The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-04-02

the short and long of it.
Fine feathers do not make fine birds.
The birds make the feathers.
Enough is as good as a feast to him
who is only satisfied with a feast.
Many mickle makes muckle, and
many mug'll make Mick ill.
Is it really necessary to spoil good
brandy by putting poor mince pies into
it?
Handsome is that handsome does,
and handsome miss that handsome
docsen't.
TIE more the merrier-but the fellow
who watches the mower is merrier still.
The rolling stone gathers no moss.
If you would glide through lite smooth
ly be a rolling stone.
| \ man after his own heart is in poor
business. He would be better after
some fair oness heart.
Out of sight out of mind. The man
who was cheated out OF his homestead
site was soon cut of mind.
/ Strike while the iron is hot. Your
employer cannot spare you then and he
may come TO terms.
"Nihilist ? Pooh ~ said the Gar.
"Out of nothing nothing comes"
bang went his dining table.
A genius without common sense has
/ but little advantage over the regular
fool.
Early to bed and early to rise makes
man healthy. wealthy aud wise-but
not the man who follows SO absurd a
rule.
A prophet is not without honor save
IN his own country. Profit is rot with
out honor, in whatever country it is
saved.
When you are throwing the mantle
OF charity over an erring man do n t
let it be a wet blanket.
| Everything in nature INDUCES in
amusement. The lightning plays, the
wind whistles, the thunder rolls, the
snow flies, the waves leap and the fields
smile. Even the buds shoot aud the
rivers run.
The poet Tennyson is worth s1,000,-
600, and we don't see what use there
is in his writing "Come not when
1 am dead" They'll be on hand, every
one of them, when the will is opened.
The little six-year-old boy astonished
his mother by exclaiming: 81 wish !
was an angelp' Wondering why holy
thoughts were filling his young mind,
she waited for a reason. 'tThcn /
could see all the circuses at oncc.''
Perhaps it was sentiment that ac-
tuated Nevada editor when he wrote
| OF dead orator: "Death has turned off
his gas.' II he had written in sarcasm
he would have put it: 'sThe king OF
terrors has stopped his windmill"
Emerson says man ought to carry
pencil and Dote down the thoughts of
the moment. A young man who
bought silver pencil to be devoted to
that purpose only, carried it seven
years before he discovered there was
10 lead in it.
Chief Ouray thinks the Utes will
learn something in the 25 years to
come. during which they cannot alien
ate their lands, and that they will be
able to hold their own with the whites
after that, if not, they ought to lose
them.
1t is reported that the Chinese com,
panies have offered to take the New
York piano factories and run them
with Chinese working-men, and give
/ So goo, 900 security that they will
furnish cheap labor at prices stated
so cents day the first year, rs cent:
the second. That is because white
laborers are on strike for higher
wages.
The power of newspapers in infiuenc-
ing public opinion has been acknowl
edged by that "hard citizen,'' the Rev
Edward Cow1ey. On his way tc
Blackwell's island he said: "It was The
press that convicted me-" The shep
herd. on tue Island, will not fare 81
badly as the little children whom be
starved at the .sFold.'' but his diet j,
rather spare and his daily occupation il
punching holes in shoe-leather.
Straight where she strayed, will
stride he strobe,
Sad sighed be on the sod, and said,
Say, see I7sIgh and sue you So"
She had 10 heed, but hid her head
Maud's mood the mud of mead made
mad
No answer knew she new but No.