Year: 1877

The heart is the same, whether under
one or under another garment.


1t is part and parcel of every mans
life to deyelope beauty In himself.


Occasions of adversely best discover
how much virtue or strength each one
| has.


The tree that is not larger than your
self, can, nevertheless, put you In the
shade.


The general Of a large army may be
defeated, but you cannot beat the deter
mined mind of a peasant.


Said Spanish boatman: al can for
give anything for love, and so, sup
pose, can the Almighty"


Some people are very correct; you can
never discover any fault in them, but
they never amount to much.


TO most men, experience is like the
stern lights of ship, which illumine
only the track it has passed.


Language is the amber in which
thousand precious thoughts have been
safely imbedded and preserved.


Time is a species of wealth which it
is impossible for us to hoard, but which
we may spend to good advantage.


Let him who ncglects to raise the
fallen fear lest, when he falls, no one
will stretch out his hand to lift him up.


Youth endures nothing more easily
than poverty, if only love either of a
heart or science illuminates its dark
present.


II 10 ha n ,f,.ol ls,t I,,s IA
is nevertheless true, that If you have
bad temper the best thing you can do
is to lose it.


There is perhaps no one quality that
can produce greater amount of mis-
chief than may be done by thoughtless
goOd-nature.


Let prudence always attend your
pleasures; it is the way to enjoy the
sweets of them and not be afraid of the
consequences.


Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally
of the soul into the unfound infnitep
No man ever prayed heartily without
learning something.


There has been discovered in San
Francisco an insect, new to science,
which is believed to be a species of the
very valuable cOchineal.
Never was a sincere word utterly lost,
nevera magnaminity fell to the ground;
there is some heart always to greet and
accept it Unexpectedly.


If habit of jesting lowers man, it
is to the level of humanity. Wit nour-
ishes vanity reason has much stronger
tincture of pride in it.-Hazliu.


Too many embrace religion from the
same motives that they take com.
paniOn in wedlock, not from true love
of the person, but because of large
dowry.


l have lived long enough to know
what did not at one time believe-that
no society can be upheld in happiness
and honor without the sentiment of re-
ligion.


How small portion of our lives is
that we truly enjOyl In youth we are
looking for things that are to come. In
old age we look backward to things that
are past.


81 never complained of my condition
but once" said an old man-"When nv
feet were bare, and had no money to
buy shoes; but met man without
feet, and l became contented."


India rubber is soluble in ether, In
naphtha, and other liquids. A rubber
cement made with turpentine dries
with great difficulty, and like most tur-
pentine varnishes, is very "tacky."


never could believe that Providence
had sent few men into the world, ready
booted and spurred to ride, and millions
ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
Richard Rumbold.


True joy is a serene and sober emo
ton and they are miserably out that
take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of
it is within, and there is no cheerful
ness like the resolutions of brave mind.


A fair reputation is plant delicate
In its nature and by no means rapid in
its growth. 1t will shoot up in night
like gourd of the prophet; but, like
that gourd, it may perish in the night.


do not doubt but that genuine piety
is the offspring of peace Of mind; it en-
ables us to bear the sorrows of life, and
lessons the pangs of death; the same
cannot be said of hypocrisy. -Bruyere.


Wouldst thou multiply thy riches,
diminish them wisely; or wouldsT thou
make thy estate entire, divide 1t ohari-
| tably. Seeds that are scattered In
crease; but, boarded up, they PERISH
QuarIe


If there be one thihg on earth that is
truly admirable, it is to see Gods wis
dom blessing an inferiority of natural
powers where they have been honestly,
truly and zealouslY cultivated. DR..
arnold.


How things come around and join
each other again-how this that we do
brings us face to face with that which
we have done, and with its work and
consequences; how people find each
other after years and years, and find
that they have not been very far apart
after all.


Mr.. Spurgeon has taken the velOci-
pede into the pulpit. In a recent SER
mon he said: 'these new inventions
which the lads were riding down our
streets, would not keep up unlesss they
were kept going; the moment they were
stopped they fell down, and In this they
were exceedingly like the Christian
church, which would fall unless 1t was
constantly moving on"


Begin the education of the heart, not
with the cultivation of noble propensi-
ties, but with the cutting away of those
that are evil. When once the noxlous
herbs are withered and rooted out, then
the more noble plants, strong in them
selves, will shoot upwards. The vir-
tues, like the body, become strong and
healthy, more by labor than by nour-
ishment.


There are natures in which, If they
love us, we are conscious of having