MISCELLANEOUS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 4, 4 June 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

If you would be loved as a companion, avoid unnecessary criticism upon those with whom you live, Man is au auimal formed for and delighting in society ; for in this state alone bis various talent can be exerted, his numberless necessities relieved, and many of the pleasure he eagerly affects enjoyed. By industry, honesty, economy, and perseverance, one can make progress even in a stationery business. An Arkanas editor says, “ There will be five eclipses this year—two of the sun, two of the moon, and one of our political opponents.” Why are Indian servants called coolies? Probably because their principal duty is to fan their masters in the heat of the day. A “medium" in London was caught up by spirits, carried half a mile, and taken through a wall into a dining-room. She says she can hardly credit what happened. Neither can the public. A little girl, who has been much exercised in mind in regard to steam-boiler explosions, has hit upon a sure plan for preventing them in future ; to wit, “ Fill the bottle with iced water, aud set it in a cool place.” It is a deplorable condition to be always doing what we are always condemning. The reproaches of others are painful enough. But when the lash is laid on by our own hand, the anguish is intolerable. We dislike forward prettiness. How beautiful are retired flowers 1 How would they lose their beauty were they to throng- into the highway, crying out, “Admire me, I am a violet 1” “ Doate upon me, I am a primrose !” Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal ; but cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment must pass array; It is in vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask, of God’s forgiveness on your own behalf if you refuse to exercise His forgiving temper with respect for others. The desire of power in excess caused angels to fall ; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall ; but in charity is no excess, neither can man nor angels come into danger by it. At a marriage lately, in New York, the bride’s voice faltered, and she paused in the midst of the impressive ceremony. Her little niece, a bright little three-year-old, thinking the naughty minister was compelling poor aunty to say something disagreeable, stamped* her little foot, and exclaimed, in a tone of authority, “Auntie, dont’t oo thay it.” A fashionable mother’s advice to a newlymarried daughter : “ Do not get in the habit of taking your husband with you to evening parties. Nothing is so stupid as a husband at a party, nor so everlastingly in the way.” A bookbinder said to his wife at the wedding, “It seems that now we are bound together, two volumes in one, with clasps.” “Yes,” observed one of the guests, “one side highly ornamental Turkey morocco, aud the other side plain calf.” As a wife was holding her husband’s aching head in her hands one morning, she asked, “ Are a man aud his wife one?” “ I suppose so,” said the husband. “ Then,” rejoined the wife, “ I came home drunk last night, and ought to be ashamed of myself,” You see some people utterly unable to fit themselves in the shape belonging to a change of circumstances. Say they have been wealthy, well appointed, and all the rest of it ; losses come, and they arc plucked bare ; but never can the poor, shivering creature forget the time when she flourished about in a peacock’s train and eagle’s plumes—never submit her soul to the homely hodden gray, which is all a turncoat fortune has left her. There is no such thing as forgetting possible to the mind ; a thousand accidents may and will interpose a veil between our present consciousness aud the secret inscription on the mind . accident of the same sort may also rend away this veil ; but alike, whether veiled or unveiled, the inscription remains for ever ; just as the stars seem to withdraw before the common light of day, whereas, in fact, we all know that{| it is the light which is drawn over them as a veil, and that they are waiting to be revealed when the obscuring daylight shall be withdrawn. Au Irishman being annoyed by a bowling dog in the night, jumped out of bed to dislodge the offender. It was in the month of January, when the snow was three feet deep. He not returning, his wife ran out to sec what was the matter. There she found her husband in his night suit, his teeth chattering, aud his whole body almost paralysed with cold, holding the struggling dog by the tail. “ Arrah, Pat !” said she, “ what wud yc be afther doin ?”. “ Hush,” said he; “ don’t ye see? I’m thrying to fraze the baste !” An English snob, who was walking up and down the terrace of an hotel in a Western village, turning up his nose at everything, said to a farmer, who happened to cross his path, “That was a hawful peal of thunder you ’ad ’ere last night.” “ Well, yes, ’’ replied the Westerner, taking in the Englishman’s style at a glance, “we did think it pretty well, considering that our town’s only three years old, and has but eighteen hundred inhabitants.”