The Youth's Companion/July 19, 1860/Miscellaneous
It has been established by the courts, that the first stroke of the clock is the record of the hour. The mere labor of the remaining enumeration runs into the succeeding hour. The point was first brought up in Blackstone’s time in a great will case, where two persons had apparently died at the same time.
Have you ever seen a drunken man trying to make believe that he is sober? How ridiculous the spectacle! And yet more ridiculous still, is the attempt of an ignorant ill-bred person to appear very wise and refined in society.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices and 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.
Remember what a world of gossip would be prevented if it was only remembered that a person who tells you of the faults of others, intends to tell others of your faults.
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence: and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
He who follows his recreation instead of his business, will, in a little time, have no business to follow.
Of all the earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.