Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-01


of Pontus, knew every one of his eighty
thousand soldiers by his right name.
Seneca was able to rehearse two
thousand words which were given to
him, in the same order.
Hortensius kept in his memory all
the prices paid on a day of auction.
Hugo Grotius. on being present at a
review of some regiments in France,
recalled all the names of the single
soldiers that were there called up.
Justus Lipsius ventured to rehearse
the words of Tacitus, from the first
word to the last, forward und back
ward, even when somebody was stand
ing before him with a drawn dagger at
the very moment he had forgotten but
an only word.
A Venitian lady, well known by her
education, when asked for the sermon
she had attended in church, repeated
scrupulousl y every word.
Racine knew by memory all the trag-
edies of Euripides, Bayle the whole
work Of Montague, Hughes Doneau
the Corpus Juris, Mestastatus the en-
tire lloratius, and Carleret, Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland, all the Testament,
from the first chapter of Matthew to
the end of the Apocalypse. The learn
ed Scotchman, Thomas Dempster, af-
frmed he knew not what it was to for
get; the Scalliger is told to have APP
pretended within twenty-one days the
whole llomcrus, and within four months
all the Greek poets.
The notorious and mysterious Count
OF st. German surpasses them all.
Any newspaper he read once he knew
by memory, and he was furnished with
such gigantic, comprehensive power
of numbering that he retained a series
Of thousand numbers, which he could
recite forward, backward, and pulled
out from the middle. From the Court
of Henry Ill, in Crakow, he demanded
one hundred packs Of picquet cards,
mixed them In disorder, let him tell all
the succession of the cards, ordered it
to be noted down exactly, and repeated
them following one after the other,
without being wrong once. lie played
almost every instrument in the world,
was an excellent painter, and initiated
any hand writing in the most Elusive
manner. lie had but one passion
playing all games with perfect mastery.
In chess no mortal had ever vanquished
him, and in faro he could break every
bank by calculation.
INDEX OF TIE SoUL.-Every part of
a mans person testifcs to his predom-
inant feelings and sentiments. But
the eye, as the window Of the soul, is
the best index Of the pervading emo
ton. Itspeaks Of sickness or Of health,
sorrow or joy, innocence or guilt.
There are eyes all innocence, and there
are out of which restless gnomes peer.
Some eyes threaten like loaded and
leveled pistol, and others are insulting
a, Kissing or kicking; some have no
more expression than blueberries, while
others are as deep as we'll which you
can fall into. Then there are noses of
mark: The nasal organs Of Julius
Caesar and VIM. Pitt were sure indie
es Of their strong wills and resistless
sway among men. The character of
many men may be deducted from their
habit of walking.-Emerson.
MORAL WoRTH.-We never know
how to appreciate the moral worth Of
any man, until such an emergency shall
occur as to give him an opportunity to
fully develope himself. A man may
be hero at the fireside, protected by
bolts and bars, and the strong arm Of
civil power, but when called to stand
up in defense Of moral principle with
the fact staring him in the face that he
thereby endangers the safety of his
person, property, or position, we can
form proper estimate Of the man.
WOMAN
Without the smile from partial beauty won
Oh what were mama world without sun.
Woman, lovely woman, said Brown,
what we're the world without woman :?
Yes, if there were no women in the
world, we should all be miserable !!
They are the primeval cause Of all our
happiness No doubt, put in that
cynic Robinson - for they are the
prime cell itself.
g0 Do you believe in so plain a
thing as "TnoU GoD sEEsT ME; - that
in every thought, word, purpose, or
deed, you are not concealed from the
all-seeing eye of God? What, then,
is your intended course of conduct
before that secret-judging inspection =?
What are the sentiments you will cher
ish and express, upon the faintest fea-
lures of which that unearthly, penetra-
ting gaze is fixed, and before which the
darkness and the light are as one
aw Says Mrs. Poyser, in her Pro-
verbal Philosophy: "Folks must put
up WI their own kin as they do VII
their own noses-it's their own flesh
and blood. Pm not denyin' the VIM
men are foolish-God Almighty made
'em to match the men. Some folks
tongues are like the clocks as run on
strikin', not to tell you the time o day,
but because there's sum'at wrong in
their insides."
R@- A beautiful thought is suggest
ed by the Koran: "Angels, in the
grave will not question thee as to the
amount of wealth thou hast left behind
thee, but what good deeds thou hast