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1 y ."1..- ■ y .•; »,« 4 's I know ao better test of wisdonu than hi gust last .will and testament. generations yet -unborn. It guardeth, and. strengthened domestic peace, and maketh brethren to dwell together in unity,' Bein'g 1 idead the; wise testator yet liveth—his''spirit-' abideth invisible, but felt over the roof-tree* 1 and delighteth, morning and .evening, in..the. thanksgiving psalm.—Professor Wilson. ~ . , a »
Every individual nature has ito;, oyra, beauty. One is struck in every company, at jevery fire side,' with the richness of nature, whoa be hoars so many tongues, «U musibil 1 / 1 Iseos in each person orginai manners* which! have a proper, .and peculiar charm, and i reads, new expressions bt lace; be precedes that, -Nature has laid for eabn the fouadations/pFal Divine building, if the soul will build' thereon;' —Emerson. .h --‘i ■ , : f'd ; In 60 years the populationJ ofvjFranoe has; only increased by 7,000,000, while that off iGerinany has-increased by 19,000,000. Each t inarriage produce's on. an average in Germany' j as in England, five children, but : iu Prance’'* only three; One birth for every 25 inhabit-’ • ante a year is,the German rate qf ■ increase;,, in Franoß.lt is one to 37. During the last decade (1871-1880) the total number of earths . in Franco ‘was 1 957,243, and in Germany, ’ 1,771,334, or nearly double.—Bulletin of the’ 1 Marseilles Geograpnioal ciooieby. , v . dlt ' - iq
j Work every hour, paid or unpaid 5 see only that' thou oahst mot escape thy reward. Whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting ! corn or writing epics so only be it honest, ! wdrkj done to thine own approbation, it shall. earn a reward ‘to the'sense as well as to "the thought. No matter how often defeated, you ; are born to victory.; The reward of a t thing, i well done is to have done it,—JJ. W, .Etaer-'! son* *.) id j ;< uj j'i t j 0!) I Xf anything in the world demands serious meatmen . it is wring-doing in all iUidpfcj and he who speaks of it with levity and difference strikes a blow at the very foundations of' morality and human welfare. Let >r hs rather encourage in the heart of y(Suin’* the utmost revereuce for character, thedoep?-’ est love of truth, purity, and justice; the 11 hem conviction that only as they clipg to | principles of honour and self-command, and follow the highest idea of the good and the *, true, can their lives become rich, jvaluawei” and happy! ; i w i Home is the one place in all this world ' ; where hearts are sure of each other.o XtEis p the place of. confidence ; it is the place where;';! we tear of that mask of guarded; and clous coldness which this world forqes; us tq : , , wear in self'•defence,‘and where yve pour out the unreserved oomunioatious of lull and 1 confiding hearts. It is the spot where ex-'O pressions off tenderness gush out without any ;;; sensations of awkwardness, and without any ~; dread Of ridicule.—lV W. Eooertson. ... .v ! said the late Hugh Stowed Brown, at the j oonclujion ofohe of |hia lectures—“jUow I’ve.i dime, and when I’ve done I sit down. That's a; thing many men have yet to learn to doji* X * don't make ‘‘perorations,’ and 1 don’t like •’ them. Take my advice: whenever you see a?.a man getting red in the face , and striking: ap. , attitude, you make lor the door. You may believe thef balloon is filling, and it may eipiode. Seme!of my young friends, will;; excuse me,, if,, X disappoint any expedatipns they may have had of an explosion, but X , always sit down when X have none, and, f having done ndw I resume my seat;”- i -' Arthur,: , ■•’
An anecdote is' told of a gentlemanin ■ Momnou'hshire which exhibits the pride of '■{ ancestry in a striding point of view. Mia House was in suoti a state of dilapidation that,, , the proprietor was in danger of perishing under the ruins of the ancient mansion, which he venerated even in decay. A stranger ■twhom he accidentally met at the foot of the l ji akyrcid, made various inquiries respecting the country, the prospects, and the neighbour,;> mg houses, and, among others asked: “ Whose is this antique mansion before us f ‘‘ “That, sir, is Werehdoe, a very ancient house j for out of it came the Earls of Fem« r broke of the first line, the Earls of F«an- ?\ broke of the second line, the Lords .of i;( Herberts of Cherbury, the Herberts of Coldbrook, Hwasey, Cardiff, and i bra, the Morgans of Aoton, the Earls of Huusdou, the ' 1 houses, of Ircrowm, and Lanark j and all ttv k r Powells. Out of this house also by , th) r| female lice, came the Duke of Leauiort. ’ “And pray, sir, who lives there now ?” - do, sir." “Then pardon me, and accept i piece of advice ; Coma out of it yourself, or you'il boos bo buried ia the ruins of it. t
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Western Star, Issue 1077, 30 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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819SCRAPS. Western Star, Issue 1077, 30 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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