The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-05-10
SHORT AND SWEET.

LovE.-Love covers a multitude of SINS
When scar cannot be taken away, the next
kind Office is to hide it. Love is never so blind
as when it is to spy faults.-[South
HoNoR-The Arthenians erected large sta.
tue of Esop, and placed him, though a slave,
on lasting pedestal, 10 show that the way to
honor lies open indifferently to all-[Ph@uras
FAME.-If man do not erect in this age his
own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer
in monument than the bell rings, and the widow
eeps.-[Shakspeare.
AeE.-There cannot live more unhappy
creature than an lll-naiureG old man, who is
neither capable of receiving pleasure, nor SEN
sible of doing them to others.-GSir William
Temple.
PLEAsURE.-Mental pleasure never cloy;
unlike those of the body, they are increased by
repetition, approved of by reflection, and
strengthened by enjoyment-[Cotton.
PREsENTs-When thou makest a present let
them be of such things that will last long; to
| the end they may be in some sort immortal,
and may frequently refresh The memory of the
| recelver.-[Euiler.
CuRIsrIANITY.-If ever Christianity Appeals
in its power, it is when it erects its trophies
upon the tomb when it takes up its votaries
here the world leaves them; and fills the
breach with immortal hope in dying moments.
|-[R. Hail.
DREss.-Next to clothes being fine, they
should be well made, and worn easily; for a
man is only the less genteel :os q fine coat, if
in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is
not easy ir it as If it was plain one.-Chss-
terfeld.
DRUskESsEss.-Some of the domestic evils
Of drunkenness are houses without wind rvs,
gardens without fences, fields without tillage,
barns without roofs children without clothing,
principles, morals or manners
INJURY An injury unanswered in time
grows weary of itself, and dies away ia an in
voluntary Iemorse. Ia bad dispositions, capa-
| BILE of no restraint but fear, it has a different
| eheet-the silent digestion of one wrong pro-
vokes a second.-[Sterne.
| SouL-We may compare the soul to linen
cloth; it must be first washed to take off its
native hue and color, and to make it white; and
afterwards it must be ever and anon washed to
| preserve it white.-[S South.
| KINDNESS Life is made up Of great sacri-
! fees or duties, but Of little things, in which
| smiles and kindness, and small obligations
given habtually, ere what win and preserve the
| HedTt, anu SVCuiC tHC Soh- L. D"Ss
! OCCUPATION Incidence is a delightful, but
distressing state; we must be doing something
to be happy. Action is no less necessary than
thought, to the instructive tendencies Of the
human frame [Haztt.
II CRIrIcs.-There is a certain meddlesome
4 spirit, which, in the garb of learned research
goes prying about the traces Of history, casting
down its monuments, and marrng and mu'ilat'
ing it's fare st trophies Care should be taker
to indicate great names from such pefncious
erudition w ashinston Irving.
No man or woman is fully educated if no
accustomed to manual labor. Whatever ac-
complishmen they possess, whatever theiI
mental training, deduction must be made fo
ignorance of that important branch.
The Gauge Question. The directors Of thu
t Southern Wisconsin R met here last week
and, as we learn, agreed to adopt the narrow
gauge, and unite with Milwaukee. Under th
. circumstances we think this is a judiciou
. move Had the r. R. V. U. r R., been man
aged judiciously or economically and fulfille
&heir promises, this change would not have Ia
ken place. We hope the question is now sci
tied, and that active opertions will at once
commenced.-[J Janesville Free Press