Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-11
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LOST FRIENDSHIPS.
BY KITTY CARROLL

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':And friendships were formed too romantic to
last" BYRON.
He spoke of the hours of fond recollection,
When mem'ry glanced down the dim aisles of the
How sad--ah, how sad-must have been the re6ec-
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That friendships were formed too romantic to
last!" ,. q,
Though the wreck of those Friendships torture
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And rise like grim ghosts from the shadowy past,
The heart loves torevert to those hours of gadness
When friendships were formed too romantic to
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Though those friendships were unworthy, what
matters if passion
Its lowering cloud Ger the feelings hath cast;
What heart does not melt in loving compassion,
Ger friendships that we're too romantic to lastY'
There are none that in hours of lfere trospecton,
When sadly reviewing the hours of the past,
But have felt heart-wail at the painful reflection
That Friendships were formed too romantic to
8 last"
How often we dream of the bliss of believing,
That friends and their friendships cannot be sur
passed,
And wake to the pain that they were deceiving
And friendships were formed too romantic to
last p
And, still, though experience teaches no better,
Regardless of shipwreck and storms in the past,
We willingly gladly, are bound in the fetter
Offriendships we form ''too romantic to LAST
In the evening of life, when its sun is declining,
And the shadows of night on it's way is o'ercast,
Memory paints in her airest and richest designing
Lost friendships 'that were too romantic to last"
Muscatine, Jan. II, 1859.
"WAsTE TINE" PROF. Agassiz was
importuned to interrupt his scientific
Investigations and 60 to a distant town
to deliver lecture before a lyceum -
As an extra inducement. he was assured
that the Society would pay him liberal
ly, to which he replied: "That is no
inducement--1 cannot afford wasting
time in making money" How many,
we ask, are there that do not devote all
their time to this very purpose-wasting
it solely to make money?
ASH WEDNEsDAY.-Ash Wednesday
is so called because on it the Romish
priests were wont to make the sign Of
the cross upon the foreheads of the
people, admonishing with the words,
''Thou art dust and ashes, and shalt
return to dust and ashes.'' The words
are still retained in the Funeral Service
Of the Episcopal Church, "Dust to
dust, ashes to ashes"
SMILES. There is vacant smile,
a cold smile, q smile Of hate, satiric
smile, an affected smile, smile of APP
probation, a friendly smile, and, above
all, the sweet smile Of love. A woman
has two smiles that an angel might en-
vy-the smile that accepts the lover
before the words are uttered, and the
smile that lights on the first born baby,
and assures it Of mothers love.
Eag Lalande, the French Astrono-
mer, when the revolution broke out,
only paid the more attention to his
study of the heavenly bodies and find
ing, at the end, that he had escaped
the fury Of Robespierre and his fellow
rufians, he gratefully remarked, II
may thank my stars for it."
How GREAT MEN ARE GROWN. 1T
is times Of calamity and confusion that
are ever most productive of great and
powerful minds. The purest ore is pro-
duced in the hottest furnace, and the
brightest thunderbolt is elected from
the darkest storm.
Misunderstanding and chewing
are sometimes beneficial. Smoking is
good when practiced by foolish takers;
it promotes silence. Both are good to
tobacco growers. In every other re-
spect they are useless and injurious.
The RIGHT SpIR1T.-A Christian
had better 90 to the theatre than 20
home whining because he can't. If it
is worth while doing anything for
Christ, it is worth while doing with your
head up, and with your whole heart.