SCRAPS.

Western Star, Issue 1540, 28 February 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

SCRAPS.

Joy is like ague —one goo! day between two bad oues.

All actual heroes are es?ential men, and all men possible heroes. The wor k of a Stat', in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. Virtue is a kind of health, bem’y and good habit of soul. Sin is disease, deformity and weakness.

Belli are relies of paganism, having first been used ‘ to scare away devils, and to break the lightning.’

There are more quarrels smothers! by just shutting your mouth and holding it shut than by all the wisdom in the world. Mowers, according to Goethe, are the beautiful hieroglyphics of niture, wi h which she indicates how much she loves us.

To make plaster of Paris hard so that it will not break easily, mix it with from three to ton per cent, of powdered marsh-mallow-root.

The palm tree is the true emblem of a beautiful soul, with no rough bark or branches, but crowned with thick loaves and rich fruit. Without hard work and earnest purpose all that is best in the worli perishes. We cannot even have a proper game without earnestness.

With all the duplicity of this wicked world, fovv of us succeed in deceiving others so complot o’v as wo succeed, without effort, in deceiving ourselves.

‘I always,’ siys the mother of the grea, GoetV’, ‘seek out »hv is good in people a ul leave wl-at is bid to him who made mankind, and knows how to round off the an.-lea.’

< Mr L i ’ is the title by which the redskin is known llvo.ighout the United States and the Dominion of Canada —an appellation derived from Pope’s ‘ Lo, the poor Indian ! ’ Bv made, minds sn equal temper know, N,,r s wdl too high, nor sink too low j Warriors she fires with animated sounds, Pours balm into the bleeding lover’s wound. —Pope.

Life is too short to be wasted in petty worries, fret (in «•>, ha'ro.ls, and vexa-ions. Let us banish all those, and think on whatsoever things are pure and lovely and geutls and of good icport. Without discretion, learning is pedantry ami wit impel tin mcc ; virtue itself looks like woikness; the best parts only qualify a man to bo more sprightly in errors, and active; his own prejudice.