Worth Remembering.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 6

Worth Remembering.

As long as temptations exist, men will hunt for them. ‘ ' 1 ““

Loss may be no dishonor, but dpfionor must be deadliest loss. . 1

Beware of the' still man; he | your size and concealing his o\vn. | ’ Of nre-at. riolies there is no real, use, except l-it be in the i ceif. "

If a man has real merit there is nothing that will briog him into notice so well ’as abuse.

* Moderation is the Qlken thip.ugb the pearl, chain of all virtues.-. Bishop Hall, , 1 Vanity, perhaps, has made more people polite and even endurable than has any one of the virtues.

The man who is vain of his wealth only proves that he thinks more of his money than of himself.

Success doesn’t impose itself on any one. Those who win must reach for things, and at the same time cultivate their grip.' -** . Some .people complain that nature has. mingled thorns with the roses. 1/ for mypart, am' thankful that she ,has given mo - , roses among the thorns.—Karr. ■ * . v .n

There are many people who stand ready to sacrifice their lives and their neighbors' lives, too, in defence of their creed—who - ate willing to let their religion shift for i+aeK '■ Power, uuless with ‘’gentleness and Qoes but make a maM' tkh more hated * ’no 'interval* Of good humor," starts of bounty,' will atone for tyranny 1 and' oppression.—Collier. 3

We should remember that trqth ia many.J sided ; that all truth ‘trombone source. i,s onl*y o'fie 1 sun in the heavens, as you know,’ there are" ma’ny colors, all of which come from the one sun.

THE OF TJ^ING.S-. William Lee of Vyoodborough, Notting,kam, England, invented th,e ffrst’ B.ljoqkv?§'. frame in year invented by Gusneac, a iteaujt pastor, in 1729, and revived by Montgolfier, a Frenchman, in 1783, The Chamber of Loans at Venice, ized about 1150, was the ffysj. pi\b,\iq figOjk^n^ mi of cotton vjas qsedin the |Jleve.nth Llpep gftpqy was ipyeqtefl iq 131%. Thq ijqa of »- n pager, date? hack to Hie Openisg year of the presentoenturyEdward Randolph was appointed Commissioner of the fiyst custom house in New England, egtablisbed at Boston ip--168,fi. His authority \yas superseded - t^he i p l the. General Court created a CoioniaJ Nflval' Oflffce, - 1 ’!* !’• * •• ‘ * Forks began to be known in Franca toward the’end of the Sixteenth oentury, and Were introduced into England in IQOS. They were first used in Italy toward the - end of

the Fifteenth centhry. - ' J ' The first clock With a balance was made, by 'De V}ck ih 13(54. and the first with a penduluifi. in 1641.'' ' Watches ’ w.ith sgringa^

were first made at Nuremberg, about 1477, but the first successful application of springs to watches was by Dr Hooke, in 1655, Haroun-al-Raschid, Caliph of Bagdad, in SOS sent to Charlemagne, among other presents, a clock of curious workmanship.