The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-03-20
was and wisdom

It WAT and wisdom.
S
It Goodness does not more certainly make
!; ! men happy than happiness makes them
good.
: Difficulties and strong men, like strop and
! razor, are made for each other.
Many who say they have given up would
be much mortified at being given up by
others.
1t is the destiny Of the obscure to be des-
: pised it is the privilege Of the illustrious
to be hated.
/ 1t is fortunate for Fortune that she. is
blind, else she might blush to behold the
fools she patronizes.
Look well to your daughters Sparks
failing on your house are often less danger
Gus than those coming into it.
! Stupid people may eat, but shouldn't talk.
Their mouths will do well enough ss banks
ofdeposit, but not Of issue.
! AYankee, on going with friend to dina
at the house Of an acquaintance, in order to
save time said, "Scrape for me, while mock
for both Of US"
He is . contemplate fellow that sneaks
through life on tiptoe. with his ears a. the
ksyhole Of everybody's business.
Most great inventions are gradually de-
veloped through series Of years. The age
and not the man inveuts
What is the difference between . clergy,
man and conjurer One is . divine and
the other diviner.
The happiest of pillows is not that which
love first presses it is that whichdeath has
frowned on and passed over.
To assert that those who have discovered
a thorough knowledge Of the depravity Of
human heart, must be themselves depyaved,
about as wise as to affirm that every physi-
clan who understands . disease, must be
himself diseased.
A Connecticut soldier writes home that
the comm;ssary at Annapolis has given the
boys so much mule meat that the ears of the,
whole regiment have gr own three and one
half inches since their arrival at the Mary
land capital -.
Religion is not thing which spends it.
SELF II is like river which widens con-
tinually, and is never so broad or so deep as
at its mouth, where it rolls int" the ocean Of
eternity.
A pretty girl was lately complaining to
a Quaker friend that she had cold, and
was sadly plagued in her lips by chaps
"Friend," said Obadiah, "thee should never
suffer the chaps to come near thy lips"
The question WAs once raised whether
women. wine, or the king were the strongestr'
Decided, without division, in favor Of the
first Of these potent forces
"Have you dined 2" said lounger to his
friend. ~ have, upon my honor" replied
he. "Then," rejoined the first, ''ifyou have
lined upon your honor, fear you have made
but scanty meats
"Joe, why were you out so late last nightr
at wasn't so very late Only q quarter Of
twelve" "How dare you sit there and tell
me that? was awake when you came in,
and IL was three o'clock. "well, isn't three
a quarter Of twelve ~
Among hsletters found by our soldiers
in the rebel camp on Roanoke Island, was
one from a young lady in the South to her
lover in the rebel army, in which she says,
81 hope we shall see each other again here
but if we do not, hope we shall meet in
Heaven, where there will be no Yankees.
George I, on journey to Hanover, stop
ped at village in Holland, and while
the horses were getting ready, he asked for
two or three eggs, which were brought him.
and charged two hundred forms. SLOW is
this.' said his majesty. eggs must DO
very scarce in this place." "Pardon me-"
said the host-"eggs are plenty enough, but
kings are scarce" The king smiled, and
| ordered the money to be paid.
"IIallc, stranger, you appear to be travel,
ing" "Yes, I always travel when on
journey" II think that have seen you
somewhere" "Very likely ycu have-I
have often been there" "And priy hat
might be your namer' "Well, i might Be-
Sam Patch !; it isn't" slave you been long
in these parts" "Never more than at pres
ent-five feet nine." "Do you get anything
new" "Yes bought new whet stone
this morning" II thought so-you are the
sharpest blade have seen on this road"