The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-12-31

Ey""Lct the the lightning beam on me"
as the fellow said when a scantling struck
him.
q Experience takes very high wages,
but she teaches like no other.
- There is man up town SO slow that
be can't catch his breath.
ryAll men who do anything must endure
DEPRECIATION of their efforts. IL is the
Dirt which their chariot wheels throw up.
cv sueing a newspaper editor for libel
is about as sensible as to boila brickbat to
get lamp-oil out Of it. ssesasss
~ In one week, the births Of SO boys
and sos girls, in all 1927 children were
registered in London.
rT7Our friend Gunnybags has discharg-
ed his servant girl because she insisted on
dcyotins two hours a day in studying
French. e. aa~7Ss 's@ 's*s a.
r15 Education makes more difference be-
tween man and man, than nature has made
between man and ,brute.-John Addnas.
CO Holmes, after telling tfatsa dog Was
shot for biting wonan's leg, said it was
pity to shoot dog with such fine taste.
csrsChange for the beser," taking of
n dirty shirt and putting on q clean one
Handing the stakes Of a wager to the WIN
ner.
rvIt is a legal maxim, thai sss!thes law
does not concern itself about small mat
tiers /" but lawyers and lawmakers often
90 ~ r. - Fztfg e. &A"T & Faf
sfT Isn't Il rather m odd fact in natural
history that the sottest water is caught when
il rains the hardest? s--....s ..g~
C1y"Up to snuff is now rendered,
"EIevated to an equal capacity with the tit
latins particles of the tobacco plaut. :
Cy"To spin and weave, to knit and sew,
was our grandmas' employment; but now
to dress and catch a beau, our girls term
enjoyment.
CyFine combs, with cross-cut teeth and
double action backs, are being sold IN Chat
ham street. These combs enable any man
to scratch head very comfortably. &C..
Cy In n few words, Bulwer tells fully
the cause of revolutions:
- f. ssThc people, like the air,
Is seldom heard save when it speaks in thunder"
gy An individual, was arrested the other
day while endeavoring to pick genteman's
business and was Just trying to get hishand
in.
CY'It has been beautifully remarked that
woman's heart is the only true plats for a
mans likeness. An instant gives the i'm
preston, and aneage Of sorrow and change
cannot ehaesit.
%" \ poor man out West, whose wife
has just presented him with twins the fourth
time, has applied for n divorce, on the
ground Of her having an orerbcarjng Gispo-
Sltion. rg.y 49,. F-ggsE E3sy =
cTPBuIwor calls newspaper 'tthe COM
mon reservoir in which every stream pours
its living waters, and at which every man
may come to drink
c. Civility is the national bond of the
heart, which frequently brings on an increase
of interest, pFoportioned to the insecurity
of the capital. J. ~ 49, q ~ |
y There is Il grocer in Philadelphia,
who is SAID to be s. mean that re was seen
10 catch tea of his counter, hold him up
Ivy his hind leg, and look into the crack Of
his feet to see If he hadn't been stealing
some Of his sugar. .r ....,.~.
~ ISis said that when a Frenchman has
to wait he smokes, German mcditatCs, an
Italian sleeps, an EnGlishman takes o walk,
and an. iinerican inYents some new contor-
ton Of Els limbs ana tries to put his feet
higher than ever.
60" Y. being asked what line ia Shak-
spcare was most applicable to u certain
young lady of much bc@uty but little con-
versatIonal power, APPLY quoted in reply,
"She speaks, yet she says nothing"
cylt is SAID Of the origin of busts that
when the Grecan maiden Kora parted with
hcr lover, she drew lis with piece Of char
coal upon the wall. lie is not the first young
man whom love has ''bust."
To mako siady stick out her finger,
put on the aforesaid digit-a diamond ring.
70 make he. stick out her eyes, show her
a silk dress. To make her stick out al over,
give hsr . Grin dime.
s Evening brings the wanderer to his
home, the child to its mothers arms, the OK
to his stall, and the weary laborcr to his
rest. 1t also brings lager beer, whiskey
punch, one horse concerts, free dances, free
fights, no gas and inmates to the watch
house.
= No enjoyment, however inconsidera-
bic, is. confined to the present moment. A
man is the happier for life from having
made once an agreeable hour, or lived for
any lr2sth Of tiIa2 with pleasant people, or
enjoyed any considerable Interval of inno-
cent leisure Sidney Smith.
cY""Docs the Court understand You to
say, MIR. Jones. hat ycu saw tho editor of
the iu4}}r Of Frecdom intoxcated:'' Not
at all. sir: | merely said that | have fire.
qucntiy seen him SO Hurried in his mind that
he would undertake to cut out copy with the
suffers that's all.
CHEAP WAY re- KEEP ICE.
If it were generally understood at how
little expense a supply of ice can be stored
and pr reserved for use in summer, but very
few farm els would think of getting along
withQutit. In cities, the packing of ice is
made regular business, and every family
may have 4 daily supply through the warm
SEASON, with no more trouble than any 9TH
er necessary Of life. But farmers who live
isolated from large cities or villages, must
put up their own or do with out it.
lce luaS We stored anu Kept with lttIe Or
no, expense, beyond the labor of cutting out
and hauling. After the ground becomes
frozen 10 the depth Of q foot or more, Sc
lect spot where surface water will not ac
!ett spot where surface water will'not &C:
cumula;c. Cover with g bed of coarse,
mois. s.saw from the cattle yard; tramp it
down solid, and let It freeze. /, Upon this
place body Of ice, and cover TO thickness
of foot, with Ike material as placed under
meath. After this has frozen hard. cover
up with straw to depth Of five or six feet.
We have seen ice preserved in this iway
till August. When wanted for use, a small
passage mus; be opened on one side, near
the ground, which must he kept closed with
straw. And old log building is the best
place for such a deposite, as the heap is
protected from the sun anlirain.