Morris tribune., 1880-07-15
Words of Wisdom.

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the well is dry.
They ere never alone that are accom-
panied with noble thoughts.
In refraining from being mean to 9TH
ers you are good to yourselves.
The precious step to blessing to the
Lords children is obedience.
Mean souls, like mean pictures, are
often found in good looking frames.
What we learn in our youth grows up
with us, and in time becomes part of
the mind ITSELF
Politeness is net sign of wisdom !;
but the want Of it 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 trifes. If a
spider breaks his thread twenty times
he will mend il as many. Perseverance
and patience will accomplish wonders.
The mind has certain vegetative
power, which cannot be wholly idle. 1t
is not laid out and cultivated into a
beautiful garden it will of itself shoot
up weeds or flowers.
A Bible and a newspaper in ever
house, a good school in every district,
all studied and appreciated as they merit,
are the principal support of virtue, mo-
rality and civil liberty.
Dean Swift said that the reason Ger.
tain university was a learned place was
that most persons took some learning
there, and but few brought any away
with them, and so it accumulated.
/ Mind what you run after. Never be
contented with bubble that will burst,
nor with a tire-work that will end in
smoke and darkness. Get that which is
worth keeping, and that you can keep.
The great art of conversation consists
III not wounding or humiliating any one,
in speaking only of things that we know,
in conversing with others only on sub
jects which may be of interest to them.
The magnanimous know very well
that they who give time or money or
shelter to the stranger-so it be done for
love and not for ostentation-do, as it
were, put God under obligation to them
so perfect are the conpensations of the
universe.
No secret sin ought to have "night-
key" to its doors. No wicked practice
should have access at its back windows
Many and many sly temptation will
present itself at the door decently clad
in the white robe," and with smooth
word on its tongue. The dangerous sins
are those which are "genteelly dressed .
Mark Twain once made prayer, but
the effect was lost as none of his hearers
could see any fun in it.
1t is suggested that the Charter Oak
Life Insurance company's name be
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.
''It is said that short dresses will be
worn in the spring." But whether they
are to be shortened at the top or bottom
is not stated.
There will always be more or less ex-
| citement in the household that possesses
cat and back fence, or poor piano
and a healthy girl.
A reporter has found baby thirteen
inches long, and a pound and ten ounces
the other way. 1t will have to be
spanked with cigar lighter.
A man in Harrisburg, Pa, invited his
friends, recently, to his "grand annual
bawlp He has been married eleven
years and has eleven children.
| A Kentucky man who went to the
Black Hills writes back to local paper,
saying: "Ofter premium at your COM
| ing fair for the biggest fool in the country,
and I'll try and get there in time"
The following obituary appeared in a
Memphis paper upon man killed by a
circular saw. "He was an upright Chris
tian, good citizen and an ardent patriot,
but of limited information with regard
to circular saws"
The petrifcation of body is strange,
but not SO much as the turning of dead
| body into IA second hand bricks. That
is what happened in Brooklyn the other
day with the corpse of man who had
$50, 1000 insurance on his life.
Mr.. Moody in a recent sermon said
II am willing to be like the spider and
lay hold of things above" Why didn't
Mr.. Moody say he wished he had been
the devil so that he could have held
that conversation with the Savior?
| Every man actions form a centre O
| influences upon others; and every deco
however trivial, has some weight in de
termining the future destiny of the
world.
A country paper says There is no
a single person in the county gaol!" Art
there any married persons there?
A BEAUTIFUL IDEA.-Away among the
| Alleghanies there is spring, so small
that an OK, in summers day, coul6
drain it dry. It steals its unobtrusive
way among the hills, till it spreads oui
in the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretch.
es away thousand miles, leaving on its
banks more than hundred villages and
cities, and many thousand cultivated
farms, and bearing ON its bosom more
than half a thousand steamboats,. Their
joining the Mississippi, it stretches away
and away some twelve hundred miles
more, till il falls into the great emblem
of eternity. 1t is one of the great tribu
taries of the ocean, which, obedient only
to God, shall roll and roar till the angel
with one foot on the sea and the othel
on the land, shall lift up his hand tt
heaven, and swear that time shall be M
longer. So with moral influence. It i!
a rill--a rivulet-a river-an ocean
boundless and fathomless as eternity.
| WHAT HoPE DrD.-It stole on its pin
ions of snow to the bed of disease: and
the sufferers frown became smile
emblem of peace and endurance. i
went to the house of mourning-anC
from the lips of sorrow there came swee
and cheerful songs. 1t laid its head oil
the arm of the poor, which was stretch
ed forth at the command of unholy i'm
pulses, and saved him from disgrace ant
ruin. 1t dwelt like living thing in th,
bosom of the mother, whose son tarried
long after the promised time of his com
ing, and saved her desolation and the
"care that killeth." It lowered abou
| the head of the youth who had become
the Ishmael of society, and led him on
ward to works which even his enemie
praised. It snatched a maiden from the
jaws of death; and went with an olt
man to heaven. No hope my good broth
er? Have it. Reckon it on your side
Wrestle with It that it may not depart
it may repay your pains. Life il hare