The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-13
Small Talk.

Use your leisure time for improve
imeni.
II pays better not to do wrong than
TO do IL aud then repent.
The best armor against temptation
is 10 keep ont of The range of its guns.
No man ever lived who had only ono
fault. A single fault has both sexes In
itself, and Is sure to beget large
family.
The placidity of expression worn by
a man who is "mexf' in n full barber
shop cannot be countcricitcd, even by
an old maid with her first love letter.
Stick TO one thing until IL is done,
and done well. The man who chases
two hares not only leaves one of them
but is pretty sure to lose the other also.
An ambitious young writer having
asked, "What magazine will gvie me
the highest position quickcstr was
told: GA powder magazine, if you COLI
tribute fiery article"
The hen which has been putting in
three weeks time over lump Of chalk
and broken teacup, came off yester
day 20 learn If there was any new gos-
SIP III tilc uctpHDOTllOOu.
A young artist has painted the picture
of dog in under tree, and the work
is so artistically done that none but
the best connoisseurs can tell the bark
of the tree from the dog.
This glorious climate! In order TO
keep up with its changes you want
three suits of uuder-clothing in a
handbag, with you all the time, and
change at least six times a day.
"Mary," said mother to her little
girl, '.if was little girl like you,
should pick up all those chips" "Wcll,
mamma" answered Mary, care not
you glad you are not little girlr'
Lord Nelson once said; 81 owe all
my success in life to having been al
ways.a quarter OF an hour before my
time" "Every moment lost said
Napoleon, "gives an opportunity for
misfortune"
| "My DEAR" said a gentleman TO his
wife, "our club is going to have all the
home comforts" "Indced," replied the
wife; and when is our home to have
all the club comiortsY An inquiry
which many q society mau ought to
consider.
That was clever Oakland boy, who
when he was given two dollars to dig
up his aunt's garden, hid two-bi
piece in it, and told all the boys in The
neighborhood. The next morning til,
ground was pulverized two feet deep
; San Francisco POST
Gen. J. u. George, who originated
the mississippi plan" by which III,
, democrats of that state overthrow re
publican supremacy with shotgun anI
rifle, has been chosen chief justice o
the supreme court of the state.
,, George" said a schoolmistrcss tt
one of her unruly scholars, "why is i
that you behave so badly? When vol
first came to school you were obedicnt
submissive and willing to learn; nov
you are just the contrary" "Well, t.
tell The truth, marm," said George, @.
was not much acquainted then"
Jones shed his hancll Sunday, an,
for few hours he revealed in senst
[ of comparative comfort. But the after
Moons shower came OH while he wa
driving out with some ladies, and soak
Led his new suit and glossy tile d; the mer
cnry dropped fifty-six degrees in four
teen minutes, and before poor Jones
: could get home he was doubled mp will
, rheumatism like broken clothes dryer
Two old Texas rangers, who had jus
, helped bury ncighbor, were talkin.
: about religion, and one asked TIN
, other how pious he thought it was pos
\ sible for man to get in this world,
, he was in real earnest. "Wa'al," sal,
r the other, reflectivcly, 81 think CT
: man gets so't he can swop steers o
I trade horses without lynn, at he he,
> better pull out for the better land afor
c he has relapse"
! A Georgia paper claims that ma
: i'll that state caught recently catfish
a squirrel and an alligator all upon tn
c same hook at the same time. The ifs
D probably caught the squirrel Will
D swimming across the lake, and aftei
: wards caught and swallowed an alliga
:, tor about foot in length, and the
Q found and swallowed the bait upon
D set hook. When catfish starts out o
I a foraging expedition he will take j
I anything, from wheclbarrow to sac
, die blanket.
r The INDIAN MOTHERS DEVOTION
Emma, promising young Indian gil
c at the school at Red Lake, died on tn
s 22d. A runner was sent to tell the mott
i er, who was making sugar thirty mile
Y away, and she started In the evening o
/ her lonely march to the agency throug
forests pine-whose dark tops SCENE
0 to chant requiem to the departed
l through swamps, overdeep unbridge
Y rivers, in the darkness Of the night, will
y out sleep or rest, and she reached Iii
' agency soon after light.