Connecticut western news., 1878-02-21
!. WIT AND WISDOM.

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 Its never too late to marry-h your children don't object.
 The Turk is not so much of a mus cleman as he was.
 -Is lad who has step-father neces- sarily step-ladder.
 The beauty of the body is for day; the beauty of the soul is for eternity.
 Every man is bound to tolerate the act of which he himself sets the example.
 We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt in- creases.
 All that is wise has been thought already ; we must try, however; to think it again.
 Every good deed that we do is not only present pleasure, but prop for the future. {.
 Man believes himself always greater than he is and is esteemed less than he is worth.
 Anger is like full-hot horse, who, being allowed his way, self-mettle tires him.
 If anger is not restrained, it is ire quently more hurtful to us than the in- jury that provokes it.
 -Conceited persons are never without certain degree of harmless satisfaction wherewith to flavor the waters of life,
 There are no suffers in the Russian army, and consequently no raids on them. They don't know how to combine fun and war;.
 Better ths ragged ploughboy,
 Who sings and cares for naught
 Than the bank cashier, with ten thousand
 year,
 And hundred thousand short
 In England the woman always pur- chase the groceries and provisions for the family if man should attempt such thing some housewife would pin dishcloth to his coattail
 Slow and tedious progression is one of the immutable laws of nature that can never be repealed. If you don't believe it,. ask the young man nursing his first mustache. .-. a.
 An Illinois doctor wants the news papers to spread the information that codfish is sure preventive of diphtheria. This explains why the disease never be- comes epidemic in boarding house.
 A poor fellow who had been round among capitalists asking for place met with an invariable admonition to hye within his income. He thought that was easy enough, but he was doing his best to live without an income.
 Kindness goes great ways. A Kan sas jailer found this out the other day when he kindly allowed prisoner to walk out and take the air. Kindness made a run of thirteen miles before they caught him. -....
 Bill I say, Mary, run and ask Jule to come and play with us.-Mary You know, Bill, mother says you ain't to call him Jule; his name's Julius. We'll, what does she call me Bill, for thenp I shan't call him Julius until she calls me Bilious.
 A man was earnestly looking in the bunghole of a whiskey barrel, as if in search of something he could not find. "What are you doing?" asked by stander. "Why, I'm seeking my repu- tation in the place lost il" was the mournful reply.
 Don't get excited, and if you owe any one debt go at once and pay 1t If possible. The fellows that owe people never do get excited. They're always cool enough. It's the creditor side of the house that's troubled with irregular respiration.
 -"Fear God, tell the truth, and make money," is the motto of the Trader, pub lished at Antioch, Indiana. Show that to your teacher, sissy, when she wants diagram of an impossibility. The idea -truth-money- business Ina Ina ..
 A little boy who was nearly starved by @ stingy uncle (his guardian) with whom he lived, meeting lank grey hound one day in the street, was asked by his guardian what made the dog SO thin. After reaecting the little fellow replied, "I suppose he lives with his uncle"
 The hve-vear-old daughter of fsmi- ly the other day, says the Breakfast Ta61e, stood watching her baby brother, :. ..- ..... --....ah.-1s yro". fuss over having his face washed. The little miss at length lost her patience, and stamping her tiny foot said "You think you heve lots of trouble, but you don't know any thing about it. Wait till you're big enough to get liclxin' and then you'll sce-wont ho, mamma? ?"
 "A sleigh containing three boys dEove down Reading street. Several little girls clung to the runners, and one of them was roughly pushed of by one of the boys She lay sprawiing in the slush. Just then . boy dropped the rope of his sled and ran after the sleigh, jumped in and peIted the offender about the face, neck and head in lively man ner. He then jumped out, and when re- turning to hs playmates said "they | n<...I1,.gs S-n.t tSa <xs.1 tl..k ~~w0