MISCELLANEOUS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 22, 25 June 1874, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Talent, like beauty, to be admired, must be unostentatious. Those who live on the failings of their neighbours will never die of starvation. Envy is an insult to man’s good sense, for it is the pain we feel at the excellences of others. Love is woman’s teacher, developer, guardian. It sheds light upon her past, as well as her future. Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions of things which ruin us. A wise man, being asked how old he was, replied, “I am in health;” and being asked how rich he was, said, “ I am not in debt.” It is with littlc-soulcd people as it is with narrow-necked bottles —the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. Good sense and even propriety require manners to change according to ages. Puerility is an old man is a ridiculous as pretension to accomplished manners in a child. The-'child asks, “ Mamma, why don’t I like the story as well as when you told it to me yesterday ?” Alas, child, it is even so with the oldest votaries of knowledge. We admire wit as we do the wind. When it shakes the tree, it is fine; when it cools the wave, it is refreshing ; when it steals over the flowers, it is enchanting ; but when it whistles through the key-hole, it is unpleasant. A poet who wrote the flaming poem on martyrdom, in which occurred the line—- “ See the pale martyr in his sheet of fire.” was cut to the heart when he saw it come out in the village paper—--11 See the tall martyr with his shirt on fire.” Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome, and like deep digging for pure waters ; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you. There are three degrees of folly—to censure actions from which we are not exempt ; to discover faults in others, which wo are prone to overlook in ourselves ; to solicit a useless favor. At an exhibition of amateur theatricals, when the Richard 111. of the evening cried, “A horse! ahorse! My kingdom for a horse ! ” a would-be wag cried out," Wouldn’t a jackass do just as well/” “Certainly, responded the actor ; “ please step up here immediately.” The interrupter hastily retired. It is proposed to place in. the holds of vessels whose cargoes are liable to spontaneous combustion, boxes filled with limestone dust, into which pipes can convey dilute sulphuric acid. The carbonic acid gas set free, being heavier than air, can easily be retained in the hold of the vessel. Mrs Hill, a widow sixty-five years of age has just received from a Derby jury the sum of £SO, as a solatium for her blighted affections in the nonfufilment of a promise of marriage by a gay widower, one Mr Wild, who was stated to be seventy years of age. Mrs Hill was defendant’s first love,” but their courtship bore out the axiom, “There’s many a slip,” &c. However, the day after the burial of the plaintiff’s second husband the old affection revived on the part of Mr Wild, who again offered her marriage, was accepted, but eventually jilted her once more, and has had to pay for his folly.