The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-11-23
THUR SDAY MORNING, NOV. %.

DELIGHTS OF WlNTER.-Old Winter has
been blowing round US for sometime, scatter
ing the few remaining leaves that Autumn had
left on the trees, and making the woods look
drear and lonely. And yet we hail the sea-
son with delight. Jack Frost has cleansed
the atmosphere of the malaria with which the
heat of Summer had impregnated 1t, making
us feel that the lease of life has been extend
ed another year at least. At this season not
only is trade stimulated i'm its various channels
and the whole face of nature looks stern and
invigorating, but the enioyments of the domes-
tic ciicle receive new impulse. Winter
nights, should be devoted to reading. to the
improvements of our minds, and 10 an exami-
nation of our affairs. Much valuable inform
alton may be gathered from good newspaper,
and such as have not already provided them
selves with this source of amusement and in
stIuction for their winter evenings we recon-
mend that they do so at once.
From an exchange paper, we copy the fol.
lowing pleasant remarks:
With ourselves, winter has its pleasure-its
soul-satisfying enjoyments. We begin TO look
over our books, &c, which through the sum-
mer months have lain unopened on our shelves
now we are driven to look within; and as
there is little TO cheer us out Of doors, We stir
our solitary fire and renew the valued acquain-
tance with .'the good, the great, and the wise
of olden time with nothns t. break the silence
OF our chamber. save the undisturbed chirp of
The cricket,
Then, who is there, who does not like to
stir the fire? What host of speaking re1ec-
tioas rush upon ones NE mory, while seated in
an easy eIbow or rocking chair, before glow
ing coal FIRE. These. are moments Of bliss in
which none but The most agreeable occurrences
of our lives dare inirude themselves upon the
mind; in which the airy deans of our youth
present themselves before us in the same
bright colors and with the same magic infiu-
-ence that they possessed in former days.
The head is never SO full of ideas, the imagi-
nation is nerex so fertile, as while enjoying
the comforts OF cheerful hearth A philoso-
pher seated by his fire. side observed the nd OF
a teapot to rise up after being closed, and this
simple circumstance, causing him TO reflect
upon the force.of the eva poratio from boiling
water, enabled him to discover the steam en-
,gine. Montgoiier, in all probability. conceived
the idea of COMPRISING smoke, and of giving
it form, from seeing piece of burnt paper
carried up the chimney by the force of that
smoke whilst stirring his fire; and hence, per-
haps the discovery OF the balloon.
Kings have yielded TO the delights Of the
fire-side, and we are told Of celebrated king
of France, having had serious dispute with
his confessor concerning which OF them should
hold the tongs.
Then, while We can have COED fire, and
plenty of coalto replenish it, let us envy no
mans station in life, be it ever so exalted for
though his pleasures may be more varied than
ours, tie cannot boast Of enjoying any superior
10 that of sitting, on winters evening, BY a
bright and glowing FIRE.