Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-02-02
u u, IL WI 8

FEMALE OBsTINAcY--Let woman
maintain against her husband any OBJ
inion. if she advances nothing in sup
port Of it, he can never answer or over
come her. For fine thinks to tie her
Up BY chain Of reasoning, or thread
OF discourse,, it is like tying to lift a
ball Of yarn off the ground BY the end
OF the thread; the more he pulls the
more yarn he winds off, till All Is gone.
pat the ball still clings to the gound.
4 don't want you any longer, said
merchant to a powerfully tan clerk Of
his store.
"How is it, said purse-proud per-
son toa scholar, shat YOU often see
men Of letters at the house Of the rich
but seldom the rich ut the abode Of
the learncdp 1Itis," replied the 9th
er, "becaus the wise know the value Of
wealth-but the wealthy are ignorant
81 the value ofWisdom.
"l've raised new pair Of boots,
said A. to b. putting forward one as a
samPle--''a handsome fit, chi bought
them to wear in genteel society r'-
aIhey will be likely to last you, your
lifetime, them" rejoined B., sand be
worth something to your heirs"
Why is a newspaper like a good
wife? Because every man ought TO
have one of his own.
WHAT tune is most likely to captiyate
a young lady? A for-t,.ae, to Be sure.
What is lady's most interesting ageg
Her marriage.
MORNING TME-When we change
2 guinea, the shillings escape as things
Of small account; when we break 4 /.
day by idleness in the morning. the
rest Of the hours lose their Importance
~ our eye, Scott.
DURATION OF OAK.-The throne Of
Edward the Confessor is nine hundred
years old; one Of the oaken coronation
chairs has been in its present situation,
|in Westminster Abbey, about FIVE
hundred and forty years; and the old
est wooden bridge Of which we have
any account, is of oak; it il famous for
its defence, by Hcratius Coolies. and
existed at Rome FIVE hundred years
before our Saviour.
IRON MoUNTArN IN KESrucKy.-The
Louisville City Gazette says, Kentucky
contains most extraordinary bank Of
iron ore. It IS a hill (rising considera-
ply above the surface) Of many humid
red acres area, and the ole to the depth
Of seventeen feet can be had with If
tie or no stripping. From an estimate
made, it has been found that ii would
supply sixteen blast furnaces Of the
tlrst class for fifty years.
It's impossible that an ill-natured
man can have public spirit; for how
should he love ten thousand men who
never loved oneg
A young lad, 4 few days since. pas
sing along the street, and observing a
caPsizcd wagon, exclaimed Father.
there's another Wing victory.
There is not d single daily paper 10
Liverpool, England, city nearly as
large as N. York.
MORE LyNcHINe. III IS stated il
the Scioto (Ohio) Tribune that 4 man
was lynched, recently, In Guyandottc.
va. The charge was abclitionism.
and the punishment tarring, fcatherinc
and riding on . rail.
A slaughter house, ia Wcstport. XIV.
p which were stored away five humid
led hogs that had been put Ii barrels.
vas burned on thc night of the 3Ist
az That may De called i whole hog
ire.
The South Carolina loan Of Eve hun
lred thousand pounds at ave per cert
lad been taken BY Barring and Broth
ITS. Several contractors have taken
ne Mississippi loan Of Two hundred
snd MY thousand pounds, at g3: s per
,enE, interest. Wear Of opinion that
no Hon. Denis PFieur hns succeeded
obtaining the loan 81 loans which he
vas empowered to elect. A great a.
Mount cfbusiness ia American i secuai-
ies was done in the week endinp the
'4th Nov. Oneofthe papers savs that
addition to the South Carolina and
'ilsslss.ppi loans, bona fide investments
Kcecding over $3O0,0O0 had been eI-
ected- caused, 1t was surmiscd. by the
2 Of money and the high rate
Interest.