Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-05-21
CLIPPINGS FOR TIE CURIOUS.

Vice stings us even in our pleasures
but virtue consoles us even in our
pains.
A scheme Is on foot for establishing
turtle parks on the coasts of Provence
Algeria, and Corsica.
lie who does his best, however little
s always to be distinguished from him
who does nothing.
The Spanish gypsles assert that they
know the dance which IIerodas's
daughter performed before Herod.
In the middle ages, women were not
physicians but sometimes surgeons OF
more than ordinary ability.
He who receives good turn should
never forget it; he who does one
should never remember it.
There are no persons more solicitous
about the preservation Of rank than
those who have no rank at all.
Excess of ceremony was always the
companion of weak minds; it is plant
that will never grow in a strong soil.
Misfortune has in it at least this
good, that it corrects all those little
passions which agitate the idle and
corrupted.
Courage is evidenced in words as
much as in deeds, and in acts of omis-
sion not less than in those of
com mission.
Show me people whose trade is
dishonest and l will show you a peo,
pie whose religion is sham, says
Froude.
1t is asserted that FL Mahdi hired a
German barber to produce the warts
on his face which identify him as the
prophet of the legends.
Affectation is a certain deformity,
by forming themselves on fantastic
models the young begin with being
ridiculous, and often end with being
vicious.
The Austrian executioner wears a
very snowy uniform and rides up to
the scaffold with a military escort.
He always puts on fresh white gloves
to perform his office.
A dipsomaniac boy of eight years
was recently attacked, in Dublin, with
dclirium tremens. The child, 50 says
the MeHical Press, has had a passion
for alcoholic liquors ever since he was
able to drink at all.
French soldiers in Algeria, when
obliged to stay on marshy land with
nothing upon which to rest, seat them
selves each on the knees of the one
behind, arranged in Il circle 50 that
there is no end man.
Nature can do much to render a
countenance attractive, but character
accomplishes far more. The beauty
which is of feature merely catches the
careless, wandering eye. The beauty
which is the reflex of character holds
the eye, and eventually wins the
heart.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein be.
holders generally discover everybody's
face but their own; which is the chic
reason for that kind of reception
meets in the world, and that so very
few are offended with it,
Cremation is not altogether a novel
thing in England. During the night
of Sept. 2G, 1869, the will of Mrs.
Pratt, Il widow, who had died at her
house III George street, Hanover square,
was punctually fulfilled by the burn
ing of her body to ashes in her grave
in their new burying ground adjoin-
ing Tyburn turnpike.
George lockwood, a New York
photographer, says that he is convinc-
ed that in nineteen out of twenty
cases the left side of the face gives the
most characteristic likeness, liwhile in
the same degree the right side is most
symmetrical. This is as new to the
of people as is the fact that
every ones nose turns either to the
right or to the left side of the face.