Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
WIT AND WISDOM.

n. ".. -s a.'1fu.. MAKE friends of your creditors, but don't make creditors of your friends.
 IF FINE feathers don't make fine birds, why isn't crow as handsome as pea cock ?
 IF NEW YORK does not soon collar a street. cleaning process, she will cholera pestilence. ''' WHEN @ young man wants to protect a young lady, he naturally puts his armor round her. .-4nn :sFi IF we could see others as we see our selves there would be more good looking people in the world. l-r, rag' G' r.a THE Philadelphia Chronicle says it is now fashionable to speak of prize fight as pound party. An, .T air MEN are geese, women are ducks, and birds of feather flock together. Rather Q "downy" way of putting it, ehP STILL is the night. An, me, 'tis growing late The darkness dimly lights the crested moon And as the starlets wink, there at the gate
 Augustus and Amelia stand and spoon.
 THE Chicago Journal says: "It is all we'll enough for Americans to go to Europe, but when returning they should leave Europe behind them" & ,"1-
 GONE by one the blossoms open, s.9.
 One by one the blossoms fall 0..
 False are History's solemn pages,
 Poets songs and words of sages-
 Tjyaa ;o 1aun o% t1napa al THE Chicago Tribune is poking fun at Whitelaw Reid for getting married at his age, just as if a newspaper man ever got too old to marry blue-eyed girl and half million dollars with her. A PENNSYLVANIA man has invented car starter for which he has been offered $100,00,. We stand ready to double that fer something to start house. painter or plumber. Must be easy to handle, and not shoot over ten pounds of powder at once.
 WHEN man is in the habit of using the words ''but" and "if'' don't trust him. He says: Certainly l will, but"-'I shall be most happy to come, but"-''I will assuredly pay you, if and all the while he means that he will do it if he finds it entirely convenient to, and not otherwise.
 AN OLD Long Island sportsman says that horses frequently die of broken hearts because they travel the same roads every day and become tired ot seeing the same objects. He says that the pest way to restore horse to health is to take him off on new road and let him shy little. ..,s..- ... ... s..s MIsFoRTuNEs come to man through excessive love of self He misludges things just, good and beautiful, through thinking he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. They also come in the same ratio when a man neglects to pay the printer. .....-............s-
 EDITORS, as @ general rule, don't like to take back anything if they can help it but the editor of 8 paper out West, last fall, according to an esteemed con temporary, took valuable premium at the State Fair where nobody saw him, but policeman made him take it right back to the place where he got it from. A PROMINENT musician of New York collects his bills regularly and his wife as regularly goes through his pockets. Recently he wished to hide certain sum of money from her, and he suc- ceeded in doing so. He quietly slipped it into her pocket. The next morning he discovered that she had looked every- where except into her own pocket.
 A VICAR of country parish in En- gland had occasion lately to remonstrate with lowly member of his flock, who had regularly been conspicuous by his absence from the celebration of the Holy Communion, for his non-attend- ance. Hodge hazarded the excuse that he didn't consider himself sufficiently quail flied to attend. "Why not" urged the vicar; "you have been confirmed" {" "Yes, sir," replied Hodge, "and vac- cinated, too but they neither of them took" ....se gs.. ,..... ..r
 MOTHERS CLOCK. .f
 youth sat on a sofa wide, .'
 Within parlor dim; Ht. ... -.a
 The maid who fingered by his side
 Was all the world to him. -...
 What brought that glad light to his eye
 That cadence to his tone? -s-sk
 Why burns the lamp of love so high,
 Though midnight's hour hath fown7
 The clock above the glowing grate "-
 Has stopped at half-past ten; ssil&
 And, long as that young man may wait,
 It will not strike again. . ..-..,..-s-.,
 The artful maiden knows full well
 What makes inc clock act so, 4i
 And why no earthly power can tell .
 The time for him to go.