Year: 1876

A GOOD heart, good nature and good
health are the peerless three.


IT is an unmitigated cruelty to COM
mand child not to cry; every tear lisa
godsend to its little heart, and unveils
its grief.


A MAN (says DR.. HalD may be quick
in manner, decided in speech and inflex-
ible in purpose; but he may be courteous
and kind for all that.


So far is it from being true that men
are naturally equal, that no two people
can be half an hour together but one shall
acquire an evident superiority over the
other.


The young, obscure years ought to be
incessantly employed in gaining knOwl-
edge of things worth knowing, especially
of heroic human souls worth knowing;
and the obscurer such years are it is apt
to be the better.


The man who painted Patience as q
healthy looking female perched on
chunk OF sandstone, never saw an editor
chewing the end of pencil, while three
compositors stood in the background
yelling for copy.


A MAN in South Hadley, who has just
got out of lawsuit, wants to obtain
large framed picture of cow, with one
client at the head and the other at the
tail, pulling. and the lawyers meanwhile
quietly milking.


A NoRRIsTowN editor cordially well
coined a poet with an "Ode to Spring."
the other day, as soon as he noticed that
on his walk to the Office the poet had
been knocked down by hailstone, and
acquired lump over his eye as big as a
hens eng.


The Danbury man has succeeded, after
months of thorough study and patient
experimenting, in perfecting a machine
for counting the number of eggs a hen
laws. This contriyance is fastened to the
hen, and when she lays an egg it strikes
a figure on a strip of paper. The lnstru-
ment costs about seventeen hundred dol
lars for each hen.


BROKEN RHYTHM.
MY oars keep time to half rhyme,
That slips and slides away from me;
Across my mind, like idle wind,
A lost thought beateth lazily.
Adream, aAoat, my little boat
And alone steal out to sea;
One vanished year, . lost and dear
| You rowed the little boat for me-
| All who can sing Of anything,
| With none to listen lovingly?
| Or who can time the oars to rhyme,
When left to row alone the seaY


A GENTLEMAN having an appointment
with another who was habitually un-
punctual, to his great surprise
found him waiting. He thus addressed
him: "Why, l see you are here first at
last. You were always behind before
but am glad to see you have become
early of late"


ALL the ends of human felicity are
secured without revenge, for without 1t
we are permitted to restore ourselves,
and, therefore, it is against natural
reason to do an evil that no way cooper
ates the proper and perfective end Of
human nature; and he is miserable
person whose good is the evil of his
neighbor; and he that revenges in many
cases does worse than he that did the in
iury-in all cases bad.-Jeremy Taylor.


THE race of mankind would perish did
they cease to aid each other. From the
time that the mother binds the child's
head till the moment that some kind as
sistant wipes the death-damp from the
brow of the dying, we cannot exist with
out mutual help. All, therefore, that
need aid have right to ask it from their
fellow.mortals; no one who holds the
power of granting can refuse 1t without
guilt Walter Scott.