The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-01-31
Tbe violet was the national flower of Athens;

The violet was the national flower Of Athens;
which city, personifed by sculptors and pam
tiers, was represented as a majestic female
wearing a wreath of yiolets. The Romans
| crowned their domestic gods, the Lares, with
siolets, and FUSED the flowers to perfume then
wines. From these circumstances the en-
lolem was chosen by the French.
| Al mans first care should be to avoid the re-
y,roaches of his own heart-hs next to escape
censure of the world. If the last interfere
With the former, it ought to be entirely neg
Eected-but otherwise it cannot be greater
satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see
those appropriations which it gives ITSELF Sc
conded BY the applause Of the public.
"A dutchman at Amherst, (Canada,) hear
ing of the late accident on the great western
railway, and of large sums awarded to the rela-
tives Of parties killed, in the warmth of his
heart exclaimed, "Oh / wish mine wife had
been there-I would have got $5,0OO!' The
wife hearing of it called him to account, when
He denied the fidelity Of the report and said
ssNo mine dear-I said $50. 900, when the good
woman seemed well pleased to find how highly
she was estimated.
The perils of the Mississippi consist of
snags and gamblers-the former "put leak.
into your boat, and the latter into you. Which
ID the worst to take will be known when the
coroner's jury rises.
The Iowa legislature elected two men lately
to attend to the FIRE in the hall. They were
qualified by taking an oath to Support the
constitution of the United States and keep
good fires in the house"
H. ~ fhic line ~ caI6 a
calprit to hangman. "Oh, never mind this
cnce,'' was the reply, st will soon suspend
lis operations
A new pill has just been patented in Alba
nv. II is made Of India rubber. One box
cures a cold, and renders your overcoat imper-
yEous to water
Ignorant people are 70 be addressed through
tie eye. If you want to pass for great man
with blockhead, sport hundred dollar
cloak and fifteen dollar watch key. An 1g-
noramus thinks that he alone has "sterllng'
parts, who exhibits shirt buttons made Of bull
lion Make note.
The young lady who caught gentleman's
eve is requested to let it 60.
A yirtuous and we'll disposed person is like
good metal-the more he is fred the more he
IS refined; the more he is opposed the more
BID is approved. Wrongs may well try him,
and touch him, but they cannot imprint on him
any false stamp.
The cheapest kind of horse is a w-horse.
1t supports itself, and good deal Of fuel; be.
sides, it isn't dangerous to children and "the
ladies'
There is maiden lady in Connecticut who
is so extremely nice in her notions of female
tnodesty, that she turned off her washerwoman
because she put her clothes in the same tub
with those of a young man!
\ II am glad said the rev. doct. Z, to the
chief Of the Little Ottoways, athat you do not
drink whiskey, but it grieves me to find that
Fo,sr people use SO much Of it, "Ah! yes
fepHied the chief, and he fixed penetrating
and expressive eye upon the doctor, which
the reproof before be uttered it, |
tive Indians use great deal Of whiskey, but
we do not make it.
! 4 police officer in Syracuse, who has lot
of Shanghai chickens, which he don't care
ABOUT supporting during the present high
prides Of grain, adrertises them as stolen pro-
perry, hoping some green un will come for
ward and claim them.
The editor of the New York Sun thus closes
Al sketch of college mate:
IA few days.ago, glancing over Mississippi
paper, our eyes rested upon these very words,
'1committed suicide It was the sad announce
nlest Of the end of one on whose brow was
ensfE amped the seal of Gods own intelligence;
of One who was first in the university, first in
society, first in every circle and place, but
who fell by his own hands in fit Of mania a
pptu. May not the young of our readers learn
soma thing from this true and melancholy
sketch?
The real balance ofpower" is the balance
At tlse bankers.