Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-05
PlTH AND POINT.

We frequently confess our little
faults in order to have it thought that
we have no great ones.
"A crazy quilt made of sausage was
on exhibition in Wilmington .sshow
beef market.
We find it hard to get and keep
any private property in thought Other
people are all the time saying the same
things we are boarding to say when
we get ready. Dr.. Holmes.
Solomon might have spoken lit
tie emphatically had he said: Go to
the oyster. thou sluggard. !" An able
bodied female oyster thinks producing
g. 600. 600 eggs is fair seasons work
when she is feeling well
If man received three dollars
per day. and saved every cent of it.
one thousand years would elapse be-
fore he could be master of million.
His hair by that time would be slight
tinged with gray. - Usit:d Labor Agc.
1t contributes greatly toward a
man s moral and intellectual health,
to be brought into habits Of compan-
ionship with individuals unlike HIM
self, who care little for his pursuits
and whose sphere and abilities he
must go out of himself to appreciate.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne.
We do not know what is to happen
tomorrow, therefore let us make the
best use we can Of to-day. Only one
day is given us at a time-one mo-
ment, indeed-that imperative now
that quickly passes. and will never
come back again. United Pres6yte-
ridn.
1t is very difficult to retain a
friend after you have got him. You
may be sure of losing him IL you ask
him to befriend you-at his expense or
risk. There is love of friends which
causes men to go on bonds and in
dorse notes. which they subsequently
have to make good. while they wall
and gnash their teeth. -Teras Sifsings.
Congressional demagogue Cat
mass-meeting) Yes, gentlemen,
labor is the cornerstone of our pros
perity. Voice Qrom the audience)-
True fer you. The cornerstone of
buildin' is highly honored, isn't it
sor?" ..Honored! 1t is the stone Sc
lected for the reception of tho most
valued records and most precious tes-
timonials of its era of civilization"
''Thrue agin, sor. An it's dorm near
the bottom it is, too. sor. - Omaha
World.
If Milton will only cross my thresh-
old to sing to me of Paradise, and
Shakespeare to open TO me the worlds
of Imagination and the workings of
the human heat. and Franklin to en-
rich me with his practical wisdom. ]
shall not Pine for want of intelle otual
companionship, and / may become a
cultivated man. though excluded from
what is called the best society in the
place where / live. - William Ellerv
Claiming.
-Consciences are accommodating
things. They seldom trouble man
who has gobbled millions of other
peoples money; but when they get
hold of fellow who has pocketed
twenty-five cents that belongs to some
body else, they make it warm for him
until he disgorges or joins the great
majority and augments his populations
to point beyond which no self-re-
specting conscience cares to 60.
Inequality in taxation. my son, is
system of assessment which hits you
quite as hard rs neighbor Jones. over
the way. just and impartial taxation,
on the contrary, is system which lets
you off without paying dollar and
makes Jones pay enough for both.
There. my son. you have a bit of infor-
nation that you would never learn in
an organic newspaper or a political
convention. Boston Transcript.