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Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 87, 9 March 1876, Page 3

Innocence is like a polished annor — it adorns and defends.

A moment's effort in controlling passion may often prevent days of sorrow.

Why is a wafer like Cupid ? Because it is the go-between which forms mutual attachments.

Money is like manure, of very little use unless it is spread.

With some work is not so much an object as good wages. He who receives a favor should never forget it; he who gives one should never rememqer it. Habit is a cable, woven thread by thread until it cannot be broken.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is Paradise.

j One fellow we know is a three-handed man — right hand, left hand, and behind hand.

"Women are too apt to think that certain vices in a young man, like moles upon a fair skin, are beauty-spots. Advertising for a wife is as absurd. as getting measured for an unbrella. " Talk up" to the dear creatures if you'd marry them. One half of the world was born to marry the other half. A gentleman who did not live very happy with his wife, on the maid telling him that she. was about to give her mistress warning, as she kept scolding* from morning till night said, " Happy girl ! I wish I could give warning too." A man in love may be likened to a fly in a spider web, entangled by one of the most fragile substances, yet from which it is most difficult to escape.

A stump speaker in America, in dealing with the " modern physical degeneracy of. women," exclaimed, " We riiust take good care of our grandmothers for we'shall never get any more." Says a recently- published song* — What is home without a mother ?" In the first year of married life it is a very nice sort of place.

A clergyman in Ifraine was. opposed to having any mirth' in his Sunday School; he thought it injurious to all, and unnecessary for .the, entertainment of the children. He offered 'to adress theßchobl, and show that they could be well entertained seirio'usly. The following dialogue ebsued:-"Children, lam going to teil you about Peter. Who.. khows Who Peter was?" No answer was made." "Cannot any one 'bf those big girls tell me who Peter was?;" Still, no reply "Can any little boy or girl in the school tell me who Peter was ?° '1 can said a boy in the further corner. uAh that's a good boy. Now you : come iby my side, arid-stand Up on this chair, and tell those hig' girls t? ho Peter was/" Jimmy did as he wag bid, and the shrili voice of childhood ifepeated^* ''

" '" Peter, Peter,'l)umpkin eater,. *. Sa3 a wife and couldn't Keep her,?' At this point be was stopped, but not before the full point was taken by the school, and Mother Goose's poem appreciated.