Connecticut western news., 1879-02-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

He who works with hope before him knows not fatigue and feels not pain.
 The tines on which many persons are impaled in February-Valen tines.
 Gratitude is the music of the heart when it's chords are swept by kindness.
 Divine guidance is shown when our vessel, tempest tossed, keeps steadily on.
 There are three good aids to Satan in this life-poverty, politics and tooth ache.
 There's no bank, not even snow bank, that can stand run all the year round.
 A year of pleasure passes like a aeeting breeze, but moment of sorrow seems an age of pain.
 Hill and valley, seas and constella- tions are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
 Happiness consists in occupation of mind. Small minds require to be occu- pied by affairs. Great minds can occu- py themselves.
 To love in order to be loved in re- turn, is man; but to love for the pure sake of loving, is almost the character istics of an angel.
 Now that Congress is trying to pre- vent Chinamen from coming to this country, we hope it will exterminate the rats that the Chinamen would eat.
 Laura sits watching the clouds overheads
 "Where arc they going, wonderr'
 Prosaic Tom, from the door of the shed, CT guess they arc going to thunder
 A Chattanooga boy who was one of a jury who failed to convict for want of evidence, explained to his brethren that the culprit was "released on s'picion."
 Push out your feet-dont be afraid
 No coward learns to skate:
 Now right-now left--now claw around
 And sit thee down to wait.-Erchonge.
 =" Whats iography, Bill P'' t' It's a' tellin' of forrin' lands that we know nuthin' about by cute chaps that never seen 'em." Bill got government situa- tion. . An Alderman was recently heaFd to say "All human things are hollow. It is contemptible to be hollow, therefore,. I'll stuff myself as full as I'm able. " And he did.
 A lady demonstrated with her butcher for his cruel treatment in put ting little lambs to death, "Why, mad ame," said he, "you would not eat them alive, would youe"
 -Adolph to Araminta on their way to church "How I would I were the prayer-book you clasp so lovingly !" Reply" How I would you were, for then I could shut you up."
 In late severe gale lady asked q neighbor if he was not afraid his house would blow away. "Oh, no, was the answer, "the mortgage on it is heavy as to make that impossible. A matter of fact man was told by his doctor to put check on'his stomach if he wished to live long and be happy. He went immediately to his tailor, who filled the prescription by making him Q plaid vest.
 -Ethel-"I "Isn't it shameful That young Parker declares that when the light was turned out for the dissolving views he kissed all of us'-except one x All Simultaneously -" Except one ? Which could that have been ?"
 There are as many minds on the sub | ject of retrenchment as there are mon to express them. The only unanimity is on the part of the retrenched, who agree that the lightning ought to strike say- where but in their immediate neighbor- hood.
 A Scotch nobleman one day visited a lawyer at his office, in which at the time there was blazing fire, which led him to exclaim !: Mir. K, your room is as hot as an oven." "So it should be, my lord, replied the lawyer-.it it is here make my bread"
 See here, MT. Indian, you have some reservations in Idaho that we whites think we had better take, so you | move on a ubClS. W lldb IOu WOu Well, you'd better make up your mind to do it while we go home and run some bullets, you bloodthirsty savages, you.
 It is noticeable fact that the peo. pie in the prairie country of Iowa dc more work than any other people in the West. This is because there is nothing in the top rail of Q barbed wire fenc' that invites men to sit on it and talk poll tics while tho grasshoppers get in tho crops.
 It was in village school that visi |, tor, who was interrogating the children , asked the question "Why was Lots wit' !, turned into pillar of salt?" There wa , pause, and then small boy with !
 preternatural growth of head pipea out CT s'pose it was because she was to'
 fresh"
 If you have ever been pestered b. s book peddlers you will be pleased witt ? the following :-The editor of tn a Hawkeye was asked if he was editor Q ! the "New American Encyclopedia 2 2 His pithy reply was, "No, not exactl e the editor, but we killed the oanyassel
 if that is what you mean,