The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-12-04
wit a,.d wisdom.


It is not in brutes that We find most bru-
tality
Man says; make my fortune; woman
wait mine.
Face the devil when you must fly him
when you may.
The pleasure of despising is at al times .
dangerous luxury.
Every man has his friends If hc only
knew where to find them.
Every woman's rights are marriage rites;
every traitors rights, funcral-rites.
Every witticism is an inexact thought
that which is perfectly true is imperfectly
witty.
Superficial men hare no absorbing pas
sion; there are no whrlpools in shallow.
1t is far better to suffer than to lose the
power of ofsuffering.
Obscure writers, like 4urbid streams, seem
deeper than they are.
1t is often nobler, and more difficult, to
conquer doubt than rcdoubt.
If man cannot do his duty in the
situation he is in, he cannot do it any
| where.
None of us can afford to lose the privilege
of suffering for the sake of those We love.
Railroad trains are protected from accident
as houses are from lightning-by good con,
ductors.
1t is said that the wheel Of fortune revolvcs
for all but many fus are broken on the
wheel. /:
A timely death il the great prize Of life
who can regret when it is won by worthy
soul? @ N
We never got vigorous force to repel
evil, until our powers are condensed by sNf-
fering.
1t is not so much the finding ofa Truth,
as the honest search for it, that profits NJ.
"Dear Smith, owe you $50 for articles
I've bought; IF now pay you down the %,
you see owe you o."
Many Christian Rocks are grievously
wroneed. Their pastors devour the products
Of their pastures.
With every child we lose we:.see deeper
into life, as with every added lens pierce far
ther into the sky.
We are prisoners as often as we bolt our
doors, exiles as often as we travel, and dead
as often as we sleep. z...-....
| A green Latin student being requested
to render "Mind your cye'' into the Ian,
guage Of Cicero, wrote "Animus cester
egn."
The bereaved father Of Lord Russell said,
81 would not give my dead son for any 9TH
er mans living one."
single drop of blood in the wrong place
makes all the difference between the phil
osophe.sa the maniac.
five say that circumstances make tha
man: we must also admit that the man often
makes and can always modify the eircum-
stances.
CouNr.Y GrRL.-v Volunteer, will you please
takesthis ham to my cousin, he belongs to
the 2lst regiment. You are from the 20th;
it is quite near.
OBLraING ZouAvE.--Oh, yes, certainly, Of
course,
They have got pig in Hampshire 80
thoroughly educated, that he has taken to
music They regulate his time by twisting
his tail-the greater the twist, the higher
the note. E
i None are so seldom found alone, and ara
so soon tired of their own company, as those
coxcombs who are not on the best terms
with themselves.
The good mans life, like the mountain
4 tor, Hooks beautiful because il is near to heav-
en-.
/ Ifa man asks you to 60 his security, say
'No." and run otherwise you may be er.
saved for life, or your wife and children
may srend a weary existence, in want, sick
ness and beggary.
4 81 love the silent ieatchea of the night"
as the thief said when he robbed the jswelry
store.
| A man, when asked, few days since,
what induced him to make barrister of hs
son, replied, "Oh he was always lying lis-
tie fellow, and thought I'd humor his
leading propensity"
"And where Was the man stabbed ~ asked
an excited lawyer 10 . physician. "The
man was stabbed about On inch and ha'f
to the left Of the medium line, and about an
inch above the nmbilicus,' Was the reply
"Oh, yes, understand now but Thought
it was near the town hall"
Wise men are instructed by reason; men
Of less understanding by experiences; the
more ignorant by necessity and the beast
by nature.
q ANIMAL FooD.-It is well-establiyhed
: fact that, amongst those classes who get the
least animal food, mortality is nearest and
+ disease is most rife, One Of the most COM
mon f0rms of disease generated by: an exciu-
svely vegetable diet is scrofrla, and when
traceable to this cause the most speedy rem.
edy is the addition Of animal food TO the d.
ct There arc also many other forms Of
, disease produced by the want of animal
: food, which require for their slre but an
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