The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-29
CHAT BY THE WAY.

Books and Authors"
CHAT BY THE WAY.
Every likes fiattery. 1t is pleasant to be told
that great. if we know him to be fool
who tells
Equivocaton is shadow of falsehood, which
grows by what il feeds on until at last 1t is evolved
a full-grown lie.
The poet says
Equal nature fashioned US
All in one mould;
but after she has fashioned she puts trade
dollar in their hands and leaves the next to hunt
for his
Copper money is coined for exclusively religious
purposes. 1t enables q to feel that he has
trbued the spread Of the Gospel without drawing
too largely on his income.
A bad man is who grasps strawberry and gets
nette instead.
The devil runs an immense mandatory Of ex-
cuses. They of all sizes and shapes, suited to
every possible OCCASION and such is the demand for
them that it is impossible to overstock the market.
1t is considered quite proper to call your wife
Birdie, because she is always associated with bill
Some men constituted that they can even
look ut mule and say, 1--WE are fearfully and Won
derfully made
1t does not follow that the clergy would make good
railroad men because they are well yersed the
of coupling.
The reason why the coal market is so depressed is
that coal is demoralized mineral It is never deliv
cred to the buyer but invariably goes to the cellar.
There is many man who courts fortune and then
marries a woman in order to get it.
There is nothing like strong common sense. An
Irish soldier went to his station with the order to
report anything remarkable that happened during
the night. drunken fellow fell from the wall and
broke his neck and no report was made. When ques-
orders. II the man had fallen off the wall and not
broken his neck should certainly have reported it,.
Strange ideas Of honesty prevail 1t is surely
wrong for fruierer to put all the big peaches on the
top of the basket, but it is surely right to build
the front of the house of fine free stone and the back
Of common brick. A certain amour. of sham is
necessary to human happiness.
Children ought to be rcpresscd. because they tell
too much truth. 1t is habit from which
tirely when we reach years OF discretion.
physican's child encouraged to write poetry,
but after her first attempt the wise parent suggested
that she should turn her prodigious genius into
some other channel. The which drew him to
this conclusion were:--
There was little girl. and she very sick,
Her father sent for papa. and she aied very quick
'Rsadin, spellin' and spankin'" il what makes
good men out of bad boys. This is what Solomon
said words to that effect
There very few men in the world who couldn't
write better than Shakespeare il they only had the
mind to, but they haven't the mind to. and there's
the rub.
The fundamental difficulty with human nature,
and the cause of half the disappontments of life is
that men always trying to get cider out of the
barrel with straw that is too short to reach the
cider.
Puck has written obituary which ought to receive
the prize of chaplet of dry parsley Not every poet
could express much in SO few words deli
cately refer to sad facts
Ahdy named Mary Maguah
Had trouble in lighting her fab;
The wood being green,
She used KEROSENE
Pause. Then continued solcmnly)
She has gone where the fuel is dry ah.
Some marriages are of use in that they produce
very humble and repentant state Of mind. They are
said however. to have startling resemblance to an
electric machine. II is easy enough to catch hold Of
the handles, but, alas! when you sorry that you
ever touched them you find that you can't let go.
There is many aman who used to sing with fearful
pathos and unwarranable craving for the ecacies
Of the season. ..oh that had the wings Of a dovc'
who would be perfectly content in these hard times
with the second joint.
Il is said that the most solid argument against
bigamy is a Scrptural one-no man two
masters.
broom presented to young bride with these lines
This trifing gift accept of me;
Its use would commcnd:
In sunshine the brushy part
In storms the other end.
And now that we are in the flush Of poetic fervor
we ask kindly attention for these pathetic words,
which are be found in the cemetery at Chidewald.
England. There is tone of regret in them which
may serve as a wholesome warnng-
Here lies and my three daughters.
Brought here by using sedltz waters;
II we had stuck to epson salts
We wouldn't have been in these here vaults.
Boyhood is candid. aud middle age though II may
think the same things. is retcent what part"
asked Sunday school teacher. 'of The Burial of Sir
John Moore do you like bestg' He was thoughtful
for a moment and then replied -" Few and short
were the prayers we said"
Nothing is palmer than that the Office which we
ourselves hold is indispensable and that its salary
none too large Economy is very pressing
sty but certainly ought not to begin at our door,
Every thinks that the country swings him
self ms pivotal point. and hence tho widespread
contentmcnt throughout the land. What the world
will 10. and how 1t will get on. when wo take our
departure. is something we don't like to think Of
Even in religion well politics 1t Ii tr,io that
you choose my man you arc orthodox. and strongly
heretical If yon choose any ono else. Yes.
dn Lelieve it's wise an good
10 SEN out furrin missions;
Thct Is, sartin understood
An orthy dox conditions
mean nine Thousand dolls. per ann,
Nine thousan' more fer outfit,
An me to recommend man
The place ould jest about lit.
The ills Of the mind greater than tho ills Of the
flesh Il is said that OF two men, one Of whom has y
raging toothachc. while the other IL desperately In
love- the man who has the toothachc will always 60
to sleep first.
man will sit still in the theatre for three hours
and think the play the shortest ho and got
sit uncasy in his pew sunday as though no
were being used for u pincushion and think tho
twenty minute sermon the longest he over heard
The temperance organizations engaged In
quarrclling among themselves that they have no
timo to work aud Dr. Crosby IL doing 50 much work