Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-06
STRAY PARAGRAPHS.

STRAY PARAGRAPHS.
Be alive while you live, and not
dead until you die.
Better to have loved a short girl
than never have loved tall
Most people are like eggs too full
Of themselves to hold anything else.
Why is man like pin? Because
he has got a head snd comes to the
point
Beauty in a woman is like the
flowers in Spring: but, virtue is like
the stars in heaven.
Do the best you can, and God and
your own conscience will approve,
though man condemn.
"What," says an inquisitive young
lady, sis the most popular color for a
bride?" We should prefer white
one.
China and Japan buy our dried
apples freely. Thus does American
industry help to swell the popula-
tion Of the Orient
At Barnum's kind-hearted man
patted speckled hyena on the head.
Next time he will have to use the
other hand.
If you can say nothing good of
any one say nothing at all, for in
friendship as in love we are often
happier in our ignorance than in our
knowledge.
The greatness of a victory may be
estimated from the severity of the
conflict. A man has never to strug-
gle more desperately than to over
come self
Home is next to Heaven, and the
home that is we'll ordered, comely,
pure and bright is thus heavenly by
the agency of woman's heart and
woman's hand.
A great deal depends upon a mans
courage when he is slandered and
traduced. Weak men are crushed by
detraction, but the brave hold on and
succeed.
The human race is divided into two
classes-those who go ahead and do
something, and those who sit still and
inquire. why wasn't it done the
other way?"
Do some good deed every day, and
thus climb one round higher up the
ladder whose foot rests upon the
earth, and whose topmost round
reaches the starsD
Under the laws of Illinois. what a
person sees through the keyhole can
not be accepted as evidence in court;
but no sewing society in the country
'Tould object to such testimony.
Times of general calamity and con-
fusion have been productive of the
greatest minds. The purest ore comes
from the hottest furnace; the bright
est flash from the darkest cloud.
The days are made on a loom
whereof the warp and woof are past
and future time. They are majestic.
ally dressed, as if every god brought
thread of skyey web. This miracle
Is hurled into every beggar's hand.
A room without pictures is like 6
room without windows. Pictures are
loop p-holes of escape to the soul lead
ing to other scenes and other spheres
Pictures are CONSIDERS of loneliness
they are books; they are histories
and sermons, which we can read with
out turning the lea yes.
A Detroit editor has been mulcted
IN $4,000 in a libel suit. This may
deprive him of a few comforts during
the Summer. In order to economic
topay the fine, he may be compelled
to forego his contemplated three
weeks sojourn at Saratoga and make
q trip around the world instead. y
81 thought" remarked the victim
alter the dentist had dragged hin
around the room several times, 81
thought you advertised to extrac
teeth without pain?" $50 1 do, sir,
replies the operator. blandly; ii
doesn't hurt me at all to yank 'em!'
"Henceforth we meet as strangersv p
exclaimed Brown in a fit of anger
THANK you, Brown, my dear fellow!'
goshed Fogg effusively; you always
! dld treat strangers better than YOU
friends and acquaintance, and yo,
make me exceedingly happy that
am henceforth to share your distin
gulshed consideration"
A father has been complaining to
] n1end OF the family of the conduc
OF his prodigal son. "You ought t.
reason with him seriously" says tn,
friend of the family. so do! S,
! have" says the father, 10 dispail
but the young scoundrel will lister
10 nobody who isn't fool like him
sell l want You to go and talk witt
A new rival brass band was hire,
70 play at funeral of Connection
deacon. They were playing a slo,
ana solemn dirge at the grave, whel
suddenly the trumbone shot out
blast that startled the hearse horse
an ana broke up the whole procession
Inc leader, turning upon him tierceIy
asked him what in the name of a
tne hot places at once he was doin
Z mat for. He answered with smile
:,uosh. | thought it was a note, an
/ ""as hossdy: but / played it.