The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-03-05
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| RENowN.-Wood burns because it has the
proper stuff for that purpose in it; and man
becomes renowned because he has the neces-
sary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought,
and all pursuit of it is vain. X person may,
indeed, by skilful conduct and various artiti-
| cial means make sort of name for himself !;
but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity,
and will not last day.
! All created principles are only so many par
ticular displays of the infinite principles
which exist in the Creator; and each shows a
| degree of love and wisdom in Him, and prop
er to Him.
People who die pennyless, have this fact to
console them-that their children always in
herit their property. With rich people the
case is different, the most of their effects go to
the executors.
! Men never get weaned When they are
babies, they suck their mothers; when middle
aged, they suck 'the old man." when advanced
in years, they suck long-leggd pipe. A nip
! pie OF some kind seems Indispensable to their
I happiness.
! THE BOWELS OF AN ATTORNEY GENERAI-Mr.
Erskine, when a counsel in the Court of King 8
bench, told Mr.. Jekyll, ''that he had pain in
the bowels, for which he could get no relic"
! "lll give you an infallible specific" replied
the humorous barrister; "get made attorney
general, my friend, and then you'll have no
bowels at all"
Corn which is intended for the market,
should not be shelled until near the time of
sending it away; it should then be thoroughly
dry, and carefully famed from chatf and par
ticles of cob, because these substances are fire.
quently the origin of heat in shelled corn,
from the fact of their being more subject to
decay than the corn itself.
Mrs. Gumy says she don't know what they
want with grand jury She thinks that com
mon juries are grand enough-her husband
felt so grand when he was on the jury, that
nobody dared to speak to him for more than a
month afteward.
A writer in the National Intelligencer, on
the subject of the Mint and coinage, asserts
that of the total amount coined not fUe per
cent. Of 1t is non In the co,mtrA and that near
| ly all of the new coins ore never exposed to
the light on this side of the Atlantic
genius Down East has invented q new
kind of dwelling. They are made of India
rubber and are so portable that you can carry
a row of three-story houses in your hat.
Dr. Beeswax, in his Essay on Woman"
says-'I have made woman my study, for a
series of years, but never found one who
suffered. | meet with any number of men,
every day, who st-st-stammer, but never have
seen n woman who couldn't blow an unbro-
ken blast"
In all divorce trials the jury should be COM
posed of six ladies and six gentlemen. When
a female is on trial, sympathy has more to do
with the verdict than testimony or common
sense.
PLEAsANT.-To open your wife's jewel-box
and discover strange gentleman's hair done
up as a keepsake. We know of nothing that
makes an ardent temperament feel more
"knifey."
LIBERALrY-Giving fifty dollars to the
Hungarian Fund after cheating down" the
widow three cents on string of onions.
The Frenchman delicately defined white
lie to be walking round about de root"
Fielding mentions a clergyman who pre-
ferred punch to wine for this orthodox rea-
son, that the former was a liquor nowhere
| spoken against In Scripture.
There were 24S deaths in Philadelphia last
week-died of smallpox, 90; consumption,
%; scarlet fever, Is; inflammation of the
lungs, q.
Love to God, and love to man: this is life;
this is heaven. Sin against God, and sin
against man: this is death; this is hell
The idler is dangerous member of society.
! lie becomes prey to his own passions, and
scorges others with his vices