Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-02-09
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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renewed, then it will work for thee"
IF the ass is invited TO the wedding
it is only that he may carry the wood. "
The good thought of to-day will
awaken many good thoughts tomorrow.
1t is better to have wisdom without
learning than learning without wisdom.
A matter of more than ordinary inter
est-your note bearing twelve per cent.
Some things are past finding ont. The
love for whiskey is what staggers man.
'"The woman to whom fortune does
not come says that her husband is be-
witshed."
The pleasant things in this world are
pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art
In life is to have as many of them as pos
sible,
What is necessary TO make an honest
man, properly applied, would make a
| polite one.
Genial cheerfulness is an almost GER
tain index of happy mind and pure,
good heart.
Happiness only begins when wishes
end; and he who banker after more en-
joys nothing.
Pedantry Grams our heads with learn
ed lumber and takes out our brains to
make room for it.
Young, one is rich in all the future
that he dreams; old, one is poor in all
the past he regrets.
How industriously the good grows and
propagates itself. even among the weedy
entanglements of evil.
''He eats the fruit of the paternal gar
den, and yet insults his ancestors. re
fers to ingratitude.
Zone horseman does not make the
dust-cloud. This signifies that the
work OF one man cannot produce very
great results.
Our ideas, like orange plants, spread
out in proportion TO the size of the box
which imprisons the roots.
Never give advice until you are asked
for it, and only give it then with eau
ton.
Among the perilous rocks and shoals
OF life, we can have no better compass
than clear conscience.
He has no bread to eat and he il
looking for a wife signifies; Be not am
bitious when your means are limited.
Lit is quite wonderful how many things
there are in this world which you do
not want if you can only make yourself
think so.
Good nature adorns every perfection
man is master of, and throws a veil
over every blemish which would other
wise prevail.
As few roads are SO rough as those
that have just been mended, so few sin
ners are SO intolerant as those that have
just turned saint.
When ounces call us fools without
proving us to be so, our best retort is to
prove them to be fools, without conde-
cendipg to call them so.
The spirit of mortals is pround be-
cause 1T costs fifteen cents glass. This
puts the matter in new light.
1.-THE way to help q man in trouble is
not to take his burden from him, but to
give him all the strength we can to bear
il himself.
No man can honestly pray to be de-
hvered from this worlds temptations.
who does not persistentIy strive to keep
out of them.
cit is the crier himself who has lost
his ass, us used in speaking of those who
cannot do for themselves what they can
do for Others.
"What the grasshoppers have left, the
little birds have eaten, means that mis-
fortunes never come singly.
"He went to sea and found it dry.'
means that a cowardly man will always
fail in his undertakings.
''This apple is pretty well worn out. :"
said five-year-old, as she finished eat
ing and was about to throw away the
core. Fact.
A Coroner's verdict reads thus: ''The
deceased came to his death by excessive
drinking, producing apoplexy in the
minds of the jury.
Jones, getting up from his dinner, in
quiet way remarked to his landlady
that he had found everything on the
table cold except the ice cream.
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At banquet this toast was given: "Wo-
without her man, is brute. -
No Fee runs Chinese laundry in
Boston. He shall have all our washing.
Send it along. One more shirt will pro-
bably not increase his labors much.
The more diamond is cut and polish
ed, the brighter it sparkles. In like
way, the more good man is rubbed by
stern adversely the more his virtues
shine.
The German poet, Richter was wont
to say that sorrows were sent to man for
his instruction, even as the cages of
birds are darkened to teach them to
sing
It might might have been: a fashion
able young lady accidentally dropped
one of her false eyebrows in her opera
box and greatly frightened her beau,
who, on seeing it thought it was his
mustache.
To live with honor and happiness in
the world, we must always be what we
would appear to be, and never try to APP
pear to be anything different from what
we really are.
It is well to have your zeal for reform
ing the world begin on Yourself. After
YOU have finished the work needed there
you may with justice extend your efforts
to your neighbor's case.
We are taught to clothe our minds as