The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-07

Lire illustrated says: "Another write
suggests the propriety Of universal aban
donment of the, use Of liquor and tobacco. il
which alone our country would save enough
to pay our indebtedness in single year. II
this hint could he reduced to practice. we
| would get rid of an evil worse than ten tho,,.
sand financial panics like the present. II
would at once transform great evil into one
of the greatest of blessings"
THERE is nothing innocent or good, that
dies and is forgotten. Let US hold that faith
or none. An infant, prattliDg child, dying
in a cradle, will live again in the better
thoughts of those that love it, and play its
part, through them, in the seeming actions
of the word, though its body be burnt to
ashes, or d. owned in the deep sea, there is
not an angel added to the host of Heaven
but does its blessed work on Earth in those
that loved it here. t9..,.
HEARTS, we have reason to believe. are
made like fower-pots-in mssts-so thew are
not all Of size. The larger the heart. the
more It will hold, and the power of receiving
or rejecting happiness, is like the capacity
or planet tor shedding light the broader
the world the greater the moon.
A NEW reading has been found for the oft
quoted and truthful saying .ePhere's a diyini-
ty that shapes our ends, rough hew them as
we will" A miserable friend of ours. who
finds that every thing goes wrong, and moth
ing turns up to suit him, says that in bis COPY
OF the bard of Avon it reads: There's d.
vinity that shapes our ends rough-hew them
how We will.
IMPOSSIBLE is word only to be found in
the dictionary offools," said Napoleon. 1t is
not intellect that makes man great so
much as earnest purpose. The men in all
times who have deeply impressed their char
acter upon their age have not been so much
men OF high intellectual power, as men of in
domitable will and unceasing industry.
THE chattanooga, from Louisville, had on
board several Kentucky families. with their
niggers and other chattels, all coming to re-
side in Missouri. The Randolph, from Mem
phis, has also Jour chattels, male, from twelve
to fifteen years old, for which their owner, a
Missouri landed proprietor, paid 5000 each.
They were valuable looking goods.-St. L.
Rep "a.
The Hartford Courant says that Col. Colt
is receiving more orders for his pistols than
he can fill. The insarrection in India is the
cause of the increased demand.
IT is said that the Harpers only wanted
Ss25, 900 to carry them through, and that a
Bank which had promised it, broke it's prom
Use the very hour the amount was to have
been loaned.
AN old gentleman in Virginia, priding him
self on his excessive politenass went to spend
the night with friend who was equally DO
lite. Each being too polite to mention $50
ing to bed" though their topics of conve-sa-
ton retired, the servant found them in the
morning still sitting over few Goals.
AN old lady was asked what she thought
OF one of her neighbors of the rame of Jones.
and with knowing look replied, Why 1
don't like to say anything about my neigh
bors but as to MIR. Jones, sometimes think,
and then again, don't know but, after all.
rather guess he'll turn out to be a good deal
such sort of man as take him to be
Mrs. GENrLEs takes exercise every day.
She walks round flour barrel in the back
yard. Mr.. Gentle thinks there is nothing
like exercise, as conductive to health. He
takes divers daily walks to barrel in the Gel
lar, and considers himself invigorated there
after.
EXTRACTS FROM New DICTIONARY
Duck-An immersion against ones will, in
cold watcr. Ducky-A term of endearment
applied by wife to her husband when she
wants new shall, or "that love of a bonnet -
PHILuRA, dear, said loving husband to bis
loya spouse, who was several years his junior,
w9na t, 10 you say to moving to st. Paul,
o, I'm delighted with the idea. You
w ~oo "s nodhnen Morgan moved out there he
Nos ,~drth eve are, and when he died he
was worth si'NnOO.
NEW CEMETERY.-,.o ;,l.L:..eN
Minneapolis have selec "u" I4:c u soI.u
the burial of their dead, oeau'IIi sue ior
mile back from the river. III ., .ne I.uns que
new made graves are roundcTey seVG I:n
side and the grounds are being Hnne sme ""'
Meas. "o'eu-
In the museum at Hifalutcn is q. .s.;n
containing seven misers' souls, seven ' nh
mems consciences, the 'principles' of sew.
hearts, and all the remaining sweetness OF
seventy old maids.
AN exchange, speaking of heavy grass this
year, says it is in contrast with what it wa.
when the farmers had to lather and cut il
with razor. That is barbcrous joke, ant
the author ought to be shaved with a blad,
of grass
"Pompey," said good natured gentleman
to his colored man. Il did not know till to
day, you had been whipped last week.
"Didn't you, nassau replied Pompey, I"
knowed it at de time"
A SYRACUSE paper says that at picnic tn
following words were discovered on lady,
undershirt Extra Genessee-49lbs."
AN Irishman was challenged to fight duel
but declined on the plea that he did not wisl
to leave his old mother an orphan.