Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07
WIT AND WISDOM.

HE who has no character is not aman; he is thing.
 SILENCE is the wit of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
 IN jealousy there is usually more self love than love.
 To RENDER marriage happy the hus- band should be deaf and the wife blind.
 PRIDE is the consciousness of what one is without contempt for others.
 'HE was 0 kind friend and numer- ous father " is the epitaph now popular in Utah.
 THE first tear of love that one causes to be shed is diamond, tho second @ pearl, the third-a tear.
 To JUDGE of the real importance of an individual one must think of the effect his death would produce.
 IT is never the opinion of others that displeases us, but the pertinacity they display in obtruding them upon us.
 GA BABY," says the New York Journal, "is the oasis of married life." This does away with the popular notion that an oasis is quiet place.
 SINCE writing the above it has come to 1 light that the fire was probably caused by $4O0 insurance policy rubbing against $100 ouse.-OsWego 7Vnaes.
 OYER you get rebuatation, yoost put him by der key and lock. He vas yoos like some mbrellas-vhen you loose him you don'd see him not any more | yet.-CagJ Pretzel.
 MONTANA language expressive of the difficulty of climbing very steep hill: 'Youll have to stick your toes into the face of nature clear up to your elbows if you want to cross that divide."
 LIFE is like tree. When you climb to the top you must keep fast hold on every limb, but when you want to drop you have nothing to do but to let go and nature will see to the rest. SHE knew music and painting, and style, And possibly knew how to fiirt; But Saints of the Kitchen she asked for A gridiron to iron shirt -Merchant Trdueler.
 RIGHTEOUSNESS takes various forms. The man who will insist on clean towel on which to wipe his hands, ill barber shop will unhesitatingly wipe his mouth on the community towel hanging in front of the bar.
 NEW YoRKERs claim to live in Q whirl and to have time for nothing, but there is no city in the land where crowd has more time to stop aud investigate dog | fight or row between bootblacks.-De- troit Free Press.
 PEOPLE build houses by putting all the carved freestone and costly embel- lishments on the front and all the cheap brick at the back. Some characters are built in the same way precisely.
 SAMPSON, the strong party, was the first man to advertise. He took two solid columns to demonstrate his strength and several thousand persons stumbled" to his scheme. And he brought down the house. THE Chief of Police of western city gave orders to the force to be on the lookout for ''suspicious person." and 8 new policeman went out and returned in less than half an hour with a jealous husband he happened to know of, whom he met on the street.
 "MR WH1TE," said Harrisburg law yer to witness in the box, ''at the time these papers were executed you were speculating, were you not?" "Yes, sir" "You were in oil?" 'sI was." "And what are you in now?" Bankruptcy and the poor-house p was the solemn reply.
 FoUR pounds of gold are worth $9, 900. Now, then, we have little scheme to propose. If some man will just come in with one pound of gold, and we can slip it into the butter jar and let our grocer sell it to us for pound of butter, we will have $2, 250 to divide up. See? Who'll put up the pound of gold ?-B'tr- lington H0aOkeye.
 A RASH man: "Yes, said Fogg, ''Dr. Pillroller is brave man, no doubt, but he carries his bravery too far. He IS foolhardy, sir; never saw so rash man. Called him to see Mrs. F. to-day, and he actually asked her to let him see her tongue! Fact, sir. wouldn't have be- lieved any living man would have had the courage to meet that tongue of hers" -Bostoe 1Tanscript.
 A YOUNG man who had suddenly broken off his engagement with a very amiable young lady, for some time posi- lively refused 10 assign any reason tor his conduct. At length, after being sued for breach of promise, he reluct- antly confessed to his lawyer that he still deeply loved the girl, but was afraid to wed her because he noticed that her mother always wore long finger-nails. nr,,zrr,rAr WronoAT VNha Elaotri0Ql