Year: 1874

Silence never yet betrayed any one.


Drunkenness is nothing but volun-
tary madness.


Egotists canno. converse they talk
to themselves.


The agitation of thought is the be-
ginning of wisdom


A long winded orator is said to have
a sleeping car attached to his train Of
thought.


When your pocket-book gets empty.
you can put all your friends in it, head
and ears.


One of the Prince of Wales principal
creditors is Poole, the tailor. He pants
for his pay.


1t is a strange fact that wise men
learn more from fools than fools do
from wise men.


Love others well, but love thyself the
most give good for good, but not to
thine own cost.


Laws, like sausages, would fail to in
spire respect if all people knew how
they were made.


The books in the library belonging to
the British Museum occupy twelve
miles of shelving.


The bread of life is love; the salt of
Fife is work; the sweetness Of life
poesy the waters of life faith.


1t Is said that water which percolates
through gneiss rocks is an infallible
homeopathic specific for cancer.


A red-hos iron pressed closely to the
gum, in contact with an aching tooth,
will usually prove effective.


A Yankee editor has recently got up .
remedy for hard times. 1t consists in
ten hours labor, well worked in.


We are all hunters in the field of life.
Some of u. bring down our game but
most of us end in wild goose chase.


The great struggles in life are limited
to moments; in the dropping of the
head upon the bosom-in the pressure
of the hand upon the brow.


Velocipedementia has become epi-
demic in Paris, and the bicycle is not
only used by sickly persons for eXer-
else, but by cyclopedic reporters of the
leading journals.


Shakespeare says: at is a good di-
vine that follows his own instructions.
l can easier teach twenty men what
were to be done, than to be one of
twenty to follow my own teschings"


There is that in every animals eye,
dim image and gleam of humanity, q
flash of strange light through which
their life looks out and up to our great
mystery of control over them, and
claims the fellowship of the creature, if
not of the soul.-Ruskin.


Emulation, even in the brutes, is SEN
sitely nervous" See the tremor of
the thoroughbred racer before he starts.
The dray horse does not tremble, but
he does not emulate. 1t is not his work
to run a race. Says Marcus Antonius


''It is all one to stone whether it be
thrown upward or downward"


A child, born recently in Chautauqua
county, New York, and still living, the
local paper asserts, has its heart located
on the outside of it's chest, and in plain
view. The heart is perfect in form, is
well proportioned, and as firm in tex
ture as could be expected in so young
child. When the child cries the
the heart expands to nearly twice its
ordinary size.


The Niagara Falls Gazette tells of q
queer trip taken by lady visitors par
asol the other day, The lady accident
ally dropped it into the swift current
that hurries under the Luna Island
bridge. The current whisked the light
burden over the precipice, and the late
owner figured up the late cost of her
carelessness. Subsequently the lady
took a trip into the Gave of the Winds,
where she found her truaut parasol ps-
tiently bobbing around in a friendly
eddy.


A German professor from Frankfort,
in relation to the use of horse flesh a.
food, said, at the late international Con-
gress, "Once get the people over their
prejudices, and we will see no more
lean, lame and suffering old racks, for
when unfit for work, they will be fstted
for food, and of course well cared for.
He remarked that, to his knowledge,
there were more than five hundred
horses kept for food annually in Frank
fort, and yet there was not person to
be found in the place who ever eat horse
flesh Certainly not.


Speaking Of the exhibition OF British
and foreign birds at the Birmingham
Exchange, the Gazette says a vulture
and pair of horned owls were to have
been exhibited, but their introduction
was marked by such a panic ON the part
of their predecessors that it was found
necessary to keep them back. The en-
trance of the vulture was especially re-
markable. Every smaller bird seemed
to become instinctively aware of the
presence of natural enemy and the
screaming which prevailed for some
time after its removal was prodigious.


A novel street car has been put in
use in San Francisco. 1t is built some
what in the shape of balloon, and has
ample seating capacity for fourteen per-
sons. The car revolves on the wheels
and saves the necessity OF having turn
table, and can be turned with ease, so
that in case the street is blocksded, the
driver can turn back at once on his re-
turn trip. The expense of conductor
will be saved on these cars, passengers
uIOppluS tuelT lale III u DO4 near tuo
driver. The front is so arranged that
the driver can sit down or stand at will.
The car is a novel contrivance, is quiet
light, rides easy and comfortable, and
will probably be sought for more than
the cars at present in use, as they can
not be overcrowded.


In China where locusts are won't to
ravage the country, the local authori-
ties, whether civil or military, are held
responsible for the stamping out of
these insects as soon as their appear
ance has been reported. They are re-
quired to summon a large body of men,
and at once surround and destroy the
locusts, the expense of maintenance Of
the men and compensation forthec crops
trodden down during the chase being
supplied by the Provincial Treasury.
Should the local authorities succeed in
stamping out the locusts within linn
tied time, their services are favorsbly
veporfad IN the Emnaror. but shOuld