Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-01-11
VARIETIES,

| IOSSil KNOW.
1t is not what we intend, but what
we do, that makes US useful.
Every penitent tear that falls from
the eye springs up flower of comfort
The great difficulty about advice is
the prcdominence of quantity over
quality.
Man will give ten words to the ex-
preston of his joy, and fifty to lament
his sorrow.
As general thing, when shorn of
all sham, the man who is faultless is
also clam.
Be noble, and the nobleness that lies
sleeping, but not dead, in other men
will be increased.
The great secret of happiness is to
throw ones self into the circumstances
that surround one.
The life of true man cannot be
life Of mere pleasure it must be, above
all things, a life of duty.
The average car-horse is a tender
hearted animal. He is always ready
to stop and listen to a tale of whoa.
1t is instinct that prompts girl who
knows nothing of the world to ask to
drive when you strike a lonely road.
The grandest and strongest natures
are ever the calmest Restlessness is a
symbol Of weakness not yet outgrown.
When you hear woman says she
has bad husband just ask her what
she has done to make him a good one.
There is nothing lower than hypoc-
risy. To profess friendship and show
enmity is a sure proof Of total de-
pravity.
Nature is upheld by antagonists.
Passions, resistance, danger are educa-
tors. We acquire the strength we
overcome.
All contractors do not live within
their means, but most people who live
within their means are the biggest kind
OF contractors.
What we really are, somehow or
other will ooze out i'll tone, in look, in
act, and that tells upon those who come
in daily contact with us
The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can do well, and
doing whatever you do without a
thought of fame
Men who think for themselves do
not believe quite so much as those do
who take what they have from hearsay;
but it is very apt to be better quality
of faith.
Love is exactly like war in this
that a soldier, though he has escaped
three weeks complete on Saturday
night, nevertheless, be shot through his
heart on Sunday morning.
The bleakest landscape in the world
brightens into something like beauty
when the sun shines upon it. So love-
the richer, swceter light Of the soul,
makes thy face beautiful.
81 never saw such an unlucky man
as am. Here find a piece of money
and it is only a nickel. If any one
else had found it, it would have been
quarter"
Grit is the grain of character. 1t
may generally be described as heroism
materialized spirit and will thrust
into the heart, brain and backbone, so
as to form part Of the physical sub
stance Of the man.
A six-year-old boy wrote his first
composition on water: "Water is good
to drink, to battle in, and to skate ON.
When l was a little baby, the nurse
used to battle me every morning in
water. | have been told that the
Iniuns wash themselves but once in
ten years. [ wish ! was an Injun."
A gentleman coming home at even
ing, spoke harshly to his little three
year-old, who was playing very noisily.
The little lady dropped her playthings
and retreated hastily to a corner
whats the matter ?" asked papa.
"Well,o said the child, Give been
good Girl all this day, and now you
come home and make trouble the first
thing
An Ohio lady is the mother of a
large family of children, and they are
all rather diminutive. A few days
after the birth of the youngest, a little
niece of the lady called to see the baby.
After looking at the tiny specimen a
few minutes, the child remarked :
"Aunt Maria, don't you think it would
be better to have less Of 'em and have
EN- bigger"
The appointment of women on school
boards does not meet with approval in
all quarters. A ianitor in one Of the
public schools thus relates his griey-
ances "Here l have been a janitor Of
this school for fifteen years, and not a
soul has ever been in the basement but
myself, and now this woman comes to
inspect the school, and the first thing
she does is to see the basement. And
that basement" he added plaintively,
"wasn't in a fit condition for any one
to see"
A preacher, lately, expatiating on
the nature of man, pointed out that one
great point of distinction between
human beings and the lower animals
consisted in the capacity for progress.
MAN" exclaimed the preacher, warm
ing in his theme, is progressive
creature; other beings are stationary.
Think, for example, of an ass Always