The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-18
SCRAPS.

One of the sublimest things in the world is
plain truth.-Bulwer.
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge,
and the cement of all society -Casaubon.
Truth will be uppermost one time or other
like cork, though kept down in the water.
Sir w. Temple.
Truth, whether in or out of fashion, is the
measure of knowledge and the business of
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
General abstract truth is the most precious
of all the blessings; without man is blind;
it is the eye of reason.-Rousseau.
All that we possess of truth and wisdom
is borrowed good. You will be always
poor if you do not possess the only true
riches.
Feelings come and go like light troops
following the victory of the present; but
principles like troops of the line, are undis-
turbed and stand fast.
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt
herself to the crooked policy and willy sinu-
osity OF worldly affairs, for ruth, like light,
travels only in straight lines-Colton.
He that finds truth without loving her, is
like a bat, which though it have eyes to dis
Germ that there is sun, yet hath so evil
eyes that it can not delight in the sun.-Sir
Philip Sidney.
After all, the most natural beauty in the
world is honesty and moral truth, for all truth
is beauty. True features make the beauty
of the face, and true proportions the beauty
of architecture, as true measures that of har-
mony and music.-Shaftesbury.
Dean Swift called at house in Caven,
where the lady overdid his welcome,
saying: Twill you have an apple, pie sir?
Will you have a gooseberry pie, sir? Will
you have a currant pie, sir? Will you have
aplum pie, sir? Will you have pigeon
pie, sir?" AT last, wearied with her words,
he said: "Any pie, madam, but a magpie."
An old lady alighted from an omnibus.
"Ah!" she exclaimed, in tone of appobation,
show much more polite young men are nova
days that they used to be. Why, have always
plenty Of room in an omnibus, but when l
was young / could never ride in one without
beng crowded or feeling some young mans
elbows digging in my side. Such things
never happen nowadays"
Doctor" said lisping fashionable belle,
who had graduated at half dozen boarding
schools, to friend of ours, who had just
been introduced to her at an evening party:
doctor, which do you prefer, tholidity of
intellect or brilliantly? Thum admire
tholidity; but ath for me, as Shakespeare
thayth in hith Bride of Abvdoth, Il prefer
tholidity and brilliantly combined" The
doctor sank back in the nearest chair and
blew his nose.
Do man kind act, make him feel that
you have done him genuine favor, and, no
matter how depraved he may afte ward
become, unless he is a chronic migrate, he
will always mention your name with respect,
and recall your memory with the tenderest
feelings of gratitude. Strike man, use him
with violence. and the memory will engen-
der feelings of hatred in him against you
so long as his life lasts.
1t was at little party over at the lake, one
day recently. A member noted for his love
of a stalwart clam found one whose size
elated him. and Immediately put his jaws to
work on it Ar amoment # industrious
grinding the Jnrob in the muscles of his
throat showed that it had gone.
"Did you get it DOWN. anxiously in
quired young lady who had been
watching him with intense interest.
'sOh, yes" he answered, proudly smiling.
"Well you did better than could, guess
/ chewed five minutes on that clam"
The couquerer dashed into the bushes to
think-Danbury News.