Connecticut western news., 1880-04-28
WIT AND WISDOM.
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HE WOMEN who do 1ancy Wofk donb fancy work.
 MEN ARE not more zealous for truth than they are for error. No TEMPTING form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.
 IF YOU know how to spend less thar you get, you have the philosophers stone. IF POETRY come not as naturally as leaves to tree, it had better not come at all.
 IN ALL science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
 EVERY man has place i'll this world. The reason why so many fail is that they are out of place. IT IS SAID that the pen is mightier than the sword Neither is of much value without the holder.
 "EvEN THE worm will turn when trod- den upon does not apply when David Davis does the treading.
 ONE HOUR of eternity, one moment with the Lord, will make us utterly for get a lifetime's desolation.
 THE successful merchant is one who cheerfully puts his name both on the front and back of an editors paper. FOR THIS season of the year the advice of an exchange is good, "to rise with the sun not to sit up too late with the daugh- ter."
 You CAN always tell clerk in dry goods store from the millionaire pro- prietor by the good clothes the clerk wears. ! WHEN FOND parent sees boy walk through gateway instead of climbing the fence, he is worried for fear the lad isn't quite himself.
 A NEW JERSEY man, whose wife had left him, said:--"She would come back if would throw her some sugar; but I'm not throwing sugar. "
 "PnEAsE to understand" said the Honorable Billy the other day, "Im not such fool as I look" "No," said Bob, "that would be too much.".
 Ar A recent railroad festival the follow ing striking sentiment was given: "Our mothers-the only faithful tenders who never misplaced a switch"
 THE IDEA that gunpowder and whisky will make a soldier feel brave is all non- sense. Put hiin behind a stone wall 1t you want to see his spine stiffen. AN EXCHANGE remarks that when q .l Colorado man can buck 8 faro game and win three times out of five he is con- sidered smart enough to go to Congress-
 A sENT1MENTAn1sT who refuses slice of bread to poor beggar will afterward make an ostentatious display while he throws the slice in crums to the sparrows in the park.
 IT IS A time-honoredc custom in Quincy, l Fla. to salute newly-married couple by firing cannon. This is to remind those present that the battle of life has fairly begun.
 A SYRACUSE boy laid aside his dime novel to go down cellar. He thoughthe saw grizzly bear in the potato bin, and in making rush for the stairs he fell and broke his neck.
 ALWAYS manage to live so as to leave something at death. A Chicago man ninety eight years of age married the other day because he thought it far bet ter to leave widow than nothing.
 Bur pleasures are like poppies spread
 You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; | n,l I, fo11 Ina riynT---
 A moment white, then lost forever.
 "How CAN I ever repay you?" said Miss Stevens, of Seven Mile, Ohio, to MT. Benson, who had lately saved her life from drowning. "By marrying me, :" he promptly replied. She consented.
 WREN boy falls and peels the skin off his nose the first thing he does is to get up and yell When a girl tumbles and hurts herself badly the first thing she does is to get up and look at her , dress. "Do YOU play euchre ?" the sad pas- senger asked the man from Whitehall. "No," replied the man, i" I only know two cards in the deck, the jack of queens and the spades of diamonds. :" They didn't play.
 "DD YOU sell anything?" asked the proprietor of his clerk, as the door closed on the retreating form of shopper. "WeH," said the clerk, 1T wanted him , to take these boots, and, you see, they f are half-soled."
 THE FEAR of infection caused some r persons at Memphis to burn all their clothing, and even the prayer-book of 8 deceased cholera patient was consigned to the flames but six $10 bills found on his person were reigiously preserved.
 THE editor of the Dayton Record found $4,000 in greenbacEs in a field while hunting, but as ill-luck would have 1t there were four other men with him, and one of them was the owner of the money. Ohio editors never have fair show.
 A DRUNKEN Scotch parishioner was ad- monished by his parson. "I can gointo the village" concluded the latter "and come home again without getting drunk. y "Ah, meenester, but I'm sac popular r was the fuddled Scotchman's apologetic reply.
 THE Danielsonville Sentinel is re- sponsible for one of the 'retchedest puns of the season, which is as follows: A Yankee notion peddler crossing the At lantic became sick. It was the only time he ever became wearied of the yanlxin' ocean business.