Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
WIT AND WISDOM. a

-ln6 Iuhu WuO 5 ISo uWhy HUI hAS health brings it back with him if success full.
 The word Impossible" is the mother-tongue of little souls.-Lo Brougham.
 There are only three things you can get for nothing in this world-air, water and advice.
 A wise man watches the develop ment of his plans and then bends his energies to waiting.
 The wisdom of the world is utterly inadequate to the task of discovering the wisdom of God.
 Words have double weight when there is @ man and character back of them.-[ Horace Mann.
 Life is battle. From its earliest dawn to it's latest breath we are strug- gling with something.
 Hanging is capital punishment- that is, the kind of hanging that is done on plump and pretty girls arm.
 Only those, according to the Elmira Advertiser, with warts or blemishes on their foreheads wear banged hair.
 Don't criticise bachelor too se- yerely, or think he is of no use ln tnls world. Even he has his miss-shun.
 If every person would be half as good as he expects his neighbor to oe' what heaven this world would be.
 The blue sky is distant reflection of the azure serenity that looks ous from under human brow.-Thoreau.
 -"This shows the power Of mlnd over matter" said the editor, and ne condenseda Q ten-verse poem to couple''
 Every saint is Gods temple, and nc who carries his temple about hum may go to prayer when he pleases.-l Aus'ln' A Colorado epitaph:
 He was rare, he was fair, He was lucky with two par; | But the Sioux, they "raiscd his halr'
 -7empora naatantur-Formerly the foolish virgins had no oil now the fool ish virgins are too free with tho kero- sene.
 The worst comb and brush in Chris tendon can be found in the average photograph gallery, and the worss pen in telegraph off ,e.
 It has been noticed by Philadel- phia youth that the wids belts now worn by fashionable females are just the width of gentleman's coat sleeve.
 It is not the necessaries of life that lead us into temptation so much as the luxuries. As Jerrold said, "Honest bread is very well; it's the butter tna' gets us into trouble"
 -Professor-Now, I ask you' as a practical miner, what spade do you think is tue very bestP Third year msn (scornfully)-Why, tho ace, Of course (sensation. )-[ Acta Columbiana
 Every newspaper office should nave A small room fitted up eepeclaiiy TOT orators. where those who must talk can oo and do themselves justice witnou' disturbing those who wish to wrl'e'
 A hungry-looking tramp was op- carved in the street gazing intentiy Ut . nIacord in n shop window. The plaoaro read AS follows: "Twenty thousand wooden toothpicks for ten cents. ,., A little boy having been at cmt, dren's evening party, his papa was oa Soa,
 thot be chose the biggest girl to dance cs, w;tb an asked him: "How old was snea He said "I would not be so rude as 'o
 ask her"
 The philosopher of the MaraSnoa 1,,de,,endent says: "A man who a'' tomnts to do business without adveras- ing might as we'll set pan Of Ice anu anu . attempt to skim cream from IL Ill 'no , morning." o, ~Pr;noe Esterhazy, great owner ot sheep. wrote to the composer h'sIS w ask him what he would charge Tor play ing one piece at party. " Wna'' % fe- piled Liszt, "should you charge TUT , selling me one outlet"
 A New England man wants to knoW , how long cider will keep sweet. He tried barrel, testing it every day py
 taste His boys were doing the same thing, and the old man got out or cloer before the change came. An American tourist was visiting Naples. and saw Vesuvius during au
 eruption. "Have you anything hke 3 that in the New World?" was the ques' t tion of an Italian spectator. "No,' replied Jonathan, "but guess we have . a mill-dam that would put it out in five
 minutesp"
 During an election in certain lc cality a temperance candidate oailee upon rumseller, and solicited his vote 1T would rather vote for the Evil on' y himself than for you," was the savage : response. "Yes, know" said the car didate, "but in case your friend shoul'
 not be nominated, might I then coun
 on your assistance2" Q -"why," said Jane Matilda to Msu' q Louise, "does particular part ot tna door fastening wildly remind me Of tha 2 sweet Lord Fitz Mulligatawney, whon ~ ~ we met at Newport" "Pm sure Idon' N know" responded Maud, as she feeoi
 ran her hand through her bang, "Wnyt