The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-03-13
GEMS OF THOUGHT.


lie who gives yau fair words, feeds
you with an empty spoon.
An idle reason lessons the weight OF
the good one you gave before.
Compliments cost nothing yet many
pay dearly for them.
Half-witted people have a talent Of
talking much and saying little.
A wise mar is like a spring lock, al
ways more ready to shut than open.
Sweep first before your own door,
before you sweep before your neigh
boris.
The passion Of acquiring riches in
order to support a vain expense, cor
rupts the purest souls.
Take your place modestly at life's
banquet, says Knebel, and ask for moth
ing not in the bill of fare.
Heaven ever renders her dews
to the earth, but earth seldom, or new
er, renders her dues to heaven.
Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by in
Vulnerable streams; but IT is extremely
difficult to trace it to its source.
Four things come not back; the bro
ken word, the sped arrow, the past
life, and neglected opportunity.
A man cannot possess anything that
is better than q good woman, nor any
thing that is worste than a bad one.
To maintain a steady and unbroken
mind, amidst all the shocks Of the
world, marks a great and noble spirit.
Wisdom consists not in seeing what
is directly before us, but in discerning
those things which may come to pass.
Men are sometimes accused of pride
because their accusers would be proud
themselves II they were in their place.
It is apretty saying Of an old writer,
that men, like books, begin and end
with blank 1eaves-infahcy and Sc
nility.
All men who do anything, must en-
dure a depreciation of their efforts. 1t
is the dirt which their chariot wheels
throw up.
A head properly constituted can &C.
commodate itself to whatever pillows
the vicissitudes OF fortune may place
under it.
Relieve misfortune quickly. A man
is like an egg-ths longer he is kept in
hot water, the harder he is when taken
out.
Go to strangers for charity, to ac-
quaintances for advice, and to relatives
for nothing--and you will always have
a supply.
To know exactly how much mischief
may be ventured upon with IMMUNITY,
is knowledge enough for a little great
man.
MIR. Clark Mills, the sculptor is at the
Hampton Normal School, near Fort
ress Monroe, taking casts of the heads
OF the Indian students.
Baron Albert Grant who failed in
London for $40, 00O, 900, has ten daugh-
tiers, which leavesa million for each.
A Knoxville (Iowa) Clergyman is
gaining notice by "a of his earnest
denunciation Of dancing, which, he says,
is soul-destroying.
California has eighty Congregational
churches.
Baltimore is a city with u debt of
s34, 900, 900,
Victoria Woodruff is said to have
become a Sunday-school teacher in
London. If this is true, we shudder
to think what her Sunday-school schol-
ars will grow up to be.
The most songful kittens are import
ed from Persia.
Sprouting the potato will advance
the crop two weeks.
Instead Of the bridesmaids, fashion in
France now prescribes two tiny pages.
The Diaz Government in Mexico is
very anxious TO obtain prestige abroad.
Diphtheria is often regarded AS the
most fatal Of all the diseases of children.
Tie indications are that, for a seal
o at at least, chess will I've the nation
al game
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