Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-11-22

Things Wisse ~ Otherwise.
Believe not All you hear, nor report
hot all you believe.
Look at your own bad passions, and
you need not 20 into society To know
mankind --for you have seen the world.
Pedestrian Weston eats only eggs,
chickens, beef steak aud stale bread,
drinks cold tea, and sleeps on husks.
Where there Is love in the heart,
there are rainbows In the eyes, cover
ing black clouds with gorgeous hucs. "
A Western editor has placed over his
marriage cut representing large trap
sprung, with this motto: The trap
down-another ninny csught I"
A Texas editor, ON being asked how
he rot along with his paper, said he
had written one editorial, and shot
three men In tile previous month,
Aim high In life. II you don't hit,
the stars, you can land i'm the mud.
Anything Is better than stupid inac-
tion. Even muddy man is worth
dozen lazy ones.
The Erie (Pa.) Gazette suggests that
the church pews i'm that city be placed
not be obliged to strain their nccks cv-
cry time somebody comes into the
church.
A disheartened watering-place isrrf-
lord gives vent to his feelings In tho
| following paraphrase Broad Is the
way that leads To- France, aud many
sail together there; while Newport
shows her favoritc haunts, with hero
| and there n traveller ~
| T.. w. Stewart writes tho Fdrn,er,
that after an experience OF more than
ten years, he finds two bushels of
steamed hay are worth three bushels OF
unsteamed, and that one quart OF corn
meal steamed with n bushel of straw is
equal TO a bushel Of hay. a}
! A drunkard IL the annoyance of mod
esty, the trouble of civility, the CATER
pillar of industry, the tunnel of wealth.,
the ale house benetaetor, the beggar's
companion, the constahle's trouble, tho
woe of his wife, tho scoH of his neigh
Dor, his own shame, the picture of d
beast and the monster OF n man.
Dan. Rice, tho Snowman, has retired
permanently from the business. At
his farewell performances In Pittsburs,
where he also began his career, nm eie.
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| ted to him, and he made speech, in
which he boasted of having made more
money than any six managers I'm the
country, and said that he had given
away, during twcn'y-siS years, more
than million and a half dollars to va
rious charitable enterprises.
An experienced editor pays high
and deserved compliment to the fair
patrons of the press. Women, he says,
are the best subscribers In the world tu
newspaper, magazines. etc. We have
been an editor for forty years, and new
er lost n dollar by female subscribers.
i They seem to mako IL a point of consci-
entious duty tn pny the preacher and
the printer-two classes Of the commit :
nifty that suffer more by bad pay and
no pay at oil, than all tho rest put to-
gether. -.....4... ... stsa
Thomas Carlyle says Of the literature
of fiction " In fifty years, should
guess, all really serious souls will have
quilted that mad province, left tn tire
roaring populaces; and for any noJis-
man or useful person IL will be credit
rather TO declare, never tried iiterl-
ture-believe me. / have not written
anything and we of literature by
trade, we shall sink again, l perceive,
to the rank of tho street fiddling, no
higher rank, though with endless IN +.
crease OF sixpcnco thrown into the
hat t Had afat
A strong sensible writer says good
sharp thing--and true one--for boys
who use tobacco. 1t has utterly ruined
thousands of boys. 1t TENTS to soften
ing aud weakening the bones, and IL
greatly Injuries the brain, the spifat
marrow, and the whole nervous fluid.
A boy who smokes early and frequent
ly, or I'm any way uses large quantities
of tobacco, il never known to make n
man OF much energy, and generally
lacks muscular and physical as well as
mental power. We should particularly
warE boys who want To be something
In the world, to shun tobacco as n most
hanefni poison. IL Injuries the teeth.
1t produces an unhealthy state of tho
throat and lungs. hurts the stomach,
, and blasts the brain and nerves.
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