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Dunstan Times, Issue 798, 3 August 1877, Page 3

A lover has been pithily described as a man who in his anxiety to gain possession of another, has lost possession of himself. A New York editor says sugar has gttn up so high as to produce a slight increase in the price of sand. If a poor fellow is unfortunate in all his undertakings, no matter how soon ho goes to the undertaker. “ I came off with flying colors,” as the painter said when he fell from the ladder, with a palette on his thumb. The difference between war and peace has been well defined by one of the ancients : “In time of peace the Sons bury their fathers ; in time of war the fathers bury their sons.” It was an Irish pilot who, being asked if ho knew the rocks in the harbour, replied with confidence—“l do, yer honour, ivory wan av them. That’s wan,” ho added calmly, as the ship struck it, tilled, and sunk. Many people take newspapers, hut very few preserve them ; yet the most interesting reading imaginable is a file of newspa'•fptrs. It brings up the very age, with all •the hustle and every-day affairs, and marks its genius and its spirit more than the most labored description of the historian. 'Who can take up a paper dated half a century ago, without the thought that almost every hamo printed is now cut upon a tombstone, at the head of an epitaph ? The doctor (cprack or regular) that there advertises his medicines and their cures, has followed the sable train of his patients : the merchant who could insure ships, could get no security on his life ; and the actor, who could make others laugh and weep, can now only furnish a skull for a successor in Hamlet. It is easy to preserve newspapers, and they will repay the trouble ; for, like that of wine, their value increases with their years, and old files have been sold at exorbitant prices.