Connecticut western news., 1879-03-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

A poor relation-A story badly told. Honey is hiyed up by the powers that bee. r-n @a haa sst
 What was it the gang saw? Saw dust, of course. ;at
 Most birds are industrious. We have seen 8 chromo. .-......
 Tt is false economy to borrow when you can afford to buy. r.s ss4l
 The mother of a troublesome little darky calls him the "black plague"
 -"Come, gentle Spring; diphtherial mildness come. ."-Boston Aduertiser.
 If you are in love, just constitute yourself & "Teller GO mmittee of ono, and settle the business.
 The hum of a teakettle paid for is more beautiful than Sn operatic air on piano that is not. ..4
 -One of the "beauties of Spring '" is the cheering fact that it never gives us Fall election.-Hor. Her. .,T
 3-To-morrow cannot make or mar
 To-day, whater the daybe;
 
 Foresee the men we may be.
 A man should not go about with face long enough to make the world believe he has money deposited m a savings bank. Mary had little lamp, -S Filled full of kerosene; "A She took it once to light a flre;f haa hany
 The Christian is misusing his rites and ceremonies unless they are bringing him more personally and immediately near to God. ~-. .. , ssss If a man really wants to know of how little importance he is, let hlm go with his wife to a dressmaker. .-Net0 Orleans PicGyuac. s.a s
 Tt is not the magnitude of thesphere in which we live, but the patience and fidelity with which we work in it that our Lord will honor.
 Whatever you would not wish your neighbor to do to you do it not unto him. This is the whole law the rest IS 8 mere exposition of it.
 -"Always pay as you go," said au old man to his nephew" "But, uncle, suppose I haven't anything to pay with ?" "Then don't go" .... -"Cant something be done, asks a charming little prude, "to civii-eyes those young savages who stare so rudely at pretty women ?"
 Mild and gentle as women are, we | have known the best of them-who would get up in a chair to avoid hurting Q mouse-to stone raisins.
 An Iowa man, now in California, writes back to friend that "any one can get living in Iowa, but it takes 8 smart fellow to do 1t here."
 When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and yir- tuons action is above all escutcheons on our tomb or silken banners OCT us.
 -Mary-"Oh, Sissy this tiresome loose tooth I declare I'll pull 1t out r Sissy" no, Mary, pray don't 1! Mall make me wear it." Sissy gets all her sisters cast-offs.
 There is more virtue in obscurity than is commonly supposed; and~per- haps there have been nobler specimens of magnanimity in low life than even the page of history can boast.
 We are told that Dr. Le Moyne, owner of the Pennsylvania Crematory, says he never knew O time when busi- ness was so dull. The Doctor should advertise. City Journal. l | MT. Ragsdale, Treasurer of Jeffer- son county, Ind, broke his engagement with poor girl to marry rich widow, and jury compelled him to pay $9o0 damages. "Well, !" he said, as he handed over the money, ]" I am still about $20,- GOO ahead by the change" -"Thank God for free Gospel, said an old church member, suddenly carried away by the eloquence of the preacher. "Five and twenty years have been church member, and it has not cost me as many coppers." May the Lord forgive your stingy soul l" said the preacher. , "A small boy whose department al , school had always ranked high, came home one day recently with bis standins reduced considerably. What have yoS been doing, my son ?" asked the mother "Been doing, "replied the young nope { full, been doing just as I have all along <x,1~, kIc Aan K ~. no,, =.