Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — Chronic Lassitude. [ARTICLE]

Chronic Lassitude.

There are certain characteristics connected with a lazy man which are admirable. They excite in the twanging, jingling breasts of the nervously fidgety a feeling which borders on respect and is akin to awe. Your double-geared, fidgety man will spin all day like a top and run down in the cool of the evening on the identical spot on which he started off after breakfast. The man suffering from chronic lassitude will keep still, keep cool, keep in the shade, put in a full day’s work resting himself, and arrive on time at sundown, cool, calm, and collected, without having once sweat under the collar or laid a hair. The professional lazy man seems to eat, drink, and sleep with as muoh gusto as his fidgety brother with the high-pres-sure anatomy and patent double-cylin-der, fast, perfecting hyg.enic apparatus, who gets hot in the box, and wears and grinds and cuts his life away like a piece of misfit machinery. The fact of the business is, the man of bustle wears his life away for the want of the oil of rest. The lazy man just soaks along like a handful of cotton waste in the oil cup of a box-car axle.— Scientific American. Great humiliations rarely console us; we forget them. Sublime thoughts come from the souL To say new things is easier than to reoonoile those that have been said. Language and intellect have bounds. Truth is infinite. Avarice is the last and the most tyranical of passions.— Varvuenarges. Justice without power is impotent. Power without justice is tyrannical.— Pascal Reason should not regulate, but supplement virtue. — Vanvenarg ea.