Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-01

It is constantly receiving impressions from the
cradle to the grave; and if we live right, our
memories will grow stronger rather than weak
er. II you want good memory, be uniform in
your habits. Stimulating the brain wears it
out prematurely. So do not go to extremes in
any respect, and you will have good memory.
Some people stimulate themselves too much
they drink too much bad brandy; smoke and
chew too much tobacco; take too much snuff /;
and drink too much tea and coffee. Excuse me
for hitting you; | could not help it.
Another faculty is language 1t gives full
ness to the eye. 1t is that quality of the mind
which gives the power to talk, to communicate.
II is blessed thing To have the power Of speech
tho best gift the God to man. We want more
takers, orators, lecturers. We should be paid
for communicating aud not for keeping TO our
selves. Our children should be educated to
ialS; they are now educated not to talk. This
; not the organ of learning a language, but of
alking language. Dickens has very large Ian
;ungc. Who can clothe an idea in SO many
words as he: Patrick Henry was man not of
much learning and philosophy but of great pow
Of utterauce. He was so because he was ma
ural. Oratory consists in being perfectly ma
ural. Some fail because they are artificial. -
The way to be an orator is to talk as much as
'osSible. Some clothc their ideas in very beau
-i(u language. Alexander Pope did so.
Our Savior set us example in talking. He
wrote no books. He was never known to write
put once and thLn he stopped down and wrote
IN the sand. But if all the things he said and
lid, were written, the world, we are informed,
ould not contain the books. When YOU are
.allling, talk nS naturally as you can. The man
vho does so will always have listeners and they
sill not be noddng to S.ecp while ho is talking.
Causality and comparison give the power Of
housht 1t is the privilege Of man TO think.
1t is just what God made him for, to have an
Individuality. IL you cannot think, il is the
privilege of somebody else to think for yOu-
But as long rs you can, think for yourself II
S mans privilege to know everything in thi,
World, and more about another. Some people
say secret things belong to God. Do not be
,fraid; you will not fad out things that God
oes not want you to know. IL your children
,sk questions, answer them il you can lfyou
annot, you had better pay dollar to somebody
o answer them.
Comparison gives power of discrimination;
;auSality gives knowledge of cause and effect;
# philosophy and first principles in the natural
ciuuces.
One faculty more. 1t is the organ of mirth-
illness. 1t is the faculty of the niud that dis.
roses us for fun. Some people think it wrong
0 have fun. IL would not be given to u if it
we're wrong. Many think it sin for n religious
nan to have fan. He is going home to glory,
Dut he cannot have any fun; lac must 90 with n
ong face into the other world. You had bet
er joke and laugh; it does the soul so much
good; it is as good as medicine chest. All
persons who have good time once in 4 while
md yet do no harm by 1t, are all the better for
t. There was time when we had long faced
loctors. They felt rs though they were in the
hands of Providence. But nowadays they are
lifFerent Some doctors go around and cure
people with their good natured faces. Ii you
want to be healthy, you must be happy. II
you arc not in condition to be happy, get into
it, You have only one life to live As far as
possible, then, get into business that you can
enjoy, and love to do what you have TO do
Make up your minds TO be happy. Do not tor
mcnt yourselves. Let us getup and go to work,
forgetting ourselves, and do all the good we can,
We have little brain, and may as well use IL
us to live. Mankind will be better and heaven
will be peoPled.