Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-23
Wise Words.

anger, ike ram, presKs upon Wnat-
ever it falls.
Draw not thy bow before thy arrow
be fixed.
Never expose your disappointments
to the world.
A pound of care will not pay pound
of debt.
Ii you would make thief honest.
trust him.
The simple flowers are sociable snd
benevolent.
Fortune can only take from US what
she gave.
Words sometimes wound more than
swords.
A good book supplies the place of a
companion.
He who stops to pick flaw in others
knitting work, drops many stitches in
his own.
Let him who regrets the loss of time
make proper use OF that which is to
come i'll the future.
A restlessness in mems minds to be
something they are not, and to have
something they have not, Is the root
of Immortality.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity
as we'll as under adversely. A strong
mind has two high tides-wben the
moon is ut the full aud when there is
no moon.
The roses of pleasure seldom last
long enough to adorn the brow OF him
that plucks them, and they are the
only roses which do not retain their
sweetness, after they have lost their
beauty.
But little do men perceive what soli-
tude is, and how far it extends. For a
crowd is DO company; mems faces are
but like pictures in II gallery, and talk
but tinkling cymbal, where there is
no love.
You are coward if you fear to tell
the truth when you should do so. You
are coward when you insult the weak.
You are coward if afraid to do righ !;
if you shrink from maintaining that
Inch you know to be good; and you
are especially coward if you know
certain things Of yourself and are
afraid to ownit.
Every failure is step to success;
every detection of what is false directs
to cards what is true; every trial ex-
hausts some tempting form of error.
Not only so, but scarcely any attempt
is entirely failure; scarcely any theory,
the result of steady thought, is alto
gether false; no tempting form is with
out some latent charm derived from
truth. --WHEwELL.
A French statist has come to the con-
clusioE, after very laborious examin-
alton of the numbers of deaths from
railway accidents in all parts of the
world, that if a person were to live
continually in railway carriage and
spend all his time in travelling, the
chances in favor of his dying from
railway accident would not occur un-
til he was nine hundred and sixty
years old.
EXPERIMENTS WIrH OPIUM SMoK-
INa.-Oue Herr Maclay, i'll the course
Of a stay at Hongkong, has made an
experiment upon his own body which
would appear to be pretty conclusive
as to to the effect of opium smoking.
After fasting eighteen hours he smoke''
twenty seven pipes, holding In all 1O7
grains of the opium used by the Cur
nese. 1t is interesting to know that
after the third pipe he ceased to be
hungry, and the fifth pipe left him un-
able to walk about comfortably; the
seventh brought his pulse down from
eighty-six to seventy; the twelfth caused
singing in his ears, and the thirteenth
u heavy fit of laughter. Twenty five
pipes affected his hearing, but, within
an hour after the trial. which had only
lasted about 100 minutes, he was able
to 60 home and go to bed, where he
slept SO soundly as to wake up fairly
fresh and hungry the next morning.
During the whole experiment he had
no dreams or Authorizations of any sort
whatever.
The PERIL OF KINDNESS TO Birds
A correspondent of the London Times
Of the 18th of December writes:
"Your readers should be careful in
their attempts to feed the large kinds
of British birds in the present inclem-
ent season. A thrilling narrative has
reached me from the county of Surrey
of a humane and accomplished lady
who has, since the frost set in, opened
her bedroom window each morning
and thrown out sop of all kinds OF
good things to the feathered tribe. One
severe morning last week the lady
opened her window as usual, but there
was considerable delay by her servants
in bringing the food to her. The lady
had returned to her bed, leaving the
window open, and fell asleep. Pres
emily the whole household were
aroused by her screams, and on going
to her room no less than nineteen poor
half-starved, hungry rocks were found
in it. Eleven of them had entered the
four post bed and had commenced
pecking violently at the bed-clothes
covering the alarmed lady"
THE Yrs AND Downs OF LIFE.-The
trials of hard times are bitterly felt
by women. Doubtless more SO than
by the sterner sex.
Jennie Collins, of Boston, famed for
her employment bureau and working
mems home, says in her last report :
"Many kind ladies' who hired their