Items of Interest.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 505, 24 January 1906, Page 7

Items of Interest.

HOW patiently God works to teach ua I How long he waits for us to learn the lesson^— Buskin,

Baal life must have some heroic fores in it, else it only breathes, but does not live. —Horace Bushell.

Those who pass through life with no meroy for others are the vary ones who shriek for it at the last moment. —Prof. Harris Biokford,

Wherever the marriage ideal is lowered, where it is looked upon as a mere oontraot which oan be dissolved by mutual consent or by wrong doing, there is always a lowering of the general standard of morality throughout the community.-Arohdeaoon Madden.

In the humblest condition a power goes forth from a devout and disinterested spirit, calling forth moral and religious sentiment, perhaps in a ohild or some other friend, and teaching without .the aid of words, the loveliness and peace of sinoere and singlehearted virtue.—Channing.

It is only at the end of its career, after persisting unohanges for centuries, that the radium atom shows any peculiar properties. This is a warning against assuming too hastily that because a phenomenon, such as the rising of the sun, has happened an indefinite number of times in the past, it is therefore going to continue indefinitely in the future.—Professor J. J. Thomson.

All strange things are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view; unhappily, scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common. The current coin of the realm passes into all hands, and be it gold, silver, and copper, id acceptable and of known value ; but with new ingots, with foreign bars, and medals of Corinthian braßS, the oase is widely different.

Truth cannot be theorised about; it must be, lived to be known. Truth and error stand, as it were, at opposite ends of a a straight line; if we are walaing, in our daily life, toward error, how oan we hope to see the truth? To turn sguarly about, facing from wrong to right, is our first duty. The man who has never thus turned, or been "converted," is not to be trusted to see the truth at any point,