Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-06
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CORY 0'LANUS' EPISrLE.

CORY O'LANUS' EPISTLE.
bIes-, bout ihe Hoek-H rection.
We have had our Merry Christmas
and are getting ready for our Happy
New Year. O.
I have heard some people regret that
we have not more holidays; all work
and no play makes Jack dull boy.
For my own part could stand any
number Of holidays. have one of those
constitutions that could get along very
we'll without work. 49,
But, overcoming my constitutional re
pugnance to labor, work to set good
example to my children.
Likewise to satisfy the demands of
the grocer, butcher, and various trades
men who require currency to carry on
their business.
I should like more holidays myself,
but if we had any more, we might fall
short of adjectives to designate them.
We have
Merry Christmas,
Happy New Year,
The glorious Fourth of July,
And jolly Thanksgiving.
Having an opportunity to be merry,
happy, glorious and jolly every year, we
ought to be satisfied. ,
Some folks I know get glorious on
each of these days.
And keep it up on other occasions.
But my motto is to be virtuous and be
happy, as / tell O'Pake when he goes to
Albany. s-s,
In which connection it is gratifying to
see announced in the papers that the Ia
dies on the Heights will not offer wine
to the gentlemen who call on them on
New Years day.
1t is to be hoped that this example
will be followed by the ladies of the
Patch, and other fashionable localities.
It is movement in which the ladies of
Brooklyn should be united.
Then let the gentlemen unanimously
resolve to stay at home on New Years
day, then we shall escape the deplorable
geniality, the shocking heartiness Of the
social greetings, and the wicked happi-
ness that flows from friendly and hos
pitable observance of the day, which has
soured the dispositions of some dyspep-
tic divine.
did New Years once on strictly
temperance principles-took nothing but
lemonade and coffee.
I drank forty-six lemonades and
thirty-four cups of coffee.
+ Either the lemonade did not agree
with me, or the coffee was too strong,
or mixing them was bad; at any rate
there was sick man at our house the
next day.
Since then I never mix my liquors.
You will be happy to hear that
MY BOOK
is going off like hot cakes. and I am
rapidly accumulating fortune from its
sale.
The Albany argus, in noticing the
book, says:
"The man who Auttered the Volsci-
who dictated to Rome-whose impeni
tent heart defed his wife, but who
.cayed' in the presence of his mother
did not write this book. 1t is from the
pen of the distinguished author-whe
became almost extinguished, under the
attention of the Lincoln administration
when he was confined in Fort Lafayette
His literary progeny is full of fun and
every paragraph is broken with laugh.
ter into fine pieces-which show theii
origin in Fort Laughyett."
My Albany friend is laboring under a
slight mistake.
The Lincoln administration, no doubt
through jealousy Of my popularity and
influence, never showed me the slightest
attention.
When I wanted to 60 to Fort Lafa-
yette to see man who boarded there
one summer, / had to beg for card Of
introduction from General Dix, pay my
own way down, and when I got there
they wouldn't let me stay but an hour.
Parties who staid some time in the
Fort have assured me that the longer
you staid there the less they liked it, SO
perhaps it was out of considerations fol-
my feelings that they turned me out SO
soon.
Wishing you happy New. Year, ]
am, yours for 1868,
CORY O'LANUs.
|-Brooklym Eagle.