Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
WIT AND WISDOM.

will out, except in New York.
 Great souls hold firmly to heaven and let the earth roll on beneath them.
 A mans character is like fence You cannot strengthen it by wditewash.
 Some railroads are run on narrow gauge, some on broad gauge; but all on mortgage.
 Nothing is further from the earth than heaven; nothing is nearerto heaven than earth.
 -"You follow the legal profession, believe, sir?" Lawyer Pompous: "No, sir; lead it."
 How rarely do we accurately weigh what we have to sacrifice against what we have to gain.
 The great problem of life is for each man to do his share of the worlds work and keep we'll.
 He who has created us with thirst after the knowledge of Him, will certain ly satisfy that thirst.
 The recent cyclone in Kansas was quitepopular-many persons were really carried away with it.
 The sign on returning emigrants wagon read: "Rough in Texas. Going back to my mother-in-law."
 If man has transgressed one law, and speaks lies, and sooffs at another world, there is no evil he will not do.
 We do not believe immortality be- cause we have proved it, but we forever try to prove it because we believe it.
 A Dutch judge, on conviction of culprit for having four wives, decided: "He hash punishment plenty Ifs init one l"
 The weather is hot. The girls in the parlor are considerably annoyed by | hearing their mothers complain of heat in the kitchen.
 The Owego Record says there are two things in this world to avoid Temptation, and pair of white pants on 1 a picnic excursion.
 Any boy who hadn't rather blow dinner horn than to hear some other boy blow one will please send his address to the Detroit Free Press.
 Profound thought by statesman eff you want to hear anything good said of you in your lifetime, circulate report that your dead."~
 An Irish man who had on very ragged coat was asked of what stuft was it made. "Bedad, I don't know" says he. CT think the most of 1t Is made of fcesh air"
 | It is far easier, says the Boston 7ranscript, to forgive the man wno makes fool of himself than to forgive him who has witnessed similar exhi- bition of your own.
 -"Jobbins," quoth 8 neighbor to that wag, "Tve got a little extra noeing to do this week, can't you loan me your man of all work ?'' It is not well TOT man to be loan," was the curt reply. The liberty of using harmless pleas ures will not be disputed; but It IS stll to be examined what pleasures are harm less. The evil of any pleasure is not m the act itself, but in it's consequences.
 -"There's great difference between housekeeping and living out, said MT. Younghusband "for when l boarded out had to wait sometimes half an hour for my dinner, but now have it just when I can get it."
 An exchange thinks the time will certainly come when men will go flying through the air, and so do we. 1t will come when three or four men handle keg of nitro-glycerine as baggage smasher handles trunk.
 The executors have got Brigham Young's estate about divided up among themselves, and now the heirs are very unreasonably beginning to ask about their share. The impudence of some people is perfectly amazing.
 -"And how does Charlie like going to school ?" kindly inquired the good man of the little six-year-old bay, who was waiting with tin can in his hand the advent of another dog. "I like poin' we'll 'nough," replied the embryo statesman, ingeniously, "but l don't like stayin' after git there"
 Now is the the time, says the New Bedford Mercury, when people are be- ginning to close their cool and comfort able homes in the city, and betake themselves and families to swelter in low-roofed country farm houses, a dozen miles from the butcher, baker, Post Of fee and railroads.
 A story is told of soldier who, about one hundred and fifty years ago, was frozen in Siberia. The last express sion he made was, "It is ex-" He then froze as stiff as marble. In the summer of 1860 some French physicians found him, after having lain frozen for one hundred and thirty years. Tbey gradually thawed him, and upon anima- tion being restored he concluded his , sentence with ''-ceedingly cold" : A man with red face. and looking rather shabby, called at house last Sunday and asked for drink of ale. The lady of the establishment refused, , telling him that she could not accommo' r date him. He urged her, assuring hel t that she had better do so, thatsome per a sons had entertained angels unawares "Yes," said she, "I know that; bu e angels don't go about drinking ale 9 Sundays"
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