St. Joseph in 1859 had the bustling appearance of a great fair, with excited travelers preparing to make the plains journey in pra...irie schooners, "rickety old farm wagons," and even small two-wheeled push carts. many bore such mottoes as--"Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady," "I Dare," "For Pike's Peak Ho." Before long many were to return, disappointed in their search for gold, hungry, ragged, and dispirited, their brave wagon boasts changed to "Prodigal Son," "Pike's Hell," "A Fool Is Born."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixt... you,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reason ... why travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicion ... that there is nothing to be extracted from the conversation ... worth the trouble of their bad language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they ar...e wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her hus...band a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »