Year: 1877

universal.


Example has more influence than
authority.


Love those who advise, but not those
who praise you.


The surest remedy against scandal
is to live it down.


One ungrateful man does an injury
to all who are wretched.


The New York University is said to
be in financial difficulties.


1t is safest for man to judge favor
ably of his fellow-creatures.
Rome has just celebrated the 268Oth
anniversary Of her founding.


The tongue is little thing, but il
fills the universe with trouble.


A mans temper is most valuable to
himself, and he should keep it.
Frowns blight young children as
frosty nights blight young plants.


A cheerful face is nearly as good for
an invalid as healthy weather.


Genius is the gold in the mine
Talent is the miner who brings it forth.


The Western Penitentiary. at Pitts
burg, turns out 1000 pairs of shoes per
day.


The hull of the steamer Rasland,
wrecked off Long Branch, was sold the
other day for $4,000.


The best summer resort for babies
Rockaway. The best for bad boys
Long Branch.


We may as well expect to grow
stronger by constant eating as wiser
by constant reading.


No charity should be extended to
those who are not as willing to do jus
tice as they are to receive it


An utter contempt Of public opin-
lion, and sensitive regard for it, are
equally the ear-mark Of a fool.


Harvest never comes to such as SOW
not and SO experience will not, unless
you do what God has commanded.


The liberty to go higher than we are
is given only when we have fulfilled
the duties Of our present sphere.


It is better to SOW good heart with
kindness than field with ccrn. for the
hearts harvest is perpetual.


It takes over twelve million Of dol
lars year to pay the salaries of the
postal service of the United States.


Ifyou let trouble sit upon your soul
like hen upon her nest, you may ex-
pect the Matching of a large brood.


We cannot conquer fate and neees-

sity, yet we can yield to them IN such
a way as to be greater than if we could.


The Berks County Agricultural So
ciety offer $50 premium for the best
acre of tobacco grown in that county.


Men are guided less by conscience
than by glory, and yet the shortest way
to glory is to be guided by conscience.


We have nothing to enjoy until we
have something to impart. He only
lives who is not a reservoir, but a
fountain.


It is not until we have passed
through the furnace that we are made
to know how much dross was in our
composition.


The idea of a heaven and an exist
ence hereafter is no more extraordinary
than the fact of an earth and an exist
ence' here.


A soul without prayer is like soli-
tary sheep without its shepherd. The
tempter sees it, and lures it away into
his snare.


The welfare of nation rests upon
the happiness which it enjoys within
itself, and its independence of all CON
troll from without.


Ladies, the best way to beautify the
hand is to put quarter in it and then
shake hands with some suffering fellow .
creature.


Whetheryou attempt little or much,
let every hour have its employment.in
business, study, social converse, or di-
version.


The wise men of old have sent most
of their morality down the stream Of
time in the light skiff of apothegm or
epigram.





Place no confidence in the reviler of
religion. He who is faithless to his !.
Creator will not scruple to deceive
man.


Dallas, Texas, has an $4,000 ice
machine, which produces ice cakes
thirty feet long by six wide, weighing
from 10000 to 10000 pounds each.
Russia has 10000 wolves within its
boundaries, and they destroyed last
year not only an enormous quantity of
cattle and poultry, but also two hun
dred people.


A hill has nassed the Illinois 7 T,eo,;s-