Connecticut western news., 1878-10-09
WIT AND WISDOM.

WASh JOO A~-'N people reach it.
 It is easier to neglect the debts you owe to others than to forget those which others owe to you.
 We have known many a man to sit around waiting for something to turn up until that something was his toes.
 A studious man is sure to learn something worth knowing, if it be no more than how to mind his own busi- ness.
 The difference between the weather and baby is simply that cone never rains but it pours, while the other never pains but it roars."
 Summer is reluctant to depart. She clings like young girl who is positive that the clock has not yet struck ten, and who does not care if it has.
 The man who is most likely to be suspected is the man who is always afraid he will be. There is apt to be spark of fire under that smoke.
 Some wretch has the audacity to re- mark that the ladies deck their heads with flowers in memory of the men who have been killed by miliners' bills.
 Some of the Chinese Embassy wear outside garments of white silk so closely resembling night shirts as to make an old maid dodge around the first corner.
 Pope used strong language, but we cannot help agreeing with him when he said =" Who dares think one thing and another tell, my heart detests him as the gates of he'll"
 An old maid had cat and a canary. The cat died. She had him stuffed and placed in the cage of the canary, saying, "I have put the dear creature where he always desired to be-"
 A line in one of Moore's songs runs thus: "Our couch shall be roses be- spangled with dew" To which sensl- ble girl replied: "It would give me the rneumatiz, and so it would you.
 This IS what Gortschakoff said on hearing of the Anglo-Turkish Conven- tion: He wished the English had seized the Red Sea, because he was sure Bea- consfeld would have been at the bottom of 1t.
 We would like for some double storied modern statesmen to tell us why it is that there ale certain seasons when a politician can see horny-handed son of toll clear across the street, and at other seasons cannot see him foot and 8 half away.
 Never yet did there exist full faith in the Divine Word which did not expand the intellect while 1t purified the heart which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding while it fixed and simplited those of the de- sires and feelings.
 No work, however menial, can make au honest poor man lose his selt-re- spect. Do whatever you can get to do, and do it so well that your employer vii! see that you are fit for something better, and the time is not far of when you will begin to rise.
 How few whom God has blessed with the responsible gift of genius can truthfully say with Walter Scott :-"l have tried to unsettle no mans faith, to corrupt no mans principles, and have written nothing which on my deathbed should wish plotted out"
 -" Isn't yours perilous life " asked a lady of railroad conductor. "Yes." he said, as he gently but consistently Il L ko,, ,ko fnr mt hau- ing purchased & ticket "previous to entering the cnr;'' "yes, it is perilous, but, you see, none but the brave deserve the fare !"
 Oh, rich and various man thou palace of sight and sound, carrying Tn thy senses the morning and the night in thy brain the geometry of the city of God in thy heart the power of love and the realms of right and wrong Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
 | A woman appeared before an Ithica police justice the other day and wanted her father punished for some alleged un- kindness shown her. The justice in- quired into the matter, found that the man was over ninety years of age and that he had been married four times. "Go home, young woman, go home, he said, "the old man has already been punished enough"
 "What news to-dny9' said mer- chant to his friend, lately. "What news p responded the other. "Noth ing, only things grow better-peopie are getting on their legs again" "On their legs ?" said the first. "I don't see how you can make that out. "Why, yes," repl1ed the other; "folks that used to ride are obliged to walk now; is not that getting on their legs again?"
 -"Now, boys," said Sunday school teacher, who was trying to impress the doctrine of repentance on the class; 1;
 "now, boys, Judas, as have told you,
 betrayed bis master, and then went and
 hanged himself. What was the very
 best thing he could have done before
 hanging himself ?" "The very best
 thing he could ha' done," said the worst } boy in the class, was to change his , mind" His Sunday-School Advocate l 1uaa ot onna stoYY,ad