Milford chronicle., 1883-07-20
WIT AND WISDOM.


e GENIUS IS ESSENTIALLY creative: it
I bears the character of the individual who
possesses it.
He is truly great that is little in him
self, and that maketh no account Of any
hight of honors
NATURE never sends a great man int,
the planet without confiding the secret
to another soul.
Choose always the way that seems the
best, however rough it may be. Gus
tcm will render it easy and agreeable.
The next editor who bankers for a
duel should be compelled to shoot off a
toy pistol three times. That would dis
courage the practice.
FALSE friends are like our shadows,
keeping close to us while we walk in the
sunshine, but leaving us the moment we
walk in the shade.
Some young men have developed the
bad habit of clutching young lady by
the arm when walking with her The
fashion originated with the helpless dude
who must be led.
The Atlanta Constitution speaks of a
''one-horse actress" We do not know
much about one-horse actresses, but we
have seen one hoarse prima donna trip
up a whole opera company.
"YEs, HE was in here the night before
last. He just came in and registered on
a towel, and went West. This was a
polite way of saying railroad man had
come in and washed his face.
WHEN Jones heard it remarked that
he less a man drank in warm weather
he cooler he was, he wanted to know
low much drink he would have to go
without in order to freeze to death.
AYOUNa correspondent complains that
there are too many lawyers in the
ountry." Oh, no. my dear boy, there
rent too many lawyers. There aren't
alf enough clients, that's all.
''YEs, SAID the duelist, che gave me
worse slur after we got on the field
ian he did in provoking the quarrel
e said he should shoot at my heart,
I'd deliberately fired at my boots. .
'YEs' SAID the gilded youth. "I
low I'm growing too look old very early
life; but isn't it better to grow old at
ice and have the agony over instead Of
wing it to worry about every day?"
PLAIN talk-Farmer Smith Gone
ing 1 don't like about city folks-they
either so stuck up that yer can t reach
n with hay-stack pole or so blamed
endly that they forget to pay their
ard.
Too HEAVY to carry-"Bah Jover r.
claimed young Dudiboi, 'the weathah
getting so hot, yer know, that 1 must
re the ferrule taken Off my cane. It's
beastly heavy for warm day, yer
)w.
'WHIcH do you like best, Fourth Of
y or Christmas?" inquired job Shut
Of his eldest and hopefullest. 81
lldn't so without either, not if i
W myself, and that seemed 20 setlle
question.
SHOWER of stones is reported from
il County, Nd. If young man
singing at midnight and accompan-
himself on an ACCORDION, shower
ones was what might have been ex-
ed
MAN who started from New York to
, to Buffalo in seven days, on a bet
500, said he did not mind the
ue Of the tramp so much; it was the
g asked 'Is this warm enough for
?" that nettled him.
FRENcH lion tanner quarrelled with
wife, a powerful virago, and was
ID by her all around his tent. On
: sorely pressed, he took refuge in
cage among the lions "Oh, you
mptible coward !" she shouted,
lie out if you dare p
is said that the number Of women
reach one hundred years and up
is nearly double that Of long-lived
Women don't invent patent fire.
es and exhibit their workings. And
don't stay out so late O. night,
i, inhaling the miasma Of the
Z meanest incendiary alive has been
from. He set fire to seven ice
5 in Haverhill, Mass. The man
ill fire an ice house when the mer-
S above nmety-iive in the shade is
e Of any wickedness, and ought to
prisoned for life in the crater of an
volcano.
HID, while walking through an
lery with her mother, is attracted
statue Of Minerva. ''Whois that p
he. my child that is Minerva,
1dess of wisdom ''Why didn't
aSe her husband toog because
d none, my child. 'That was
e she was wise, wasn't it mann
vas the artless reply.
cry recent and altogether lovely
is for young gentleman to for
his best young lady friend lit
" wheelbarrow filed with straw
The deep signifcation OF this
on may eat the sweet berries Of
se while trudge along with the
of its burdens Sure to be fol-
by wedding in the fan, and
overloaded barrow, resembling
carriage, in the course Of time,