Year: 1861

LITTLE OR NOTHINGs.


To GET DUCK FOR D1NNER.-Jump into
the river.


There is no mind that cannot furnish
some scraps of intellectual entertainment


Why is life the riddle of all riddles p
Because we must all give it up.


What is that which never asks any
questions, but requires many answers?--
the street-dOor.


1t is wiser and better to hold the torch
of truth to the mind than the torch of
persecution to the body.


When we get tired of all the pleasures
within our reach, we can have an unfail-
ing resource in thinking of those that are
out of it.


One thousand years ago, the Chinese
built suspension bridges of more than four
hundred feet span.


Some men read so much and think so
little, that nothing short of forgetting half
of what they knew would ever give them
the use of the other half


GROWN wIsER-When we fancy that
we have grown wiser, it is only, in many
instances, that new prejudices have dis
placed old ones


SENsUAIITY.-f sensuality were happi-
ness, beasts were happier than men; but
human happiness is lodged in the soul,
not in the flesh.


To PREVENT DoMEsTICs BREAKING ANY
TAING.-Keep cat in the house, and you
will never hear of anything being broken
by the servants.


1t is not uncommon for Spanish ladies
to possess hundred fans. They collect
and hoard them, as German collects
pipes, as geologist hunts after specimens.


Useful knowledge can have no enemies
except the ignorant; it cherishes youth,
delights the aged, is an ornament in pros
perity, and yields comfort in adversely.


A man. infexibly good seems all the
better for living in the midst of bad men,
just as roses and violets are said to spring
more fragrant near garlic and onions, the
latter imbibing all the ill odor of the
earth.


; I'LL MANNERs.-Pride, ill-nature, and
want of sense, are three great sources Of
i'll manners; without some of these de-
fects, no man will behave himself i'll for
want of experience.


Good temper, like sunny day, sheds
a brightness over everything.
TEARs.-There is sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but
of power! They are the messengers of
r overwhelming grief, Of deep contrition,
and of unspeakable love.
We never respect persons who aim sim.
ply to amuse us. There is vast differ
= ence between those we call amusing
men and those we denominate entertain
S ing; we laugh with the former, and re-
: fleet with the latter.
: Duty is the little blue sky over every
7 heart and soul-over every life-large
enough for star to look between the
clouds, and for the skylark Happiness to
: rise heavenwsrd through and sing in.


FORCE OF HABIT.-It has been told Of
the late Mr.. Peter Moore, and was actually
true of Secretary Scraggs who began life
: as footman, that in the days Of his op-
ulence he once handed some ladies into
: their carriage, and then, from the mere
force of habit, got up behind.
e Parson Green was in the habit some
10 times of drawing upon box Of sermons
IS bequeathed him by his father, who was


also minister, and upon one occasion
J. got hold of sermon, by mistake, which
|, the old gentleman had once preached to
d the state prison convicts Itopencd we'll,
a and the congregation were becomeing deep





h ly interested, when all at once the parson
d surprised them with the information, that
se "had it not been for the clemency Of the
d governor, every one Of them would have