The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-02-27
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A fool (says the Arab proverb) may be
known by six things, viz: Anger without
cause, speech without profit, change without
motive, inquiry without object putting trust
in stranger, and not knowing his friends
/ from his foes.
Most men employ their first years so as to
make their last miserable.
| When YOU see a man who is ashamed to be
seen carrying bundle through the streets,
no matter how insignificant il may be in size,
you may put him down for brainless pup
! py, who is incapable of doing anything else.
UPAs TREE on THE IsrnMUs.-The Panama
Star states that a man named James Linn,
while hunting on the CORONA road, grew
tired and lay down TO sleep under u tree. On
waking he found his limbs and body swelling,
and death soon ensued. The Star says that "a
tree grows on the Isthmus under which cattle
avoid eating or resting
The principal coin in circulation in Califor-
MIA is fifty dollar gold pieces, which they call
Sings No one objects to receive" them; but
to get these pieces changed for smaller coin,
or, in other words, to run the slugs into grape
or canister, involves a loss of three dollars
and half per slug, which the Californians do
object to.
The House of Representatives of Ohio, on
the 9Th inst, refused to pay the expenses of
NJ. Kossuth, while on q visit to that State. A
resolution directing an appropriation for this
purpose was laid on the table in that body by
vote of 46 yeas to 20 nays.
The man who made fortune by endorsing,
is on a visit to the old gentleman who extract
ed moonbeams from cucumbers.
CURE FOR RNGwonM-Apply repeatedly
paste of common gunpowder in water.
How pleasant is a lovely thing little out
of season. rosebud in winter, for instance,
or kiss in church when the dcacon's eyes are
"closed in prayer" Stolen apples don't be-
gin with it.
The Maine Liquor Bill has been introduced
into the Pennsylvania Legislature, but of its
final passage there is considerable doubt
They have got to growing chickens SO large
in Massachusetts, that farmers have to sell
them by the quarter like beef These are
chickens to crow over.
A teegraphic despatch from Washington
saws that Col. Doniphan has been appointed
Governor of Utah, in place of brigham
Young A happy change.
There are more persons who can read and
write in the 22,OOO,OOO of population in the
United States than in the l50,O00,000 in
Europe
CURE FOR Sore TnRoAT.-Take one tea spoon
full each of red pepper and common salt, mix
with vinegar and gurgle the throat repeated
ly.
1t is stated that the first piece of cloth ever
made in the United States, was manufactured
in Hartford Conn, by jeremiah Wadsworth,
in 1890, and that General Washington was
dressed in a suit of clothes made from this
cloth.
To better the condition of this world, there
should be more charity and less almsgiving-
more kindness and less broken vietuals. A
good natured word is worth more to some
men, than all the cold potatoes that were ever
cooked. People who send away folks with
shilling and slammed door, will please copy.
Gle who dares to injure a woman" said
Kossuth, in his speech to the ladies at Tripler
Hall, sis despised in the East like a dog"
Milk so nutritious when taken as food, if ir.
iected into the veins, acts as deadly poison.
Air, SO excellent for the lungs acts in the
same way.-Another.
Saltpetre, so excellent for preserving, when
elected from gun barrel, acts in the same
way.-Schenectody Cabinet.
Boots, so excellent for wearing, when eject
ed too rapidly, and too near the region bound
ed by gentlemen's coat-tais, acts upon men as
saltpetre upon gun barrels-makes them go
Chif
An OLD PArER.-The Hartford Courant,
with the commencement of the new year, en-
termed upon the eighty ninth year of its ex-
istencc. It was originally published upon
small sheet less than foolscap SIZE and has
expanded until it is now one of the largest
and most remarkable journals in the country.
We have seen in several papers a mutilated
reply to the lady who requested gentlemans
cypher. The correct rejoinder reads:
You 0 my 0, but thee;
OOnoO, but o me!
Then let my 0 thy be,
And give o. 0 thee!
And the solution:
You sigh for my cypher, but I sigh for thee;
o, sigh for no cypher but o sigh for me!
Then let my cypher thy cypher be,
And give sigh for sigh, for sigh for theel
BEAUTIFUL METAPHOR. comparison of
the journey of life to a transit across the des.
ert is very felicitously expressed in the follow
NY lIHcs ny NHuIlcS W eoiey'
''Here in this body pent,
Absent from Heaven | roam
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent nd.
4 days march nearer home"
INDTANA.-A bill has passed the Legislature,
dividing that State into eleven Congressional
districts agreeably to the apportionment Of
under the new census. I'm
der the old census, she had but ten members
to the Presidential vote of ls4S, all
the new districts were Democratic, by ma
orities ranging from l66 to 1883. Taylors
majority in the two Wing districts was 900
and 243.
Gov. Ujhazy's daughters, who are highly
educated, and were raised in the most refined
society, it is said may be seen daily at work
in the cornfeld, with a hoe on their farm, at
New Buda, Iowa.
We know man who may be safely trusted
with Secretion nothing he says is believed
A late English paper estimates the value of
Furs sent to the markets of the world during
-he year 1850 at $30,OOOOOO. Russia alone