The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-10-10
Items.
Caught on the fly--Trout.

fores.
There is no difficulty in weighing
mans credit when he has big balance at
the bank.
| Tie man who stuck to his coors' was
painter who sat down in one of his paint
| pots.
From the number of sporting dogs bred
nowadays, we should judge there is about
one dog for every game bird in the coun-
try.
Duck hunting commences when the
| man of the house begins to overhaul the
upper closets for his white waistcoats.
Mr.. Bergh has arrested Central Park
keeper for sticking pitchfork into an ele-
phant. Now if Mr.. Bergh will arrest some
of the fellows who pitchfork trunks about
on the railways, travelling public will rise
up and bless him.
| Persons owing bills for board will
be bored for bills Mark Twain says.
"A woman in New York who dashed pep
per in her false lovers eyes was arrested for
sault.
The wheels Of a clock always travel in
cog.
| Members of Congress are born talking;
soldiers never talk, says Joe Hooker.
-Ifyou are over-anx ious to know why
the elephant wears trunk, irritate him suf-
fciently, andyou will discover that he car
ries his choler in it.
| Charles Summer was no musician. II
is related that lady friend once told him
| if he were to buy music box set to old
Hundred, y she did not believe that he could
make it play more than seventy ive.'
|
will generally suffer for wishing to appear
other than what you are, or more learned.
the mask soon becomes an instrument OF tor.
| tue.
To know thing is right, and not to do
do it, is a weakness. When you know
thing. maintain that you know it ; when
you do not know it, admit the tact this is
wisdom Fear not poverty but fear missing
| the truth
1t is not WORK that kills men 4; it is
worry. Work is healthy you can hardly
put more on a man than be can bear Worry
is rust upon the blade. 1t is not the revolt
ution that destroys the machinery but the
friction
Making the best thing is the art of all
arts. without which no trade, profession or
calling will ever insure success. 1t is the
secret of order and comfort of our homes.
Young men often fli to get on in this
world because they neglect small opportu-
mites Not being faithful in little things,
they are not promoted to the charge of
greater tn ings.
The child learns more by his fourth year
than the philosopher at any period of his
life +; learus to fix an intelligent sign to
every outward and inward motion by
single impulse impaired by his lips to the
air.
We are born with faculties and pow.
ers capable of anything, such at least as
would carry us further than can he easily
imagined (; but it is only the exercise of
those powers which gives us ability and skill
in anything, and lead us towards perfec-
ton.
IT'S a sillv conceit that men without lam
guage are also without understanding. It's
apparent in all ages, that some such have
been even prodigies for ability for its not
to be believed that wisdom speaks to her
disciples only in Latin, Greek and He
brew.
-Self-ac tivity is the indispensable con-
dition of improvement; and education is
only educat ion-that is, accomplishes il,
purposes only by affordinu objects and sup
plying materials to this spontaneous ex,r.
tion. Strickly speaking, every man must
, educate himself.
Let us not listen to those who we think
ought to be angry with our enemies, and
who believe this to be great and manly
, Nothing is more praiseworthy, and nothing
more clearly indicates a great and noble
soul than clemency and read mess to
forgive.
Reading maketb full man, confer
ence ready man, and writing an exact
man and therefore, il man write little he
had need have good memory if he con-
; fer little, he had need have a present wit,
and i he read little he had need have
much cunning, and to seem to know that
he doth not.
If all means of education which are
scattered over tine world, and if the philo-
. sophers and teachers of ancient and modern
: times were to be called together and made
to bring their combined efforts to
bear upon an individual, all they could do
would be to afford the opportunity of i'm
provement.
q Life is a stream which continually
flows on, but never returns. We die
daily; for each day takes away some por-
a tion of life The present moment is only
t our own
= No man can succeed in all his under
i takings, and it would not be we II for him
to do so Things easily acquired go easil,
tiS by the struggle it costs to obtain thai
we learn to rightly estimate the value.
The love of glory the fear of shame
the desired making fortune, the desire o
u rendering life easy and agreeable, and the
% hnmor OF pu Hing down other people, are
d often the causes of that valor so celebrated
; among men.
r. The French peasantry are not yet tirec
r of shutting about in wooden shoes, and
"a France produces about four million pair
% yearly They are very economical, ant
n maple, and in provincial Gowns, ladies Otter
N wear them.
1T .-Greeley's "Go West " says the Titus
l- vile Herald has broken up many 'faa,ily
filled many railraod car, sold many
farm, built up many State, LETT many
creditor in the lurch, gave thousands tn
Ut shakes of fever and ague, and made then
Of acquainted with the grssshopper to thei
r. sorrow. 1t is comparatively innocent thin,
a To take newspaper, but to take the editor
III advice-aye, there's the rub
-Brunswick writes to the Gazette. Ther
Is a.lady, well known in New York societ,
ne whose distinguishing Characteristic is a
go Unsuitable appetite. When she goes to a
1n entertainment where the eatables are serve
en- from side tab le, and passed around to IN
IN guests, she takes her chair and draws il u
Is to the table, and helps herself When 81
or eats all she wants, she f lis her pockets, ,
'e. tells waiter to do her up small parcel {
a the good things to take home with he
nd This is well known fact that now, vile
MS a lady is going to give party, she tells Ii
caterer that there vii be so many person
provide.
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