The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-24
THE GATE CITY.
W.T. AND WISDOM.


The most certain preventive of home
sickness is scolding wife.
Why is a blacksmith like safe
steed Because one .isa horse-shoer and
the other is sure horse.
Bacon says that labor onquers all
things, but idleness conquers more peo-
pie than labor does.
The world always receives talent with
open arms, but otteu does not know what
to do with genius
Why would tying slow horse to
post improve his pace?-Because 1t would
be way to make him fast.
Sickness, starvation, sourness and
sadness arc said to be very prevalent at
Richmond. They are the consequences
of sin. and the sinners are beginning to
see it.
-Quib being about to leave town. re-
marked to his servant thathe should 'start
for New York tomorrow, Dec uolente'
(God willing. "What route is that
sir?" inquired the valet "By way of
Providence, counsel" replied Quib.--
Boston Post
Many philosopher who thought he
had an exact knowledge of the whole hu-
man race has been miserably cheated in
the choice of a wife.
A western editor speaks of a man
who 'sdied without the aid of physi
cian.''
Sneh instances are rare.
Albert Smith once wrote an article
in Blackwood signed "a. 81 Tut"
said Jerold. +" what pity Smith will on
ly tell two thirds of the truth
The loud tones 10 which some men
appeal TO reason would imply that reason
is 4 great distance from them.
The substance Of the plan of the
rebel sympathisers for bringing about
peace with the South is that we turn tail
and run.
lire is good thing in the house,
but it should be in the chimney, and not
in the wife's mper--cooking the vict-
uals not roasting the husband.
CoSsoLATIoN.-An old maid was wont
to console herself for her dsappointments
in the matrimonial line by the following
reflection :-''If she had been married,
aud had a baby, and the poor thing had
crawled into the oven and burnt itself to
death, what horrible thing it would
have been :"
FRIENDLY. = That worthy sect, the
Quakers, have custom of shaking hands
all round at the close of their religious
meetings. To gentleman who inquired
the meaning of this practice, the reply
was. that 1t was done to show that they
parted "good Friends Y
Mature keeps writing her books in
every ones heart-new edition of the
same old poem read with new delight !;
her gem books are bound in the heart of
women; these are the gift books. and
each happy man claims the copyright
"A Young lady, being asked by fe-
male Acquaintance whether she had any
original poetry in her album, replied =
"No. but s5me Of my frienis have favor
ed ne wi.h some original spelling"
In the illness Of Coleman, the doc
tor being latei appointment, apoogizei
to his patent, saying he had been called
TO see man who had fallen down a we'll
"Did he kick the bucket, doctor?'
Manhood is value the essence Of
all value is found 10 the individual soul
and therefore the final use OF the world
of society, Of action, of all that man doe:
and ali that surrounds him, is to develop
intelligence, to bring forth the mind anc
soul into power, in fine, to realize il
each the spiritual possibilities of man.
Love can get along with very it'll
language. Two squeezes aad hug vii
convey more meaning than the whole fv
books of Moses.