The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-20
sELEcrED MIscELLANY.

We ask advise, but we mean appro.
bation.-Cotton.
School houses are the Republican line
Of fertilization .-Horaee Mann.
That flower that follows the sun,
does so even in cloudy dayS-Leigh-
ton.
Let your zeal begin upon yourself
when you may with justice extend tito
your neighbor.-Thomas A. Kempis.
Truth and love are two Of the most
powerful things in the world, and when
they both go together they cannot easily
be withstood.-Cudworth.
Dunning once being asked how he
contriyed to get through his business,
answered, 81 do a little; a little does
itself; and the rest is undone."
II is better TO praise a man for his
virtues, although they may DO few and
his faults many, than to condemn him
for his faults and forget his virtues.
Many a politician who has suffered
from aterrible fall in public estimation
Is now pulling himself together again
for a new climb to the top.
Some of the new candidates, II they
told the plain. u~nvarnished truth. would
confess that they are about to run not
50 much for Office as for the perquisites
OF Office and for the benefit Of their
| creditors.
The heat Of genuine affection can
find no more glowing expression than
that of the Irishman who said, ''Arrah,
me darlin', I wish | was in jail for steal
ing ye."
In Mary Carpenters ragged school
in London 4 boy defined conscience as
"a thing a gentleman hasn't got who.
when a boy finds his purse and gives 1t
back to him, doesn't give the boy six
pence"
Sir Walter Scott once lent a book TO
a friend, and as he gave 1t to him,
begged that he would not fail to re-
turn it, adding good-humoredly, SAL
though most Of my friends are bad
arithmeticians, they are al rood Jook-
keepers.".
1t Is no more possible for an idle man
to keep together n certain stock of
knowledge, than 1t is possible to keep
together acertain stock Of ice exposed
to the meridian sun. Every day de-
stroys a fact, a relation or an inference;
and the only method of preserving the
bulk and value of the pile is by con
stantly adding to it.-Sydney Smith.
A good kind Of religion to have is
n that fills Sunday so full that 1t
pours over the edges and baptizes all the
other days Of the week.
The hardest thing in the world is to
swallow a big word instead Of allowing
it to explode when you become suddenly
angry. At such times, for some reason
or other, expressions arc apt to creep up
to the lips and to jump out into the
fresh air which would not bear repeti-
ton in the bosom Of your family or in a
prayer meeting.
A political speech was n C made
and only once in the history of man
kind-the like Of which will never in
any probability be uttered by gentle
men who will stand for office. 1t was
as follows:-.Fellow c%itizens-I am no
speechmaker, but what 1 say I'll do.
I've lived among you for twenty years,
and il I've shown myself a clever fell
low you know 1t without a speech; II
I'm not a clever fellow you know that
too, and wouldn't forget it with a
speech. I'm a candidate for office. II
you think I'm the clear grit, vote for
me; If you think the other man Of a
better stripe than l am, vote for him.
The fact is, either of us will make n tip
top representative"
Fond parents who study the habits
and Compartments Of their children
with that studious care which is the
Characteristic Of those who love their
little ones, easily recognize them by
their p~eculiarities. A colored father
was once looking for his lost son. He
searched everywhere, but in vain until
he was told by a policeman that a black
boy was in the station house. "What
is he there forg" asked the eager
father. "For breaking up a prayer
meeting" vas the reply. "That's him,
that's him" cried the overjoyed parent.
81 know it, because he told me he was
ooipg ont IN amuse himsalf