Connecticut western news., 1884-10-22
WIT AND WISDOM.

masterpiece ol hhtutts
 THE ambrosia of one generation Ia the daily bread of the next
 WHEN you come into the house, do you bring sunshine with you9
 WITHOUT earnestness no man ia ever great or does really great things.
 lF the end and aim of life is to please. it must be at the expense oi truth.
 ExrKRESoE is a trophy composed of Rll the weapons WIG have been wounded with.
 TIE half dollar ot 1895 iH not rare. Indeed, no. It is the half dollar of 1884 that Is rare.
 To sEE the hand of God iif ihe prcs- ent, and to trust it in the future, is the secret of peace.
 THouoHr is tho property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can ad- equately place it.
 THE truly grateful heart may not be able to tell of gratitude. but il eau feel, and love, and act.
 TnE capacity for truly estimating things is the beginning of wisdom, the source of kindness.
 "MY bow is all unstrung," wArhlos q fair poetess. Wonder if her beau had been out on a racket7
 WHEN a young man proposes marriage to girl aud is rejected he always looks as though he had lost heart
 THE baseball catcher will shortly go into retirement to grow new crop ot fingers for next years campaign.
 So MANY foolish maidens arc running away with their fathers coachmen that the scheme is getting hAekneyod.
 THE poet gives us the eminent cxpo- rionces only--a god stepping from peak to peak, nor planting his foot but on a mountain.
 IT is scarcely possible for a maa tc look on the patent medicine shelf of drug store without feeling that his liver is out of order.
 SHopKEErER; "Arf pound Q tea mem? Which will you hev to-day, mem-blaok or groenY" Female: ''Blaok, please its for funeral"
 GmBs, the temperance orator, asks fl St. John should get elected and it he should get intoxicated with succcss, would that be breaking tho pledge 2
 A BKNEF1cKNr person is like fouu- tain watering the earth and spreading fertility; it is therefore more delightful and more honorable to give than to re- ceive.
 NOTHING takes the conceit out ot the average man so much as for him to order his paper discontinued, and then sec the editor going right along and getting rich without him.
 IT has been discovered that accorde- ons were invented before tho Christian era. This fact makes it all the more re- markable that a Christian era should have ever arrived.
 MANY persons seem to imagine tha they are always in an amphitheatre with tho assembled world as spoctatomi whereas, all the while, they arc playing to empty benches.
 "You may speak, said n fond mothcr, "about people having strength of mind, but when it comes to strength of 'dont mind my son William surpasscs every body ever knew"
 A MEMBER of the Legislature who at tended service at the Episcopa Church was asked how he liked it and replied: "Purty we'll; 1 riz and fol with them every time"
 "Ir you were a snake," she said, ab sently, "what kind would you bef "IP Oh, I am the worst kind of boa constructor you ever saw" he replied twining his arm around her waist
 A DARING young dudo in Bombeish,
 Essayed on the corner to pleigh
 He made such din
 That the neighbors dropped in,
 And the dude clum the golden starwsigh
 LADY Co nurse (viewing the traoklesi for the first time)-"rhore, Jane, tha is the sea r Jane (vith hszy geograph ical notions and some disgust l--''Ser mum; but where's the turin parts ?"
 TIE French troops in China, desiring truce, the front ranks waved soileC linen at their almond.eyed adversaries whereupon every Chinaman of the ca poodle threw up his arms md yelled "washoe, mo cheapee" by platoonS. wEbn.MEANER 'Is that your dog 2 Desirable Young Person; "Yesi ism 1t bcauty9" Well.meaner imuch gonel "If it IS yours, it Is; but if it had bcc' anyone else's, should have said it wa the ugliest brute that ever brcathed." "wHrS I was married to Paul, sal the old lady, "he was made to say With all my worldly goods I thee er dow Paul was keeping dry good store then, and thought the goods be lopged to me, but I soon found out th words meant only one calico dress year"
 ? "Mr child, cannot consent Co you Q marrying young Henry. You know pel fectly we'll you are engaged to William. , 'Yes. papa; but William is on a thr, years cruise" "well, what has that 2 do with it2" "why should waste tl time9 Henry has solemnly promise r that he will consent to divorce as soc as William arrives" A LoNa RlpK.-A citizen of Tarrai county, whose wife was sick, wishing '- go for his daughter, who was sixty mil'