Widespread Sorrow.
Man’s inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
—Burns.
Jealousy.
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmation strong
As proofs of holy writ.—Shakespeare.
A Bargain Hunter.—It is told of a gentleman that he had a passion for the purchase of second-hand furniture at auctions, and that in making “good bargains” he had filled his house with antiquated and almost useless articles. Upon one occasion, his wife took the responsibility, without consulting or apprising her husband, to have a portion of the least useful removed to an auction-room. Great was her dismay when, on the evening of the day of sale, the majority of the articles came back to the house. The husband had stumbled into the auction-room, and, not knowing his own furniture, had purchased it at better bargains than at first.
Constant Companions.—Hypocrisy and cunning travel together, and they cannot get very far separately.