The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-06-03
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There = slwaysa best way Of doing
everything, IL Il be to boil m egg. Mar
ness are the happy ways Of doing
thing; each one stroke Of genius Or Of
love-n0w repeated and haS6ened into
usage. They form at lest . rich varnish,
with which the goutine at life n washed
and its details adorned. II they are
superficial, % ore the dew-drops which
give sYch de;rth 70 the morning mead
6Ws.-Bekavior.
We have \ debt to every sfeat heart,
u every hAe genius; I'd those who have
put lie and fortune On the cast " ~ Set
Of Justice; tn tl.Ose who have refined life
by elegant pursuits. ''Ti* the fine souls
who nerve III, aud not what IL called flne
society. Fine society il only q seIf.pr0-
lection a. ainst the vulgarities Of the
street and tavern.-COnsidcy'a By
tie W0g.
We do not believe there is any force
In to-day to rival or recreate that beauti-
tul Yesterday. We finger in the ruins
Of the old tent. " ere once we bad
bread, and shelter, aud organs, nor b.
lieve that the spirit can feed, cover and
nerve w again. We cannot again find
aught ~ dear, 80 sweet, 50 graceful.
But we sit and weep in vain. The
voice Of the Almighty saith: up and
onward fOrevern,Orv!" We cannot stay
amid the ruin ..-C0n,pensati0m.
Next to the originator Of = good sem
temce is the first ,Oter Of it. Many will
read tn tmn,k before one thinks Of quot
ing the passage. Az soon ~ he has done
this, that linz, will he quoted East and
West. Then there are great ways Of
borrowing. Genius bOrrOws nobody.
When Shakespeare is charged with
debts to his authors, Land0r replies:
'Yet he was more original than his
originals. He breathed upon dead bod
les and brought them to 1ife."-Quotds-
ton and Originality.
The law Of the table is beauty-a res
pect TO the common soul of all the
guests. Everything il unreasonable
which is private to two or three or any
rortion Of tt e company. Tact never
violates for u moment this law; never
intrudes the Orlers OF the house, the
vices Of the absent, or u tariff of ex-
lenses, or professional privacies; as we
say, We never talk shop" before COM
pany. Lo .prs abstain from caresses,
and haters from insults, whilst they sit
in one lmrlor with common friends
tSOCl0, aims.
Wrote the Tast in characters
or rs,c and Dire the xcrs,iI,
THE building IN the cOrai sea.
The planting Of the cOal.
\ d thefe~ from satellites and rings
AVID broken stars drew.
Avid out Of spent ami aged things
furmeI the W RI! a.ew.
.-Sony Of Nature.
think Hans Andersen's story of the
cOhwel cloth woven ~, fine that it was
invi>ible-wOven for the king Sgarment
must mean manners, which do rally
clio lie a p'incely nature. such one
can we'll 20 in u blanket, If he would.
In the gymnasium or OH the sea-beach
his superiority does not leave him. But
he who has not this fine garment of BE-
havior Is stutliOus Of dress, and then not
lexs Of house, and furniture, and pic
lures, and gardens, in all which he
hopes tolie perdu, and not be exposed
Social Ain.s.
Shall we then Judge country by the
majority or by the minority BY the
minority, surely. TITS pedantry to esti-
mate nations by the census, or by the
square miles of land, or other than by
their importance to the mind Of the
time. Masses! the calamity is the
masses. do not wish any mass at all,
hut honest men only. lovely, sweet, &C.
comp!isl,etl women only, aud no shovel
handed, narrow-brained, gin-tirinkiDg
million stOckingers or lazaroni at all.
All the feats which make civility were
thoughts Of few good heads.-Cb''sid-
erafi0,ps by the Way.