SCRAPS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2178, 27 June 1890, Page 6

SCRAPS.

Too muoh reßt is met. — Sir W. Sootfc. Self* trust is the secret of success.— -Emerson. The pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

A lie begets a lie, till they come to generation.

Truth and justice are the foundations of life. — Palmer.

Men are rarely fit fco command who have not learnt to obey.

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

One of tha best gifts of Providence is the veil that conceals futurity.

Ifc is an eternal and irreparable lobs when time is not enjoyed as it ought.

During the last 80 years 8,000,000 people have died of phthisis in Franoe.

It is best; net to be angry, and best, in the next place, to be quietly reconciled.

All actual heroes are essential men, and all men p. issible heroes. — E. P. Browning. Meek souls there are who little deem Their daily strife an angel's themo, — Keble.

We attract hearts by the qualities we display ; wo retain them by the qualities we possess.

The wise man expects everything from himself; the fool looks to others.— Jean Paul "Riehter.

The beßt education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.— Wendell Phillips.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not fot sake us; — George Elliot.

By not doing without the things we don't need, we sometimes have to do without the things that we do noed.

Boiling water, poured directly from the kettle upon fruit stains in wbite goods, is recommended to remove them.

ltis said fchafc mosquitoes, flies, and gnats may bo kept away by sponging the faca and hands with elder-flower watery . .'