Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-14
CHAT BY THE WAY.

The very best and kindest way in
which to look at the faults of your friends
is to shut your eyes.
If a man is honest he does not need
to tell of it. Sterling virtues can af-
ford to keep still, but sly dishonesty has
a very busy tongue.
{ No jest can be quite so bitter as that
one which runs laughingly along on the
edge of an ugly truth.
Fuller very beautifully said that "he
who spends all his life in sport is like
one who wears nothing but fringes and
eats nothing but sauces"
A debt is very stubborn thing and
always succeeds in having its own
way. The more you attempt to contract
IL the larger it gets.
There is no doubt that the honeymoon
was so called because of its close resem-
blance t the sweet product Of the bee.
1t may also be said to resemble the
honeycomb, with this slight difference,
however, tdat the honeycomb is made
up of little cells, while the honeymoon
is sometimes regarded as one great sell.
There is a kind of logic by which the
most cheerful man can be proven to be
morally The worst. The murderers who
expiate tEelr crimes on the gallows have
taken life and perhaps had, during the
leisure which the Jail afforded, strange
compunctions of conscience. The cheer
full man, however, is one who takes life
easily and has no compunctions what
ever.
A clock is about the only thing in the
world which manages to 60 all the bet
ter when its affairs are wound up. There
are some men, however, who have very
carefully studied this popularity of the
clock, and transferred it to some extent
to their own business arrangements.
They have happy faculty of being
worth nothing when their creditors be-
come clamorous and demand settle,
ment, but the very moment their affairs
are wound up, away they go, cheerfully
as ever, on tick. on tick, on tick.
We have heard of an eloquent solilo'
guy by gifted fly who was reviewing
his past, which may have a wider ap-
plication than is at first seen. "Ah, !"
it said, II have passed through the
Matching age and through the creeping
age and through the flying age, and now
alas [ am right in the midst of the
mucilage." And there he is to-day, a
dead fly.
Such is the formidable antagonism of
the sexes that chance to give Roland
for an Oliver is never lost. Don't you
think that good likeness of me p said
pretty wife to her small fraction of
herself called her husband. "Very good"
was the reply. Except there is little
too much repose about the mouth.
1t is said that the reason why bigamy
is of such rare occurrence in Hungary
is that once on a time a man who was
convicted of this crime was sentenced by
the court to live for two years with both
wives The punishment was consider.
ed cruel, but it had the desired effect.
1t is one of the majestic prerogatives
of man that he can marry any woman
he pleases. If the truth of this state.
ment is questioned We may possibly be
induced to add that he must please heI
or he can never marry her.
1t Is very wrong to accuse man oi
being a cannibal because he declares
that he often has calf's head for din
ner.
The human heart when it has com
mitted wrong always yearns for for
giveness. A tender hearted man had /;
quarrel with his wife, and after many
hard and bitter words he left her. Fo
years he struggled through bare ant
wretched existence, followed all tn,
time by remorse, and at last when h
heard that his better half had suddenl,
inherited a large property, he coulc
stand it no longer, and fell at her fee
and asked to be forgiven.