Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1859 — Habit, [ARTICLE]

Habit,

Like the flake ol snow that tails unperceived upon the earth, the seeming unimportant succeed one afer another. As the snow gathers together, so are our habits formed. No single tl.iki’ that is added to that pile produces a sensible change; no single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man’s character: but, as the tempest hurls the avalanche down the mountain, and overwhehrfS the inhabitant and his habitation, so passions act : ’ upon the elements of mischief, which pernicious habits have brought together bv imperceptible accumulation, may overthrow the edifice of truth and virtue.— Benlhajn. OQ‘The Boston Common Council has appropriated SIO,OOO for tiie suitable celebration of the next Fourth of July. (k.'T’Geologic.aliv speaking, says Hood, the r.'-ck upon which hard drinkers split is