Connecticut western news., 1882-02-22
WIT AND WISDOM.

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 IF YOU are so poor that you can't possibly find bread for your family you had better give up searching and go to work for it.
 IF LYING down in the sunshine could only be called hard work to be well paid for how industrious some of us would be P a.. - ,r .'. 2. s,s
 LITTLE drops of water Gin the milk) and little grains of sana Gin the sugar) are what make the big fortunes of the humble milkman and the obscure gro- cers.
 OSCAR WILDE and Sullivan, the fighter, being ia Chicago at the same time, are regarded as the lily and the squash, and the Journal speaks of them as the two mashers. .a
 A WOMAN will coolly clean Ash and open oysters with her husbands rszor, but she will not for one moment think of trimming the lamp with her new scissors. Eg. sA
 WHEN a building burns down and several lives are lost it is great con- solation to feel that it was nobody's fault and that the same thing, may occur at any time.
 SOME people have no perspective in their conscience. Their moral oonvic- tions are the same on all subjects. They are like 8 reader who speaks every word with equal emphasis. .-Beecher. THE artist is the child in the popular fable-every one of whose tears was a pearl. An tRe world, that cruel step mother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls.--H Hesn- rich Heine. A "HANNAH," said Brooklyn lady to her new servant, "when there is any
 bad news always let the boarders know
 of it before dinner. Such httls things
 make great difference in the eating in
 the course of g year.
 THE essential difference between a
 good and 8 bad education is this, that
 the former draws on the child to learn
 by making it sweet to hims the latter
 drives the child to learn, by making it
 sour to him if he does not. - Charles
 Burton. A BUSINESS man meets 0 man we'll
 known in the walks of journalism and beer. CT have been given note to
 collect" he says. "It is for 250 francs
 and bears your name." !" Has it bsen protested?" "No." "Then it is not mine~
 "GurrEAU is quite right" says the Chicago Times. I" If there are fools } who set store by the miserable,.autograph written with the same red hand which pulled the trigger on the President of the United States, let them pay for their folly"
 AN OPEN Question-Bridget Cooking at the picture over the mantlepiece): "What's thim, marm2" Mrs. Dotonart "Those are cherubs, Bridget" B.:
 Cheerups, is it2 Mary Ann says as how they was bats, and I says twins,
 barrin' the wings. "-HarUard Lanpooa. WHAT sculpture is to block of mar
 ble education is to human soul. The
 philosopher, the saint and the hero, the wise, the good and the great man very often lie hid and concealed in a
 plebeian, which @ proper education might have disinterred and br ought to
 light.-Addtson.
 FRITZ has been hunting up the :. pedigree of Dr. Tanner, the celebrated
 hungry man. and finds he is of very 8 ancient lineage. The forty-third verse
 of chapter nine, Acts of the Apostles,
 reads: "Aud it came to pass that he d tarried many days with one Simon A. l. Tanner. Burlington Ha,okeye. s THs is boy's composition on girls: @ "Girls are the only folks that have their O own way every time. Girls is of several IF thousand kinds, and sometimes one ia girl can be like several thousand girls ii ,I she wants any thing. This is all know n about girls, and father says the less if know about them the better of am. : l. HENDERSON says he doesn't under n stand why they want to remove tho d Post-ofice building now that it is almosi
 built. Henderson read in the paper l. that the building was "being pushed te 1T completion" He wants to know whers B, completion is, and how in time they ars ;" going to push the Post-ofice. .--Bosto' is Transcript. &. u MULE. RHRA was in Boston. Sh,
 patronized the Soldiers Bazaar during er the closing exercises, under the escor of of her manager, and in looking for place le some one proposed that they should g
 to the "rear gallery" "What 1" sail at the delighted lady, "the Rhea gallery y Has there been a gallery named fo d. me?"-Boston Post.
 't' A PERSONAL item says that Christina 1T Nilsson has been visiting country hous & belonging to Queen Isabella, where sh ne shot quantity of pheasants Gin tn '' royal preserves" And they deserve IL to be shot, too, for getting into tn
 royal preserves" A woman in Hainet
 vile recently nearly broke her son i back with a broomstick for getting int ,. her preserves.
 ;u "How do you like the character ( ot. St. Paul ?" asked person of his land ar lady one day, during conversatio n about the saints and the apostle. "Al 10, he was & good, clever old soul, know, ;se replied the landlady, "for he once sait or you know, that we must eat what is ss an before us and ask no questions ft t;o conscience sake. I always thought llv should like him for boarder." for PEPPERY pleaSure-WMISerable l eAl