Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-08-03
Picture Of Cairo Life.

overheard from nearly every boat,
while nearly every other boat runs O.
yer peddler's skiff-dumps the ped
dler and his skiffin the river. Steam
boat remains about five minutes;
taps bell quick and pushes out, leav-
ing forty barehead deckers on shore
looking for bread. These build fires
on bank, get drunk, fight, lie out of
nights, get sick and die.-Cairo,
therefore is very unhealthy and i'm
moral too.
Citizens live in rather unpretend
ing tenements, but have very good
liquor; eat green corn and catfish;
look fat and greasy; bet on elections;
don't care. copper for the balance
Of creation.
Gentlemen stopping tor a change
of beasts; amt used to the interesting
and playful bage yclept mosquitoes;
complain bitterly; smoke and fan
desperately but still get bit like the
devil; promenade our levee, laugh at
our little city; make remarks Mcy re-
gard very cute; poke fun at a chap
they think a "clam;" find they have
encountered a"snag," and soon leave,
fully convinced that nothing but an
alligator can begin to stand such a
country.
Laborers on railroad; good many
of 'em; sleep five in bed and drink
very harmoniously out of the same
jug. Use the shillala some, but most
ly over each others heads~-healthy
as a general thing-cause why, they
drink good liquor and plenty of it.
Upon the whole, think we have a
smart little village-one which we
will soon wipe away, however, to
give place to city to which Evans
vile will be eventually attached as
merely respectable suburbs.-Evans-
vile Journal.
WHEN NEWSPAPERS PLEASE. An
independent newspaper has to en-
counter great difficulties in winning
its way to popularity. We all admire
the editor who fearlessly battles foI
the right and condemns the wrong
but when an article appears which
treads on our own toes, runs counter
to our opinions, or shoots at a folly
which we feel rankIes in our owr
heart, we are very apt to think the
press little too independent. TIL,
London Leader thus felicitously ex
| plains the secret of newspaper popu
5 larity: alt may be very wise to Sc
both sides of a question, and to b
2 more anxious about what can b
0 said for you; but the fact is, that tn
object OF most men in buying a news
: paper is to enjoy the statement {
, their own inarticulate notions in tn
. shape OF artistic development an
e expression. A reader never so tho
: oughly enjoys a paper as when h
d can say, that is exactly what hay
e said MYSELF and he always tries
buy that paper which can give to h
own opinions an air of the create
= point and wisdom. 1t is looking il
: to mirror which tells him, not ii
# superficial aspect, so inadequate
b the expression of his real beauty an
s dignity, but that inner truth which
+ more perfect portrait ofthe who
d man; a mirror which makes SamsC
: see with his own eyes the Socrat,
$ that he feels himself to be. For tn
y reason it is to be taken that the p;
It pers which are purchased represel
S the opinions oftheir purchasers"
u U}A merchant who advertised f
clerk who could bear confluence
= was answered by a man who hs
" been seven years in the State prise
On refusing to take that as a quali
cation, he was advised to send f
= Queen Victoria.
n liza man out west is getting up
e new style of hogs: He thinks that |
: giving them pewter with their cor
Kha Gan raise MO lead .f;orn fhen