News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-21
WIT AND WISDOM.


well as epidernics of disease. .-Froude.
COURAGE Is, on all hands, considered
as an essential of high character. -~
Froude.
PEOPLE say that blackberries are good
for complexion; but who wants black
berry complexion?
A FRENoHMAN, feeling III, complained
to an English friend that he had pain
in his portruanteau, by which he meanS
his chest
( GREEN BAY wis mother writess
"Are the children of Arab Bey caileo
Arabi Beybies Ours are called Green
Baybies."
The census shows that the number
of persons in family in the United
States is a small fraction over five. In
some families we know the husband IL
the small fraction over.
A CORRESPONDENT at Mount Desert
tells of lady's dress that is "perfect
dream" The nightmare part of the
business was probably enjoyed by the
man who paid for the dress.
THE peach crop promises to be as
big as the wheat crop. This is no off
year. Everything goes" Now is the
time to make up clubs and send in your
arrears of subscription.
A HOTEL was burned down in New
York not long ago, and Texas editor
lost all his baggage. That was the
reason the papers said the loss was not
as large as was first supposed. 1eT0s
Sfttings.
IT IS with antiquity as with ancestry
rutioss-era- -pEeHd-of- the one, and ln-
dividuals of the other; but If they are
nothing in themselves, that which is
their pride ought to be their humilia-
tion.-CoLToN.
GEORGIA has shipped more than
100000 worth of watermelons to the
northern States this summer. It does
seem as though this old bitter Southern
hatred of the North would never die
out--HaaOkeye.
DIALOGUE near the sea, on hotel
piazza ST do not see how you ladies'
can remain here two months looking
upon the changeless ocean," "But
the men change" was the reply OF a
lady.-Boston Journal.
"HAvE you resided long in this
town ?" asked tourist of the Oldest ia
habitant. eyes," he replied, 81 a long,
long time. Dye see that mountain
over yonder? Well, that was here when
1 came here" The tourist travelled on.
DO not mean to expose my ideas to
ingenious ridicule by maintaining that
everything happens to every man for
who makes the best use of it fulflls the
part of wise and good nan.-CUMBER-
LAND.
NATURE has left every man capacity
of being agreeable, though not of shin
ing IN company; and there are hundred
men sufficiently qualified for both, who,
by very few faults that they might
correct in half an hour, are not SO much
as tolerable.-SwIFT.
"BoY," said stranger to lad who
was blacking mis- boots in front of a
hotel yesterday, "if L should give you
dollar would your first impulse be
to so to the circus ?" "No, sir" was
the prompt reply. My first impulse
would be that it was counterfeit bill -
A LITTLE lady of two and a half years
had picked up cane in the corner of
the room and was playing with it--a
plain stick bent at the end. Papa asked:
'What are you doing with the cane p
'It isn't a cane" "What is it, then ?"
'sIts an umbrella without any clothes
on it."
Is TT not strange that we sometimes
hunt most for the things we want least2
No man has consuming ambition to
stumble across a burglar. But look at
the papers and you will find that people
are always advertising for them and
even Offering rewards for their dis
covery.
IT DOES not lie' in the power of q
man to brush away mist. But let
him ascend the hillside it covers and he
may look over it altogether. So it is
with our moral improvement. We may
struggle with faults which adhere to US
tenaciousIy, but which would fall away
of themselves did we seek higher
moral atmosphere.
sa or1 tnr,r IN
and the other evening favored his friend
Spriggins with an operatic gem. Sprig-
gins thought he would say something
pleasant, so he remarked, Higgins,
my boy, your voice ought to be culti-
vated." And Higgins didn't take it the
right way at all, and they don't speak
now.-LoaUeH Courier.
SOME men have tact. Said the bride.
groom who didn't wish either to offend
his bride or die of internal disturbance:
"My dear, this bread looks delicious;
but it is the first you have ever made.
L cannot think of eating, but will pre-
serve it to show to our children in after
wears as a sample of their mothers skill
and deftness."
In a Cambridge horse car: snow /
don't believe in speaking against a man
behind his back. 1t does not do any
good and frequently Injuries an innocent
party" at is an excelient plan to fol-
low," returned the other. GIVE always
done So" continued the first, sand
found it worked well, but there is Col.
So and-so, he is sample of the other
kind. He will backbite and malign his
neighbors, will get a man into his con-
fidence and then give him away, and do
all sorts of such n can, contemplate