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Life is too short for its possessors to wear long faces. Better break thy word than do worse by keeping it.—Dr Johnson. It shocks me to think how much mischief almost every man may do, who will but resolve to do all he can.—Sterne. Those hours are not lost that are spent in cementing effectioa; for a friend is above gold, precious as the stoues of the mind.—M. F. lupper. The flow'ry May, who from her green lay throws The yellow cowslip and the "pale primrose. —Milton. Man is born not to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain him" self within the limits of the comprehensible. —Goethe. A Burman mile is about equal in length fo two English miles. The word for " mile "in Burmese means to sit, and a mile is the distance that a man goes before he considers it necessary to sit down. One of the finest and biggest nuggets of gold ever found in California is on exhibition in San Franci?co. It is as large as an ordinary Derby hat, and weighs 351b, troy. It il worth 20 do!s. au ounce. It is the great art and philosophy of life to make the best of the present, whether it be sjood or bad ; to bear the bad with resignation ind patience, and to enjoy the good with thankfulness and moderation. Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Wordsworth. Verdi has invented several new instruments for his new opera " Otello." One is made of copper, wood, and ass's skin, which will emit an " extraordinary lugubrious and strange " note when Othello smothers Desde• mona. He has also added a fifth string to his violins. Do your best, and await calmly the result. It is anxieiv, not work, which kills; it is work, not anxiety, that commands success. There is a Hindoo saying that the fortune of a man who sits, sits also ; it sleeps when he sleeps, moves when he moves, aid rises when he rises.
The averaee age of the 15 principal reigning monarchs of Europe is 55 years and 6 months. The youngest, of course excepting the baby King of Spain, is the King of Serria, who is 32, whilst the Kaiser of Germany is elose upon 90. The Czar of Russia and the King of Greece are both the same age—4l,
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1591, 13 May 1887, Page 3
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419SCRAPS. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1591, 13 May 1887, Page 3
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