The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-04-22
WORDS OF WISDOM.

The best penance for envying anoth-
er's merit is to try to surpass it.
\ If you wans enemies, excel them; if you
want friends let others excel you.
| As too long retirement weakens the
mind, so too much company dissipates it.
| Tt is no point of wisdom for a man
to beat his brains about things impossi-
BILE.
We know that we must meet to part.
but we know not that we part to meet
again.
i Genius makes Its observations in
shorthand; talent writes them out at
length.
/ I look into mans face and see how
how cheerful it is. and then know how
wise he is.
There is no one study that is not capa-
BILE of delighting us after little appli
cation to it.
The reproaches of enemies should
quicken us to duty, and not keep US
from it.
Let your inclination be to those who
/ advise rather than to those who praise
your conduct.
Next to life of stirring action, is
life devoted to the study of the princi-~
pies of action.
IF there is any great aud good thing in
| store for you, it will not come at first or
second call.
Man cannot dream himself into no.
BILE character; he must achieve it by
diligent effort.
The best way for man to get ort of a
| lowly position is to be csnspicuously
! effective in it.
No man ever made an ill-figure who
| understood his own talents, nor good
| one who mistook them.
He that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our
antagonist is eur helper.
The most influential man, in a free
| country at least, is the man who has the
ability, as well as the courage, to speak
what he thinks when occasion may re-
quire it.
A patent describes steel ribbon lined
with leather, TO be used for driving
belts. The patent is issued upon the
novel method of connecting the metal
and the leather.
General Fremont suddenly discovers
that he has claim on the Golden Gate.
It is wonder that some of the old fell
lows who live in the future times back"
do not claim the golden stairs.
The meanest man on record sent
through postoffice presided over by
woman postal card on which was writ
ten, s'Dear Jack Here's the details of
that scandal" And the rest was in
Greek.
Fogg ca2 say neat thing when he
wishes Vixen Miss Frankincense asked
| him, pointing, at mirror, what he
thought of her pief, he replied, 81 think
that in it alone can ycS find your peer
in beauty"
Seven months ago lPoughkeepsie
lady broke off needle III the palm of
her right hand and was unable to extracr
it. The wound healed in Few days and
last Saturday the needle came out of
her heel.
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.
The spirit of fashion is not the beauti-
full, but the willful; not the graceful,
but the fantastic; not the superior in the
abstracts, but the superior in the worst
of all concretes-the vulgar Leigh
Hunt
A California man worth nearly half
million dollars recently attended the
funeral of his son. Just before the
coffin Was lowered he unscrewed the
silver handles, and taking them back to
town, sold them to an undertaker.-N.
Y. Herald.
The lake at Manzanillo, Mexico, burst
its confines and poured int the sea. The
lake was full of alligators and the harbor
of sharks. When the monsters met.
water battle Immediately began, and it
| was waged for several days in the pres
j ence of most of the people of Manzanillo.
For long time victory trembled in the
balance, but the sharks finally prevailed
and dined on the rear guard of the alli--
gators.
The Rev. DR.. Magoun, one of Phila-
! delphia's Baptist ministers, told New
York conference that there were plenty
of narrow-minded persons in every de-
nomination who worship God through
inherited fear, and put aside religion
with their Sunday clothes. They are al
most as numerous as the sands OF the sea,
and have not soul enough to give hell
substantial grip.
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