Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-12-19

INDUSTRIOUS HABITS OF OUR GREATEST AUTHORS.
1t would 90 very far to destroy the absurd and
pernicious association of genins and idleness, by
historical demonstration that the greatest poets,
orators, statesmen and historians-men Of the
most brilliant and imposing talents--have actual
ly labored as hard as the makers of doctrines,
and the arrangers of indexes and that the most
obvious reason why they have been superior to
other men, is, that they have taken more pains
than other men.
Gibbon was in his study every morning, winter
and summer, at O'Clock Burke was the most
industrious and iudefatigable of human beings
Leibnitz was never out of his libary; Pascal
killed himself by study; Cicero narrowly escaped
death by the same cause; Milton was at his books
with as much regularity as a merchant or an at
tOrney-he had mastered all the knowledge of his
time so had Homer. Rafaelle lived but 80 years,
and in that short space of time, he had carried
his art so far beyond what it had before reached,
that he appears to stand alone as a model to his
successors. There are instances to the contrary,
but, generally speaking the lives of all truly great
men have been lives of intense and inccssant la
bor.-Sidney Smiths Lectures.
The RELIEF FUND IN ExcLAND.-The fund for
the relief of those made widows and orphans by
the war with Russia, is rapidly augmenting in En-
gland. A great meeting on the subject was held
in London on the 2nd instant. Lord John Rus
sci and others were among the speakers, and a
letter in the Philadelphia American says:
The corporation of London opened the sub
scription with $4,000, the Bank of England fol-
lowing with $40, 900, the Goldsmiths' Company
$1,000, and many banking firms $4,000 EACH
The sum of $50 900 was announced in the room
in short time, and there is doubt but that this
sum will shortly be swelled to very considerable
extent. Meetings are taking place all over the
kingdom, and however small may be the gather
ing, the sum announced as subscribed is, in near
ly every case, much larger than was to have been
expected. The association for relieving the SOL
diers' wives, widows and orphans have collected
upwards of $3.50, 900, but the patriotic fund, be-
between $4,OOO,OOO and s., ,0OO,OO The Crys-
tai Palace has announced another feat in behalf
of the PATRIOTS and, at which the band of the
Imperial regiment of Guardes are to preform pre-
vious to their return to France; and in short, to
render this fund the largest ever raised for such
purpose. 5- .-t
FoR FIT OF PAsSoN.-Walk out in the open
air; YOU NAV speak your mind to the winds with
out hurting any one, or rproclaiming yourself to be
q simpleton. .,f --- .lf -
For it of Idleness.-Count the ticking of a
clock. Do this for one hour, and you will be
glad to pull OF your coat the next and work like
negro. sese-or a.ss gsGf
For ft of ambition.-Go into the churchyard
and read the grave stones; they will tell you the
end of ambition. The grave viii soon be your bed
chamber, the earth your pillow, corruption your
father, and the worm your mother and your sis
Ter. -fi
For all fts Of Doubt, Perplexity and Fear
Whether they respect the body or the mind
or the heart, the following is radical cure.
which may be relied on, for had it from the
Great Physioian-ssCast thy burden on the Lord:
he viii sustain thee"