Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-08


| Jones, with wife ard child to boot.
Mr.. Brown has not since visited the
place where this comedy of errors
happened. lie is afraid Of losing lhi
identity.
E SELECTED PARAGRApHs.-Thgre il
ut one solid pleasure in life, aaktha'
Our duty. How miserable then, hov
Wse, how objectionable are the,
VINO make that one pain.
/ Upon matters which are effected by
feeling and sentiment, the Judgment O.
woman surpasses that Of man he
more sensitive nature carries her tt
Weights which our coarser strength can
Mot reach.
Addison has left on record the fol.
lowing important sentence: Two per
sons who have chosen each other out o
all the species, with the design to b.
each others mutual comfort and enter.
tainment have, in that very action
bound themselves to be good humored
affable, joyful, forgiving and patient
with respect to each others frailties anc
imperfections, to the end Of their lives.
Strifes, like fire, only rage the more
fiercely the more they are stirred.
10 act upon determination made in
anger is like embarking in a vessel
during a storm.
To do good to your enemies is to
resemble the incense whose arena per-
fumes the fire by which it is consumed.
In the conception Of Mahomet's
paradise there is no distinction between
a perfect woman and an angel.
True beauty is but virtue made visi-
Bile in outward grace. Beauty and vice
are disjoined by nature herself.
The progress Of knowledge is slow.
Like the sun, we cannot see it moving:
but, after while, we perceive that i,
has moved-nay, thatit has moved on
ward.
The more grand and noble man is
in his actions, the more simple he is in
his manners and conversation.
Despise not the small and the weak
Flies and locusts have done more harm
than ever the bears and lions did.
While you are meditating revenge
for real or fancied injury, the Devil
is winding another coil around your
soul.
Love, if you would be beloved serve,
if you would be served /; and humble
yourself if you would be exalted.
A family without prayer is like a
house without door-exposed to eve
ry danger, and offering an entrance to
every evil.
There is dew in one flower and not
in another, because one opens it's cup,
and drinks it in, while the other closes
itself, and the drops run off. God rains
goodness and mercy, as widespread
as the dew, and if we lack them, it is
because we will not open our hearts to
receive them.
Benevolence is kept in motion by its
own acts. When it is genuine, no.
thing impedes its progress nay, the
very acknowledgements Of the relieved
are fresh and irresistible motives to
exertion.
Somebody has said that politeness is
like an air. cushion-there NAV be no
thing in it, but it eases our jolts won
derfully.
Every man in his own life las foll1es
enough, in his own mind trouble
enough. in the performance Of duty
deficiencies enough, without being Gu
rious about the affairs of others. And
yet it is surprising how many people
insist on meddling with the affairs of
others.
In youth hearts are trumps, in man.
hood diamonds and clubs, according
to circumstances, but after all, spades
are sure to win when the game Of life
closes.
Sir. Joshua Reynolds being asked
how ne would personate Folly in a
painting, replied that he would repre-
sent man climbing over a wall at the
risk Of his neck, with an open gate close
by, through which he might walk with
ease and safety.
Sheriden said, beautifully: s..women
govern us let US render them perfect.
The more they are enlightened, SO
much more shall we be. On the cult
yation Of the mind Of woman depends
the wisdom Of men. Iii is by woman
that nature writes on the hearts of men. ,
A man of sense finds less difficulty
in submitting to one who is wrong
headed, than in alter pting to set him
right.
II there is any place where man
feels that . wife or sister ought not to
DO with him it may be pretty certainly
set down that it is no place fer decent
man..
We ought not to Judge Of mems
merits by their qualifications, but, BY
the use that they make Of them. !,
Jusr So. -Hen,y. Ward Beechsr
gives the following public expression
Of his OPINION s.Ihave long ago been
convinced that it was better to love
men than to hate them /; that one ws1A