Odds and Ends from all Quarters.

Hastings Standard, Issue 23, 22 May 1896, Page 4

Odds and Ends from all Quarters.

Like father, like all fathers. The pin is mightier than the pen. Bound to work—The apprentice. A floating debt. A mortgaged steamboat. The age in which to marry—The parson-age. Apostrophe to the gas-meter You're light, in the main. Men change their faiths, women their faces. "Youth comes but once," but neither does old age. Whosoever tells you what is said of you, good or ill, relishes the telling. The only reason some don't follow the plough is because it isn't a woman. " Faint heart never won fair lady " without considerable assistance on her part. All things come to those who know when to stop waiting. It would be a good thing if people coold not play the violin until they know how. Silence is golden, but a woman is perfectly willing to take somebody else's word for it. A woman is never so anxious to acknowledge man's superiority as when her load pencil gets dull. There are dozens of remedies for rheumatism, and it usually lasts long enough to give its victim a chance to try them all. Some one says the major port ions of th* Confederate armies were officers— Oi course they were. They are in every other army. Miss Nellie Nixon, of Chatranoog, walked eleven miles without her shoes to marry the man of her choice, and ever since the girls of hear locality have gone about barefooted. A Boston paper is telling its readers whf*t books they should take to the country. They won't have much ftm unless they take the pocket book alone. A New Orleans girl committed suicide because she was in love with a strolling actor. It was a praiseworthy at:...nd showed that there was a good flea I of common sense behind her foolLiiness.

Ninty-nine per cent, of novelr, are pernicious, saysDr Talmage. T> ie dear old soal neves reads a novel iD hi s jjf e . ff he had, his selection woali 1 ~ have been so bad that he send the percentage away abo- g par