Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-08-09
NUMBER 40.
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ITEMS.

A BEE-A singing reprover of the idle.
ADvERslrr-The check. string Of ambi-
| ton.
MoSEr-The travellers best. "pocLet
companion"
LevE-A drop Of honey infused into
the bitters of life.
BusYBopY--A Ay, that seeks to intrude
into everybody's cream-jug.
Musician invisible spirit that soothes
the mind and elevates the soul Of man.
NEwsrARERs-A literary amusement,
from whose summit we gain bird s-eye
! view Of the world.
CLEANLIEE5s-The outposts of Health,
which, if well maintained. prevents the
incursions Of its deadly foe, Disease.
Let your desires and aversions to the
common objects and occurrences Of this
life be but few and feeble. Make it your
daily business 10 moderate your aversions
and desires, and to govern them by rea'
son This will guard you against many Il
rutile Of spirit, both OF anger and sorrow.
A manufactory of needles was set ap
in England, in the reign Of Elizabeth, by
q native of Germany and the first watch
seen in England was presented to tho
Queen by German. In the same reign,
the hour Of dinner with the people Of
high rank was eleven before noon; and
of supper, between five and six in the
afternoon; merchants took each Of
their meals an hour later, and the bus
bardman one hour later than the mcr-
chants.
The change that passes upon ones self,
ally through the wear Of successive days,
that we are hardly conscious how percep-
tbly we are getting through all that We
have to get through here. We fancy,
quite honestly, that we do not look any
cider in the last ten years, and that We
are now jus: the same as we were ten
years since. We fancy that, intellectually
and morally, we are better and physical
ly, just the same. People whose charac-
ter and history are commonplace at least
fancy this in their most cheerful hours
But sometimes it comes home to US what
a change has passed on us, perhaps in not
a very long time. You will feel this es-
pecially in reading.ol letters and diaries ;
the letters you wrote and the diary you
kept long ago. You probably thought
that your present handwriting is exactly
the same as yonr handwriting often years
since but when you put the two side by
side, you will see how different they are.
md in the perusal of these ancient docu-.
ments, it will be borne in upon you how
completely changed are the things you
care for. The cares and interests, the
fears and hopes, Of the old days are main
ly gone You have arrived a: quite differ
ent estimates of people and things and
if you lie a wiser, Juu are doubtless n
sadder man. And when yod 20 back to
the schOolbov spot, or to the house whero
you lived when you were ten years old, It
will be q curious thing to contrast tho
little fellow OF that time, with your own
grave and sober self And you will do SO
the more wildly in the presence Of some
well remembered OBJECT, which has hard
ly changed at all in the years which have
changed you SO much. IL is common
place; bu, commend me to common places
for reaching the common heart the pic
ture of the aged man, or even a man in
middle age, standing beside the tree or
the river by which he played when he was
little child. The hills, the fields, tho
trees around, are the same, and there is
he, so changed !-froEc,'s $ Magazine.