The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-11-11
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THE DAILY GAZETTE.
ODDS l. ENDS

Nothing ever touched the heart OF i
,.adar that did not come from the
heart OF writer.
There il an alchemy in high heart
rbich transmutes other things TO IT'S
own quality.
To some men it Is indispensable to
t,s worth money, for without j they
wonld be worth nothing.
There are many who praise virtue,
Aat do no more than praise it.
Tell me what a man drinks, aud III
relI yon what the man thinks.
Tel me the female associates ol
man and ! viii soon tell you his NOR
III worth
fell me at what hour man break
lsstp. and | win tell you what his avo.
cation is.
Ii IS said that certain aristocratc
t,ayerance men have refused to have
ANYTHING more 10 do with water be
canse il is SO often drunk.
Above all other features which
aIorn the female character, dellcacy
lands foremost within the province OF
good taste.
1t was proverb among the Greeks
that q llatterer who lifts you up 10 the
clouds has some motive as the eagle
when he raised the tortoise in the air
he wishes to gain something by your
fll.
The heroic Sir Charles Napier wrote
very beautifully and touchingly to 3
lady Oh the eve Of his great victory al
Meanec: If ! survive ] shall soon be
with those love; if | fall shall be
v,th those have loved.
Somebody describing the absurd
appearance ofa man dancing the polka
saws he had hole ia his pocket, and
was trying to shake Il shilling down
the leg Of his trousers.
4 visitor was contemplating Niagara
Falls the other day, when yerdant
looking individnalcame mp and asked
him IL he would please to tell him the
name Of MdtftreJ.
4 Great Niece of Franklin, Mrs.
Jane kinsman, resides in PhiIadel
phia. Born in Boston, and now in
her Goth year, she ia one of the few Of
those surviving who remember the ia
nous Tea Party
ANXIOUS FATHER. --"W am | tu
do with YOU, sir; what am 10 do
with Youf DO you know, ifyou con
time yonr present course OF cruelty
and cowardice, you will be tit for
uothing but a Member of Congress.
The attention Of a little girl being
railed to n rose bush, on whose top
most stem the eldest rose was fading,
6ut below and around which three
beautiful crimson buds we're just uu
!olding their charms, she artlessly ex
claimed to her brother: See, Willie
these little buds have just awakened
10 kiss their mother before she dies.
A tough" subscriber to a country
PAPER was struck from its mail list,
because he wouldn't pay up The
elinquents wife insisted w:athfully
that she knew what was newspaper
.aw-that she did--the proprietor was
bound to send the paper until all ar
fearages were paidf'
lRIsH TOPOGRAPHY. We are told
that Every road leads to Rome, but
The schoolmaster who wrote that curl
Gus bit of progerbial geography must
have been Puseyite, However, we
are confident that in Ireland Every
a0ad leads to Trinity College, Dublin,
for we never met with an lrishman
get who hadn't been there.
LAuaHABLE MIsTAKE.-An acquaint
ance tells a good Joke abouta verdant
limb ofthe law, who resided upon
Mil Creek, ana in times OF the alb
ri thepastor ofthe district meeting,
acted as a clerk.
ss1e had a strange mode ofmanulac
turing words when at loss for the right
une.
Well, upona certain occasion, when
lie deemed his services in request, he
undertook TO give ont hymn" in
which the word "doxology" occurred;
as he coull not get hold of the word,
he requested the congregation to sing
four verses and a sockao2ogsyi"-Ec