Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-15
Pooh RICUARD'S NAXINS. The fol-


lowing, from the pen Of the great
American philosopher, DIR. Franklin,
should be printed in letters Of gold,
and hung up in every school-room,
side by side with the usual a-b-ab, dog
latin, and other nonsense with which
our children's minds are crammed,
and which seems to comprise our mod
ern system of tuition. There will come
a time when Professor Of Political
Economy will be considered an abso-
lutte necessity to every school Of any
professions, but that time is not yet.
Meanwhile hear what poor Richard
says: 90
l. Plough deep while sluggards
sleep, and you shall have corn to sell
and keep.
2. Pride is as loud beggar as
Want, and great deal mere saucy.
3. Silks and satins, scarlcts and vel
vets, put out the kitchen fire.
4. Diligence is the mother Of good
luck.
5. Pride breakfastel with Plenty,
dined with Poverty, and supped with
ILfamy.
s. Extravaganza and implovidence
end at the prison door.
7. 1t is easier to build two chimneys
than to keep one in fuel.
s. If you would know the value Of
money, go and try to borrow some.
8. The eye Of a master will do more
work than both his hands.
10. What maintains one vice would
bring up two children.
II. lie that goes borrowing returns
Borrowing. p
y. Rather go to bed supperless
than rise in debt. 81 $3.50 d. .r
13. Sloth, like rust, consumes fast
err than labor wears.
IA. A life of leisure and life Of
laziness are two different things.
Is. Three removes are as good as a
fire.
16. Creditors have better memories
than debtors.
II. The rolling stone gathers no moss.
IS. If you would have your business
done, go; if not, send.
10. 1t is foolish to lay out money in
the purchase of repentance.
90. Buy what thou needest not, and
it will obligc thee to sell thy necessaries.
NEVER Do Too MUcu AT A TINE
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, in a lecture
recently delivered in England, gave the
following history Of his literary habits !:
Many persons seeing me so much
engaged in active life, and as much
about the world as if had lever been
a student, have said to me: "When do
you get time to write all your books ?
How on earth do you contrive to do so
much work 20 l shall surprise you by
the answer | make. The answer is
this: 81 contriTe to do SO much by
never doing too much at time. A
man, to get through work we'll, must
not overwork himself or, if he do too
much to- day, the reaction Of fatigue
will come, and he will be obliged to do
too little tomorrow. Now since | be-
gan really and earnestly to study,
which was not until after | left college,
and was actually in the world, may
perhaps say that I have gone through
as large course Of general reading as
most men Of my time. have travelled
much, and | have seen much | have
mixed much in politics, and the various
business Of life /; and in addition to all
this, | have published somewhere about
sixty volumes, some upon subjects re-
curing much research. And what
time do you think, as a general rule, l
have devoted to study-to reading and
writing? Not more than three hours
a day; and, when Parliament was sit
ting, not always that. But then, dur
ing those hours, l have given my whole
attention to what was about.
MANUSCRIPT OF THE SACRED SCRIP
TUREs.-The original scriptures Of the
Old Testament were written in Hebrew;
those Of the New Testament, in Greek.
Some chapters, however, in Daniel and
Ezra, and i verse in jeremiah, were
written in Cbaldaic !; and the Gospel by
Matthew is supposed by some scholars
to have been written first in Syriac, and
afterwards in Greek. The art Of print
ing was discovered in the fifteenth cen
fury, and one Of the first books printed
was the Bible. Previously, the sacred
scriptures were transmitted entirely by
manuscript. Many very ancient man
uscripts Of this kind are still in exist
ence. Although there is abundant ev-
idence that extraordinary care was ex-
ercisedin copying from one manuscript
to another, it is not surprising that oc
casional errors in words or letters have
occurred. No single one, however, is
supposed to be entirely free from faults;
the errors in some are detected by the
agreement Of others in different read
ing. Since our common English YER
sion was made, many ancient manu-
scri pts have been discovered not at the
time known to exist, and some of them
are acknowledged to be Of the most
valuable and reliable character. By
these, scholars have been able to cor
rect, in number of cases, the text, of
both the Hebrew and Greek, used by
the translators of the common version.