The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-04-30
VARIETIES.

RATHER GREEN.-An Ohio paper relates that
a member of the Legislature Of that State
went to party the other evening and was so
much pleased with the sugar plums that he
asked for few extra to take home to plant.
lie said it was the best fruit he ever tasted,
and his children would be delighted with them.
81 have never felt willing" said Dr. Dewy
in one of his recent lectures, sin performing
the marriage ceremony, to use the word obcH
in reference to the wife, wedlock being a state
of entire reciprocity" DR.. Dewy was right
1t is very foolish to make woman tell Il lie
when no possible good can come from it.
1t is ascertaned that the insurance on prop
erty destroyed by the recent fire in Philadel-
phia, amounted to $4,000 of which S25O,0OO
was in companies out of that city. The loss
it is said, is double the amount Of insurance
To CURE SORE Conscience to printer
whom you owc-rub an eagle in his hand till
it sticks. The effect on yourself will be most
cheering and on him astonishing"
People should not think of counting rcpose
till they have done counting the girls. Love
is as much stranger to contentment as muir.
der
Cucumbcrs were selling in market at Gin
cinnati, on Tuesday last, at % cents piece.
Kossuth in the Soutl,-"Teni, rid, ramos
ed''-'I came, saw, and | left" So much
for Buckingham.
The population of the world is estimated at
nine hundred and sixty millions
Borrowed troubles are the most distress
ing" says an old saw. That accounts for the
fact that people who borrow their newspapers
are the most afflicted by the bad management
and incompctency of the editor.
EsQrrRE.-Thc question is often asked. Who
is entitled to the title of Esquire, in the
United States according to usage! The an-
swer is plain-eyery man who has taken to
himself IL wife.
BE KIND TO YOUR MoTnEE.-"What would |
give" said Charles Lamb, "to call my mother
back to earth for one day TO ask her pardon,
upon my knees, for all those acts by which |
gave her gentle spirit pain"
Rising early has been called the stepping
stone to all that is great and good in life, ma
king the poor man rich and the feeble strong.
"Glo,y to goodness" said an old woman
who had fnanciered out of a quandary, 81
nave borrowed IioHcN cHo"SH W pay al ny
dcbts!'
zone of the rarites of life," says Eliza Cook,
'is woman thoroughly satisfied with her
daughter-in-law."
They say Lola Montez is going to edit a dali
ly paper at Boston, which causes the Wash
ington Telegraph to ask: "lIave they no va
cant pulpit!'
A correspondent of the n. Y. Evening Post
saws that the extent to which the use of opium
as stimulent is practced by people esteemed
temperate, even in this country, is probably
one thousand times greater than is generally
believed.
"Pat, can you tell me what is a virgn5'--
"To be sure can, Jimmy" ''Wel then will
We be afthcr doin' it," "Yis, ist it's woman
that has niver been married at al" 'Be We
in arnest, Pat!" "Yis, Jimmy" "The saints
in heaven be praised, then; my mother is a
virgin; my father nivcr married her at all, at
all, sure"
Upon the altar of our affections we build
up the hopes of future, little dreaming that
our reliance upon the superstructure is as frail
as the promise of liar
The grave of the young should be moistcn,
ed with the tears of joy, instead of grief, for
their grave is the mausolem that shuts out
from them forever the contact Of earthly
trouble and misery.