Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-07-31
Chispas From Charles Rcade.

His style is like cascade, rushing
and leaping onward within its banks.
and over an uneven bed, and playing
constantly in little eddies as the stream
daslYes on. These little swirls are his
delight-little dramatic asides, flashes
of wit. humor. epigrams, satire, dicta,
didactics, maxims, axioms, nuggets OF
observation and reflection; or, as he
puts it, mixing little philosophy
with the sensational element" In our
placer mines, before they were ex-
haustcd, the lads used to 90 out after a
heavy rainfall, to look along the rivu-
lets and among the crevices Of the
limestone powders, for chispas-bits
Of gold that had been uncovered. The
works of our dead novelist are strewn
with chispas. Let us pick up a few
from among the pages as specimens of
his ore, gathering at random rs they
glitter here and there, without especial
arrangement as to the size, shape, or
value:
Life is an Intermittent fever -
Cloister and Hearth.
Our foibles are our manias. Crit
fifth Gaunt.
"Self-dcception viii probably cease
ut the first blast of the archange' 5
trumpet; but what human heart will
part with it till thenP The cireum-
stances under which a human being
could not excuse or delude or justify
himself have never yet occurred in the
huge annals of crime. 1t is Never
Too Late to Mend.
Beauty is power; a smile is its
sword. White Lies
Good things have to be engraved
on the memory; bad ones stick there
Of themselves. Ibid.
Beware of iealousy-cursed jeal-
ousy 1t is the sultan OF all the pas
sions and the Tartar chief of all the
crimes. Other passions affect the char
acter; this changes, and, If good, al
ways reyorses it! Mind that, reVerses;
turns honest men to snakes and doves
TO vultures Horrible, unnatural mix
ture Of love with hate. You poison the
whole mental constitution; you band
age the judgment; you crush the sense
Of right and wrong; you steel the
bowels Of compassion; You madden
the brain; YOU corrupt the heart; you
damn the soul 1T is Never Too Late
to Mend.
THE sacred principle Of justice was
as strong in Mrs Wellington as in the
rest Of her sex; she had not one grain
Of it. Peg Wellington.
Happy the man who has two chain
cables-merit and women. h-Cloister
and Hearth.
Memory sometimes acts like m
o.I llntsgun; it hangs fire, yet ends by
going OF. Put Yourself in his Place.
IAN men Of that day are dust; they
are gold-dust who died with honor -
Christie tombstone.
"OH the stage james Quin was Il
character; his cccentricities were three
"a humorist, a glutton, and an honest
man-traits that often caused astOnish-
ment and ridiculc, especially the last. "
Peg Wellington
"Ihc landlord poured them (the
roboer-baud IN the Black Forest lnn)
"our neat brandy, blood's forerunner
in every age. ~ Cloister and Hearth
"lYhat is popularity? Ask Aristides
and Lamartine; the breath of y mob
smells of its source, and is gone before
the sun can set on it, ~ Christie John
stone.
I'VE are going to weigh goose feath-
ers TO criticise criticism Peg Wof-
iiugron
"Where there q heart there q Ru-
bieou. - Cioister and Hearth
"Happy the man whose wife taketh
her tliu4 before Wedlock, and who trip
peth up the altar steps instead Of down
'em. '-CloistC~ and Hearth.
"Ah! it is hard 10 resist the voice,
and look, and clinging OF a mans own
flesh and blood. Children are 50 strong
upon their knees; their dear faces,
bright copies OF their own, are just the
height of our hearts then. -Fou Play,
Growth is the nature of habit, not
OF one sort or another but Of all, even
of an unnatural habit Gin grows or
q man, charity grows on q man, blood
grows on man. 1t is Never Too
Late 20 Mend.
"She-I feel woman's weakness. ;
He-Ihen you are inyincible. -
Cloister and Hearth.
"The Scotch are icobcrgs, with vol
canoes underneath; thaw the Scotch
ice, which is very cold, and YOU shall
get to the scotch fire, warmer than any
sun tf Italy or Spain. Christie john
stone.
1T was an age in which artists
sought out and loved one another.
Should this last statement stagger .
painter or writer of our day, lei nc re-
mint him that even Christians loved
one mother at first starting. Clois-
Ter and Hearth. george W smM IN
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