The Irish standard., 1900-03-31
SOME QUAINT SAYINGS.
Amusing Passages Penned by the
Humorous Author of "David
Harum,0

OF mother, Edward Noyes West
colt said: "She has a baby, a most
persuasive one, which permeates and
colors her conversation SO that she
sees all things through baby darby"
At one time he wrote: 81 have come
TO think that the thing I most desire
L shall never have, SO now with super
stitious dread l try to cheat fate by
refraining from setting my heart on
anything lest it escape me-"
Again he writes: eff Iwere ten years
Younger" that phrase was almost
habitual with him, II ght find an in
terest in flowers here" Asheville, April,
1894, "but all the flowers that have
cared for, or ever shall, bloomed long
ago. II there be one immortelle among
The lot, am glad and thankful-and
God bless the person who keeps it for
my sake"
but what is consistency? Itismere-
ly living up to others conception of
our natural course of conduct. We say
of one: Well, he is the last person 1
should ever have thought would do
that!' whereas the mental and moral
progress or retrogression of that man,
going on within himself, has led most
logically to the sequence so unexpect-
ed to others. Now what could you ex-
pect of me?" he supplemented, whim-
sically, "a man whose name is No
Yes" and then he laughed in the self
humoring way of one who repeats
joke oft told before. "Look at my
hands, too," he added, holding them
out frankly for inspection. Zone is
strong, well-developed, capable; the
other is almost effeminate. Could any
thing be more inconsistent?,'
Heaven is full of days, all coming
this way!" He wrote this once in a
birthday book opposite his own date,
September "a, with an air of victory
and defiance of the future-although
such moods were rare.
He was more prone to say: "Let us
enjoy ourselves, and let nothing good
get away, for when we are dead, we are
SO very dead" and then would follow
gentle laugh at his own philosophy.
"Iou are old enough to know BETTER
is the way friend once reproached
him.
"old enough to know BETTER" he re-
peated; "are we ever old enough for
that?"
OF death: VIA. .r F.. 49,
"Death is hard fact to face and does
never look like our imaginings. Tears
will overflow philosophy. All love in
wolves and ends in them; but we weep
for the most part, and, in one view of
it. always for ourselves. "-Ainslee's.
Savings Bank of Roman Children.
The children of the Romans used to
put their pennies into savings banks
just as the children of the Yankees do
to-day. In 1856, when Prof. Thomas
Wilson, of the Smithsonian institute.
was wandering about Osnia, the seaport
of ancient Rome, he found group Of
peasants excavating. They had dug
out of the sand number of pots and
jars that had been buried for ages; one
of them had found a child's savings
bank which contained IT'S silver coins
issued by the emperors of Rome be-
tween the years 200 and 10 b. c. As
none or the later date were found, it is
to be assumed that some child lost this
bank shortly before our era, and it was
covered for 10 centuries by the en-
croaching sand.
The little savings bank was almost
perfect when it was uncovered, but the
peasant who found it broke it open to
get the coins within. Prof. Wilson
found most of the pieces, however, and
has been able to put it together. 1t
consists of a single piece of pottery
about three inches wide. with slit in
the top through which the money was
dropped. Chicago Record.
At the Head Of His Class.
IT can tell lie the minute l hear
IT,"
"You can beat that, Liarby. You can
tell one the minute you think Of It,"
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