Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-09
words Of Wisdom.

words Of Wisdom.
There are many who mistake the love
of life for fear of death.
Fancy runs most furiously when a
guilty conscience drives it.
A royal soul may belong to beggar,
and beggarly one to king.
Very few persons have sense enough
to despise the praise of fool.
A doctor may learn to cure by killing,
but men never learn to tell the truth by
lying,
No man is always wrong. A clock that
does not go at all, is right twice in the
twenty-four hours.
Courage, the commonest of the virtues,
obtains more applause than discretion,
the rarest of them.
Let not one failure discourage you.
He that has had fall may stand as up
right as he ever did.
Love can excuse anything but mean
ness but meanness kills love, and Grip
pies even natural affection.
There ls no one else who has the
power to be so much your friend or so
much your enemy as yourself.
That only can with propriety be styled
refinement, which, by strengthening the
intellect, puriies the manners.
To all men the best friend is virtue /;
the best companions are high endeav-
ours and honorable sentiments.
Many peoples lives are not worth the
market value of the iron in their blood
and the phosphorus in their bones.
The majority of women are little
touched by friendship, for 1t Is insipid
when they have once tasted of love.
We are oftener more cruelty robbed
by those vino steal into our hearts than
by those who break into our houses.
In some tranquil and apparently amia-
BILE natures, there are often unsuspected
and unfathomable depths of resentment.
The tear OF loving girl Is like dew
drop on the rose; but that on the cheek
of wife is drop of poison to her hus-
band.
Of all monarchs, nature is the most
lust in the enactment of laws, and the
most rigorous in furnishing the violation
of them.
Friends should be very delicate and
careful in administering pity as medi-
cine, when enemies use the same article
as poison.
Some of US fret inwardly, and some
fret outwardly. The latter is the better
plan for our friends, but the worse for
ourselves.
When a cunning man seems the most
humble and submissive, he is often the
most dangerous. Look out for the crouch
ing tiger.
Never retire at night without being
wiser than when you rose in the morn
ing, by having learned something useful
during the day,
He who thinks he can do without
others is mistaken; he who thinks
others cannot do without him is still
more mistaken.
|, Loves sweetest meanings are un-
spoken. The full heart knows no rhet-
ORC of words; it resorts to the panto-
mime of sighs and glaneeE.
Old Deacon Dobson always boasted
that he was prepared for the Yorst,"
and his neighbors thought he got 1t when
be married his second wife.
An expert can tell if the man at the
other end of the telephone eats onions.
He detects a peculiar peel in the voice
as it is scent strong along the wire.
A Sunday school boy of MaysviIle,
KY, was asked by the superintendent if
his father was a Christian. "Yes, sir," i"
he replied, "but he is not working at it
much"
A Mississippi judge was just saying
that no one but coward would carry a
pistol, when his own fell from his pock-
ct, was discharged, and the bullet hit a
lawyer in the leg.
The persistency with which the school
boy will 60 fishing and catch nothing, is
eqnalled only by the unsuccessful efforts
in printing Office,
envy dear Julia,n said enc pretty girl
to another, "can you make up your mind
to marry that odious Mr.. Snuff9"-"Why.
my dear Mary" replied Julia, 81 believe
I could take him at pinchp
A little girl four years old was recent
ly called as q witness in Q police eeprt,
| and, In answer to the question as to what
became of little girls who told false
hoods, she innocently replied that they
were "sent to bed"
''There has been a slight mistake COM
mitted here" observed the house-sur-
geon; "of no great moment, thought
was the sound leg of Mr.. Higgins which
was cut of. Wa'lan easily cure the 9TH
er-comes to the same thing.1
"Mr. Tapenthred isn't in, I see," said
an old shopper to the clerk in attend.
ance. mo, I'M, he's at home to-day
81 suppose he's got nothing new." "Yes
I'M, he has; he's got pneumonia" "You
don't say so; what are you getting a
yard for monia nowP
Hotel guest, on retiring: 81 want
to get up ut eight e'clepk,n FacetiollS
night clerk:i "Have not got one, sir .
Guest; ''Not got whatT Clerk; "A
potato clock" >,
-"Be O good boy and don't saii1 DleI1
vour mothers heart, for then you WouIu
be an orphan in an asylum WileIS you
vo,Id have to listen to couple OF ser
mons ON Sunday, and two or three dnr-
;n, 0 tbe week" said his mother, and that
how has been good ever sipee,
In 1915 Joseph Nicephore Niepct
invented photography. He succeeded
in securing picture printed by light II
the camera. A view of Kew churcf
taken by him in 1927 was the first pho
tograph from nature taken in England
It is in the British museum.
When you see q woman baianct
herself on one foot, kick the other wild
ly out behind her, and sxillfully swooI
up in her hand fantail train, don't bt
alarmed. She isn't going to have mt
She is about to cross q twelye-lRct
gutter,