Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-21


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City Beer Saloon.''
DEFENCE OF SELF CONTRADICTION.
-Ruskin, the celebrated Art critic and
author, in recent address in England,
gave utterance to the following sterling
truth, the application of which should
recommend itself to every candid mind:
"Some Of my hearers this evening
may have heard it stated of me that |
am rather apt to contradict myself. I
hope l am exceedingly apt to do SO. I
never met with a question yet, of any
real Importance, which did not need for
the right solution of it, at least one
positive and one negative answer-like
an equation Of the second degree. Most
ly matters of any Importance are three
sided, or four, sided, or polygonal !; and
the trotting around a polygon is severe
work for people any way stiff in their
opinions. For myself, never feel sat-
is6ed that I have handled a subject
properly, till l have contradicted my
self at least three times"
A VOICE OF WARNING. He was in
debt. If youth but knew the fatal mis-
cry they are entailing on themselves
the moment they accept pecuniary
credit to which they are not entitled,
how they would start in their career !
how pale they would turn! how they
would tremble and clasp their hands IN
agony, at the precipice on which they.
are disporting! 1t has small begin
ging, but giants growth and strength.
When we make the monster we make
our master, who will haunt us at all
hours, and shake his scorpion lash with
angry mutterings forever in our sight.
The slave has no overseer half so Sc
we're. Faustus, when he signed the
bond with blood, did not secure doom
more terrific !-DIsraeH.
s1H Cato the Censor, an old Roman
Of great virtue and wisdom, used to
say, there were three actions of his life
which he regretted. The first was,
having told a secret to his wife; the
second, that he had once gone by sea
when he might have gone by land /;
and the third, the having become surety
for an acquaintance. To this we would
add fourth, as coming from the lips
Of those grown as old and wiser than
Cato, by the reading Of newspapers.
that they ever neglected to pay in ad-
vance for it.
ExcUsEs.-There is something es-
sentially mean and detestable in man
who is always passing off this kind of
small-coin lies-living wrong, feeling
wrt ng, doing wrong, and yet perpetu-
ally imposing himself upon others by
excuses. Making excuses is a mean
business. 1t is like the manufacture
Of bogus money-the issuing Of false
bills.-Beecher.
ANOTHER BOGUS Com. What is cal
led keeping up appearances is NOR
al, or rather imm oral, uttering Of coun-
terfeit coin. 1t is astonishing how much
of this and other bogus trash passes
current in society, when it bears the.
fair impress Of ladies and gentlemen.
Simple honesty, the naked truth,
pure virtue, and a straight-up.and-
down way Of dealing with the world,
have as much advantage over dishon-
esty, vice, trick and stratagem, as
good, square trotting- horse has over
pacing pony or racker, that goes his
mile or two like the mischief, and is
done for the rest Of the journey.
-Politcness is the religion Of the
heart, as piety is the religion Of the
soul. 1t is good nature in &C ion. 1t
renders whoever may be its object con-
tented and happy under its soothing in
fuence. 1t consists in acts which show
their source--the heart.
E~ Childhood is like mirror,
catching and rejecting every image
around it. Remember that a, impious
OR profane thought uttered by a parent
may operate on the young heart like a
careless spray Of water thrown upon
polished steel, staining it with a rust
that no after securing can eface.
RELIEF FOR THE SuFFEk1Na.-It is
stated on good authority, that a roast
ed onion bound upon the list, on the
pulse, will stop the most inveterate
tooth ache in a few minutes. Worth
trying. F.. &C. 81.
! WHAr's THE DIFFFRENeE?-i lutarch
says, in his life. of Alexander, that the
Babylonians used, during the dog days, j
to sleep on skins filled with water In
these days men sleep on skins filed
with bad rum.
BwTbere is a good deal Of sound
philosophy in the following homely
simile:' ss'.Men are frequently like tea
their real strength and goodness are
not properly drawn out till they have