Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-04-21

ted by an extensive development q
its public works. The finances OF th
) State, however, leave little room 10
: hope that such roads as would lacili
tate the chase and capture of the bri
gands by the troops will be open io
many years to come.-Ner York Sun
} COMMON SA AYINGS, AND WHC
FIRST SAID THEN.
Many OF our common sayings, S,
trite and pithy, are without the leas
idea from whose mouth or pen they
first originated. Probably the work
Of Shakespeare furnishes us with NOR,
Of these familiar maxims than any
other writer, for to him we owe, GAN il
not gold that glitters," "Make virtu,
oil necessity" "Screw your courage Il
the sticking place mot point "They
laugh that win" This is the long anC
short Of it, Comparisons are odious,
"As merry as the day is long" "A
Daniel come to Judgment" "Frailty
thy name is woman and a host o.
others,
Washington Irving gives us "ThC
Almighty Dollar Thomas Morton
queried long ago "What will Mrs
Grundy say" while Goldsmith an.
swers ASK me no questions and I'll
tell you no fibs." Charles c. Pinckney
gives "MiIlons for defense, but not one
cent Tor tribute" First in war, first
in peace, and first IN the hearts of his
fellow.citizens," (not countrymen), ap.
peared in the resolutions presented TO
the House of Representatives in De.
cember, 1890, prepared by General
Henry Lee.
From the same we Gull, "Mako as.
surance doubly sure" christmas
comes but once q year." "Count their
chickens ere they are Matched" :" and
l'Iook before you leap"
Thomas TasseT, q writer of the six.
tecnth century, gives rs dts an i'll
wind that turns no good, Better late
than never" "Look ere thou leap and
"The stone that is rolling can gather no
moss "All cry and no weel' is found
in Buffers "Hudibras."
Dryden says "None but the brave
deserve the fair" "Men are but chill
dren of larger giowth, and "Through
thick and thin" "No pent-up Utica
contracts our power declared iona,
than Sewell.
"When Greeks join Greeks then
comes the tug gof war" Nathaniel Lee,
1892.
"0f two evils | have chosen the
least and "The end must justify the
means" are from Matthew Pryor.
We are indebted to Colley Cibber for
the agreeable intelligence that erich.
ard is himself again" johnson tells
us of "a good hater, and Macintosh,
in 1871, the phrase often attributed to
John Randolph. "Wise and mastery
inactivity"
"Yarietys the very spice of lie,
and "Not much the worse for wear"
Cowper. "Man proposes, but God
dsposes," Thomas Kempis.
Christopher Marrow gave forth to
the invitation so often repeated by his
brothers in a less public way, "LovC
me little and love me long Edward
Coke was of the opinion that "a mans
house is his castle" To Milton We
owe "The Paradise of Fools" "a will
derness of sweets" and "Moping mel
ancholly and moonstruck sadness
Edward Young tells us that death
loves shining mark, " "a fool at forty
is a fool indeed" but, alas for hi:
knowledge Of human nature when he
tells us "Man wants but little, nor that
little long"
From Bacon comes knowledge is
power" and Thomas Southerne re
minds us that "Pity's akin to love
Dean Swift thought that "Bread wa:
the staff OF life" Campbell found that
"Coming events cast their shadows
before" and "Tis distance lends en-
chantment to the view" "a thing OF
beauty is Joy forever" is from Keats
Franklin said, "God helps them who
help themselves" and Lawrence
Sterne comforts us with the thought
"God tempers the wind to the shorr
lambs
| Even some of the slang" phrases OF
the day have a legitimate origin
Putting your foot in it, is certainly
not q very elegant mode Of expression
but, according to the Asiaticresearches
it is quite fine point of law when
the title Of land is disputed il
Hindoostan, two holes are dug in The
ground and used to incase limb oI
each lawyer (O and the one who tired
first lost his clients case. Fancy--iI
you can--some of our famous climbs
of the law" pleading in such a manner
| 1t is generally the client who "put'
his foot in it.
I, When things are in disorder they
are said to be turned "topsy.turvy
this expression is derived from the way
in which turf used for fuel ls placed tC
dry, the turf being turned downward
and the expression then means topsidt
turiway,
Plutarch, in his life of Argesileus,
King OF Sparta, gives us the origin oI
a quaint and familiar expression.
On o certain occasion an ambassa
dor from Epirus, on diplomatic
mission, was shown by the King over
his capital The Ambassador knew o.
the Monarchsfamo-knewt thntthougf
only nominally King of Sparta, he wal
yet ruler of Greece-and he had looked
to see massive walls rearing aloft theil
embattlcd towers for the defense Of The
town but he found nothing Of the
kind. He marveled mnch at this, anC
spoke OF it TO the King.
"Sire, he said, have visited most o
the principal towns, and | dnd nc
walls reared for defense. How is this z
"Indeed, 5 ir Ambassador" repliee
Argesilous, "thou oanst not have looked
carefully. Come with me tomorrow
morning and | will show the walls o.
Sparta
Accordingly, on the following morn
ing, the King led bis guest ont upor
the plains where his army was drawr
up In full battle array, and, pointing
proudly to the seried host, he said
"There, thou beholdest the wall o
Sparta-tcn thousand men and every
man a brick !"
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YouR GLovE.-An exchange says
"The Reading kid glove leather estab
lisbment used last week two hundred
and fifty dozen of eggs in the soften
ing Of leather. Only the yelks Of th,