Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16
WIT AND WISDOM.

If you are willing to work like the
ant, and to persevere like the spider,
your success in life is certain. m Y.
Herald.
No furnace, or stove, or lamp, or
anything with fire about it, is safe. Ac-
cept that view as correct, and watch
with jealous care.
Every flower about the house certi-
fies to the refinement of somebody.
Every vine, climbing and poisoning,
tells of love and joy.
Many a professional thief may
claim, with truth. that he has been well
brought up-that is to say, brought up
for trial The bringing up was all right,
but had he been right he would never
have been brought up.
AT recent marriage ceremony in
one of the Providence churches the
contracting parties were thirty minutes
behind time, and the organ pealed out:
"Oh! dear, what can the matter be?"
-Prouidcnce r.. IL Journal.
-"Oh, dearl" exclaimed Mrs. Fen
derson, when she read of the disaster
of the City of Brussels; "and / was
going to buy a new carpet in the
spring, and / suppose this will make
them awfully high. "-Boston Post.
Little Willie, having hunted in all
the corners for his shoes, at last gave
them up, and climbing on chair, be-
took himself to a dictionary. Papa
always looks in it to find things, and
Pm looking in it to find my shoes"
-Inquisitiveness rebuked: Mistress
onnlyic 11nSitinnN .
"Why did you leave your last placer"
Applicant: You're very inquisitive,
marin. | didn't ak you what for yer
last cook left ouP"-Chicago Tribune.
Madame Labouchere, just before
sailing for Europe, lost a trunk contains
inc fourteen bonnets, four silk sacques
and other property. Fortunately her
other twenty-five bonnets were in an
other trunk, so she was not compelled
to 90 home bareheaded. -NorriSt0a0ns
Herald.
A little girl recently went to visit
her grandfather in the country. She is
fond of milk, but firmly refused to drink
any while there, without giving any rea-
son. When she returned she was asked:
.s You had nice milk there to drink
didn't you?' q guess | didn't drink
any of that milk, she Indignantly re-
piled. "Do you know where grandpa
got it? 1 saw him squeeze it out of an
old GOWN Y. Times.
DR. Porter. of Yale College, says
that Professor Tyndall, as metaphysi-
clan, is "a fatalistic revolutionist, with
a dash of imaginative optimism" and
that as theologian he is ga sentiment
tai atheist or an imaginative agnostic."
ANY one who has looked at Tyndall' 8
portrait in the newspapers must have at
once concluded that he is one of those
things. The way he wears his necktie
tells plainly enough.-Norristown Her
aid.
1t was Just before the curtain had
gone up for the third act when Smith,
who had been out to .'see a man"
noticed Brown seated a few rows in
front of him. Do you see that fellow
over there?" he said to his wife. She
nodded assent. We'll" he continued.
Il hate that fellow like cat hates hot
soup, and if I ever get chance I'll
.paralyze' him. Then his wife asked:
Are you going out to see another man
after this act2a' Smith hiccoughingly
allowed that he was. "Well, tell you
what to do. dear; when you come back
you go over to Mr.. Brown and breathe
on him; that will 'paralyze' him
Rochester Post-EIpress.