Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-04

-, man love and hate, are portrayed In al
r. their realistic power; and that toucl
q which "makes the whole world akin,
q takes hold of us, and expand
!. our nature, obliteraies Nations
(. lines and social distinctions, an'
fills us with love and benevolenc'
( toward our common struggling hu
manity, and noble aspirations to con
/. tribute TO the worlds good.
Apart from the influence Of our di
| vine religion, there is nothing 60 Gle
, waiting as the study Of literature. Tho
, mind is led away from the more vul
gar, commonplace things OF life, and
engaged in the purcst, brightest,
noblest and best thoughts and feeling,
OF humanity. The splendid creations
I Of genius, dclineating and attractiycly
Displaying all that is good and beeuti-
ful in character and grand in life and
action, presenting humanity In its
more idealistic forms, throw u magic
wand over the mind and
| win us back to purity and
duty. 1T gives dignity 20 the MUD,
cultivates and chastens the emotional
nature, WHITES the imagination, and
creates taste for tine true, the good and
the beautiful. To the cultivated mind.
a simple flower, clambering vine, or
iece OF art, displays thousand beau.
| ties which are forever sealed to the
uncultured mind. The "tender pas-
sion'' pictured in the love-romance Of
even the most abject slave contains
for tlleone q world of pathos and SYM
pathy. while the other looks upon the
most piercing heart-pangs as the
lawful plaything of destiny.
The great body of En-
glish literature furnishes sufficient
mental food for all casts and grades of
mind, by means Of which the powers
of all may be fully developed, and the
mind "worked for all it is worth.n
The latent beauties of character may
be drawn out and made to shine with
increasing lustre, even in the most OBJ
scure walks of life. The trough dia-
mond," by the friction of thought, has
all its prismatical beauties drawn to
the surface, and the once obscured
jewel flashes in beauty and splendor.
1t is only by a careful study of our
tl,nt IL ~, =
and write our language with chasteness
and beauty and while this is very
desirable accomplishment il is attain |
able by almost every hoy and girl in
America. The charm Of conversation |
is increased an hundred.fold 10y sim
Pile and justified beauty Of diction,
aud it may be had by simply giving
q title attention TO some of the lead
ing English authors. Let the young
readers make their. words and thoughts
their own,
In Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Walter
Scott and others, we have an mex
haustible store of English in its sim
plest, nurest grandcst and most beau.
FIJI form. "a iargon of fourteen syla-
bles is not what we understand to be
good English; but in this matter sim
picity is purity, beauty and strength.
y public library in Fort Worth that
would place the standard English
authors in the reach of our young pee
pie, would confer imperishablc honor
on the "lounder'sn name.
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"Nou ought to change" the parson cried,
"And lead Il better lie"
VI viii" the sinner bold replied;
Then stole the deacon's wife.
IL 1852, in England alone, 7Ss, 900
pnupcrs received public relief
a BosToN house advertises "shoes
for elopements." They don't squeak,
-e-s-s-
MARIE ANTq.NETrE's harp has been
found in an oldcurlosity shop in Berlin.
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OVER 5000, 000,00 feet of long-leaf
pines are now standing In North Carolina.
80 -
THEY are making wmprng-paper
out Of rice, straw and palm leaves in Georgia
--s-e@e
MASSACHUSETTS ladies, meeting AT
social calls, tall, politics almost exclusively. I!
----s - -
NEARLY 500 Of the inqucsts held in
England and Wales in 1859 resulted In n YER
iiet of"ded from excessive drink"
-s-s- So
JERSEY lightning takes its name
rom the Sussey county apple Jack, oil which /
SEQ gallons IRE manufactured annually.
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CALIFORNIA newspapers boast that
8ndd, one OF The new Democratic congress. {
men from that state, wears forty.dol,ar nm. !
lcrshhts. [
a MAN named Radcliffe, who has
nst eied at shehiAld, for n long time has pre-.
ended 10 hca bearded woman and was IA
;rcot attraction 10 tile cnrlous.
W. /
y NEWLY married lady was telling t
mother how nicely her husband could write
oh, you should Just see some OF his love lot. /
ers.' "Ies, know" was the freezing 70. h
ny; "lyc got a bushel OF em In my trunk. - ,
'ablcau, +
AT the November election The peo- Z
he of New York Will vote for or against the {
'roposition TO abolish convict lator in the i
tate prisons and substitute ldleness. The
alue OF this labor - the state at present is
,o),eoo,
--s -o-s---- Il
y YOUNG lady in Portland, Me-. in |,
en'od II table for Pullman cars nnd applied i
or patent, but. fearing She would moi rel L
!, she worried herself Into a sickness which {