Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

cred that only q small part of the earth
is inhabited, it may be presumed that
numbers fall in the ocean, or on the UNI
inhabited part Of the land unseen by
man. They arc sometimes Of great
magnitude; the volume Of several has
exceeded that of the planet Ceres,
which is about seventy miles in dame
ter. One, which passed within twenty
five miles Of London, was estimated to
weigh about 100000 tons, and moved
with velocity of twenty miles a Sec
ond 4; a fragment of it reached the earth.
The obliqulty Of the descent Of these
meteorites, the peculiar substances of
which they are composed, and the ex-
plosion accompanying their fall, show
that they are foreign TO our system
Luminous spots, altogether independ-
ent Of the phases, have occasionally
appeared on the dark part Of the Moon;
these have been ascribed to the light
arising upon the eruption of volcanoes,
and therefore it has been supposed
that meteorites have been projected
from the Moon by the impetus Of vol
canic eruption. 1t has even been
computed that, if stone were project
ed from the Moon in a vertical line,
with an initial velocity of 1892 feet
in second-more than four times the
velocity Of ball when first discharged
from cannon-instead of falling
back to the Moon by the attraction Of
gravity, it would come within the sphere
Of the Earth's attraction, and revolve
about it like satellite. These bodies,
impelled either by the direction Of the
primitive impulse, or by the disturbing
action Of the sun, might ultimately
penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, and
arrive at its surface. It is much more
probable, however, that they are aster-
oids revolving about the sun, and di-
verted from their course by some dis
turbing force.
HUMAN HApPINEss.-It has been
we'll remarked, that no man can ju 1ge
of the happiness of another. AS the
moon plays upon the waves, and seems
to our eyes to favor, with peculiar
beam, one long track amid the waters,
leaving the rest in comparative obscur-
ity-yet all the while she is no niggard
in her lustre for though the rays that
meet not our eyes are to US as though
they were net, yet she, with an equal
and favorable loneliness, mirrors her.
self on every wave-even so, perhaps,
happiness falls with the same bright
ness and power over the whole expanse
Of life, though to our limited senses
she seems only to rest on those bill
lows from which the ray is Immediately
reflected.
LAcoNIC.-Those orders we're lacon-
ic an to the point, which Frederick II.
wrote to Gen. Salmon, commander of
Cloves: IF the Austrians come into
my territories, tell them they have
mistaken their way; if they begin to
argue make them prisoners if they
make airy resistance cut them to piec-
es !"
How MEN MAY BE JUDGED.-Men
are not to be judged by their looks or
department, but by the character of
their lives and conyersation-by their
works. 1t is always better that a
mans works should praise him than an
other mans words.
E9Daniel Webster is said to have
remarked that ono lawyer would risk
his reputation before jury if he had
to speak from pulpit !; and that he
considered the surviving Of Christiani-
ty, in spite of pulpits, as an evidence
Of its divinity"
IeJ~A shrewd old gentleman once
said to his daughter ''Be sure, my
dear, that you never marry poor man;
but remember the poorest man in the
world is the enc that has money and
nothing else.''
SOUND DoCTRINE.-When bent on
matrimony, look more than skin deep |
for beauty, dive farther than the peck
ct for worth, and search for temper
beyond the good humor Of the moment.
sea@ Mark Anthony sought happi-
ness in love; Brutus in glory; Caesar
in dominion-the first found disgrace,
the second disgust, the last ingratitude,
and each destruction.
The BEST PATRIMoNY.-He that is
taught to live on little, owes more to
his fathers wisdom than he that has a
great deal left him, to his fathers
care.
geD They that deny the soul, destroy
mans nobility for by his body man
is akin to the beasts /; ana if he be not
akin to God by his spirit, he is an ig-
noble creature.
eD=We should walk through life az
through an Alpine pass in Switzerland,
where a hasty word may bring down an
avalanche !!
sg IF we would not fall into things
unlawful, we must sometimes deny our
selves in those that are lawful.
EW-A smile on the human counte-
nance is to it what the sunbeam is to a
Landscape.
EsD% Did we not fatter ourselves, the
fattery of others would never hurt us.
syBeauty nipped in the aoaist is
like the rose nipped in the bud.
Self-respect is the noblest gar
ment we can clothe ourselves in.