The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1880-07-17

PANIED With noble thoughts.
In refraining from being mean 10 9th
ers YOU are good to yourselves.
The precious step 10 blessing to The
Lords children is obedience.
Mean souls, like mean pictures, are
often found il good looking frames.
What we learn in our youth grows up
with Us, and in time becomes a part of
the mind itself.
Polileness is nct sign Of wisdom
but the want Of 1t always leaves room
for suspicion of folly.
Earth is our work-house. and heaven
is, or should be, our store-house. Our
chief business here is to lay up treasure
there.
Neyer be discouraged by triles. IF a
spider breaks his thread twenty times
he Will mend IL as many. Perseverance
and patience will accomplish wonders.
The mind has a certain vegetative
power, which cannot be wholly idle. 1t
is not laid out and cultivated into
beautiful garden it Will of itself shoot
up weeds OF flowers.
\ Bible and a newspaper in ever
house, a good school in every district,
y
are the principal support of virtue, mo-
raity ar.i civil liberty.
Dean Swift said that the reason a Ger
tain university was a learned place was
that most persons took some learning
there. and but few brought any away
with them, and 50 il accumulated.
Mind what you run after. Never be
contentcd with a bubble that will burst,
nor with tre-work that will end in
smoke and darkness Get that which R
worth keeping, and that you can keep.
The great art of conversation consists
III not wonnding or humiliating any one,
IN speal ;ng only of things that we know,
in cony.rsing with others only on sub
jects which may be of interest to them
The magnanimons know very we'll
that they who give time or money or
shelter 10 the stranger--so it be done for
love and not for ostentation-do, as il
We're, put God under obligation to them,
SO perfect are the compensatons Of the
universe.
No secret sin ought TO have might
kevn to its doors. No wicked practice
shonli have access at its back windows.
Many and many sly temptation will
present itself at the door decentv clad
. in the White robe and with q smooth
word on its tongue The dangerous sne
are those which are "genteely dressed"
Mark Twain once made prayer, but
the effect was Lost rs none of his hearers
could see amy fun in it.
1t is suggested that the Charter Oak
Life Insurance companys name lie
| changed to Slippery Elm.
Matthew was called from the receipt
| Of customs in the DAYS Of Jesus, and I'M
mediately begun talking Of refunding.
| 1T is said that short dresses will be
worn in the spring But whether they
IRE TO be shortened al the top .: bottom
| il not stated.
There will always be more or less ex-
ctement in the household that possesses
| a cat :.nd back fence, or d poor piano
and a healthy girl.
A reporter has found baby thirteen
I inches long, and pound and ten ounces
the other way. Is will have to be
spanked with 4 cigar lighter.
A man in Harrisburg, Pa, invited his
| friends, recently, TO his grand annual
baWls' lie has been married eleven
| years and has eleven children.
| 4 Kentucky man who went TO the
Black Hills writes back to a local paper,
saying: Offer a premium at your COM
ing fair for the biggest fool in the country,
and III try and get there in time"
The following obituar. appeared in
Memphis paper upon man killed by
circular saw. lie was al upright Chris
tian, a good citizen and an ardent patriot,
| but Of limited information with regard
10 circular SAWS
The petrifcaton of body is strange,
bui not SO much as the turning Of a dead
body into II second hand bricks. That
is what happened III Brooklyn the other
day with the corpse OF a man who had
$4,000 insurance on his life.
Mr. Moody in Il recent sermon said:
u am willing to he like the spider and
lay hold Of things .eove" Why didn't
Mr.. Moody SAY he wished he had been
the devil 50 tina, he could have held
that conversation with the savior
IN the year 1861, l9.1 psr cent Of the
population of Ireland spoke Irish, name
". l,lp5, $50 persons. IN the year 1871
this proportion had sunk to lo.l OF the
population. namely, to Sl7,s1 persons.
| thus # appears that the use Of the Irish
language Is dying out at the rate Of
more than 2oo,noo persons in ten years ,
fact made still more obvious by an
lother table. showing that during the ten
lyears in question the proportion OF ages
.lad changed still more markedly than
the numbers Of speakers. The younger
generation arc all learning English, and
only the parents retain the use uf their
native tongue.
| TIE life Of every human being Is