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Show WORDS OF WISE MEN He Is the freeman whom the truth makes free. Cowper. To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent Seneca. ' Tou should forgive many things In others, but nothing in yourself. Au-sonlus. Au-sonlus. ' ' A docile disposition will, with application, ap-plication, surmount every difficulty. H.nnllui, No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend. Beaumont and Fletcher. ,. ' The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride. La Ilochefoucauld. It Is not the disease but neglect of the remedy which generally destroys life. From the Latin. Llgnt Is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make It beautiful. Emerson. It Is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first, because be-cause one cannot hold out that proportion. pro-portion. Bacon. ' j Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellowmen are the most confident of the truth of their own.--Macklntosli. i SCRAPS There Is more wood ; used today than ver before. The cormorant devours five tons of fish in a year. The Mississippi river sweeps 028,-000,000 028,-000,000 tons of suspended matter into the sea every year. All the Important varieties of wheat now cultivated can be traced back to the wild wheat that still grows on Mt Ilermon. Farmers are apt to blame blackbirds black-birds and owls for damage to crops really done by rats, says an ornltholo-gist ornltholo-gist Next to the United States, the country coun-try with the most automobiles an Inhabitant In-habitant is Hawaii, wltb eight people to each car. Millions of foreigners open and dose American doors as they go to and from their homes.' More than 2,000,000 were exported last year, abont 80 per cent going to Great Brltnln. , . ; The petrified skeleton of a frog which may have done Its jumping in the Eocene period was found at a depth of 355 feet by workmen sinking a shaft In the construction of San Francisco's aqueduct system. |