TRITE SAYINGS OF NOTED MEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1911, 4 October 1884, Page 4

TRITE SAYINGS OF NOTED MEN.

" Till', more I see of men, the more I low tings " — John Randolph. " Tin 1 ljcsfc of .ill w ays to lengthen our ilnjH is to ntcal a few hours fiom the nL'lifc. — "lorn Moore. " I would rather be liuht than be Piosiricnt." — Henry Hay. " ITc who in another's quarrel iloth intciposi 1 , doth often wipe a bloody nos>e." — Samuel Butler. "Thoi.mk is but the <>.iinea >.tarnp — A ni.uiV the goud for a' that." — Robert Burns. " Save mo from my tncnds, and I'll protect myself from my enemies. " —John R.mc'oldp. " Life is a gamp w> all have to play. The wise cn]oy it, fools grow sick of it ; loseis, we find, have the stakes to pay : winners laugh, for that's the trick of it." — Joe Grimaldi. " The pleasure of living is in loving.' 1 Rochefoucauld. "Oil, they lovo least that let men know they love." Shakespeare. " Of all the piths lcartins to woman's love, pity is the straightest."— Fletcher. " Love uiulcrstaudij love ; it needs no talk." —Longfellow. '• No coul or cable can draw &o forcibly 01 binds so last as love can do with only ,i single tin cad." — Bacon.

11l sky (tI-oik.l began life as a printer; latoi ho l)co."nne a sailor, tlicn a lepoiter on the Saeiamonto Reconl, then owner of tin* iSiiu Kianeiseo Post, and aftci wards a lectuier. He is foity-fivc years of age. His wife is of Irish parentage and Australian by biitli. Wm.s Van A'.nbnvg's civcvis was in Bellvilk, Oluo, thiiteen ycais ago, the tent was blown down m a squall, and about 40 poisons injured. The other day Van Ambuiß visited Bellville again with Ins show, and advcitised that he would issue fico tickets to those injured in the blow down of tliiitcen years bcfoie ; hut, alas! for the merciless ravages of tune, at whose breath prince and pan pci wither and pass away, only 'MO of the 40 survived to apply for the compliment, u ies Hmiol' II \ni-n piesided over the Texas ConfcM'iiee in IS7S One day lie scoied some of the eoloied iiitnistcis on to a feeble icco_'i)itiou o| meiun .mil tuuin, and then called on a coloied hi other to pi ay, who lesponded thus : "0 Loid, dou am honest, gicat, an' holy ; nottmg dat am unclean an' dishonest can touch de. 'J Loid, come and teach .ill classes an' eolois de lesion ob honesty ; make uin holiest wid dale tonguts, date feet,, d.ne linns, an' daie heads. 0 Loid, make inn lionest inside an' out, in de daik and in de light 0 Loid, sweet Babe ot Bethlehem, come and bioss out Bishop ; fiont and light his cbiy battle ; send liim threw dh woi ld like a pigeon on de wings ob de eagle, an' w lien de i.ue am mil, and de last battle us fought wid dat ole etpi nt, de debhil, and dar am no moie fot lum to do i:i di-. woilil, let him mount do chau lot an liah a shot t lide home; and den Loid, on de plains ol> gloiy, linnMjlt all coveied wid gloiy let him giouml liis aims neai de tin one o!) de Land), and lib, and lest, and shout for ebei and cbei." A r L a ceitain tadway tcimmus in Kng- | land, wheie <tiiot tempeianee hid been imposed upon the employes, they ptopooed to ghe ii moi.il lesson to a local Lelcl)iity, wlio came into the oflice, sat down while in a had way fiom old poit, and went to sleep. They caiefully took him down stalls, put him in the coal ccllat and linked the door. In two or tlnce hums he woke up, and was heaid tumbling about among the coals. Then tin lislenei s heaid him enquire " 'What am I To tlii.s one ot them ictuined an nihnci in a sepuhJn.il tone. "Dead"' 1 Altei i pause the gentleman, who had evidently not lost his wit->, niquiied — '".vie you de id too '" The man outside the ceilai dooi, in .-till moie vpulchial| tones, u joined — '"lain." After anothei pause L.uue tlic iuqun y — " How long have jou been dead ?' The stpulelnal one re■joined — " SK months." To tlie honoi of the listeni is the gentleman in the cellar assumed an ail of quiet contentment, and asked in eheeiy and comtoitable tones — " Well, as you have been longer heic than I ha\e. cxn jou tell me wheie I cm get a little hue old poi t ?" A .SIMITjI CIIDLI- X V I'IiI'.VI.NTIVI . — A simple method lot the piesontion of eholeia is pointed out in a lcttei of M Kl.ilAo to the Fiench author, M. Pail li'ion He says- "Uahciais lich in petioleum spiir.gs. It ha.s been noted that distucts in which these spi ings are frequent aie nevei visited by choleia, furiously as the disease may lage in the suiioundmg neighbourhood. The inhabitants ascnbc this to their belief that the ovapoialion of petroleum kills the 1 annual ' They point out that it kills ■ill lii-ci fes, and tlu'ie aie indeed neither Hits, l!ia\ noi ui\ Kind of mints, seen in those p. i its It might, theiefure. he wise t-> ti \ an e\|n'i nneiit with the evapo i.itiou ot petiolcum in its natuial in iJiolua hospitals. I would ask you to uommunicat" tins olisei \ ation, in winch .sevcial h lends ot mine cousin with me, to si'U'iitihc men, and especially to M. I'astt m. ' 'J'iii Ti'kks ami Tin, TiJiKJinrir — 'J'lie Tuikish (<'o\ cuuncnt exiicises a \ciy wide disciction as- to what may and w hut may not he uispatched or ie coned pel t legiaph whe in its dominions. Thus, the Times' coriespondtnt .it Constantinople states that " l'"oi sonic mouLlis past any telegram containing dneet oi nnlnect reieience toKg\ptian allans has ljv.en consideied objcLtioiial'le, and c\ en the Queen's Speech at the opening of Pailiainent was supposed loi that lc.isou. At picsont this op|)ie-,sivo kind of ccnsuio c.n be patiently boi ne. bccuisu news p.ipeisand li.tteis .up iccened thiougli Jouigii ollices, and telegiams can lie easily be sent tliiough the same channels to sonic telegiapli olh'.e beyond the fiontiei. But it the postal coinnnnm.ition tails into the hands of the Tuikish authoiities, tins means of softening the ngoi.s of the piu-ont absurd system will be destioyed, and foieigneis in Tin key may ))e condemned to isolation almost as complete as if they lived in Onttal Afiica. The Talks aie e\idently of one mind with the Boer, whoso opinion was that telegraphs were a nuisance. If the news weie worth having, he opined that it would keep, and it bad he thought it had bettor not come at all.

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