Part 77 (2/2)

1071

SCOTCH STUDENT AS LAMPLIGHTER

Many hardshi+ps endured by students attending university or college in Scotland have been brought to light froe so his spare hours in a neighboring burgh He had no other inco, extinguishi+ng and cleaning the burgh lae fees and kept himself fairly respectable On one occasion he applied for an increase of wages, and was called before the committee

One of the bailies re ht find so his ti The application for an increase was refused Onewhen the town clerk read a letter fronation, as he had passed his final exaos_

1072

Ah! hoeet it is to reo

1073

ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE

Talking of the origin of language,--_Johnson_: ”It must have come by inspiration A thousand, nay, a ans are pliable, there is not understanding enough to forh, the organs are becoe we cannot learn to pronounce a new language No foreigner who colish tolerably well; at least such instances are very rare When I e must have come by inspiration, I do not mean that inspiration is required for rhetoric, and all the beauties of language; for when once radually form modifications of it I ive man the faculty of speech; to inform him that he may have speech; which I think he could no s would think of such a faculty”

--_Boswell's Life of Johnson_

1074

_Laughter_--To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to men before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity

--_Pliny, the Elder_

1075

A good laugh is sunshi+ne in a house

--_Thackeray_

1076

John Dryden said,--”It is a good thing to laugh, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness, and of health”

1077

He who laughs overar laugh and seldoh