Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1879 — GRMS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

GRMS OF THOUGHT.

If we have nothing to spesk to edification, how n uch better to hold bur topgue! We see what a man has, and envy him: if we saw how little he enjoyed, W 6 should pity him. Newman: First shoot around corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism. Seneca: Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of ptocept is, therefore, slow mid tedious, while that of f-Tsmplm is summary and effectual. E. Temple: Were every dewdrop a diamond, every atom a world, and every world filled with gold, all would not satisfy the boundless desires of the immortal soul. R- W. Dale, D. D.: You have no more right to injure the national language than to clip a statue or to run a knife through a picture in the National Museum.

Children who drink tea and coffee, says Dr. Ferguson, of England, as a rule, only grow four pounds per annum between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, while those who drink milk night and morning grow fifteen pounds f*®b When diseases are prevalent in the neighborhood, children who use these drinks have less power to resist sickness than others.’ ' Lessing: The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any pretentions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves me and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper, and stead test as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, theprofoundest thinker.