ODDS AND ENDS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 132, 26 March 1879, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

Two sable philosophers took shelter under the same tree during a heavy shower. After some time one of them complained that lie felt the rain. “ Ncber mind,” replied the other, “ dere’s plenty of trees ; when dis un is wet through, we’ll go to de oder.” As the State road train came into Atlanta recently, a negro was very busy eating watermelon at the stand on Whitehall crossing, and the approaching train, with ito-glaring head-light, struck him and landed him some rods out in the As he picked himself up he oxclaimeu, “Who swung that lamp ? who frowed that brick ?” The locomotive was but slightly injured. Those who depend on the merits of then' ancestors search in the roots of the tree for fruits which the branches should produce. Take life easy, and don’t be trying to beat the sun up. You may win for a while, but in the long run you are sure to be beaten ; and some morning it will rise when you don’t. The world may profess to despise money, but a brute who has it receives more honor than a good man without it. Wealth is thus the “missing link” that joins respect to the disrespectable. Man starts in a state of rude simplicity, knowing nothing of the conditions which surround him. Ho has to learn that the earth is not a plain ; that the stars arc not mere points of life, set at intervals in the vast region of space; that the atmosphere is a fluid ; and that he walks at the bottom of a sea of air.