Connecticut western news., 1880-01-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

Feeling is no criterion of right or wrong.
 Believers have life that death can never touch.
 Seek we'll and the SC quel will prove your sagacity.
 To him that lives we'll every form of life is good. ....
 Friends are won by those who be- lieve in winning.
 A strong shield is the safety of com- manders.
 Life is too short for it's possessors to wear long faces.
 A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. .-.
 The meaning we attach to words de- pends on our feeling.
 Liberty and work, these are the noblest prerogatives of map.
 Teach your children to respect their elders and themselves.
 Swear not at all, but if you must bWear-SWeaF Ou.
 A nominal luxury-A private table in a boarding house. A man can borrow all the trouble he wants on his own personal security.
 Faith builds the bridge of prayer that spans the chasm of human need.
 If every year we rooted out onevies, we should soon become perfect men.
 If you make home too hot for your children they will skip out into the cold world.
 It's wise bird that knows it's own feather when the milliner gets hold of it. -.... -..... .. ..,,.
 He who hath a settled purpose should be careful not to have it sha- ken up.
 If you cannot find place to fit you, strive to fit the place in which you find yourself.
 The boy who was kept after school for bad othography said he was spell bound. ...
 One secret man can keep if he has balky horse he has either got to keep the secret or the horse.
 A man without dollar ill his pocket is about as attractive as a rat-trap with out any cheese.-[ Whitehall Times.
 -" God help the poor" is the motto of great many men who never think ot reaching into their own pockets to do 1t. 1 The man who has nothing to say is wise enough not to open his mouth and tell you about it.
 -" Horrid little thing, without set of bangs to her name," is the newest Chicago phrase for describing rival.
 There is nothing so effective in bringing 2 man up to the scratch as healthy and high.spiritcd flea.
 -"'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark" and know that he will go for the tramp who tries the garden gate.
 Professor Proctor alludes to the earth as mere mustard seed. The Buffalo Express says that this is because 1t is hot inside. ..... as1
 -" George, where's the diamond ring you promised me?" (" My love, l sent you five tons of coal, which McTear has proved is the same thing"
 They have invented Q gun in Eng land without any lock, and any fool can point, it at person all day long without the usual result following.
 An Ohio man met weeping woman and kissed her tears away. The jury found verdict of $3, 800 for the plaint- if. It is far better to let her squall. I Another American girl is to marry a nobleman. Why is it that our girls re- fuse to support their own countrymen There is a lack of patriotism somewhere.
 A Sunday school boy was asked if his father was a Christian. He replied, "Yes, but he is not working much at it now" Too many just such Ohristisns are around. , -" Who con say that I am not good man 2" asked tramp of citizen this week. "Whoever saw me break the blessed Sabbath day, as some men dc ) by working onit2" ....e } If you watch woman's mouth ? closely when she dresses the children fol
 Sunday~school you'll find out where al
 the pins come from, and of course il
 must be where they all go.
 It having been stated that canned |, persimmons were among tue stores O . the Bennett Arctic expedition as pre- ventive of scurvy, the trifing Cincinnati
 Saturday Night asks if the longest per Q simmon will reach the pole4 v -" The nice young man," observed a the Elmira Gazette, ''saveth his money !. for next Fourth of July, but the foolisl ;. one taketh his girl out sleigh-riding an' l. pays $4 for the privilege of freezing t a death coupleof hours" sf l. When 0 man at Anderson, Ind, l. was informed that he had fallen heir t' e an estate valued at $1, $50, 900, he bough @ his wife five dozen cloEhes-pins t d celebrate that event. She had beer 'r wanting them for ten years. e -"How old is that chiIdP" asked tn n conductor. '"Four years," replied tn e mother. "Then, madam, you'll hay 1t to pay for him." "That's fraud Pa It for him-why haven't been paying fo sr him for years and years"
 @. If upon snowy day g gentle
 man sees another gentleman slip an !, fall he laughs, whereas if he sees hors d slip and fall he does not laugh. .Whyi to this thus? A. Because if the gentle