Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1849-07-11


been constantly prevalent during the
existence Of the cholera among US, has
long been the subject Of notice among
eminent naturaiists. There seems to be
something peculiar in its character. Good
calculations cannot be made,
when the wind is east. Nervous people
complain of headaches, imperfect sleep,
and horrifyng dreams, from a similar
cause. Some have supposed that the east
and west winds produce different kinds Of
electricity, in their motions over the earth. |
Do the telegraphic operators find them
selves in any way dependant upon any
particular state Of the wind?-[N.Y. Post.
Minor .uorais for Married People,
''The last word" is the most dangerous of
Internal machines. Husband and wife |
should no more fight to get it than they
whould struggle for the possession Of a
lighted bombshell.
The wife is the sun of the social system.
Unless she attracts, there is nothing to
keep heavy bodies, like husbands, from
flying on into space.
The wife who would properly discharge
her duties, must never have soul s'above
buttons"
The liberties Of England have been won
by mutual concessions. Let the husband
who would acquire the privilege Of ask
ing friends to dinner without notice, re-
member this when his wife hints at
new bonnet. The wife's want is the hus-
bands opportunity.
Lore.-Loue is the weapon which ON
impotence reserved to conquer rebel men,
when all the rest had failed. Reason he
parties, fear he answers blow for blow,
future interests he meets with present
pleasure;b but love, that sun against whose
melting beams winter cannot stand, that
soft, subduing slnmber, which wrestles
down the giant: there is no one human
being in million whose clay heart is
hardened againstlove.-Tupper.
1.-the administration which has emo
friends to reward and no enemies to pun
ish," has removed General Pitcher, mail
agent at Louisville, and appointed Charles
Russell in his place. The General is a
Democrat and voted for Cass. He has
expiated his. crime by the loss Of his head.
.daothcr Pronunciamenio.- reply to
the accusations brought against him in the
Mexican Congress by one of the Repre-
sentatives Senior Gambia Anna
has recently Illuminated from his retreat,
in Kingston, Jamaica, volume Of three
hundred pages. The Mexican people are
all great upon pronunciamentoes. lfthey
were half as good at fighting, our armies
might have suffered more while in their
country.
"The newspaper may be destroyed at
night; it may light cigar or may curl
lady's hair; but the thoughts that are in
its columns may influence ten thousand for |
good, and produce effects which volumes
Of essays, sermons or narratives, could
never effect, and especially where they
could never reach"
The above paragraph, from the U. S.
Gazette, is copied into the Philadelphia
Journal, and the bachelor editor of the
latter paper, overcome by his feelings,
bursts forth into the following
1.-THE very thought Of ones lucubrations
nesting down at night among the ringlets
Of sweet girl, keeping watch over the
midnight slumbers, as well as curling her |
hair, is enough to infuse poetry into the |
pen and make the traces along the sheet |
frantic with sentiment"
a5By the way we are sorry to learn |
that Gen. Taylor's plantation is entirely |
covered with water, and abandoned by his |
overseers and slaves. Wing Paper.
TWhich?, The one in Washington,
or the one in Mississippi
Free Soil Men Look OUT - Heads Off,
Royal H. Rollins, imported from Canada
line since the l4th of March, ha. been
appointed Postmaster at STAFFORD, VT, in
The place Of William Hatch Sanborn, Free
Soil, removed. Vermont Gazette.
E+The Boston Post is always ready
with pun. Even the great apostle Of
temperance does not escape its With
; isms. 1t says;
As Father Matthew was positively to
rail for this country on the 2lst ult. ,hesis
now, for the first time in his life, half
Ieos-ouer.
Coquetry is the daughter of gaiety and
he mother Of modification.
She is the daughter Of folly and the
mother of heartlessness.
An Irishman, swearing the peace against
liz three cons, thus concluded-'The only |
me Of my children who shows any real
ilial affection, is my youngest son, Larry
for he never strikes me when I'm do.cn.'
WHY does the cook mako more noise
han the bell?
Because one makes 1in, but the other
dinner.
WHY is woman in love like man Of
,Yofound knowledge?
Because she understands the 'crts and |
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