Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-12-24
vARlE TIES.

Apothegm.-The ideas Of ono age are
the institutions of the next.
A High Rent.-A hole in the crown Of
of your hat.
"Thats fame Of mine,' as the BEL
lows said 10 the fire.
The quickest way 10 make "eyc water
is to run your nose against Iamp-post.
1t is shame, if any person poorer than
you is more contented than you.
Fools are ruled by their humor; but wise
men by their interest.
A Fashionable Proverb.-Heaven sent
US women, and France-crinoline.
They have two theatres at Denver City,
but no single nails.
The Value of Silence.-A woman has
often committed herself by talking-never
by holding her tongue.
A lecturer asserted that all bitter things
were hot. "No,' suggested Brown, mot
a Jatter cold day."
A Terrible Reverse.-No children now.
adays. All our children are usL, and all
our man are childish.
A Frenchln.n wishing to SPEAK Of the
cream of the English poets. forgot the
word, and said "de butter of poets
The heart Of every true lover Of nature
is barn of Memnon; it sings in the
beams Of the rising sun.
Love is better than pair Of spnc.acles
to make everything seen greater which is
seen through it.
Lecsuring.--Mrs. Lucy Stone, Esq, and
Col. Antoine.te Brown, are in England,
ectrrlng. "Doesticks lectured in Chi.
cago last week.
1t is an old sayin, that Time waits for
no man: but the fair sex would have Us
believe that he il gallant enough to wait
for the ladies'.
There is q man in town 90 knowing that
people who do not know their own m,nds.
generally come to him for inform alton on
the subject.
The circulation Of the gospel is stream
Of light, put in motion by the Eternal
God, which is destined to 60 onward till
all iarkoes is swep. away.
A good book is styled BY Milton the
"preeious life blood of master spirit,
embalmsd ard treasured up on purpose to
life beyond life
Barrow, the Chinese traveller, computes
that there is mere material in the great
wall Of China. than in all the houses Of
England and Scotland combined.
Beautiful AS winds the ivy around
the tree, es to the crsg the moss patch
roots, so chngs my constant soul to thee !!
my own, my baauuiul-my boots.
If you would enjoy your cigar. and at
the same time the society Of the ladies,
yeu should. invite none. but widows, for
they will bring hehr 0mn ,ceeds!
A young lacy, fond of dancing, traver-
ses in the course Of season about four
hundred miles. Yet 10 lady would think
OF walking that distance in six months.
When Lord Erskine heard that some
body had died worth two hundred thousand
pounds, he observed, "Wall, that's a very
prstty sum to begin the next world with
What are you locking after, my dear!"
said an atfectionate mother to her daught-
er. The daughter looked around and thus
replied Looking after . son-in-law tor
father
1t seems to me have seen your ply
siogomy somewhere before, but cannot
reccollect where" Very likely | have
been keeper Of prison upwards OF twenty
years.
An advertisement reads ~ follows -
"Stolen, watch worth ten guineas. If
the thief will return it he viii be informed
where be may steal the worth of two Of il. :.
and no questions asked.
Taleyrand, when asked by lady IA
nous for her beauty and stupidity. how
she could rid herself Of some Of her trou-
blesoms admirers, replied, You have
only 10 open your mouth, madam"
1t is undoubtedly duty to acquire rich
Is, not for the condition they make, but
for the power they confer. The wisdom,
however, prope. to emyloy them demands
even more earnest and honest sndeAvor
Faith and will are the two maternal
birds which nourish courage and perform
ance i; the one gives us confidence in OUR
selves, the other enables us to secure the
confidence OF those We would eanausr or
control.
Alta Hebrew Scheol, class of little
girls were reciting lesson in Scripture
History. The teacher asked little Mary,
W hat was Esaus occupation p The
little ones eyes sparhled, and she replied
briskly; lie kept clothing store on
Main street
A writer Of the last century quantity
observed That when the eanons Of che
princes began war, the canAons of the
church were destroyed. 1t was, said he,
hrst miire that governed the world and
then nisrs--hrst St. Peter, aud then SALT
petre.
We have been using for few weeks
paper made at the BeItoBsport mill. The
quality is not ~ good as We could wish.