Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-09-25
MUCH IN LITTLE.
Men Of decision-iudges

The excesses Of our youth are drafts
upon our old age, payable with interest,
about thirty years after date.
Opinion is the main thing which
does good or harm in the world tits
our false opinions of things which ruin
us.
1t is only through woe we are taught
to reflect, aud we gather the honey OF
worldly wisdom not from flowers, but
thorns,
A great Roman who had bequeath-
ed all his fortune to the State was ask
cd what he had left, and answered,
Hope
The poor have as much right to the
pleasures of polite conduct asthe rich.
Like good grammar ii is not necessa-
rily exclusive.
It's hard work 10 keep your sons in
check while they're young it's hard
er still to keep them in cheques when
they grow older.
Advice to those who accepted drafts
upon bankers from the reckless and
impecunious "Dont count your
checks until they are cashed."
Meanin' goes but little way I most
things, for you may mean to stick
things together and your glue may be
bad, and then where are you?
Spite of Lavater faces are often times
great lies. They are the paper money
of society, for which, on demand, there
frequently proves to be no gold in the
human Golfer.
a don't believe in eddication,' says
Mr.. Albums. "Thar's me and sis Cal
line amt got long no better in the
worruld than pappas other children
that warn't dedicated"
The latest style of young ladies hat
is called the "Kiss me if you dare"
When worn by a cross-eyed woman
with wart on her nose the defiance
is terrible and unanswerable.
Said a young man to his bachelor
uncle, "What advice would you give to
q young man who was contemplating
matrimony p 81 should advise him
to keep on contemplating ?"
doctor Jones wants to know if
you'd please pay this bill now p Old
gentlemen looks over the items, and
replies, "Tell DR.. Jones I'll pay him for
his medicines, and return his visits"
An inhabitant of Corfu, who recent
ly returned from Spitzberger, after an
absence of twenty eight years, says he
chad the good luck" to find his wife in
good health, and the widow of three
husbands.
An Iowa bridegroom telegraphed
his girl that he would be there on the
next train, so that the ceremony would
be certain, but the operator made il:
an be tumbled to Texas Kick the
preacher"
The way to subject all things to thy.
sell is to subject thyself to reason
thou shalt govern many, il reason gov
ern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned
the monarch of little worlds Com
mand thyself
When foreigner finds that plague
is word Of one syllable, and ague, a
part OF the plague, is word Of two,
he wishes that the plague might take
one half the English language, and the
ague the other.
A firm trust in the assistance of an
Almighty Being naturally produces
patience, hope, cheeriulness, and all
other dispositions of mind that allevi-
ate those calamitles which we are not
able TO remove.
Never was human machine pro-
duced without many trials and failures /;
whereas this universe, in all its endless
complication, was perfect at its pro-
duction, perfected in the ideas of its
great Author, even from eternity.
At young ladies seminary, during
an examination in history, one of the
most promising pupils was interroga-
ted aMary, did Martin Luther die
natural death p "No," was the reply;
"he was communicated by bull.
Happiness is much more equally di-
vided than some Of us imagine, and in
this point of view has been compared
to the mama in the Desert" He
that gathered much had nothing over,
aud he that gathered little had no lack. "
Mistress-'Lct you go to evening
school, Mary2 Why, | thought you
could read "Well, ma'am, ! does
know my letters fnstrate, so long as
they keep all in row, but as soon as
they gifts mixed up into words, I'm
beat"
Truth is but the correspondence be.
tween things and our notions Of them.
To search after truth, to love it for its
own sake, are, therefore, rcsolvable in
to loving and striving for notions that
conform perfectly TO their prototypes.
True ideas are actualities, but truth is
nothing.
A young clergyman, modest almost
to bashfulness, was once asked by a
country apothecary of country char
acter, in public and crowded Assem-.
bly, and in tone of voice sufficient to
catch the attention of the whole com.
pany. "How happened il that the pa
tnarchs lived TO such extreme old age"
To which question the clergyman re.
piled, "Perhaps they took no physic."
Garricl1, going up Holborn, when
great mob was gathered together to
see criminal pass to Tyburn, asked
Mr. Loclxyer Davis, who was standing
at his shop door, what was the name
of the person going to his fatal end,
and what was his crimeY 2 Mr.. Davis
told him his namo was Vowel, and his
crime forgery "Ah,' said GarriclS,
"do you know which of the Vowels il
is, for there are several OF that name 2
However" continued he, "it is certain,
and am very glad of it, that is Meth.
er you (U) nor o."
May not tho sea be styled the TEN.
pie Of contemplation? Viewed in all
lis stages, it exalts and improves the
mind Its level expanse, when a calm
prevails, communicates a similar tran.
guilty to the rejecting breast and
when its pillows lift their devouring
heads, they suggest ideas the most sub.
lime, meditations the most solemn.
The very nature Of the prospect, bound