The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-17
CHAT BY THE WAY.

If we were all permitted to put our valuation
ourselves there would not be a low priced man
in the world.
1t is II hard thing to say. and many an ardent tenn
permanent may be dampened by it, but it is neverthe
less that it is more honorable to make a good
pair of shoes than to write poor poem If this fact
could be emphasized some people would drop the
pen and take up the awl. and the world would be the
better for the change.
You may put a mean soul like q poor picture in
costly frame, and he is the better tor it,; and
may put great soul, like good picture. into
common frame, and he is none the for it.
Holmes. like good apple, is growing mellow
he ripens with the gathering years. There few
more beautiful lines than these In the languages
Ohl let us trust, with holy men of old,
Not all the story here begun is told.
So the tired spirit, waiting to be freed
On life s last leaf with tranquil eye shall read,
by the pale slimmer of the torch reversed,
Not hnis but the end of volume first.
We have great respect, only tor the intellect
nal capacity. but also for the financial acumen of
the man who told family who applied for summer
board that he would charge double price for tho
children because he know their capacity for destroy
ing everything, but that he would average the board
bill by taking the parents for nothing. That man
once himself boy.
The application of this anecdotc is not quite uni
,ersal. He said, Eyes. she odd young lady /;
indeed, l think her extremely singular" And then
he added. ''she never heard to speak i'll of all
absent friend"
1t viii do harm if American boys read this little
story two or three times while youth of thirteen
was playing with his fellows he against the
stand of poor, dilapidated apple man and came
very tipping his treasures into the gutter. He
instantly raised his hat and politely asked pardon for
the aifront. When asked by his mates why he lifted
his hat to poor old apple he replied II didu t
do it because the apple man was u gentleman. but
rather because / gentleman" This sounds
very like AIRY tale. and yet it may possibly have
happened somewhere in the suburbs of a large city,
1t is great deal better TO do a kindly deed a man
when he is living than to weep over him when is
dead
Mseries come unbidden and always stay too long
while joys must be sought for and when found are
apt to slip away unawarcs.
There is one problem which the most reckless
nathefnaticians have been compelled to give up
namely. how many women it takes to keep secret
Human nature Is peculiarly constituted that out
of every ten men who happen to peruse a medical
book prepared for family use nine of them will
suddenly discover that they have psstty nearly ali
he symptoms OF pretty nearly all the fatal diseases
10 which flesh is heir II you want to keep well
put the medical treatise the Shelf aud then the
alarming symptoms of the Oriental plague will
neuralgia There Is nothing dang erous than to
know too much about yourself
person who was disputing one day with Peter
Pndar said, in hot temper that he did like to be
thought a scoundrel. al WISH" was the reply,
that you had as great dislike to being one"
1t is said that man built of duplicate organs.
lie has two hemspheros ia his brain, aud two eyes,
and the fact that he has only mouth is nothing
moro than ss'oniihc hint by good Moslcr Nature
that lie ain speak OF All he Il sometimes
happens. moreover, that one Of the duplicates may
b. out OF ordet while the other performs it's frnc-
tons perfectly. one iDho Of .he D-ain may be
removed aud the other w!l do the work
OF the two. pigeon VIII live for months
ia spite OF the that its entire brain
lad been removed. and TINS IL upt diHsalt task
that certain men cannot Initiate the pigeons
s,upic. lie memory also ia double organ, Of
whose sides mas be- parayzo. white tho other works
10 perfection. We k8ew person. for instance, who.
wayn lent money, remembered all tho eixcam.