, 1882-04-28
WORDS OF WISDOM.

The best penance for envying anoth-
ers merit is to try to surpass 1t.
II you want enemies excel them; if you
want friends let others excel you.
1t is no point of wisdom for q man
to beat his brains about things impossl-
BILE.
We know that we must meet to part,
but we know not that we part to meet
again.
Genius makes Its observations In
shorthand; talent writes them out at
length.
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 q
life devoted to the study Of the princi-
pies of cotton.
II there is any great and 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 out OF
lowly position is to be censpicuously
effective in it,
II we had no faults, we should not
take so much pleasure in noticing them
in others.
There is delicious sarcasm in the old
proverb, God help the rich, because
the poor can beg"
To acquire few tongues is the task
OF Ia few years, but to be eloquent in one,
is the labor Of lifetime.
Every evil is followed by it's punish.
ment. 1t is as if evil had its punishment
inscribed upon it.
No man ever made an ill.tigure who
understood his own talents, nor q good
one who mistook them.
He that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves aud sharpeDs our skill. Our
antagonist is our helper.
The most influential man, in free
country al 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 a 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.
1t is wonder that some of the old fel
lows who live in the 'future times back"
do not claim the golden stairs.
Miss Julia Test of Richmond, Ind,
has just recovered watch lost in Pull.
man sleeper three years ago. In rebuild
ing the car the workmen found the
watch wedged in corner of the birth.
The meanest man on record sent
through postoffice presided over by
woman postal card on which was writ.
ten, "Dear Jack Here's the details of
that scandal" And the rest was in
Greek.
Fogg can say neat thing when he
wishes. When Miss Frankincense asked
him, pointing at mirror, what he
thought Of her pier, he replied, "I think
that in it alone can you find your peer
in beauty"
Seven months ago a Poughkeepsie
lady broke off a needle i'll the palm of
her right hand and was unable to extract
it. The wound healed in a 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.
The Rev. DIR. Magoun, one OF Phila.
delphia's Baptist ministers told a 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"