Jack" Oh