The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-11-03
SUNDAY READING,

-Luther's own life was model Of quiet
simplicity. He remained poor. he might
have had money, IL he had wished; bnt
he chose rather, amidst hin enormous Ia
Dor, to work at turning>lsthe for his kvel>
hood. He was socisble, cheerful, fond Of
innocent amusements. and delighted to en-
courage them. His table talk, collected BY
bis friends, makes one of the most brilliant
books In the world. He had no monkish
theories about the necessify Of abstinence;
but he Was temperate from habit and princi
pie. A salt herring and . bunch Of bread
was his ordinary meal and he was once four
days without food of any sort, having emp
tied his larder among the poor.
Erasmus was philosopher. A powder
magazine was once blown mp BY lightning in
a town where Erasmus WAS staying, and .
house of Infamous character WAS destroyed.
The inhabitants saw IN what had happened
the Divine anger against ain. Erasmus told
them that il there was any anger in the mat>
ter, it was anger merely with the folly which
had stored powder in an exposed situation.
English ladies'" says Erasmus, "are di.
vinely pretty, and too good.natured. They
have an excellent custom among them that
wherever you 60 the girls kiss you. They
kiss you when you come, they kiss you when
you 70, they kiss you at intervening oppor-
iunities. aud their lips are soft, warm and
delicious" Pretty we'll, that, for . priest
The form changes, the thing remains Su.
perstition, folly aud cunning will go on to the
end Of time, spinning their poison webs
around the conscience OF mankind. Courage
and veracty-these qualities, and only these
avail to defeat them.
The essence Of true nobility is neglect
of self Let the thought of self pass in, and
the beauty of grea. action is gone, like the
bloom from soiled Hover.
Intellectual gifts are like gifts Of strength,
or wealth, or rank, OF worldly power-splen-
did instruments If nobiy used but requir-
ing qualities to use them nobler and better
than Themselves Fioute's Short Stndies.
Originally the toast was material, and
had nothing to do with the sentiment. 1t was
the bit OF browred biscuit which hoated on
every flowing bowl OF punch. In King Will
liam's or Queen Apnes day. as the fashiona.
Bile loungers IN the great bath in the great
city of Bladud were Hiring in the hot water
or taking their chocolate, on the floating cork
slabs, or reading the Gdzffte as they sat on the
invisible sents in the water, they were startled
and delighted at the apparition Of fair
nymph who entered the bath in the most CO.
quettish Of dr. sses, and looking as glorious ~
Amphitrite herself when she glided along the
deep. The fine gentlemen, especially, did
her honor, according to the rongh humor of
the times. They dipped their cups into the
water nearest to where the delighted nymph
herself stood, and drank the liquid OF TO her
honor and glory. Among the eager lockers
on from the gallery was young fellow in the
most resplendent of birth day suits, patch,
powder. and sword; and, drawing the latter,
he exclaimed, with all the 6gnres and flowers
Of liberal speech then in common use, that
he didn't care a .fe6 for the sliqnor, but that
he was resolved to have taste of the toast
in it. This was meant for the lady in the
bath whom the rude gallant thus likened to
Drowned biscuit that IN. those days crowned
the punch. As the speaker looked as if no
were about to put his speech into action,
there Gas general scattering Of the nymphs
Of the stream, with attendant screams and
GREATNESS pauses in A sht, ns much inviting
pursuit as they seemed 10 dread it; and there
was q calling of the beaux for their swords,
and scrambling preparation to defend the
lady from that load voiced ealaat. He, the
while, staggered saucily off to the Kings
Mead, where nobody trohlued him but the
story spread through the city, and from that
DAY the word ''toas!'' was applied to . lady
to whom drinking honors were rendered, till
it gradually came to mean the words in
which the honor was paid.-Athenrmm