TIT-BITS.

Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 61, 12 March 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

TIT-BITS.

Worry kills more than work. The appetite for millions keeps a man on tho keen jump, and knocks his tissues into a cocked hat By the time he gets all he wants, he finds out that he doesn't«know what he does want, and so tumbles into apoplexy and gives his impatient heirs a chance. Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. The best purchase a mau can make is the kindness and affection of his own family. They err widely who propose to turn men to the thoughts of a better world by making them think very meanly of this. Labour is prior to, and independent of, capital ; capital is only the fruit of labour, and could never have existed if labour had not first existed ; labour is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Life is the most frivolous of things unless it is regarded as one great and constant duty. Life is only of value by devotion to what is true and good. The aim of a life worth living should be ideal and unselfish. The labour which perfects our intellectual faculties, while it developes, elevates, rectifies and clarifies or dilutes our ideas, is the source of a wealth which tends to become inherent, and which positively augments our individual worth. Health of body, serenity of mind, and competence of estate, are the requisites for organic happiness ; and these severally and in the aggregate are the legitimate results and just rewards of steady, welldirected, judicious labour. Superstition has it that a mole on the left side of a man means danger and struggling ; on a woman, sorrow. A mole on tho upper lip shows happiness in marriage. A mole on the breast shows affection, loyalty, strength, and courage, which will gain honour. A mole on the right cheek shows the party to be much loved, and that he will come into great fortune. A mole on the left shoulder, sorrow anfl labour. A mole on tho forehead of a man or woman denotes they shall grow rich, being beloved of their friends and neighbours. A mole on tho eyebrows of a man denotes inconsistency, hut if on a woman it shows she will have a good husband. A mole on the neck shows a man to be prudent in his actions ; but if on a woman, it betokens weak judgment, apt to believe the worst of her husband. Nobody cares for the automatic man and woman, who appear to go by dock -work, and to want oiling. Tho error of complete unreserve should be avoided, too. It is less repulsive than its opposite, but it does infinitely more mischief. A man had better seal up his thoughts and feelings in his own breast than sputter them forth, in season and out of season, to everybody he meets. Such inconsistency of speech is sure to make tho person guilty of it unpopular, and to create general embarrassments and alarm in the circle in which he moves. How easy is the thought, in certain moods, of the loveliest, most unselfish devotion. How hard is the doing of the thought in the face of a thousand unlovely difficulties. Childhood and old age have much in common. Theirs ia the illimitable outlook ; Iheirs the infinitely receding horizon. Standing aside from the strenuous, enthralling struggle, when in the noonday glare men and women are jostling and trampling each other in the thoroughfare of life, they gaze dreamily into afar beyond — future or past. — Mathilde Blind. Life is too short for aught but high endeavour. — From the Spanish. Through all time sin was, is, will be the parent of misery. — Carlyle. A kind word will go further and strike harder than a cannon ball. Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in the music of language. Those who are strictest with themselves are generally most lenient to others. Learning by study must be won ; 'twas ne'er entailed by sire to con.— Gay. Modesty is to merit what shade is to the figures in a picture— it gives to it force and relief. — La Bruyere. During sleep tho waste products of the waking activity of the whole body are removed, and the brain shares with tho other structures in the beneficial result, but it requires no special privileges. . The heart, which appears never to sleep, really sleeps twelve out of the twenty -four hours, and it beats slower, and therefore sleeps longer, during the general repose of tho body, and the bame remark applies to the movements of respiration. As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by tho torments of absence. Beware of carelessness ; no fortune will stand it long. You are on the high road to ruin the moment you think yourself rich enough to be careless. Some people only understand enough of a truth to reject it. No wealth is useful, save to him who can put it to a good use. The whole mystery of pain has been unravelling itself to ray heart gradually, and now that I have got a clue, the worse than Cretan labyrinth turns out to be harmonious and beautiful arrangement, ' so that the paths which are still unexplored I can now believe a part of the same plan. Pain has long ceased to be an unintelligible mystery to me. Agony and anguish f Oh ! In these, far more than in sunshine, I can read a meaning and believe in infinite love. Goodness is better than happiness, and if pain be the minister of goodness, I can see that it is a proof of love to debar happiness.—P. W. Robert«on. It is less dangerous to slip with the foot than with the tongue. Let this be remembered. Do not call to mind the day which has passed from you ; do not lament for the unborn to-morrow ; do not build on the coming and the passed away; take the present hour, and do not cast your life to the wind. Memory is like a picture gallery of the post days. The fairest and most pleasing of the pictures are those whioh immortalise the days of useful industry. — Straithorst. Aristocracies fight for wealth and power, wealth which they waste upon luxury, and power which they abuse for their own interest.— James A.. Froudo. In this sea of time the' rudder is given into the hands of innn in his frail skiff, not that he may be at the mercy of the waves, but that he may follow tho dictates of a will directed by intelligence. — Goethe.