The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-10
THE GATE CITY.


"A bachelors idea Of wedlock-On
Of the casr sl-ties OF life. =
In the nlasquerades of life the great
est towards are apt to wear the most f.
rocious masks. sssss
We cannot change the address Of I
subscriber, unless he gives us his former,
as we'll - his present address.
Love, in tiny form, may enter into
the heart through small aperture, and,
after 1t gets in. grow so big on what II
feeds GU that it can never squeeze out
again. RM
The world is not greater than man.
No man is called on to lose his owa bal
ance for the worlds advancement.
Many run about after felicity, like an
absent man hunting for his hat while it
is OF his head.
1t is said, that, of all the teas, Sou.
chong conduces most to scandal, bat
good many regulations have been blown
up by Gunpowder.
We are apt to see the clouds that
hang over us, forgetting the calm blue
sky beyond.
God needs to be surelier God to bear
with US than even to have made US.
"A great soul has nothing to do with
consistency. He may as well concern
himself with his shadow on the wall.
-"My son, what would You do If your
father should be suddenly taken away from
your" "Sware, chaw tobacker, and 90
to races"
A FACT FOR RIorERs.-The Cap of
Liberty is not amob cap. whatsoever the
cap Cts let him wear it.
"A machine for "pumping" witnesses
is among the hydraulics presented last
week. The inventor is f rst cousin to the
old man who made leather spikes.
The English papers say that the
Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred are
inveterate smokers, as indeed their father
was before them.
What is the difference between a
pulse and policey One man is always on
the beat and the other always off.
Que of the papers observes of Mr..
Wentworth. Member of Congress for q
district of Illinois, that che is 50 tall that
when he addresses the people, instead Of
mounting q stump. as is usual in the
West, they have to dig hole for him to
stand in.''
A dealer in ready made linen adver-
tises his shirts and chemises under the
melllfiuous appellation of "Male and Fe-
male Envelopes
FEkALE pKRvERsIrr.-The more wo-
man is in leve with q man, the more
cheek SHE gives him.
mo pains will be spared,' as the
quack said when saving off poor fellows
leg to cure him of the rheumatism.
"Ma," said ive-year old young lady
to her mother, the other day, edo they
make men the same as they do stock
ingsl" "How absurd yeu are, Jane-of
course not" "Then what made you say
this morning. ma, that Major Spanker
was remarkably we'll knit man ?"
-Spenser, the poet, thus describes the
family OF some ancient genius OF whom
he wrote:
Gan happs man lie his frstdsyes he was,
Aud ha py father of fair progeny;
For ali g. many the year has,
So msny ehiidreD be did mat iply;
OF whish ~~fe 1 -eaty sonuss which did apply
Toer N tads To pca,se et,svsirous siosyse."
In other words, tbe respected parent
had fiity-two ohlldren, A,d twenty of the
boys were in the soldering line.
"A young LAZY, in class studying
physiology, made answer to question
put, that in six years q human body be-
came entirely changed, go that not par
ticle which was In it at the commence
ment Of the period would remain at the
close Of it. "Then, Miss L." said
the young tutor, sin six years you will
cease to be Miss L--?" "Why, yes,
sir, suppose So said she, very modest
ly looking at the floor.