The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-11-28
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Money is well spent in purchasing
tranquility Of mind.
Incidence is the rust Of the mind and
the inlet Of every vice.
Early and provident fear is the mother
of safety-EdmJEnd Burke.
The star that sets may rise again; but
the star that falls is forever lost.
If individuals have no virtues, their
vices may be Of use to us.-Jlulilts.
We may despise the world, but we can
not do without it.-BarOn Wes8eaburg.
Life becomes useless and insipid when
we have no longer either friends or
enemies.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle
words and resOlUte actions he is neither
hot nor timid.
Objects imperfectly discened take
forms from the hope or fear Of the
beholder-JOIns0n.
The heart that is soonest awake to the
flowers is always the first to be touched
by the thOrns.-MOOre.
Make no more VOWS to perform this or
that; it shows no great strength, and
makes thee ride behind thysef.
Man wastes his mornings in anticipat-
ing his afternoons, and wastes his after
moons in regretting his mornings.
A multitude of laws in a country is
like a great number of physicians-a sign
Of weakness and malady.-YOLtaire.
The common foible of women who
have been handsome Is to forget that
they are no longer so.-ROchgOucauld.
Our natures are like oil; compound US
with anything, yet still we strive to swim
upon the top.-BeuaHOrlt and Fletcher.
A little girl in Syracuse, n. Y, died in
ConvulsiOns from drinking brandy hand
ed to her by her mother during the night
under the supposition that it was water.
There is scarcely any one Of us, even
of those who are yery sparing of. speech,
who has not wasted at least One-half of
the words which he ever uttered-and
every word has been mischievous as well
as wasteful.-Sjr Arthur Helps.
A man who has duly considered the
condition of his being, will cOntentedly
yield to the course of things; he willnO
pant for distinction where distinction
would imply no merit; but though on
great occasions he may wish to be great
er than others, he will be satisfied in
common occurrences not to be less
Johnson.
An intelligent reader does often find
out in other mems writings, other per-
fections, and invest them with better
sense and higher construction, and more
quaint expression, than the author him
self either intended or perceived
Montague.
Contempt naturally implies a mans
esteeming himself greater than the per
son whom he COntemns. He, therefore,
that Sights, that cOntemns an ahrOnt, is
properly superior to it; and he cOnquers
an injury who COnquers his resentment
of it. Socrates, being kicked by an ass,
did not think it a revenge proper for
Socrates to kick the ass again.-SO1tth.
The love of solitude, when cultivated
in the morn of life, elevates the mind to
a noble independence, but to acquire the
advantages which solitude is capable of
affording, the mind must not be COmpell-
ed to it By melancholy and discomfort,
but by a distaste to the idle pleasures of
the world, a rational contempt for the
deceitful Joys of life and just apprehen-
siOns Of being corrupted and seduced by
its insinuating and destructive gayeties.
Zimmerman
Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts, in his
annual message, states that the school
statistics show that many thousand
children in the State are not availing
themselves of the advantages which the
schools afford. He recommends that
the Compulsory law and the laws relat-
ing to habitual truants should be thor
oughly enforced by local authorities, so
that every child of school age, whose
physical constitution will permit, shall
be required to attend school regularly.
At a recent dedication of a Baptist
church the ceremony of immersion was
performed for the first time in that church
by a well-knOwn Baptist minister When
he entered the water, and while waiting
for the candidate, the minister suggested
that somebody should sing an apprOpri-
ate hymn One of the deacOns who
stood near heard the suggestion, and
without thinking struck up the familiar
hymn, pull for the Shore" The hymn
proved to be so suggestive, it is stated,
that neither the minister nor the con-
gregation could refrain from an audible
smile for some time, and the ceremony
had to be postponed until the preacher
could recover his gravity.
President Bascom, of Wisconsin Uni
comes out strongly in favor of the
cO-educatiOn of the sexes. He says the
young women not only learn more easily
than the young men and hold their own
with them in scholarship, but do this at
less expense to their health, and with
only One-third as many absences from
college duties. His theory is that the
girls have the advantage of being accus- |
toned to confinement, while their
brothers are less able to endure the tran
sitiOn. DR.. BasoOm believes that the
health of the young woman who pursues
and prudently q course of |
education is far safer than when she
remains in society, indulging without |
restraint in its fashionable but enervatiDg !
friYolities,