Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1856-05-09


The time to ''leaye" is when a Young
lady asks you how the walking &.
ET H w. Derby, the well known
book publisher OF Cincinnati, has pur-
chased the Daily Times. Of that city.
EE A new counterfeit on the Bank
Of Missouri, OF the denomination Of
$50: has made its appearance at st.
Louis.
E9"Mine Gotl vat win de French
man make Eext?' as the Dutchman
said the FIRST time he ever saw mon
key.
EF A young stock broker having
married a widow with fI, ,000, 600.
says it wasn't his wife's face that at
tracted him 50 much as the figure.
ET LAUGH AND L1vE.-Said Effen-
di, jester 10 four sultans, has died At
constantinople, aged l2o years and '
months.
ET Nature makes us poor only
when we want necessaries: but Gus
tom gives the name Of poverty to the
want Of superfuities.
EY- Consider how much more you
often suffer from your anger and grief.
than from those very things for which
you are angry and grieved.
IE- l have found that the very
shortest time in which II is best 10 do
anything. is just as much time as is
necessary to do il WE'LL Wayland.
1I- The practice Of eating heavy
suppers Of meat, warm bread. &c.,
has very justly been pronounced dele
terious to health, and thesmeans Of
shortening life. -
E8- Excuse me. madam, butt
would like TO ask why you look al me
so very savagely?" "0hl beg par
doned, sir. l thought. you was my
husbandl"
4 re- d rough and thorny world Il
is, and an awkward world to get
through; but it might be worse. It
might be better il every one would
try in earnest to make it so.-Ez.
A WRErcH.-Old Mr.. Singlestick
mysti6ed a tea-party by remarking
that women were facts. When pres
sed 10 explain his meaning. he said.
"Facts are stubborn things"
Ir Gross and vulgar minds win
always pay higher respect to wealth
than to talent, for wealth although il
be far less efficient source Of power
than talent, happens to be far more
Ineligible.
Ev A rumseller in Maybuka, Pa,
recently stabbed man who was re-
buking him for selling liquor to his
children. Killing with rum is lawful.
but the cold steel Of the murderer d
no such favorite with law-makers. p
1 EF Mr. Drummond very cody r.
marked, in a debate in the House o.
Commons, that almost everybody ii
that House had read very amusing
romance called the History of Eng.
land by Mr.. Macauly.'''
4 RE Henry Bulwer, Ia bis work O
France, AYERS that among the slaugh-
tered conscripts on Napoleon's feds,
the bodies Of females were found aE
ter almost every battle. and in male
attire. ~
RI Whatever rouroccupatiou, how
ever busy our hands or our heads. let
US find some time for the earnest,
hearty study OF the Bible. Let other
: things have their appropriate place
but let us give TO this work some Of
our very best moments--I5;d.
~ LovE.--When one loves one
forgets fricrds, laws. all the duties of
gratitude or conventionality: one rush-
es straight to the goal. without look
ing behind. Those who think much
about asking permission. coneilistine
friends, appeasing the dissatisfied. aFe
seekers Of pretexts, who never loved
at all, or who love no longer. -
n-"I turned TO my father and
asked him why il was that women
were so often robbed by pick pockets
: in public carriages. They must I
observed, "be conscious that the
} rogues are feeling about them. -
"Yes," he replied, "but q fellow feel
ing makes them wondrous kind" I
was struck with the force of this re-
mark"
re- Countless instances might Be
quoted, where. to every range Of in
teIlect, from the little child up to the
learned man, and in all emergencies.
from a matter of daily routine up 70 .
question Of life or death. the all.6tted
and all-foreseeing Word of Christ has
been the antidote Of temptation, the
incentive to duty. the Joy IN tribnlA-
tioa--Dr.. Hamilton
"DnD OF TIM SHoEs. ."-This ep-
itaph might be written on the soub-
stones Of thousands Of AmeTican l5-
: males. Folly amazing, il i for lb-
: males 10 promenade our streets -
. they do, with snow six inches dep =
crossings, and the pavements covered
with frosty damps, IN low. paper-thick
shoes, thinner than the thinrest WON
by men in the summer. Il this con-
mon sense? Is it not suicide?
4 E1 Prayer was not invented; s