-A Literary Curiosity.) Why all

this'/toll for triumphs of an hour ?—

Young* Life^B .a short summer, man is

but a flower.— Dr.. Johnson. By turns we

catch the fatal breaths and die, — Pope.

The cradle and the, tomb, alas 4 how

nigh.— Prior. To be is better than not

to be.— So wall. Though all man's life

may seom a tragedy.— Spencer, But light

cares speak -when mighty griefs are dumb

; — Daniel. Tho bottom is' but shallow

whence they come.— Sir Walter Raleigh.

Thy, fate is but the common fate, of

'all,— Longfellow. . Unmingled joys here

to no man befall ;— Southwell. Nature to

each allots his proper _ sphere.—

Congreve. Fortune makes folly her

peculiar care —Churchill. Custom does

often reason overrule,— Rochester. And

throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. —

Armstrong. Live well ; how long or short

permits to heaven.— Milton. They who

forgive most shall be most forgiven. —

JJailey. Soar not to high to fail, but

stoop to rise ; — Mnfisinger. We

irp«!ers .grow of all that we despide.—

Crowley.Oh, Oh, then, renounce that

unpious self esteem. — Beattie. wishes

have wings and grandure is a dr. am, —

Cowpor. jiiiiik. not ambition -wise

because 'tis breve, — Covenant. The

paths of situ? -kr.* but to the gif.ve.

— Gray. V/LiK'r f\ll . fie gaudy glitter

of a . crown ? — Prj'den. . 3 way to

bliss lies not on beds of down. —

Quarles. Ivvr7 long -we live, i^t years

but actions tell ;— Wrjtl'ins. The man

lives twice who lives the first life

well.— Hcrrick Thv, trust that':, given,

Ruard, and to yourself be just, — Dana.

For live now how we ony, yet *k. we

must.— Sltakeapeare. Copied from

'Everybody1:; Book of Jokes,' by H. G.

Morrison.