Puzzles and oddities

Found Floating on the Surface of our Current Literature,
TOSSED TO DRY LAND BY THE WAVES OF MEMORY.
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1876.
RUSSELL BROTHERS,
1876.
of St. Aloysius Gonzaga that while, at the usual time of recreation, he was engaged in playing chess, question arising among his brother novices as to what each would do were the assurance to come to them that they would die within an hour, St. Aloysius said he should go on with his game of chess.
If our recreations as well as our graver employments are undertaken with a pure intention, we need not reproach ourselves though Sorrow, we need not fear though Death surprise us while engaged in them.