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"What colored frame will you have, ma'am?" inquired a snopman of a lady who had called to have her prospective husband's picture framed. Well, you ought to know more about it than I," was the lady's reply. "I want a frame that will match the picture." "Oh, of course, ma'am," said the dealer, selecting one from the large assortment. "How would a green one do?" That man has never discovered to this day why that woman got out so quickly, leaving the door on a wide jar.

A clerk at Castle Garden who had been reading the debate on the anti-Chinese bill and just finished Senator Edmunds' remarks about the necessity of homogeneity among the people of the Republic, glanced up at an Irish emigrant who was leaning against the desk and soberly asked: "Pat, are you homogeneous?" "Nivir a bit," said Pat; "I'm a Corkonian."

"Ah!" he exclaimed, as he pressed her tenderly to him at parting. "Shall I hold you in these arms again to-morrow and paint our future with the bright pigments of the imagination." "No," she said, calmly, “Not to-morrow. To morrow's washday."

A gentleman, who had listened attentively to a long, diffuse and highly ornamented prayer, was asked, by one of the members, if he did not think their minister was very gifted in prayer. "Yes," he replied, "I think it as good a prayer as was ever offered to a congregation."

Curious phenomenon: When a man's chestnut curls begin to turn gray it means that he is fifty years old; but when they begin to turn black--that means that he is sixty.

SUPPLEMENT TO

One Hundred Choice Selections, No. 19

CONTAINING

BENTIMENTS For Public Occasions;

WITTICISMS For Home Enjoyment;

LIFE THOUGHTS For Private Reflection;
FUNNY SAYINGS For Social Pastime, &c.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Dickens.

"Tis weary watching wave by wave,
And yet the tide heaves onward,
We climb like corals, grave by grave,
And pave a path that's onward;
We're beaten back in many a fray,
But newer strength we borrow,

And where the vanguard camps to-day,
The rear shall rest to-morrow.

Gerald Massey.

No way has been found for making heroism easy even for the scholar. Labor, iron labor, is for him. The world was created as an audience for him; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Emerson.

Anon the great globe itself (so the holy writings tell,) With the rolling firmament, where the starry armies dwell, Shall melt with fervent heat-they all shall pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye. Bryant.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, and the other to be buried.

Give no more to every guest
Than he's able to digest;

Colton.

Give him always of the prime,
And but little at a time.

Swift.

Bad men or devils would not have written the Bible, for it would have condemned them and their works,-good men or angels could not have written it, for in saying it was from God when it was but their own invention, they would have been guilty of falsehood, and thus could not have been good. The only remaining being who could have written it, is God -its real author.

Man, proud man!

Dressed in a little brief authority,

Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.

Shakspeare.

It is an easy thing for him who has no pain, to talk of pa

tience.

Yet as the stars, the holy stars of night,

Shine out when all is dark,

Tourneur.

So would I, cheered by hopes more purely bright,
Tread still the thorny path, whose close is light;
If but at last, the tossed and weary bark,
Gains the sure haven of her final rest.

Lucy Hooper.

Give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man and he will increase in learning.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear;
A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear.

Bible.

Pope.

For drunkenness, drink cold water; for health, rise early; to be happy, be honest; to please all, mind your own busi

ness.

Blest power of sunshine!-genial Day,
What balm, what life is in thy ray!
To feel thee is such real bliss,
That had the world no joy but this,
To sit in sunshine calm and sweet,-

It were a world too exquisite
For man to leave it for the gloom,

The deep, cold shadow of the tomb.

Moore.

To pity distress is but human, to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann.

He that neglects a blessing, though he want
A present knowledge how to use,

Neglects himself.

Beaumont and Fletcher

If a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the

When the busy day is over,
And you rest at evening time,

Oh, how sweet sounds simple music,
Set to well-remembered rhyme.

Addison.

Couper.

god of ages. La Bruyere.

Grander strains might prove less cheering,

But a homely ballad seems

Sweet and simple, and endearing,

Calling back life's happiest dreams.

Our minds are as different as our faces; we are all traveling to one destination, Happiness; but few are going by the same road.

Happy the man, and happy he alone,

He who can call to-day his own:

Colton.

He who secure within can say,

To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.

Dryden.

Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks silence.

Fuller.

Man's life's a book of history;

His leaves thereof are days;

The letters, mercies closely joined;
The title is God's praise.

John Mason.

Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged.

Good night!

Slumber till the morning light!

Slumber till the dawn of day
Brings its troubles with its ray!

Sleep without or fear or fright!

Our Father wakes! Good night!

Good night!

The true grandeur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the true greatness of the individual.

Sumner.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Consider every hour

Of life, each moment, as an interval

On which eternal happiness depends.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

No stream from its source

Sir Win. Temple.

Flows seaward however so lonely its course,

Samuel Hayes.

Emerson.

But what some land is gladdened. No star ever rose
And set without influence somewhere. Who knows
What Earth needs from Earth's lowest creatures? No life
Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife,
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

Owen Meredith. Money and Time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

What custom wills, in all things should we do't,
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heaped
For truth to over-peer.

Johnson.

Shakspeare.

Your looking-glass will tell you what none of your friends will.

Woman, contented in silent repose,

Enjoys, in its beauty, life's flower as it blows,
And waters and tends it with innocent heart;
Far richer than man with his treasures of art,
And wiser by far, in her circle confined,
Than he with his science and flights of the mind.

Schiller.
Occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what
he is.
Thomas a Kempis.

Earth's highest station ends in "Here he lies," And "Dust to dust," concludes her noblest song. Young. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small. obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. Sir H. Davy.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold.

Pope