Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-10-18
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.-Edmatad 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.-JtHaiars.
We may despise the world, but we Ca
not do without it.-Bdr0H WesSeRbUrg.
Life becomes useless and insipid when
we have no longer either friends or
enemies.
An ableman shows his spirit by gentle
words and resolute actions; he is neither
hot nor timid-
Objects imperfectly discerned take
forms from the hope or fear of the
beholder.-J0bnSoR.
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
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makes thee ride behind thyself.
Man wastes his mornings in anticipat-
ING his afternoons, and wastes his after
moons in regretting his mornings.
A multitude of laws in country is
like great number of physicians-a sign
of weakness and malady.-PoLtGire.
The common foible of women who
have been handsome is to forget that
they are no longer so.-RochgoucGuld.
Our natures are like oil; compound US
with anything, yet still we strive to swim
upon the top.-BeGmO9lt and FLETCHER.
SURE OF SUcCRS.-Aim high but with
prudence, act with determination and
perseverance let no obstacle drive you
from the path of honor and duty, and
you may be sure Of eventual success.
During last year there were sold IN
the markets of Paris 1,098,726 par
tridges, 522,624 pheasants, 945, 1892
hares, 5O,265 woOdcock, snipe, and
wild geese, 653 bucks, and SO wild bOars.
A curious headstone stands in the 6ld
burving-ground at Newport, r. l., when
chronicles the death of a son and daugh-
fer of William and Desire Trip, also
his wife's arm" amputated Feb. 20, 1l16.
A representation of the severed member
is cut upon the stone
Two men were disputing shout the
pronunciation of the word " either
saving it was ee-ther, the other i-ther-
agreed to refer the matter to the first
person they met, who happened to be an
frishman, and who confounded them
both by declaring; " It's nayther, for It's
ayther."
The Wesleyan Missionary Society o.
the Dominion of Canada acknowledges
an income for the past year Of Sl45, ,998.
It has 493 missionaries, including all
Wesleyan ministers in new parts OF the
Provinces. 1t has thirty-two missionaries
to Indians, seven to French Canadians,
and four to Japan.
There is scarcely any one Of us, even
of those who are very sparing Of speech
who has not wasted at least one-haIf OF
the words which he ever uttered-and
every word has been mischievous as well
as wasteful.-,SSr arthur Helps.
A man who has duly considered the
condition of his being, viii contentedly
yield to the course of things; he will not
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 aRront, is
properly superior to it; and he conquers
an injury who conauers his resentment
of it. Socrates, being kicked by an ass,
did not think it a revenge proper for
Socrates to kick the ass again.-South.
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 distaste to the Idle pleasures OF
the world, a rational contempt for the
deoeitfql joys of life and just apprehen-
sions of being corrupted and seduced by
its insinuatiag and destructive gayeties.
Zimmerman.
An apprentice in a Danbufy drug store
got very good idea of business, says the
Nears man by descending in a sitting pos
ture from a step ladder upon a glass
vessel of colored liquid and eight fancy
toilet cases. Heis at work in tan-bark
mill now. He says it isn't such a nice
business as drugs, but he can move around
with more confidence.
In an address, delivered before the
Edinburg University Theological Society,
Prof, Flint gave a discouraging account
of the condition Of theological literature
in Scotland, Hes said; gHo well Informed
man will venture to deny that theological
learning is in an extremely unworthy
and unsatisfactory condition. For genera
tions not single work Of European rep
utation has been produced by the clergy
of Scotland. Theological science is in a
withered and stunted condition among
us. The system is wrong, and theological
science refuses to grow on Scottish soil"