Connecticut western news., 1882-08-30
WIT AND WISDOM.

ONE dollar Ill gold now buys $240 of Peruvian money, and $240 of Peruvian money buys an every day straw hat.
 AN Iowa paper says that if beer is not intoxicating there is no use drinking it. One might as we'll waste time drinking water.
 ARABI is all right. If he whips he will be queen of Egypt, and if he gets whipped he can come to America and lecture.
 A YOUNG lady says that males are of no ac count from the time the ladies stop kissing them as infants till they com mence kissing them as lovers.
 WHAT is it to be 8 man? We'll, it is good deal like work to be man, and that is the chief reason why men, real men, are so few.--NeW Hoven Register. o HOW passions, insolent and strong,
 Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die, and leave us to our griefs prey.
 -Crabbe.
 AN Ohio farmer, who has barbed wire fences all through his farm, says that he gets one-fourth more work out of bis hired man than he used to when he furnished top rail to sit on.
 THERE cannot live more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible to doing them to others.-Sir w. Temple.
 IT is an unhappy, and yet I fear true reflection, that they who have un- common easiness and softness of tenn per, have seldom very noble and nice sensations of soul. Granville.
 THAT which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.-Colton.
 "No," HE SAID, as they congratulated him on his engagement, "I'm not so particularly charmed with the girl, but I expect to be very happy. Her mother is about the best-tempered woman I know"
 IT may be remarked for the comfort of honest poverty that avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recommend them. This is 8 weed that will grow in barren soil. Hughes.
 | A WRITER complains because the ex- terior of so many seaside hotels is Sop pressively plain" But just think how ornamental the clerks are and what pretty pictures you find at the head of your bill. s.e
 GENERAL SPINNER is fishing down in Florida, with eminent success. He just baits with his signature, and the fish that can distinguish it from the writh- ingest kind of a worm, has to be an ex- pert of many years standing. THE London Queen has decided that it is unpardonable for young women, |, either married or single, to walk alone. Good enough! We have often thought when we saw pretty girl walking alone that it was all wrong.-Boston Post. l TRUs begins patent medicine adver- tisement, sThey cannot all lie, " was the } observation of one while reading the endless testimonials of But that IS : just where one was fooled; they not only can, but do, every beggar of them.
 MAKE not bosom friend of melan- , choly soul; he'll be sure to aggravate thy diversity and lessen thy prosperity.
 He goes always heavy loaded, and thou must bear half. He's never in good ! humor, and may easily get into bad ! one and fall out with thee.
 THE point of aim for our vigilance to hold in view, is to dwell upon the . brightest parts in every prospect, to . call off the thoughts when running upon disagreeable objects, and strive , to be pleased with the present circuna'
 stances surrounding us. Tucker.
 WHAT makes us like new acquaint-
 a0ces is not so much any weariness oi
 our old ones, or tho pleasure of change,
 as disgust at not being sufficiently ad. 9 mired by those who know us too well, t and the hope of being more so by those
 who do not know so much of us.-Ls @ Rochefoucauld.
 r HENRY BERaH asked the Chrtstta'' l ObserUer to remind the owner of dogs g of the importance of giving them plenty l. of cold water during dog days. The 6 editor indorsed the 'correspondent's 7 idea, and added: "We always give ou
 dog drink when we drink ourselves,
 and consequently he is never thirsty WONDER if ever a song was sung, v But the singers heart sang sweeterP 7 I wonder if ever @ rhyme was rung, n But the thought surpassed the meterf I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought I, Till the cold stone echoed his ardent thought A Or if even painter, with light aud shade 0 The dream of his inmost soul hetraved