The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-09
Words Of wisdom.

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is by practicing good ones
Is it not strange that some men
hate vice and are vicious, love virtue
and do not follw it2
Prosperity is a great teacher adj
yersity is u greater. Possession pam
pers the mind; privstion trains and
strengthens it.
Children are unconscious philoso.
piers, They refuse to pull to pieces
their snjoymentS to sec what they
are made Of.
"What is ofter called ipdolcnce,".
says Henry Crabb Robinson" is in
fact the unconscious consciousness Of
incapacity"
a man may be said to know thor
oughly only what be Gun communi'
cate to others.
Nothing is so wholesome nothing
does somuch for peoples looks as a
little interchange of'the small coin
of bonevolence.
o this itch OF the car that breaks
:out at,the tonguel We're not curiosity
so oyer.busy. detraction would soon
be starved to death.
Every man is liable to commit an
error, even to do grievous wrong, in
Il moment of carelessness or excite
mcnt; but it is not every man who
has the mobility to frankly acknowl.
edge himself in the wrong,
The love of glory, the fear ofshame,
the design of making u fortune, the
desire Of rendering life easy and
agreeable, and the humor Of pulling
down other people are often the
causes Of that valor SO celebrated
among men.
The good man loves all men. He
loves to speak Of the good of others.
All within the fore seas are his broth
ers. Love of man is chief of all the
Virtues. The mean man sows, that
himself may reap; but the love Of
the perfect man is universal.
a boy cannot swing a scythe till
he has worked for awhile with the
mowers. But aspiring authors ex-
pect to WELD the pen with neither
an understanding of the principles
nor a practice in the art ofauthorship.
He was an entire stranger to the
girls present, aud the boys were
mean and would not introduce him,
ode fuitlIy plgeked ar coafage and
stepping apstoa young lady, fequess
ted the pleasure Of her company for
the next dance. She looked at him
in surprise, and informed him that
she had not the pleasure Of his ac-
quaintance. Wcll," remarked the
young man, "you don't take any
more chances than | do"
An oldtravelor tells n pretty tough
story about being lost in the woods
with his dog, where he could find
nothing to eat, and had to cut of his
dogs tail, which he boiled for him
self, and afterward gave the dog the
bone! We would rather borrow one
hundred dollars than to believe that
story.
Theskeleton of an enormous ami
nal has been dug up in Texas. 1t
is ffty-four feet long from Che root Of
the tail to the neck.
When you hear an evil story of one
you know to be good, discredit it, and
soy So Grapes are not gathered from
thistles; neither do thistles grow on a
grape vine, The fruit tells you from
what tree it came, but you also know
what fruit tree is likely TO bear.
A man who gives his children hab-
its of industry provides for them bet
ter than by giving them a stock Of
money. The groatnumber ofindigent
tramps and Vino.street loafers indi-
cate that many fathers give thch
sons neither
"A ragged, greasy, unkept tramp
went shuHling into u lawyers office
one day, and asked if Mr.------, the
jurist, was in. He was. Well, the
pedestrian wanted n lift. He was
dead broke, without q nickel, and
was troubled with an aching void in
his stomach. The legal light ex-
pressed some surprise as towhy he