Connecticut western news., 1880-09-22
WIT AND WISDOM.

A MANS character is like fence-it cannot be strengthened by whitewash.
 A NOBLE part of every true life is to earn to undo what has been wrongly done.
 HE WHO refuses justice theto defence less, will make every concession to the powerful. . PRESERVE the privacy of your house, | marriage state and heart from relatives and all the world. ..--.. THE ACTIONS of men are like the index of book. They point out what is mos agreeable in them.
 THE NoBnEsr quality wherewith nature has endowed woman, for the good of the world, is maternal love.
 DoNo7strEsto force yourself in to the confidence of others. If they give their confidence never betray it. MARKET report for travelers-Trunks are heavy and are going down with crash-at all the railway stations. SpEoUnAToRs in provision futures can never tell which way pork will go. It is the nature of the hog to go wrong.
 THE HEART is loom and it may weave whatever it pleases. It may make life continual progress toward triumph. VERSE sweetens toll, however rude the sound, She feels no biting pang the while she sings Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things. TALK is thinner than milk. If syou don't believe it, set pan of each deby side, and see which affords the most cream.
 MISTRESS (horrifed)-Good gracious, Bridget, have you been using one of my stockings to strain the coffee through ? Bridget (apologetically)-Yis, mum but shure, didn't take clane 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. "The dirty cups and saucers," was theprompt, reply. >
 WE want no probabilities or possibilities " in the weather this winter, but square up and down tempera- ture, which will make ice so cheap next summer that it can be melted for wash- water.
 When the press of this country will do one-half the free advertising for @ widowed seamstress that it will for an immoral actress, great start will be
 made towards furnishing up the jewel of consistency.
 THIS was Robert Stephenson's remark to the man who used to bother him about
 perpetual notion eff you will take
 yourself up by the waistband of your
 brooches and carry yourself around the !, room, I will consider the matter. SAID Uncle Thomas to his nephew l whom he wished to see welded "John, . which do you love best, Alice, who IS
 pretty and poor, or Jane, who IS rich but ugly ?" The nephew replied, with . sigh: "I love Alice best, but prefer ) Jane"
 l "CApTA1N," said a cheeky youth, is 3 there any danger of disturbing the mag
 netic currents if I examine that compass s too closely" And the stern mariner,
 loving his little joke, promptly respond !. ed: "No, sir brass has no effect what T ever on them"
 : HE HAD an auburn-haired girl, ano
 promised to take her out riding. She : met him at the door when he drove ur ! and he exclaimed "Hellol Ready ? v She misunderstood him, and they don !, speak now. Thus slang makes anothel f slap at love's young dream. AT AN Indiana breakfast table few s days ago traveller from the Eas handed to one of his fellow travellers (
 plate of sausages whereupon the ques 5 tion was asked, "Is it safe ?' To whicl @ was replied, "This is a prolific hot
 country, and it is safe to eat sausaget wherever hog is cheaper than dog. WE MAY live without poetry, music, and art;
 We may live without conscience and live with out heart
 n We may live without friends, we may live with
 out books,
 " Rut civilized man cannot live without cooks. a We may live without books-what is knowledg
 but grievingP
 We may live without hope-what is hope bu deceiving? :. We may live without love-what is passion ou
 pining?
 a But where is the man that can live withou
 dining? --O,oen Meredith. d A YOUNG lady has @ Sunday schoo k class of rather bright boys, averaging
 between seven and nine years. Recent .- ly she requested each pupil to come or > the following Sunday with some passage t of Scripture bearing upon love. The e lads needed the request, and in turn re
 cited then verses bearing upon the pop
 ular topic-such as Glove your en
 emies," "Little children, love one an q other," etc. The teacher said to the boy d whose turn come last, "Well, Robbie what is your verse ?" Rising, he re ,'' sponded: "Song of Solomon, second " chapter, fifth verse-'S Stay me with flag
 ons, comfort me with apples, for l an e sick of love-"