Connecticut western news., 1879-08-06
WIT AND WISDOM.

WIT AND WISDOM.
 Reputation is the shadow of char acter.
 A cardinal virtue-Not to cheat at cards.
 It is easier to forget favor than an injury.
 Mosquitoes penetrate into the best society.
 The board of education-the black board.
 A floating debt is certain in time to sink any enterprise.
 This is the season of the year to tell secrets everybody will keep shady.
 The best refrain for rowdy song is to refrain from joining in the chorus.
 -Asummer erresort-Borrowing money to go on fcrtnight's iaunt to the noun | tains or seashore.
 Mrs. Jones says her husband will never get struck by lightning because he always gets insulate. Books ara men of higher nature, and tho only men who speak aloud for future times to hear. It is 8 mean man who will stuff suit of clothes and anchor it in a mill pond, just to plague Coroner.
 The approved and pious way of gossiping is to sweeten scandal with the treacle of homilizing inferences.
 Nothing in all this social universe is so utterly thrown away and trodden under foot as dishonored woman.
 In searching for wife look only at the feet, for does not the old adage tell us that "Alls we'll that ends well2"
 Envy and malice are devils that drive possessed souls into the contemplation of that which aggravates their madness.
 Hero making is a.woman's work. Even your sensible and practical woman | must take to hero making sooner or later.
 Tho metaphysics of salvation are not of so much consequence, when one is engaged in the practice of actually saving men.
 | Whenever we have to establish new relations with any one, let us make an ample provision of pardon, of indulgence and of kindness.
 Tt is wonderful how silent man can be when he knows his cause is just, and how bosterous he becomes when he knows he is in the wrong.
 When the first rays of the rising sun steal through the latticed window and make @ checker. board of the sleeper's face, the atrocious fly has no chance but to "gambol on the square"
 Tt was Boston lady who informed 6 visitor who came to see her new house, that she was having hicks made in the walls in which to place statutes, and in one of them burst of her husband.
 Sympathetic Young Thing.-"Noth- ing in the paper but stupid strikes and bank failures and depression of trade and prevailing distress. Why don't they put in something of some interest to somebody"
 "I am afraid" said lady to her hus- band, "that I am going to have stiff neck" "Not at all improbable, my dear," replied her spouse, " I have seen strong symptoms of it ever since we were marr ed."
 Mother, noticing her little daughter wipe her mouth with her dress sleeve, asked her what her handkerchief was for. Said the little one: It is to shake at the ladies in the street.. That is what papa does with his." A man in Indiana brought suit fora divorce against his wife, gained his case, and then applied to her for money to pay the expenses. She gave 1t to him, and in fit of gratitude he offered to marty her again, but she declined. A certain editor was taking walk one evening with his wife, when she, who was romantic and an admirer of nature, said: "l Augustus, just notice the moon." "Can't think of it, my dear, for less than twenty cents line"
 -"My dear," said smiling spouse to her other half, morning or two since, e am going a shopping I want a little change" "Poohi" responded the ungallant man, "that would be no change at all; you go shopping every day."
 A bright little three-year-old, while her mother was trying to get her to sleep, became interested in some out side noise. She was told that it was caused by a cricket, whom she sagely observed: "Mamma, think he ought to be oiled"
 A man who attends strictly to his own business, says the Quincy Modern Argo, is always busy, but the man who wants to attend strictly to your business can go to fire or circus just as well at one time as at another. We are always ready to give him a vacation.
 Little Annie plays so hard in these vacation days that she does not become so round and rosy as her mother would like. Not long since, as she was having her Saturday night bath, her mother said, "Oh, Annie, dear, what shall I do with you? I believe you grow thinner and thinner every day l" Aunle thought fully regarded her mother for moment, then asked very seriously, "Am I thin enough yet do you think to be mother of paper doll 2"