Connecticut western news., 1882-06-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

after every marriage.
 CHARACTER is higher than intellect A great soul will be strong to live as we'll as strong to think.
 PERFECT ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.-Carlyle.
 IT is stated that man who has be- come bank cashier began his down. ward career by stealing an umbrella.-- Boston Post.
 SMITH discovered, atter marriage, that his wife wrote poetry; but he couldn't do anything about it then. He had taken her for better or for verse.
 IT is the worst devil when we cannot see any devil, for then perhaps the ras- cal has got inside of us and is ready to give us deadly stab.-Spurgeon. l SOME scientist now observes that even the clam has parasites. He would have observed ss much before if he had ever noticed the crowd around free chow der.-Lot0eU CitiSen.
 THE successors of Jesse James, when they rob train, should go for the sieep- ing car porter, and they will get all the valuables of the passengers at once, without disturbing them individually. GOOD ADvIoEt Dare to be right, | Dare to be true But-dare to pay up, Whatever you do. -Steubenpite Republican,.
 A MEDICAL journal devotes whole coltimn to explaining what caused cold precipitation. Any one who has gone up dark alley and stepped on O dog would be waiting valuable time in reading it. Puck.
 A PHInADEhpRIA youth who is learn ing to play the cornet cannot under stand why people who shoot at cnss will be so careless. Half dozen stray bull let's have already come through his win dow.-Philadelphia NeeOs.
 Fon the best results there needs to be the longest waiting. The true harvest is the longest in being reached. The failures come first, the successes last. The unsatisfactory is generally soonest en.-Henry Oslderwood.
 ASAN FRANCISCO jury has awarded book canvasser $150 damages for being kicked out of doors. This is mighty bad precedent. A book agent will only need one book to carry under his arms and Q brick in his coat-tail pocket, and he will make more money than by can- vassing.
 els YOUR wife Democrat or Repub- lioan ?" asked one Rockland citizen of another ill store this morning. "She's neither" was the prompt response; and then, glancing cautiously around, and sinking his voice to hoarse whls- pef, he exclaimed, "She's home ruler"
 SECRETARY Fuller has ordered that All the Indians be disarmed. This IS rough ou tho United States soldiers. The Indians will have to beat them to death with clubs, which is much more painful than being put out of their mis- cry at once, with improved fresrms.- 7eTGs SJtingS.
 Ip some ministers nowadays being in- stalled were one-half as certain about what they do know and believe as they are concerning what they don't know and do not believe, there would be much better ecclesiastical timber put into some puipits than we fear will get there. -Chrtstaan at Work.
 "Yrs, stranger" said the native of hobbledehoy Western village, five year aoo this hull place were wilderness nothins but perarie grass and red h. iuns. Now, stranger, there be twenty men in that jail over yonder, aud forty more in the poorhus. It's grown town. you'd better believe, stranger. Boston 7rdnscript.
 HAPPY is tue father whose children are so young that he cal delude them into the belief that the procession IS all there is of the circus. .-BufdIo Co Eapress. The happiness of such father woulo be very short lived, for Q child who was so stupid as that would be almost oer- tain to be elected to congress as soon as he became of age. 7'eras Sittsm9s'
 A CURIOUS wind passed over Evans vile recently. "There was roaring sound high in the air, while near ene earth every thing was quiet" Some persons have a theory that Congress sional Committee was up in balloon discussing the tariff question, but we don't think this hypothesis tenaoie'- NorriSto,On Herald.
 HE New York ObserUcr, a religious paper, says there is no more sense ID having a bell on church than one on a theatre. Aud the editor might nave added that there is no more sense ID young man going out of theatre pe- tween the acts than there Is Ill going out of @ hurch between the sinelng, preaching and praying.-Norr'fSto'0n Herald
 CITIZEN you don't want to rent mo your house." said New Haven man m search of rent. "Yes, yes. But you sec the family in it now owe me little rent, and don't exactly sec how can get them out" "Hang it all, warn them out. That's the way they do mes and then he wondered why curious expression came over the face of the landlord.
 AT Newport dance the other night, he was introduced to very modest ana