Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

TIE passions are the voice of the body.
A MAN of thought is willing to die, will
ing to live.
WHAT loneliness is more lonely than
distrust?
PROSPERITY makes ssms friends and
many enemies.
ALI that is human must retrograde if
it do not advance.
NOTHING dies 30 hard and rallies so
often as intolerance.
Coon manners and good morals are
sworn friends and firm allies.
words arc sold for nothing everywhere.
NATURE never moves by jumps, but
always in steady and supported advan-
ces.
In IS easy enough to forgive your
enemies, if you have not the means to
harm them.
THE worst prison is not Of stone. 1t
is of throbbing heart. outraged by An
infamous life.
TRUTH never turns to rebuke falsehood;
her own raightforwardness is the sever
est correction.
AS SOON go kindle fire with snow, as
seek to quench the fire fare with words.
Shakespeare.
NEGLECTED calumny soon expires !;
show that you are hurt, and you give It
the appearance of truth.
LET us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man
has no harbor, time has no shore it
rushes Oh and carries US with it.
We ARE not what we are, nor do we
treat or esteem each other for such, but
for that we are capable of being.
NOTHING makes the earth seem so spa
cious as to have friends at distance
they make the ATTITUDES and longitudes.
MARK this well, We proud men of ac.
ton Ye are, after all, nothing but un.
conscious Instruments of the men OF
thought.
IAN yet apt to think that men find
their simple ideas agree, though in dis
course they confound one another with
different names.
If ANY one say that he has seen just
man in want of bread, answer that il
was in some place where there was nc
other just man.
SOCIETY is a more level surface than
we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools
are hard to be met with, as there are
few giants or dwarfs.
SoNas OF departed glory are the priv,
ilege of conquered people, and pro
phetic hopes are consolation seldom
wanting to the oppressed.
-, g - II
enjoy the game much, but like to play
my cards well, and see what will be the
end of it. = George Eliot.
j THINK most readers of Shakespeare
sometimes find themselves thrown into
exhaulted mental conditions like those
produced by music. Holmes.
WHERE necessity ends, curiosity
begins and no sooner are we supplied
with everything thatnature can demand,
petltes.
THE infinite bliss Of nature
In feel In every vein,
The light and life Of the summer
Blossoms in heart and brain.
OTHER rules vary this is the only
one you will find without exception
that in this world the salary or reward
is always in the reverse ratio Of tbs
duties performed.
No WAY has been found for making
heroism easy, even for the scholar.
Labor, iron labor, is for him. The world
WAS created as ALI audience for him; the
atoms of which it is made are oppor-
tunities.
THE population of Athens is said TO be
orderly peaceable and moral to an I'M
usual degree. A correspondent who has
lived long III the city reports that he has
never seen q disturbance in the streets.
The natural situation of Athens. too. is
favorable TO public cleanliness and health,
so that with little difficulty it might be q
singularly wholesome and happy city.
But owing to popular carelessness and
police neglect, the streets are as filthy
as they are quiet; and, as o result, the
warm weather of the past summer pro-
duced an epidemic of typhoidal fevers.
The correspondent referred to, writing
not long ago to the London Times, thus
described the condition of affairs "The
butchers have been allowed to fling their
| otfal into the streets, and dead cats and
dogs are of not infrequent occurrences.
Piles of fermenting rubbish lie in the va
cant space and around the outskirts OF
the city. There are no system of drain
age, and none of emptying the cesspools
! into which the ouse-drains pour, only
one of the principal streets having a
main drain, and this having no taps,
and, though the police have full author
ity to examine the drainage of each
house, no houses are ever examined,
and the cesspools filter off into the sur,
rounding earth. The law requires rigid
inspection Of the abattoirs and butchers
shops but, as the police have political
! duties and must be on good terms with the
constituency, the shop-keepers are never
annoyed, nor are the shops inspected !;
and, though today there is. from the
panic prevailing, a cleaning of the out.
side Of the platter the inside is not, and
in this intense heat can not now be safely
disturbed"