The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-06-16
SENSE AND sENTImEsT.

The most effective coquetfy is inno-
cence.
The Golden Age is not behind bat be-
fore as.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when
they are smoothest.
Love is severe critic. Hate can par.
don more than love.
Speaking truth is like writing fair, and
comes only by practice.
A man without secrecy is an open let
ter for every one to read.
The secret Of felicity is iudicious in
terruption Of routine.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be
the companion Of genius.
We should believe in works words are
sold for nothing every where.
Sensitive people wish to be loved vain
people wish only TO be preferred.
Happy are they that hear their de-
fractions, and can put them 10 mending.
Conversation enriches the under
standing, but solitude is the school of
genius.
Nature has sometimes made fool.
but a coxcomb is always Of mans own
making.
"Was she white woman or q colored
LADY," ID q new nonsense-question cur
rent in the South.
criticism-Never cut with knife when
you can cut with spoon.
Maine il 10 have five State eonven-
tions this year. Why not try the total
abstinence Law on politics.
Sleep may knit up the raveled sleeve
Of care, but it won't darn the torn stock
ings of poverty worth cent.
There is said TO be jolly old dog-a
setter--in London, who is nearly eighty
years old. He is type-setter.
The mind profits by the wreck Of every
passion, and We may measure our road
Of wisdom by the sorrows We have un-
dergone.
In Zuni Land the houses belong to the
women. This saves q transfer IN case
the man of the house Is about TO 60 into
bankruptcy.
They have got q smoking car on the
Cambridge horse railroad, and now If
they only put on drinking car, ye gen.
tie sophomore might be happy.
When a man can make SO, 600 talking
OOSA COuutIIs - ID III M014cE
that half the idiots In Europe are threat.
ening to overrun rs with lecturing tours.
The Cambridge Tribune asks: When
day broke. did any one pick mp the
pieces? That's what never could find
out, but knew there was considerable
miss.
A philosopher says: 'sThe man who
laughs Is the sympathetic man." 1t Is
astonishing how many sympathizers q
man has when he slips down and hurts
himself.
During the next century companion
story to 1.-THE Man without q Country"
viii probably be written. It wiz be en-
titled ''The Man Without Pension. -
Philadelphia News.
"What generous man Jones isF' said
Smith to Robinson one day. 'STrue,"
said Robinson, warmly. ''You rarely
find one more so. He is always giving
himself away" Boston Globe.
"What did you do to break that vase?"
''Ahl Madame, nothing could be easier.
had it in my hand-like this-andI
struck it against the corner of the table,
90" And he breaks the mate to 1t.
A Western man, aged eighteen, has
eloped with q married woman of three
score years. This esthetic craze for an
tiquities is becoming altogether too gen.
eral, and threatens to cause trouble
Norristown Herald.
A New Haven boarding mistress has
hired and discharged 211 domestics dur
| ing the last thirteen months. One
would Judge from this that New Haven
IS not haven of rest fer the girl Of all
work. Boston Transcript.
A tablespoonful of black pepper put
in the first water in which gray and buff
linens are washed will keep them from
spotting. It viii also keep the colors of
colored or black cambrics or muslin
from running, and does not harden the
water. A little gum arabic imparts
gloss to common starch.
The Secretary of the Navy is opposed
to any more hunts for the North Pole,
and is reported as saying that cit would
be as foolish as TO send an expedition in
search of hell" The Secretary is right.
The idea cf spending the public funds
looking for hell, when there are trains
leaving for New Jersey every day, is alb
surb.
On the Sd of January, 1882, the Hon.
Thomas r. Grundy, of Springfield, KY,
slaughtered Jersey red hog that was at
that date named twenty months
old. That fat porker ''had been fed
four months, weighed gross $50 pounds
and netted 730, yielding five and q half
kegs No. lard, shoulders and hams
baconed." -
A bill was recently introduced in the
Ohio legislature to permit Buckeye
girl to change her name. The statesman
who presented the bill was a bachelor,
arc an amendment was offered substitu-
ting his name for that which the young
woman coveted. This measure was
rashly adopted before she had been con-
suited. A motion to reconsider was
therefore deemed no more than fair to
her, and she was authorized to take the
name of her choice. Nearly half dey
was thus spent in Legislative sky
larking.