Connecticut western news., 1880-11-10
WIT AND WISDOM.

WIT AND WISDOM. NEED teaches unlawful things. OPINION crowns with an imperial voice.
 ENVY is usually more quick-sighted than love.
 IN EVERY man there is poet who dies young.
 IT IS poor speller who does not keep an to business.
 CENsURE is the tax @ man pays to the public for being eminent. WHEN the leader of 8 choir gets the right pitch he sticks to it.
 IF THOU art @ master, be sometimes | blind if Q servant, sometimes deaf. THE English laws punish vice the Chinese do more, they reward virtue. WHAT is wanted in Massachusetts just at this time is Cape c. O. D. Canal Go. "H1s SMILE was so broad that you | could see it when his back was turned" HAVE the courage to acknowledge your ignorance rather than appear liar. SOMETIMES it is we'll enough not to speak your mind, but to mind your speak.
 HE WHO puts bad construction on | good act reveals his own wickedness of heart.
 A MIND that is conscious of its integ- rity scorns to say more than it means to i perform.
 "THERE is plenty of room at the top," as the bald-headed man said to his full beard.
 A FELLOW who had been to the circus spoke of his girls chees as 8 splendid side show.
 THE grocer sets good egg sample in the window. Those in the basket are often not so good. SHE may dress ln silk, or may dress in satin,
 May know the languages, Greek or Latin, May know fine art, may love and sigh But she ain't no good if she can't make pie.
 THE bass-drum player makes more noise than anybody else, but he doesn't lead the band. There is e moral to this. IF madman bitten be By a bittsrn bitterly, Better had that bittern been Bitten than the man, ween SOMEBODY notes that love Is more in- teresting than marriage, for the same reason that romance is more enticing than history.
 ALoNzo wants to know eff it hurts a man to be called a liar." No, Alonzo, no. It is more likely to hurt the other man.-HaWkcye. l WHEN the shopman seizes you warmly by the hand as you enter the establish ment, you readily understand what is meant by pressure of business.
 A DULL old lady, being told that certain lawyer was lying at the point of death, exclaimed My gracious won't even death stop that mans lying p \
 ISN'T it kind O curious that no woman goes to the telephone to answer Q ring without wondering if her hair is all right and her train ill the proper shapep
 SILVER drab hats made of owls down can now be bought at the low price of $75 each. In cold weather they are very becoming to plumbers wives.
 CAN storied urn or animated bust
 Back to it's mansion call the ticeting breath
 Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or tiattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death THOMAS GRAY. STRIPED stockings are no longer fash ionable, and hereafter tho back yards of our first families on wash days will not resemble a collection of the flags of all nations.
 THERE is nothing keeps longer than middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and un- expected riches.-Bruyere.
 THERE is already in existence
 "Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language" Might we suggest
 the speedy formation of another "So- clety "-for thepreservation of the Irish Landlord ?-Puach. T A CERTAIN Chinaman gave dinner
 party. The viands were not to his
 taste. He rose from the table, asked to
 be excused for few moments and left
 the room with the remark: "Much ickee wife," This was not in China. THE ruralist who planted an orchard
 of plum trees, because he had heard that plumbers always got rich, says that everything is a delusion and snare , and he wouldn't take gold dollar for 3 over ninety cents. 5 A COUPLE of peasants discuss the fer tility of their respective provinces. s'At r Bordeaux" said one, eff you let a e match fall to the ground, the next year : there will grow up forest" At Mar. seilles," cried the other, triumphantly, t "you let suspender button fall, and in - eight days you will have pair of panta-