Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-18
PlTH AND POINT.


We frequently confess our little
faults in order to have it thought that
we have no great ones.
We find it hard to get and keep
any private property in thought. O her
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 emphatica1ly had he said: Go to
the OYSTER thou sluggard. An able
bodied female oyster thinks producing
1000, 600 eggs is fair seasons work
when she is feeling we'll.
If a man received three dollars
per day, and s,ved every cent of it,
one thousand years would elapse b.
fore he could be master of million.
His hair by that time would be slight
tinged with gray.-Uat,d Labor Age.
1t contributes greatly toward
mans moral and intelIc ctual 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 Presbyte-
rias.
1t is very difficult to retain
friend after you have got him. You
may be sure of losing him if 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 ash their teeth.-7ezas Sifzings.
Congressional demagogue (at
mass-meeting) 49, Yes, gentlemen,
labor is the cornerstone of our pros
perity. Voice Cfrom the audience)-
''True fer you. The cornerstone OF
buiIdin' is highly honored, isn't it
sor?' ':Honored! 1t is the stone Sc
lected for the reception of the 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 Par adise, and
Shakespeare to open TO me the worlds
Of imagin alton and the workings of
the human heart, and Franklin to en-
rich me with his practical wisdom, 1
shall not pine for want of intellectual
companionship, and I may become
cultivated man. though excluded from
what is called the best society in the
place where l live. Wiltiana EZzeru
Charming.
-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
10 point beyond which no self-re-
specting conscience cares to 60.
Inequality in taxation, my sou, is
4 system of assessment which hits you
quite as hard rs neighbor J,nes. over
the way. Juss and impartial taxation.
on the contrary, is system which lets
you off without paying a dollar and
makes Jones pay enough for both.
There, my son. you have bit of infor-
nation that you would never learn in
an organic newspaper or political
convention. Boston Transcript