News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-03
WIT AND WISDOM.

of it.
TEE best remedy for sting is tc
poultice the wasp before it gets lts
work in.
A WISE man watches the development
of his plans and then bends his energies
to waiting.
"IN MONEY matters" says a miserly
old fellow, "treat strangers as though
they were your relations" :"
SUCCESS does not consist in never
making blunders, but in never making
the same one second time.
A FOOL in high station is like man
in balloon-every body appears little to
him, and he appears little to every
body.
WE may not all like the company we
meet with, but if we are brought in con-
tact with it, we must make the best
of it.
The shoe worn by horse is a wrought
iron shoe, but when the horse loses the
shoe from its foot it becomes a cast iron
shoe.
THE most difficult lesson we have to
learn in Iife-a lesson which begins in
the cradle and ends in the grave-is that
of our insiguifcance.
IT is strange that q woman can ever
be found to marry a king, for every body
knows that the king always beats the
queen. Transcript.
JONES says that he used to be prof
cient in half dozen languages, but
that since marriage he is not even
master of his own tongue.
FEELINGS come and go like light troops
following the victory of the present;
but principles, like troops of the line,
are undisturbed and stand fast.
IF all were as willing to be pleasant
and as anxious to please in their own
homes as they are in the company of
their neighbors, they would nave happy
homes.
"MR. SMITH," said lady at fair,
"won't you buy a bouquet to present
to the lady you love?" "That wouldn't
be right" said Mr.. Smith, "I'm
married man.
A COMPANY of settlers in naming their
new town called it Dictionary, because,
as they said, "thst's the only place
where peace, prosperity and happiness
are always found"
IF board at the seaside is 600 week,
what must it be at the mountain sum-
mer resorts, thousands of feet above the
level of the sea, where the living is so
much higher 2-Norriatoa0n Herald.
WORK is honorable, and no one should
be ashamed to do any labor that is hon
est. Boys who try to get through the
world without working, because they
think it degrading to work, will not
make the right kind OF men.
WHEN man dies suddenly, "with-
out the aid of physician, the coroner
must be called in. Ii man dies regu-
larly, after being treated by doctor,
everybody knows why he died, aud the
coroner's inquest is not necessary.
"Do, FOR gracious sake, waiter, take
those nut-crackers over to that man."
exclaimed a nervous old lady sitting op-
posite to party who was cracking nuts
with his teeth. So No, thank you
politely returning them "mine are not
false teeth.
RUaGINa sorrow is not the way t.
lessen it, though like the nettle, trouble
stings less when it is firmly grasped and
not feared. Frequent disappointments
teach us to mistrust our own inclma-
tions and shrink even from VOWS oar
hearts my prompt.
The girl who sings to an admiring
company in the parlor, "You must
wake and call me early, call me early,
mother dear" is the same creature who
expects her mother to make the fire,
get the milk, and bring her breakfast
up to her room.
WHERE will you hang out to-mor-
row ?" was the somewhat inelegant quas-
ton of a young man to his lady friend,
the other evening to which very ap-
propriate reply was given: "As to-mor-
row is wash day, think I shall hang
out in the back yard"
A SUNDAY SCHOOL teacher asked:
"What bird is large enough to carry of
man ?" Nobody knew but one little
girl suggested ga lark" And then she
explained " Mamma said papa wouldn't
be home until Monday, because he had
gone off on lark.
A PROMINENT granger from Onion
Greek was in Austin the other day. De-
string to obtain some reliable figures
about the oat clop, we asked him If he
could tell us precisely how many acres
he had in oats and how many bushels
he raised to the acre. 81 can't give
you the precise figures, but raised
heap, sold right smart, and I've got
powerful lot left. ''-Teras Siftings.
FANoY Job printing Thus read the
exclamation, and so thought we. The
idea of a man afflicted as Job was being
engaged in the business of printing ls
preposterous. Fancy him lowering over
a case with his boily arms, picking up
agate and diamond with his boily fingers,
and ever and anon craning his boily
neck to decipher the illegible copy /;
though why the matter has been opened
up at this late day is not clear. Job is
dead. - Cincinnati Saturday Night.
"MAMMA, dear," said a New Haven
girl Just in the flush of womanhood, 81
have something to tell you. George
has proposed and have accepted"
"My child, [ cannot think of you thus
disgracing yourself. Geor is not a
suitabie rnatct for you. Besides. this
| would make him one OF the family
and he would pay no more board.
Thus will be seen the incompatabiitv
of boarding-house girl falling in love
with one of the boarders. Haven
Register.
AN editor is reported to have visited
Cincinnati recently, who, for comforts
sake. purchased pair of secondhand
boots. good as new, which fitted him /"
nerfection. He determined upon trac-
inp the boots to their original owner,
with view of getting duplicate last,
upon which thenceforth he proposed 10
have his boots built. With the intelli'
gent persistence peculiar to editors IA
soon discovered ali about them. They
had once belonged to himself, but hal
been battered by his wife to peddlet