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Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 131, 12 January 1877, Page 7

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Physic, for the; most part, is but a substitute for exercise or temperance. Love grows befit among troubles, as trees are/best transplanted ih = cloudy weather. A:* ''■ ■ ■ ! * * -

An avaricious man is like a, sand v desert, that sucks in all the rain, but yields no ! fruitful herbs to the inhabitants.

It is as easy to deceive ourselves without our perceiving it, as it is difficult : to deceive others without their perceiving it.

A Word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain; While witty savings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping frotn a broken siring.

One is much less sensible of cold on a bright day -than on a cloudy one 5 thus the sunshine of cheerfulness arid hope will lighten every trouble. Always speak the truth, but speak it in a pleasing manner. Truth is the picture j the manner is the frame that displays it to advantage.: Four Good Rules.-— First— do all the good you can a, second — in all the ways you can ; third — to ali the people, you can ', and fourth— just as long as you

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Great wealth in a Woman tends to keep at a distance both the proud and the humble, leaving the unhappy bait to be snapped at by the hardy and the greedy. He that sympathises in all the happiness of others enjoys the safest happiness, and he. that is warned by all the folly of others has attained the soundest wisdom.

A man who is not able to make a bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day. Marriages are often called "matches'*; yet, of all those who are married, how few are matched ! Tempers, tastes, and dispositions should be well studied before marriage. Thinkers are scare as gold ; but he whose thought embraces all his subject, pursues it uninterruptedly, and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.-- La va ter. There is nothing by which you can do so much good to the country and your race as by disseminating, amongst the men with whom you live, intellectual enjoyment. Prosperity too often has tho same effect on a Christian that a calm sea has on a Dutch mariner, who frequently, it is said, in these circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep— Bishnp Home. An old Fable — " The grasshopper came unto the aunts, aud demanded part of their come, k whereupon they did aske, what he had done in the sommer, and he said he had sungj and they sayde, if you sing in the somther, then daunce in the winter." , „ Those persons who do most good are least conscious of it. Thc> man who has bufc a single virtue of charity is very much like the hen that has but one chicken. That solitary chicken calls forth an amount of clucking and scratching that a whole brood seldom causes. Patched Garments.-— To tha mind of an observer there is a great deal in the patched and mended garments of a poor man. They speak whole volumes of patient poverty. They tell of the unrepining md industrious wife, and of her long hours spent with the weary needle ; of the striving endurance of her who, with humble pride, would turn the best side outward. Never scorn the patched coat of a poor labourer ; for that labourer, may be, has one ai home who loves him ; and that is more, alas I than many a rich man has. We like the story of the little boy, when interrogated as to what he said when people asked him what his folks had for dinner, what they were doing, etc, replied, " I say ' I think it is time to go !' " There ls a lesson of deep significance in this, which all gossips will do well to take to heart. When they begin to criticise and pry into the affairs of their neighbours, it is always ** time to go"; and people who ask im**pertinent questions about others should be reminded of the fact that it is " time

to go." Rainy Days. — It is curious how differently people are affected by a rainy day. There are your cat-sort, who at sight of the first drop cower in the snuggest, Warmest corner, and ask nothing but to bs culled in a heap till the sun shines out, be it two months or two days. The life in them seems quite suspended, or at least they desire but a blinking view ofit till the clouds scatter. I have no sympathy with that class. The fiercer the storm of hail, rain, or snow, the fiercer my desire to start out. and brave it. The heavy drops, and I driving wind stir my pulse like a trum-pet-call. I long to go out and wrestle with- them} though umbrellas turn inside out, and stockings and bonnet dye in the struggle, I would not exchange the delicious glow that comes. of it for all the unwrecked millinery in the possession of .the sunshine devotees. But the climax of my felicity is reached of a storm^eVeningy ivhen,: dispensing -with an umbrella, I let the pelting -drops cool my forehead ;, when T splash through the; deep puddles in indiarubber goloshes; and iitn-— li&e a man-^—in^e-pendent of the elements* ; instlpad.;of ; a' miserable, ribbon-fettered female,shrinking like a canary from spoiling its fine feathers.— Fanny Fern;: _ /