Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-28


OF the still air. where frost first left its BREATH
Above the mountain soars the purple crest =
OF one lone cloud, that sesmeth to disclose
No ife-its motion is 20 like repose-
All Nature, weary. hath sunk into rest.
And, dreaming. whispers in the poets ear
The mournfal beauty of the fading year.
.e Eunnygraphs.
Many dogs are kept only to give the
alarm. Like the cinnamon tree, they are
valued only for their bark. - Losiseill'
Journal. .~... e
E"Boy," said an ill-tempered old fel-
Low 70 q noisy lad, "what are you hollerin'
for when l1Stya" "Humph ;" returned
the boy, "whsl are you going BY for when
I am hollerin 70
EA Patlandsr angling in the rain va.
observed to keep his line under the arch OF
Q bridge. Upon being asked the reason, he
replied: l
~Surs, an won't the ish be erowdin' there
to keep out of the wet, ys spalpeen." t-
e~Jos and Bill Benton went to New
Orleans with fiat boat load of corn. Joe
wrute to his father thus 3.
"Nu Orleans, Gune the 5.-Dear Dad
mitkits is dull corn am mighty 10 and Bilps
dsagaa - t- b, b,
m Your afsshunate sun, jo benton."
~ In the Louisiana lowlands lived love-
ly Lucy Leslie. Levi Larkins loved Lucy
lsyishly. Lucy loved Levi largely likewise.
Levi lassoed Lucy Lumpkins, legal lump
hesd, lsshed the lovers together, and lots OF
little Larkinses lespt kimberly 'long the
Lumpkins lending loud, lustre to the land,
and likewise causing lively pleasure to the
hearts Of Levi and Lucy Larkins.
WuAr HIS FATHER DD.-At an infant
Ssbbash School ~as reading the story OF
the Prodigal Son. When came to the
place where the poor ragged son reached
his sfemer home, and his father saw him
"s great way off," inquired what his
father probably did One of the smallest
boys. with his little fist clinched, said II
dono. but guess he set de dog on him.
~ A clergyman Of Concord, N. H.-so
ssys the Statesman of that place-met .
little boy of his acquaintance on the cars,
and said to him, ''this is quite a stormy day,
M son.v3 ''Yss, sir. this is very soet rain"
The clergyman, thinking to rebuke such
hypsfbols, asked it he ever knew OF any
other than . wet rain, The boy answered
hs never knew personally of any other, but
he he'd read in q certain book of q time when
It rainsd FIRE aud birthstone. and he guessed
that vas not . wet rain. -
~"Oh, what . beautiful night !-how
the golden light Of the round full moon
dauees and quivers ON the leaves Of yonder
eak, stirred by the gentlsst zephyr that
ever cooled the fevered brow Of man or
rus,lsd among the yellow leaves Of autumn"
Thus said . young chap who was doing
hia best to play the sentimental to little
firt in the country, who had not the least
bit Of that article about her. and who speed
lily took him down with:
"Yes, fancy it is rather nsoony."
Young city chap "simmei cd"
ga man abiding to the recent Euro.
psan war, Was arguing, few days since,
thst the world, instead Of growing better,
was on the retrcgrade-constantiy augment
ing in wickedness. His remarks were ana
wered BY Christian full of hope, arguing
that the tame il not FAR distant when peace
and goodwill shalt reign supreme-when
the 'slioa and the lamb SHALL lie down to.
getller."
The other, not fully appreciatpg the feel
ings and hopes of his frisad, remarked,
s'1hs time may come when the lion and
the lamb shall lie Gown together but" he
addsd, ~ clncl,er, ''you'li find in that
event, tie lamb A insids of ths lios." '
A FUNNY BLuNDHa IN THE ATLANTIC
t. ra4Dl~ ~~bn IN eha hA hit
Of criticising severely such errors as appear
in the daily press, caused by the haste will,
which the matter must be prepared, set up
and corrected, We commend the following
extract from the Atlantic Monthly for 90
tobsr, . periodical which is supposed to be
got up with peculiar IRE and correctness in
oil respects. IL story called s'The Won
devsmith, )" page 468, We read:
s'The bit oforange peel lying on the side.
wslk inspires Thought. Who will fall over
jt who but toe industrious mother Of six
children, the eldest of which is only nine
months old, al Of whom are dependent upon
her exsrtion for support" ,ss
sHAvs'r Cor ANY OF YouR s1zs."-Any
one who has lived in Cincinnati (writes
Brads( for ten or fifteen years, will remem.
Der T., the tailor, one Of the Oldest and
best Of lis craft, ~ well as the jolliest, al.
wsys q ready to take joke - to give one.
II used to be considered the ''fair thing"
among a''select party" to send persons to
hiss store for articles entirely at variance
with what usually constitutes the stock in
trade Of members of his profession. It 80
happened one day, a. one of the ''party''
above mentioned Was descending the steps
OF sthe Burnett House, he encountered q
specimen Of Kentucky, who, enquired ol
him whore he could purchase Jewsharp.
OF course he was directed TO E. 20 store, as the
establishment whore they kept the largest
assortmSnt ct the inost reasonable rates.
Our friead proceeded at once TO the place
indicated, and found f., (who, by the way.
was troubled with an impediment in hil
spsscb, waiting on customer, and aftel
seating bis wants, was politely requested
q ~ wait 3 few mo. o.ino-moments." Aftel
dsspasohing his business with the, aforesait
easl0tnsF, he gravely approached Kentuck,
viii pair ot glove. strstehsrs, and observed
In very mild tone, o"W-we shalt have Il
t-take yeur mum mum measure !" whore
upon ho inserted the stretcher into hi
mouth, spreading open his countenancs !,
the full extent of the "stretch," and with I
faes indicating the utmost seriousness, re
lsarksd 70 the astonished Kentuckiau
"Y-young man y ,os h hoosn't got any 9
y.y69s 90. ne ls-B BostOn Gazette. ''
~6sliantry is as much due fron
. woman to man as from man to NO
man. No true lady will crowd hersel
into 4 or, whom it il full. look q ron