The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-07-21
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

year,
The MoImons have this year SEM
out $50 missionaries.
The man who wrote n little patnph.
let entitled, How to Get On in the
World" was put off ~ street car the other
d'y because he hadn't money enough 10
pay his fare.
-MNriscal, the new NJ xican Minister
to England, is au original poet in Span
ish. as well as translator from the Eng
lish.
Home. schweed homet" said
Hans; Dots SO; dere was no blaze like
home ven q feller he got him hungry
uni don'd haf no moneys and no blace
to schleep himself oud.'
That was cool Scottish aside" Of
an Id dealer who, when exhorting his
son to practise hones'y in his dealings.
on the ground of it's being the "best
policy" quietly added, Il hae tried
bath"
They cllim to have horse In DuA
luth which can laugh as heartily as
man, but as they Lave never taken him
out Of the place we fail to see any oc-
casion for his laughter.
- don't want no rubbish, no fns
sentiment, if you pl ase. said the wid-
ow who was asked what kind of an epi-
taph she desired for h,r late husbands
tombstone Let il b. sLort and simple,
something like this: William johnson,
aged seventy Ave years. The good die
yourg.'"
"A young lady was carressiug pret.
ty spaniel and nurmuring: Il do love
nice dogv' "ALr sighed the dandy,
standing near, Il would we're q dog"
"Nevur mind" reported the young LADY
sharply, you'll grow"
"A gentleman whose wife was taken
suddenly i'll, fastened to a physician.
whs Immediately responded. What in
the matter with her. doctor2" II fear she
has lockjaw." "Lockjawl Well, doctor. /.
you may AS we'll run along that way for q
few hours"
-ln Paris womcn's foreheads, which
for number of years have been fashion.
ably concealed beneath bangs and friz-
yes, are now laid bars to the public. In
word, fashion hath decreed that the
hair be combed back from the face.
The world at large has not got be-
yond thinking that the three Rs are the
only essentials. Slowly it is coming to
admit fourth r, that means righteous
ness: until. at length, in the sure pro-
gress of civilization, all the sides of this
m'hiiold nature will be finally considered
IN forming the course. not of study"
merely, but rather of training that is to
dev,lope Alright the young human being.
AS in walking it is your great care
not to run your foot upon a nail or to
tread awry, and strain your leg: SO let it
be in all tbs affairs of human life, not to
hurt your mind or offend your judgments
Aud this rule if carefully observed in all
your department, will be mighty secur-
ity to you in your undertakings.
"A self'acting sofn, just large enough
for two, has been invented. II properly
wound up it will begin to ringa warning
bell just before ten o'clock. At 1901 IL
splits apart, and while one half carries
the daughter OF the house up stairs the
her half kicks her young man out Of
doors. They will come high; but people
must have them.
jay Gould is credited with the re-
mark that people now study advertise
ments in newspaper as they do receipts
for doing things scientifically. because
the science of advertising is successful to
show where tho best aud cheapest goods
of all kinds can be purchased"
"A Connecticut minister was ap.
preached recently al the close of his dis.
course by n man who thanked him for q
sermon he had delivered fifteen years
| pNASANt cNN"tSO AZ iAfNa n ''DOW~
erful impression" upon him. The man
being piled with questions could not re-
oall a word OF the text or the subject, and
the Interested pastor gave up his in
qniries, when the man exclaimed. II re.
member how you wound up, You said.
Theology ain't religion-not by
- sight"
There is but one true. real and right
life for rational beings, only one life
worth Lying in this world. or in any
other life, past, present, or to come.
Aud that is the eternal life which vas
b fore all worlds, and will be after all
have passed away-and that is neither
more nor less than a good life;a life Of
good thoughts good words. good deeds
The life Of Christ and of God.-KMos-
LEY.
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