Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
WIT AND WISDOM.

Content is the mother Of good diges'
ton.
Hasty people drink the wine of life
scalding hot.
| He that is too good for good advice, IL
too good for neighbours company. q q
Speaking of apples, it is rather re.
markable that the first apple in Para
disc should have turned out the first
pair.
What is the first business transaction
recorded in the Bible? Pharaoh's check
on the bank Of the Red Sea, which
Moses passed. sF'-1 81
An exchange says-"There Is some.
thing inexpressibly sweet about little
girls.n The Louisville Journal adds,
"And it grows on 'em as they get
bigger"
~ wonder where those clouds are
going ?" sighed Flora pensively, as she
pointed with her finger to the heavy
masses that flOated in the sky. ~
think they are going to thunder" said
her brother.
A countryman was shown Gains
borough's celebrated picture of "The
Pigs" "To be sure" said he, ''they
be deadly pigs but there is one fault
nobody ever saw three pigs feeding to-
gether but what one On'em had foot
in the trough"
At wedding, recently, when the
officiating clergyman put the lady the
question, "Wilt thou have this man to
be thy husband?" she dropped her pref
test courtesy, aud with modesty which
lent to her beauty an additional grace,
replied eff you please" 81. p.
A woman was killed in Newport last
week while walking on the sidewalk,
by heavy carpet, which was thrown
from third story window. The coro-
ner's Jury rendered an extraor1in ary
verdict, to the effect that "they are de-
serving of the severest censure who
threw so heavy carpet from so high a
window"
FANNY FERN.-Fanny Fern is the
wife of James Parton, ESQ.,, once editor
of the Home Journal, and since author
of various biographies. She is also the
sister of Willis, and by her he had q
pen -and-ink portrait drawn in such &C
curate though startling colors that the
likeness has since been vivid in the pub
lie mind. Fanny can be seen on Broad
way almost any day, with her daughter
and often accompanied by a negress
bearing the child of another, now
deceased, who was the wife of that jovia
Bohemian known as 'Doesticks. "
Fanny is not young now-wrinkles have
ruthlessly intruded into her brow anC
cheeks, and the sedateness of maturity
is becoming more and more apparent il
all her actions. She has pale com
plexion tinged to yellow, and light
wavy hair. She moves with a brisk
step, with rapid and general Observa
ton of everything about her, and face
animated and pleasant. To judge hel
by her writing she is rough, bolster
Gus, masculine creature, with very little
of the woman and very great deal O
the tiger. To appreciate heras she is, a.
the wife, mother and friend, she mus
be regarded as truly amiable, affection
ate and devoted woman, and the light O
a cultivated, joyous home. She has :
style Of blunt, bitter, Independent
writing, that has Aade a literary name
and money besides; but her persona
characteristics are much more accept
able to taste and conducive to esteem
You had better not tread on her toes
however. She knows her rights, anC
dares maintain them. In fact, she /!
! the woman until it is necessary to &C
the man. and then her tongue and per
become thunderbo1ts of wrath. -Sandas
| Mercury.