Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-06-17
FUN, FACT AND FANCY.

"I'm a man of very quiet tastes,
said he as he went quietly behind the
door and tasted something.
Somebody says: Every failure is a
step towards success" This will explain
why the oftener some men fail the richer
they become.
"My brother" said a clergyman, "de
you feel charitably inclined this winter Z
"Yes," says the brother, eff it doesn''
cost anything"
Self-love is at once the most delicate
and the most tenacious of our emotions.
A mere trife will wound it, and often
seriously; but nothing on earth will kill
it.
You ought not to ask odds of anyone.
Like blooded horse all you have a
right to demand is to be put even on the
whifHetrees. After that show your met
tie.
A prominent writer ON one of the
daiiies was badly bitten by savage dog
o few days since. When an editor be.
comes so thin that he is mistaken by
hungry CANNES for lean bone, it singh
time for his subscribers to come to the
front and settle up.
''Some things" said an excited poll
tician, ''can be foreseen and foretold
and now forsee, and will now fortel
that the day will soon como when oul
liberties will be no more. This is as
certain, my fellow-citizens, and it as
sure, as that Romeo founded Rome"
There are many fruits which never
turn sweet until the frost has touched
them. There are many nuts that never
fall from the bough of a tree till the frost
has opened and ripened them. And
there are many elements of love that
never grow sweet and beautiful till sor-
row touches them.
els there an opening here for an
intellectual writer?" said very red
faced youth with the cork of bottle
sticking out of his breast pocket. Bot
ter, with much dignity, took the man 5
intellect in and said: can opening .
Yes, sir; kind and considerate carpen-
ter, foreseeing your visit, left an open
ing for you. Turn the knob to the
right"
The other day a minister offered
prayer at the laying of cornerstone.
A brisk young reporter hustled up and
said: AZ wish you would give me the
manuscript of that prayer. 81 never
write out prayers, replied the preacher.
swell, !" said the reporter, I" l couldn't
hear a word you said" 81 wasn't
praying to you," quickly responded the
parson.
"There is too much horse-racing at
your agricultural fairs, remarked Par
son Jones to the Secretary of the County
Society. 81 should like to know, sir,
what horse-racing has to do with agri-
culture % "Well, Parson, replied the
secretary with a pleasant smile, "no
more than church lotteries have to do
with spreading the Gospel" Parson
Jones saw the point, and changed the
conversation Immediately.
would keep better hours, says 7. j.
Field, if l were boy again; that is, l
would go to bed earlier than most boys
do. Nothing gives more mental and
bodily vigor than sound rest when prop
erly applied. Sleeps our great replen-
isher, and if we neglect to take it regu-
larly in childhood, all the worse for us
when we grow up. If we sit up late we
disease called insomnia; allowing it to
become permanently fixed upon us, and
then we begin to decay, even in youth.
Late hours are shadows for the grave.
People may well rejoice that so large
part of life lies out of the range Of
politics. We have our daily work and
its fruits; we have outdoor amusements
and our indoor diversions; we have our
farms and country life, all Independent
of the wrangle, contention, scandal and
embitterment of political partisanship.
The Indian Summer, the woodcock, the
partridge, the quail, the hickory nuts,
the gorgeous forests and the falling
leaves-the rides, the drives, the walks
these are not the exclusive property OF
any party. Is it not fortunate that SC
large part of human life lies outside
the range of politics. Y. Ledger.
1t is not the best things-that is, the
things we call the best-that make
men; it is not pleasant things; it is not
the calm experiences of life; it is life's
rugged experiences, its tempests, its
trials. The discipline of life is here
good and there evil; here trouble and
there joy; here rudeness and there
smoothness, one working with the other;
and the alterations of the one and the
other which necessitate adaptations,
constitute a part of that education
which makes man man, in distinction
from an animal, which has mo education.
The successful man invariably bears the
marks of the struggles which he has had
to undergo on his brow.
We commend this brochure to such of
our readers as are anxiously waiting for
an Office to hunt them up. Says the
author. Chicago man, who knows
how it is himself:"-sI ran for Office
once, when / was young and foolish.
got defeated, and am glad of it. I'd
rather be a yellow hound and bay at Q
moon made of green cheese, than submit
myself again to the moral crucifxion
button-holing, lying, sneaking, double
dealing, back-biting, whispering, con
niving, rotgut-swilling, Misunderstanding
foul-breathing, make-believe friendship
and barefaced treachery that must befal
every man that runs for office-falsely
said to be in the gift of the people. In
the gift of the devil would hit nearer the
mark"
1t is related that at dinner party in
New York, one of the guests, a younger
brother of an English nobleman, express.
ed with commsndable freedom his opin.
ion of America and its people. 81 dc
not altogether like the country" said
the young gentleman, ''for one reason,
because you have no gentry here. J
"What do you mean by gentry?" asked
another of the company. swell, YOU
know" replied the Englishman. "Wel