Connecticut western news., 1884-04-16
WIT AND WISDOM.
WE rise in glory as we sink in pride,
 Where boasting ends, there dignity begin

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
 THE secret of long life is a good and cheery wife.
 HE who makes the best of his life loses the worst of death.
 A BUcKINa horse is frequently the power behind the thrown.
 EVEN the milk of human kindness is badly adulterated these days.
 LIFE insurance companies have made great many men rich after they were dead.
 "Is IT dynamite or dynamite ?" Take a chunk of it and throw it on the floor and see.
 MEN are never so ridiculous for the qualities they have as for those they affect to have.
 A YOUNG man sticking to his girl for an entire evening is very nice kind of court. plaster.
 AVOID him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him.
 A CEDAR RAPIDS editor wants any young lady who jumps at conclusions" to consider him a ''eonelusion."
 BATTER is the name of tenor singer in A New York church choir. He is oo- casionally put out by the first bass.
 A GOOD anti-fat medicine for spring is employment in collecting old doctor bills. and living on the commissions.
 TIE young man who used to sing "I fear no foe" before he was married, now says. "I cannot sing the old songs" FULL many flower is born to blush unseen,
 And waste it's fragrance on the desert air Full oft the filthy oleomargarine
 Is served as premium butter from fair.
 JAY GoULD's income is computed to be at the rate of $9 a minute. When n man asks for a minute it means some thing.
 Ir is strange that some one did not disperse the mob in Cincinnati by pro- posing to take up collection.-Norris- to,Un Herald.
 HERE IS a good scheme. Eat lot of onions and then get friend in the cor ner of a building and ask him to lend you dollar.
 CoNrENrMENT is pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires, makes n wise and happy purchase.
 AN advertisement recently appeared in the New York Sun for Christian printer" Advertisers expect too much of newspapers sometimes.
 THE Shoe aud Leather Reporter has made the painful discovery that very few brass bands can play as many airs as Drum Major puts on.
 THERE is as much difference between the counsels that q friend gigeth, and that a man giveth himself, as there Is between the counsel of friend and flat terer.
 IT IS estimated from statistical point of view that loss of appetite among young people on account of love an- nually saves to this country one billion dollars.
 IT IS not compliment to be called "a perfect brick" Bricks are never short of funds. Anyhow, you can always find a brick hard-pressed, for money.- Norristo,On Herald.
 WHENEVER you commend add your reasons for doing so. It is this which distinguishes the appreciation of a man of sense from the hattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
 ALL censure of others is oblque praise of self. 1t is uttered in order to show how much the speaker can bear. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the reproach of falsehood.
 ''SoMErHNG ought to be done to keep our young men at home in the evening, |" says an exchange. True, it is pity to see so much good material going to waist.-BHtington Free Press.
 A LITTLE child, becoming wearied with the quarreling of two younger children over glass of milk, exclaimed: "What's the use of quarrelling over that milk; there is a whole cowful out in the barn. !"
 ALL men have their frailties, and who ever looks for friend without imperfec- tions will never find what he seeks. We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
 A PoTTsTowN lady has not had a pitcher broken during twenty-nine years of housekeeping. A pitcher ''dead broke" is not, however, unusual in the baseball fraternity.-Hartforf Sunday Journal.
 "No LADY or gentleman" emphatical- ly remarks the White River, Vt, Land mark, mo matter how costly or fash ionable their raiment, will sit in church and eat peanuts" Vermont people are becoming very particular. r.-Phttadct l)hia CaH.
 TIE world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Brown at it and it will in turn look surly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind com- panion, and so let nil young persons take their choice.
 AN English traveller says that New