Connecticut western news., 1878-07-04
WIT AND WISDOM.

l WAL AND VASbVnAe
 He truly mourns the dead who lives
 as they desire. ..t....' ',,.
 Whats done we partly may conn-
 pute but know not what's resisted. -.. .
 In idle wishes fools supinely stay ;ltly be there will, and wisdom finds a way. l
 -Dost thou love life Then do not "a squander time, for that is the stuff life .- is made of. " '. 5a's
 Competition is so strong among the i cotton factories down East, that ten mills
 don't make cent. ''''''iu In the pursuit of virtue exercise 1 gives strength. The more we advance -. the less fatigued we are. s.t -a a!il When our last work is done, and
 the silver life cord riven, be the stain of 4, sorrow the deepest one that we bear with it us to heaven. .'l 9
 The average honesty of the boys of neighborhood may now be estimated by the number of cherry stones under q the trees. -.. sH5.a T..rI si as
 -"Are you the mate of this ship | said pewly-arrived passenger to the i, cook. "No, sir. I am the man that
 cooks the mate," said the Hibernian. la'
 After a man gifts to be thirty-eight la years old he kant form any new habits ao much. The best he kan do is to steer < hiz old ones So says Josh Billings.
 The closest shave in the way of 5. joke recently IS the observation that the
 grass is so short in Colorado that it has - to be lathered before it can be moved. " a'
 "A married man in Chicago has in-. vented an india rubber rolling pin that will roll out the dough very evenly and ,, vet bend to the head when 1t strikes. l,
 That was bright old salt who,; when he was asked to take Q fellow to ride on shore in the captains gig, said,
 "I will if you get the ships horse-sir. " ,., z,
 In Alabama they chew the tassals
 of the fir trees as 8 substitute for to- VI bacco. which reminds us of the old s; adage, "Be fr-chewers and you'll be'ao happy" e1 ~.'''.a '., |. U .i'a .S1
 The man out of an office thinks he ia, can hold it little better than the man s,il who is in. To make the people believe ,.' II, that, is the sum and substance of politl- cal science. ..ly. = .aaL .ssaiL
 A householder in Troy, in filing up sia his census schedule, under the column headed "Where born," described one of aoe his children as "born in the parlor, and .s 7, the other "up stairs. ''''' 1' ','i2l., ,7 T
 When you see young man around su, these fine mornings, asking for bennne,s1ii or something to take out paint, it is sure pus z. evidence that the girls father has been lS painting the front fence.t ,.gasv 7gul iuoCa
 Advice to young writers If you hi would be clear and forcible, don't use f foreign words Be natural. AAman v never stops to hunt up a foreign word IS when he is stung by hornet. 'Ol1 ", '1' ,.I '5u"
 -" Mary :" Yes; we will advise you. 6 9d You say that you are nineteen and r1ch.I !c and he is seventy and poor. We'll, dear,' sg et marry him if you love him-but you 1, know you don't Nobody ever heard ofys such thing. .' '.i4 .. '"" ~'" 4p"Sh
 The Chicago Post, which is owned g,g and edited by women, has just donned aylG new dress, and the Detroit Nesos ex7 @i poets to see it arrayed in new dress at,ll least once month. It must be kept in lJ style you know. ..' .' " ly'.a' @." ..' "l't'
 What Congress wants to investigate Q, is the fact why an intruding COW will in@-- variably tramp on the loose soil of a-D l-'' two-foot flower garden in preference to the grass-covered hundred square feet of the rest of the yard. '- .,.e''~, +.s'F-,
 -"Did you ever dabble in stocks 9''-E asked lawyer of a witness who was known to have fled from his native land to this asylum of the free. r"' We'll, yes, I got my foot in 'em once, in the old {, country" was the reply. ....' .,' .'5'''" .'5l
 It was an eminent light of the law who said there were two things that no man could foretell, one being what sort of man any particular woman would marry, and the other, what sort of a ver-.f dict petit jury would give, '." ,'5 a, "''a17
 MT. Mackey, of California, has am income of $35, 900 per day, but what good does it do him? He can't drink over ten glasses of soda water per day,s and he's got to die on his merits, theo same as the rest of us. "v.' '"" yt'
 You need not be afraid of giving too much. An old darkey once said ;--U |" If any ob you know ob any church. what died ob liberality, ies' tell me, ,whar it is, an will make pilgrimage to 1t, an by de soft light ob de pale moon l. will crawl up on its moss-covered roof an write upon de topmost shingle, "Blessed am de dead who die in de Lord. ;. .a.@e,. q. Do" --.l...~..,,A&
 Some people believe they can think. faster on railroad trains than anywhere else, the theory being that the rapid motion quickens the action of the mind. Some influence of that kind may have affected a man and woman who met for the first time while travelling from Elmira into Pennsylvania. They sat in the same seat, fell into conversation, were irresistibly attracted toward each other, and at the end of seven hours