Tit-Bits.

Evening Post, Volume XLV, Issue 94, 22 April 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

Tit-Bits.

Happy aro those who have lost their relish for tumultuous pleasure, and are content with the soothing quiet of innocence and retirement. Happy are those whose amusement is knowledge, and whose supreme delight the cultivation of the mind. Wherever they shall bo driven by the persecution of fortune, the means of enjoyment are still with them ; and that weary littleness which renders life unsupportable to the voluptuous and the lazy is unknown to those who can employ themselves by reading. — Fdnelon. A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist ; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Colton. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Goldsmith. Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. — Colton. He that speaks doth sow ; he that holds his peace doth reap. — Italian Proverb. A man who helps to circulate a piece of gossip is as bad as the ouo who originated it. Thero is nothing, no, nothing innocent or good, that dies and is forgotton. — Charles Dickens. Humanity is neither a love for the whole human race, nor ti love for each individual of it, but a love for the race, or for the ideal of man, in each individual. In other and less pedatic words, he who is truly humane considers every human being as such interesting and important, and without waiting to criticise each individual specimen, pays in advance to all alike the tribute of good wishes and sympathy. — Ecce Home. M. Richet has been studying the physiology of a shiver. He says, "If the temperature of a dog is lowered by any means whatever, for instanco, by slowing his respirations by means of chloral, at the end of a certain time the temperature is seen to riso. It is then that the shiver appears, and the quicker he regains he-it the more violently ho shivers. An energetic shiver, then, is a nece.-&ary part of regaining heat, and is one of the causes of the increaso of combustion." — The Hospital. Errors to bo dangerous mubt havo a great deal of trnth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can over obtain an extensive circulation ; from puro extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood the world never has aud novor can sustain any mischief. — Sydney Smith. Scratch the green riud of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred or crooked oak will tell tho act for years to come. How forcibly does this figure show the necessity of giving right tendencies to the minds and hearts of the young. Keep your eyes turned inward upon yourself, and bowaro of judging others. In judging others v man labours to no purpose, commonly errs, and easily sins ; but in examining and judging himself he is always wisely and Übcfully employed. Among: the odd habits of rooks is the way that mombers of the same rookery have of inter-marrying generation after generation. The males always choose their wives from among their near neighbours ; nnd if one should be so bold as to bring home to his rookery a bride from a distance tho other rooks will invariably refuse to receive her, and will force the pair to build some way off. In the neighbourhood of big rookeries outlying nests of thiß kind may always be found. At tho ago when tho faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude ; but, at tho age of 20, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb iv which ho buries himself alivo. — E. do Girnvdin. The holiness of children is tho very typo of hiiintliness ; and tho most perfect conversation is but a hard aud distaut return to the holiness of a child.— Cardinal Manning. Cast forth thy act, thy word into tho ever-living, ever- working universe ; it is a need grain that cannot dio. Unnoticed to-day, it will bo found flourishing as a banyan grove— perhaps, alas, as a hemlock forest — after a thousand years.— Carlyle.

Mr. Phil Armour, the Chicago millionaire und philanthropist, has a delightfully epigrammatic way of voicing his «ontimentn. Ho say ho belioves in religion, "sixteen ounces to the pound." And he doesn't '■aro whether a man was baptised in ft soup basin or in a rivor.