Connecticut western news., 1879-09-10
WIT AND WISDOM.

1t IS the pest proot or tne VirGueS or a family circle to see happy fireside.
 How few faults are there seen by us which we have not ourselves committed.
 Passions are perhaps the things without which, it Is said, no honey is made.
 Never make any profane speeches, nor make jest of any Scripture ex- pressions. ... ..-
 Truth is hid by great depths, and the way to it does not appear to all the world.
 The friendships of youth are found- ed on sentiment the dissensions of age result from opinion. ..... ...4....5a
 Tt is easy to pick holes in other peo- ple's work, but far moro profitable to do better work yourself.
 A bust is less than a half-length. When man goes on bust, however, he is apt to go to extreme lengths.
 One should not dispute with man who, either through stupidity or shame lessness, denies plain and visible truths.
 The man that did the most shouting while pulling safe up stairway did tho least lifting. He concentrated his strength in his mouth.
 When the young gent first affects cane, is he aware that he is making an awkward stride toward second ohild- hood?
 When a man dies people inquire what property he has left behind him. Angels will ask what good deeds lie has sent before him.
 -" Subscribers are coming in at tue rate of fifty per day." said an editor; and @ rival paper explained that they were coming in to order their paper stopped. t.:.- &
 Affections, like spring flowers, break through the frozen ground at last, and the heart, which seek, but for another heart to make it happy, will never seek in vain.
 Folly soon wears ont her shoes. She dances so fast We are all of us tired. Golden wires may annoy us as much ss steel bars, if they keep us behind prison windows. -"Pappy. the corn is up!' "The corn up Why, I only planted 1t yes. terday." CT know that-but the hogs got in last night, and guy it lift you hadn't counted on."
 It is very pleasant to sec some men turn round, pleasant as sudden rush of warm air in winter or the flash of fire light in the chill dusk they shed radi- ance on all around them.
 It is all very well to talk about economy, but the difficulty is to get any thing to economize. The little baby who puts his toes in his mouth is al- most the only person who in these hard times manages to make both ends meet.
 Customer" What did you think of the Bishops sermon on Sunday, MT. Wigsby?" Hairdresser We'll, really, sir. there was o gent sittin' in front O me as 'ad his lair parted that crookea that couldn't 'ear wordF'
 When is a married man blrdf When he comes home at two A. NJ. F. S.-For the benefit of bachelors Git not being necessary for the married factlon) we explain that when man comes home at the hour named his wife makes hun quail. ,,
 Henry was sitting in the parlor with Laura, and in attempting to turn tho gas down extinguished 1t. There, he exclaimed, "the gas has gone out" "Yes," murmured Laura, "and wish somebody would follow its exam ple." Then Henry went out too.
 Will newspaper reporters ever get through writing that man seriously i'll or badly hurt is in dangerous condition l? A man may be dangerous when in full possession of health and strength, but quite harmless when pros trated with illness CT wounds.-[Ciu' cinnati Saturday Night.
 And now ariseth medical man who saws he can prove to anybody's satisfac- ton that the bites of mosquitoes are positively beneficial to the human sys- tenn. He ayers that they drain the system of bad blood, and that person bothered with pi1nples or eruptions would find relief by permitting them selves to be bitten thirty or forty times per day.
 A man who was trying to sell rather dismal residence boasted that 1t com :: manded view of the railway station. "But that doesn't mako it any more ) pleasant" said the party who was ex- pected to purchase it. "Oh, yes it , does," replied the owner confidently ]; cit makes it gay here. You can stand on this step and see everybody that misses the train"
 } A party met at public table, when . the conversation turned on the subject of transmigration. MT. K. was firm believer in the doctrine, and was expa- tiating largely upon it's points, when he 7 was interrupted by gentleman who f was present with, "K., what do you @ suppose yourself to have been before 7 you were K. ?" "I do not know," re- @ piled K; "I might have been 8 pig, for l. aught know" "Well," seioined his friend. uyou have not altered much