Connecticut western news., 1880-06-09

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 ALL who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
 LIBRARIES are the shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue, and without seclusion and imposture, are preserved and reposed.
 THERE is no more violent prodigal than miser who takes the bit between his teeth, and no man more startling in action than dreamer.
 IF man do not erect in this age his own tomb before he dies, he shall live no longer in monument tha'>--l-a>'>ii'- ras-s,------1L1>-a- szrian1r xueeIlS-
 THE Leadville Chronicle tells of aman who escaped with his life from the Indi- ans. The man who escaped without his life hasn't yet been reported.
 ALL errors spring up in the neighbor- hood of some truth; they grow round about it, and for the most part derive their strength from such contiguity.
 "MERoY I" exclaimed an old lady upon first seeing an engraving of the passage of the Red Sea by the children of Israel "Mercy whata family the man hadW
 THE mule has met his match. It was in Delaware. He kicked over beehive. He died the next day. The little bee IS never too busy to decline an invitation to fight. ea .as
 A JAPANESE student of English, being required to write treatise upon the do- nestle animal, handed in the following "The cat is small cattle. When he sees 8 rat he is not rational"
 A NEW song is called Somebody is Coming When the Dewdrops Fall. " When the young lady sings it in the par Tor the cook tells her small boy to fasten the hen house door all the same.
 A GERMAN traveller in Africa character izes the people he came across as "in- tensely black, dolchocephalic, and pla- tyrhine, preparations, dichotomatic, and dolichodactyhc. This reads like some kind of diachylum plaster.
 "How CAME you to fail in your exam ination ?" asked 8 Cambridge coach of one of his pupils. "I thought I crammed you thoroughly" "Well, you see, " re- piled the student, "the fact was, you cramned me so tight couldn't get it out"
 WHEN man comes imping into his place of business late in the morning, and presents the general appearance of having had his spinal column shattered by railway accident, his friends need not be alarmed he has been working in the garden. .. -
 AN OBSERVING five-year old boy in- quired of his mother, recently: Do men love tobacco, mamma" ?" "I think not" she replied. "Well, thought they didn't" responded the youngster, "for after they take bite I see 'em try ing to spit it out. |"
 Il THE fifteen puzzle is now trying the Russians. A man in St. Petersburg, after working five hours at it and making the blocks come out 13-15-14 each time, threw down the puzzle, kicked 1t across the room, and wrathfully exclaimed: !: "Goramitz tohalifaxwitz 1"
 A LITTLE fellow, turning over the leaves of scrapbook, came across the well-known picture of some chickens just out of their shell. He examined the picture carefully, and then with grave, sagacious look slowly remarked: They came out COS they was afraid of being boiled" ,&
 AN OLD lady heard one of her daugh- ters-in-law's callers say: "My father was an ambidexter." After the visitors departure the listener expressed her in- dignation by saying "That stuck-up hussy was lying all the time. I knew her father year in and year out, and his name was Smith.
 THE following is the origin of the phrase, "Catching a Tartar" An Irish soldier under Prince Eugene called out to his comrade in battle against the Turks that he had caught Tartar. "Bring him along, then," said the other. "He won't come," was the reply. "Then come yourself "He won't lei me-"
 A CONNECTICUT story is told of wid over preacher who proposed to @ young lady and was rejected. Following this ( young widow of his congregation sem him this text to preach from: "Yol ask and receive not because you ask [ miss." With this it seems as if thu preacher might have taken the hint ant the widow also.