Connecticut western news., 1879-07-16
WIT AND WISDOM.
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 -"Meaner nor town cow," is an OK pressive Georgia idiom.
 -" Many men resemble the clam, for you can see all there is in them when they open wide their mouths.
 People who cannot heartily love and hate will never command the first or know the clearing influence of the latter.
 The New Orleans Picayune does not believe in dancing, and especially would it leave watering place hops to- frogs.
 In Nebraska there is laconic opitaph over the grave of a citizen re- cently deceased-" He Twisted Mules Tail"
 No matter how great philosop he man may be, he can never withstand the temptation to kick an empty tomato can.
 Why is it that man can't turn up lamp wick without laying the side ot his hand down on the table and making face2
 Any man, says the Coney Island NeaUs, pays too much for his whistle when he has wet it fifteen or twenty times day. Believe, and if thy faith be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
 The evening the young man hasn't money enough to take his girl into an ice cream saloon, he sends her note stating he is sick.
 A Brooklyn woman, married fifty years to her husband, wants divorce. She says she has given him fair trial and he won't do.
 People are apt to fall in love with those who are beautiful at sight. But to retain love one must have truth, ten- derness and constancy. A Boston child remarked after gazing earnestly at man who was bald, but had heavy whiskers, Hts head was put upside down, wasn't it ?"
 Nothing does so fool o man as ex- treme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools that are not.
 -"Woman is delusion," said crusty old bachelor in our sanctum recently. Snodgrass retorted: "Wel, man is always hugging some delusion or other"
 Some persons move through life as a band of music moves down the street, flinging out pleasures on every side through the air to every one, far and near, that cares to listen.
 If all were as willing to be pleasant and as anxious to please in ther own homes as they are in the company of their neighbors they would have the happiest homes in the world.
 Our eyesight is the most exquisite of our senses, yet it does dot serve to discern wisd om. If 1t did what glow of love would she kindle within us and how our lives would be beautitied.s
 Says the Boston Iranscript :: Were the secrets of the sanctum made known, it would be found that every city has scores of rhymers as remarkable ln thelr way as Michigan's "sweet singer"
 Some Farmers built a schoolhouse down in Georgia, recently, and after the building was finished it was found to cover spot in which three counties joined. There is now lively question of jurisdiction.
 Street scene in New York: First rufian-" Kill 'iml Wot'll we do with i'm afterward?" Second ruffian (con- temptuously) you're green 'un. Why' bury i'm under the rubbish in the street, of course. He'll never be found. |"
 A man asked MT. Pitt for certain place. "I should have thought" said the minister, "that a sinecure would have suited you better" "True," an swered the applicant, "but if you give me the place will make it sinecure.
 There is one especially good feature about basket picnics, says the Detroit Free Press. The woman you hate always gets chased by snakes, and the man who tries to boss the excursion eats too much, and is laid away with case of collie.
 He who is passionate and nasty IS generally honest. It is your old dis sembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. There's no deception in bull dog. It is only cur that sneaks up and bites you when your back is turned.
 An ink blot on,a pure white surface will attract more attention than whole bucketful of black paint poured over piece of black cloth. Thus it is with pure character. One little sin will make it foul and black, while bad character cannot be made blacker by all the sins in the decalogue.
 About a week ago an Iowa man died. He was very wealthy and left three sons, ) his only heirs, and would you believe it, the ungrateful boys got together and ran away with all the property before l the lawyers could get at it and divide it with each other? There is so much 5 sordid, mean, grasping selfshness in B this world, that sometimes it is enough to discourage o good lawyer,