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II may be that the greatest reward of
early piety is early death.
Account him thy real friend who de-
sires thy good, rather than thy good
will.
We pass our lives in regretting the
past, complaining of the present, and in.
dulging false hopes of the future.
1t is characteristic of youth and life,
that we first learn to see through the
tactics when the campaign is over.
Only Providence could create day and
night but the commonest idler can turn
day into night and night into day.
A poor spirit is poorer than poor
purse very few pounds year would
ease man of the scandal of avarice.
Mother" exclaimed a little poet of
four summers, "listen to the wind max
ing music for the leaves to dance by"
AS tree that is heavily laden with
fruit breaks its own boughs, go men, by
their own greatness, destroy themselves.
Many beautiful ladies, when walking
out, seem very angry if they are gazed
at, and sadly disappointed if they are
not.
There is spot on the brain not larger
than the head of a pin, which, if touch
ed, is sudden death, as instant as light
ming.
If it is important for you to know
whether man will cheat you if he can,
sound him as to his willingness to help
you cheat somebody else.
Death is the only subject upon which
everybody speaks and writes without
possibility of having experienced what
he undertakes to discuss.
Monarchs sit in their palaces, am COM
nand the sea and land all men pay
tribute to monarchs; but women make
monarchs pay tribute to them.
There are situations that are unwhole-
some to the most robust constitutions,
and there are professions and pursuits
that are dangerous even to honest men.
There is nothing formidable about
death except the consequences of it, and
these we ourselves can regulate and con-
troll. The shortest life is long enough if
it leads to better; and the longest is
too short if it does not.
The man who gets money by an easy
hook or crook, and has a capacity for
nothing else, experiences lonely and mel
ancholy moments Of existence, and has
recourse to trumpery consultations. He
makes money fast, but he cannot get
happiness out of it.
Two hundred different varieties of
fruit are grown successfully in Georgia.
A billposter in an Ohio town covered
the tombstones in a graveyard with cir
Gus cuts.
Marriage is becoming fashionable
among the Catholic priests of Germany,
the civil law protecting them.
A Fort Wayne 1nd.) couple were di-
vorced in thirty minutes from the time
the petition was filed.
It is better to have clear conscience
and be threatened than to have bad
one and be fattered.
A woman in Mount Sterling. KY, has
been married six years, has three chill
dren and is now only eighteen years of
age.
An ebony coffin lined with white sat
in, with a lot in Pere Ia Ckaise, was one
of the gifts proffered to popular actress
in Paris, recently.
Josie Fowler, of New Haven, snuffs
candles and cores apples with a revolver.
The young men are exceedingly respect
full in their attentions to her.
A kiss recently cost a Beloit (Wis.1
man $500. He was bachelor, kissed a
married woman, and paid that amount
to the husband to settle the affair.
Italy reaps s40,OO0,0OO per year from
her lotteries. The ticket-holders reap
holf 1,o,rcb oy,1 1r<c of E@o
lieve that lotteries are conducted on the
square.
1t is claimed in Germany that the drug
known as curare is sure cure for hydro
phobia, as it paralyses the motor nerves,
without affecting the sensitive ones, and
so stops muscular convulsion.
An owl shot near Burlington, VT, had
steel trap and two feet of chain belong
ing to Hinsdale On. H. man, on its leg.
The trap was set five weeks before in the
Hinsdale mans hen-house, and was car
ried about 100 miles by the captive.
Before the Church of Our Lady of
Atocha, in which the King of Spain was
lately married, sentinel perpetually
stands on guard. The Virgin of Atocha
has long held the rank of Colonel in the
Spanish army. Hence the military
honor.
A singular coincidence recently occur
red at Nashville, where man died on
the fiftieth anniversary of his wedding,
and the house in which he was married,
caught fire and was destroyed upon the
same day and within four hours of the
time of his death.
The men of Dalton, Kentucky, must
have strong constitutions, for the Madi-
sonville Times says that in fight over
game of cards the other day one of them
was stabbed several times, the two worst
cuts beingon through the lungs and the
other into the cavity of the stomach, in
spite of which the wounded man is rap
idly recovering.