Odds and Ends from all Quarters.

Hastings Standard, Issue 18, 16 May 1896, Page 4

Odds and Ends from all Quarters.

One of our young athletes was expatiating to a young lady friend, whom he had honoured by a call, oil his ability as a walker, the other evening at 11 80 o'clock, and was told by the sweet girl that she would dearly love to see him walk. How easy it is for a benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and i. •' iruly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles !—Washington Irving. A non-commissioned officer in India can get leave to England in the summer by paying one shilling per diem for his passage on a troopship there and back, and receives full pay for all the time of his furlough. If he is proud of his honour and integrity, proud of his blameless life and his efforts to benefit his nic-o, he is the right kind of a man. Cut if he is proud of his looks, his clothes, his wealth, his birth, or his learning, he is a fool. It is whispered that a good pastor, a widower, proposed to a young lady a short time since, but was rejected. His feeling had a second severe test when a widow neighbour sent him the following text to preach from, " You ask and receive not, because you ask a miss." • Really," confided Angelina to her (1 -zr *st friend, " I am getting worried a- i;» -T hr, Before we were married, a> ar lit- . - ««»• ap in hi • ujrj :i< I •,vai:Ltw .■ ;j mnds iu« rul oi h'-'-i ■. -y-six, an, x h v - • hi;.. ■ < hold the oaiv-*. M. n c..rr jy I , . easure in the cruwuoiii v. L : iian in that which is inocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and rains fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.