The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-03-23

Boston, Mass. opens to-day at the Church Of the
Visitation. South Brooklyn. Very Rev. NJ. A. Hunt.
Superior of the Mission. assisted by Rev. Dr. Reardon
and others. will oficiate.
CHAT BY THE WAY
It does not always follow that mans bare asser-
ton is the naked truth.
The very best and kindest way in which to look at
the faults Of your friends is to shut your eyes.
II man is honest he does not need to tell of it.
Sterling virtue afford keep still. but sly dis
honesty has very busy tongue
No jest be quite SO bitter as that which
runs auehingly along on the edge Of an ugly truth
It Is Cotton who says that ''men will wrangle for
religion-wrte for it. fight for it. die for it; any,
thing but-live for it,
Fuller very beautifully said that "he who spends
all his life in sport is like who nothing but
fringes and eats nothing but sauces."
A debt is very stubborn thing and always sue
ceeds in having its own way. The more you attempt
to contract It the larger it gets.
There Is no doubt that the honeymoon so
called because Of its close resemblance to the sweet
product of the bee It may also be said to resemble
the honeycomb with this slight difference, however.
that the honeycomb is made up Of little cells, while
the honeymoon is sometimes regarded as one great
sell.
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man can be proven to be morally the worst. The
murderers who expiate their crimes the gallows
have taken life. and perhaps had. during the leisure
which the jail afforded strange compunctons Of
science. The cheerful man. however is one who
takes life easily and has computations whatever.
clock Is about the only thing in the world which
manages to 60 all the better when its affairs are
wound up. There are some men, however. who
have very carefully studied this popularity Of the
clock and transferred It to extent to their
business arrangements. They have happy faculty
of being worth nothing when their creditors be-
come clamorous and demand settlement. but the
very moment their affairs are wound up. away they
CO. cheerfully AZ ever. on tick. on tick. on tick.
After all each man knows what troubles him better
than his neighbors do. When a certain Roman was
about to repudiate his wife his friends came in and
expostulsted with him. Some people delight to
have hand In other peoples affairs. and never
30 much at home as when they have left their own
and gone into the home of somebody else in order to
"Ax" things. "Isn't she handsome. and rch?' they
asked. The Roman took up little shoe and said,
Gentlemen. any Of you tell where that shoe
pinches unless you put your foot in it?'
The power Of versiAcation to give expression to
the Amer feelings has long been acknowledged. q
young man Is suffering from an unreciprocated at
tachment ne inds no relief in throwing himself
business
drown his sorrow in the flowing bowl. He wakes up
the next morning with his great grief fresh
plus raging headache. But in the all absorbing at
fractions Of the rhyming dictionary. while searching
with the persistency Of q Stanley for word in any
language. dead living that will Jingle in unison
with Mary Jane. he dnds immediate and permanent
relief. few lines of original composition on the
aurorsl locks Of some fair and false damsel who
really had red hair has saved lives than all the
prescriptions Of all the doctors. Immense grief Of
other kinds has the outlet Poetry is the saliva
ton Of the human race. the safety valve of broken
hearts. These touching lines. for instance, must
have been the means Of assnaging sorrow which
might otherwise have endangered the health of the
writer. You that they were written with o
ravens quill
Our little Sallie to Heaven did 60,
Baby life sweet Is.
She was afaicted with cerebro spinal meningitis.
IT'S hard to lose our Sally SO;
But the reflection sweet is.
That she has gone where there il no
More cerebro spinal meningitis.
A great many Christians are very careful to use
good grammar in their prayerful petitions. Gram
mar or no grammar. however. the colored preacher
who made the following prayer got right down on
the hard pan OF stern truth. and although might
not be able to put thoughts into just his Ian
guage we can most heartily say amen to every
word:-
O Lord ives q mighty abused people; we's been all
all broken to pieces. Now. Lord. wants to be
Don't send an angel Lord for dc job is too big for
angel. You made us.aord. and you knows our
wants. and you fix us up nobody else can.
Come right down yourself and come quick. too.'
This story is just good II you give the word
elected" theological "a 1t is IL you give it poiti-
cal meaning "what will you do IL you are et.cted?
said reporter TO u candidate for Office "Mv dear
friend" was the reply. "what shall do IL am
elected will DO very easy matter to decide: but
what is bothcring me just is what earth am
going to do IL l am not elected
There many experiences Of daily occurrence
which would excite ones incredulty IL put into
print. We should say at once that they could not
possibly be true and this is one OF Thorn. con-
ductor demanded of q certain sleepy passenger his
ticket The passenger very DOGGY that he paid
no attention whatever Then the cnrnged official
determined that such deadhead should be elected.
and caught hold OF his leg. intending to drag his
victim in that ignominious way to the door. He
pulled and pulled. and then in his desperate deter
minstion gave ono supreme jerk. when. msrdbtie
dictx. the leg actually of. and the con-
ductor fell to tho floor holding IL in
his hands. Imagine his horror. For an
instant he thought himself a wilful nnr
derer. and in Imagination Saw himself convicted
by jury Of his peers and sentenced to the awful
oooHi VI inc rope. What rchet, however. 10 hhu
that the leg was wooden one. Tho passenger had
not walked up. so tho conductor quietly put thc-)cg
back into its place. and made further demand Tor
u ticket. II no had taken tho by the hair. that
might have como on. II he had seized him by the
arms. they might also have como OF. Indeed the
man might have falcn into innumerablc pieces. and
tho conductor after putting all the artificial members
ia one pile. and leaving the little remainder of his
passenger to make himself into another Pile. would
hardly have known of which pile to demand his
tickct. ~ he passed. ON in silence and sadness.
We have heard Of AN eloquent soliloquy by n
gifted fly who was reviewing his past. when may
have wider application than is at 1rst seen. ''Ah."
II said. II have passed through tho Matching age and
through tho creeping age and through tho nyng ago.
and now. alasl ain right In the midst Of the mu-
cilagc." And there he IL to-day adeal fly.
Even in this corrupt age and generation noble