Connecticut western news., 1878-07-11
WIT AND WISDOM.

When one reflects that 4S,0O0 flies will only weigh pound, he cannot help seeing what a generous provider Mother Nature is. r..' e.., a.i.A
 About three-Afths of the jury trials in this country include at least one man on the jury who ought to have been born 8 mule. ...r...-......l g.r
 Before any young men fight duel let them remember the words of Pubhus Syrus No man ever lost hls honor save him who had it not. .,tr '.,.g g
 There are some men who are busy in idleness and make the leisure or peace not only more troublesome, put even more wicked than the business ot war. st.a s-="..s- a3o g.a t7FagTa
 Tt is getting so on Long Island, says an exchange, that if a wife has a strange taste in her mouth she at once jumps out doors md screams, " Pizened by my husband !" j. .I. ..... ...i Hgf.a, ,,i
 --The mind is but barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless It be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. ......' '......,,
 A large shingle mill was burned In Dubuque the other morning, and, do YOU know, four-ffths of the little folks in the town didn't seem to feel bit sorr1, ohort if either '
 They who are ignorantly devoted to the mere ceremonies of religion are fallen into thick darkness but they are in still thicker gloom WHO are solely at
 tached to fruitless speculations @#a . u --Minister-Janet Janet Drinking agaln Don't you know where all the drinkers go toP Jane-Ah could no say | what ithers do, but ah know where an ken--(hic)-get the best cheapest '", There i- time when men will not suffer bad things because their ancestors have suffered worse. There is tune when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. .. . '-t D. .'' An orator, who was much in de- mand in political campaigns, being asked by an admirer the secret of his success, replied, "When I have facts, l give em facts; but when I haven't, l yell and saw the air." t. @a t' t.n".I ,.il l'.5'
 A young lady of neighboring town awoke from terrible dream one ntght l last week. She had dreamed that q young man with soft beard was press ing his face against hers. When she awoke she found it was only Q cat. Then wasn't she mad? ..nga @ % roy A.. New rector to clerk-"Doy you think the church fills as well as formerly P' Jones (anxious to please)-"L LOT bless you. sir, the other gent could not hold Q candle to you. You should a seen the precipitation run off my face on Sunday a-showin' of 'en into their seats !uG. | -Smatterer-"I tell you, my dear fellow, could translate Virgil tuently at the age of ten" Classical party-"l don't believe it." s. (ercitedty).-- "What? You don't? But souio, though-just as well as can now. " c. P.-"I believe that" ".' '. ' T"
 -"I should think glasses would be good for Major Brunck's eyes, said one friend to another. "Glasses are just what are ruining them," was the reply. "That's queer," said the friend. "Not at all," was the rejoinder; because, you see, he only uses the kind of glasses which are never raised above the nose. | -"What's the newsP" asked an iso- lated old lady of a passing stranger, who replied "Well, nothing much, except that lying and cheating are stlll in vogue" "Oh, they're there, are they We'll, I hope they'll stay there, and not come into this quiet neighborhood'
 said the old lady. ....r... s.s...
 A young man objected to the young girl that his rich old uncle wished him to marry. "You mustn't be so particu' lar," said the exasperated uncle. "l tell you she's well enough" "So she is, uncle." responded the nephew, "and you know you've always taught me sc leave we'll enough aloneP ?" t# '.a 2.