Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-09-08
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THE COUNTRY


Would you be strongs 60 follow up the pillow;
Would you be tho lghtful study fields and flowers
Would you be wise take yourself VOW,
To 90 TO scip,ol in natures sunny bowers.
Fly from the city nothing there CHARM
Seek wisdom, strength, and virtue farm.
HINTS TO You've MEN-Always have book
within your reach, which you may catch up at
your odd minutes. Resolve TO read little every
day, if it be but single sentence. Ii you read
fifteen minutes day. it will be felt at the end OF
the year. Regulate your thoughts when not at
study A man is thinking even while at work
Why may he not think about something that is
useful 2 Revolve IN your mind what you have last
been reading.
ISTEMrERAScE-It is fact would not avow
were not substantiated and well sustained by the
records laid before Parliament that eUeyy nsi;a-
stes, in England and Wales being fails a VIC
tim 10 the habit of intoxication, and goes TO rem
der an account at the bar of Sod for suicide
Dr. CoSoUEsT.
Father Matthew stated at public meeting in
Cork that not single teetotaer had fallen VIC
tim either to the famine in Ireland to the fever
SO extensively connected with It,
Coon ToAsr-The Temperance .4ruly The
only army known where each volunteer is a
Regular, and every private Orderly. May it
soon become the army of occupation throughout
the world.
Itwas a maxim among the Jews " that he that
did not bring up his son to some honest calling,
brought him up to be thief
Washington was once dining with several of his
officers, when of them uttered an oath. He
instantly dropped his knife and fork and in deep
tone, with characteristic dignity and earnestness
said /" thought we all regarded ourselves as gen
tlemenln
EARLY RIsING.-It is useless to rise with the
lark, if rise not with her towards heaven.
Life speeds away
From point to point though seeming to stand still
The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;
Too subtle is the movement to be seen
Yet soon mans hour is up, and he is gone.
You've.
BEST PREsERyATIvE-When young man has
love of reading. and of course heaithful relish
for intellectual pleasures, he has become possessed
OF of the best preservatves against dissipation
TIGHT LAcING-A learned doctor, referring to
fight acing, AYERS that it is public benefit il
kills all the foolish girls, and leaves the wise ones
TO grow TO be women
The following simple and beautiful epitaph is
inscribed upon the tombstone of an infant:
1t sparkled, was exhaled, and went to Heaven"
BEAuTIFUL--A deaf and dumb girl being asked
what were her ideas of forgiveness, took pencil
and wrote =" 1t is the odor that flowers yield
when uampled upon"
WEALrH-The sum which gives content
whether one dollar or a million.
A glutton of a fellow was dining at hotel, not
a thousand miles from Boston, who in the course
of the battle of knives and forks, accidentally cut
his mouth which was perceived by Yankee Joker,
sitting near who brayvled out Il say friend don't
make that hole inyour countenance any larger for
heavens sake, for if you do, the rest of us will
starve to death!'
AN INNOCENT RErLY-A negro while under
going examination at Northampton, Mass. was
asked if his master a Christian, replied, No
sir, he's a member of Congress-