Connecticut western news., 1880-04-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

IN month or so our fields will be come rather seedy.
 BREACH of promise is now regarded as contempt of court
 DREANrERs are ever poor because they yearn more than they earn.
 THE days are growing longer, but they don't show that way on note. ..
 WHAT kind of robbery is not danger ous? A safe robbery, of course.
 "MY VOCATION" said a justice of the peace, "is truly one of the fine arts" EXTREMES meet. Parisians love snails and are at the same time the fastest people in the world.
 THE only time that oleomargarine suc- cessfully takes the place of butter IS when it catches fly and holds it. No BOY can come upon sign of "Keep off the.grass" without feeling spirit of defiance clear down to his heels. A NEW Constellation will soon be wis., ible in Ireland Its thirty-eight stars will be heavenly augury of mercy.
 "MAMMA," asked little girl, "why is it they sing in church, Wen dine no more, and then go right home and diner"
 AN OLD lady says she hears every day of civil engineers, and wonders if, there is no one to say civil word for con ductors. A MAN should fear when he enjoys only what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity, rather than charity, that he loves?
 THERE is no worship where is no joy. For worship is something more than either the fear of God or the love of Him. It is delight in Him.
 A NEW YORK girl, says the Boston Courier, discharged her mother recently, because she did not like the way her mother scrubbed her floor. THE Philadelphia Ne,cs has found 6 retired business man who declares that advertising is humbug. He IS resting in the almshouse at present.
 SOME of the dry-goods show-windows are as interesting as museums of anat- omy which show how fearfully and won- derfully people can be made.
 HE KISSED her under the silent stars,
 This maiden shy and chary,
 "Oh, mym she cried, "It's awful nice"
 Said Inc, "Youre shouting Mary"
 Ir IS called drop curtain because when it goes down the boys go out for drop of something, a custom handed down from the days of Shakespeare.
 PossEss1oNs vanish and opinions change,
 And passion holds fuctuating seat;
 But, subject neither to eclipse or wane, | Duty remains. --WoRDswoRTH.
 TIE candidate who has to write letters to his friends to assure them that he is still on the track lacks grit. The boom that is not self sustaining is no boom at all.
 Nor until we know all that God knows can we estimate to the full the power and the sacredness of some one life which may seem the humblest in the world.
 A NEGRO, after gazing at some Chinese, shook his head and solemnly said: "H de white folks be so dark as dat out dar I wonder what's de color ob dc black folks ?"
 IN BUYING your tomato plants, plan 1t so that they will bear ripe fruit when you are on your vacation. Small boys will eat them if they can be stolen; not otherwise.
 IT IS manhood we want; it Is to be perfect men in Jesus Christ that we want; and whether we come toit through the furnace or along level place to come to it is the thing.
 THE desires that have only bodily end and aim, that are unconnected with the high, holy and noble purposes, of a pure, true and goodly life, are false de- sires and are to be slain. A BOSTON paper thinks there ought to be law in this country to compel every girl who is engaged to wear red bow at her throat That wouldn't do bit ot good. Every girl would wear one.
 A BRIGHT little girl, who had success fully spelled the word "that," was asked by her teacher what would remain after the ct" had been taken away. "Ths dirty cups and saucers," was the reply.
 EVERY kindly word and feeling, every good deed and thought, every noble action and impulse. is like the ark-sent dove, and returns from the troubled ) waters of life bearing green olive branch to the soul.
 Ir WILL occur to the ordinary mind, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, that 1t would have been better for Mrs. Chris tiancy to have married one of old Chris tiancy's big boys, and thus saved all this family trouble.
 RESPECT for the CouIt.-A young law I yer in Kentucky, when the judge decided case against him, said to the court : "Well, now, I shall take the case to | another judge, and let him make guess ! what the law is. l A BOY ten years of age who has an Q eager love of music was permitted to r attend the grand opera not long ago. : When his mother asked him what he q thought of the performances, he said 0 "It was the foolishest thing I ever saw but it was about the best music l ever n heard" Thus spoke the honest critic, h and not a bad one.
 If MR THEo. MARTIN, author of "The l. Prince Consort's Life," will receive from | z, sat, | K rnt