The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-24


And on bright clouds we'll linger
Through long dreamy hours,
Till loves angels envy
The heaven of ours.
The time for marriage in Sparta was fxet
by statute-that Of the men at about thirty o
thirty FIVE years; that Of women at about TWEEN
ty. or little younger. Allmen who continued
unmarried after the appointed time, were liza
Bile to a prosecution; and all cid bachelor
were prohibited from being presentat the pub
lie exercise of the Spartan maidens, and wer,
denied the usual respect and honors paid to tht
aged why should give you place, . criec
a young man to anunmarried general, .swher
you have no child to give place to me when
am old?" No marriage portions were giyer
with any Of the madens, SO that neither power
ty should prevent gallant, nor riches temp
him to marry contrary to his inelinations. The
parents Of three children enjoyed considerable
immunities, and those with four children PAID
no taxes whatever-ar regulation which all mar
ried men with large families will readily ad
init to be most wise and equitable. It was
customary for the bridesmaid to cut off all the
BRIDES hair on the wedding day, SO that, fol
some time, at least, her personal attractions
shall increase with her years.
A Norfolk paper tells the following story
Ursi Osgood and Jonathan Aiken were on op-
posite sides Of politics last fall, in Grundy coun-
ty, and the fight between them-they were
running for congress-grcw warm and desper-
ate. One day when they met on the stump.
Ursi, whose head was bald, and should there.
fore have been cooler, in the midst OF his in
dignaiion said:
~ think, sir, you have but one idea in your
head and that's very small one: if it should
swell, it would burst it,
Whereat Jonathan grew red in the face, and
looking for moment at the bare and venera
bic head of his opponent, asked if he should
say what he had thought of him?
''Say on" said Ursi.
"Well, think you haven't one in your head,
and never had; there's been one scratching
around on the outside, trying to get in, till Il
has scratched all the hair off, but it's never gos
in, and never WILL
Ursi was silent.
The Nashville Banner is responsible for the
following: a very sedate gentleman from the
rural districts yesterday, passing through one
OF our warehouses on Market street, was ar
rested by large number of barrels of srel
head, copper distilled" which obstructed his
passage. "How many barrels Of whisky ia
store?" inquired our friend of an attache of the
house, with an air of great interest "Three
thousand barrels replied the clerk. "Three
thousand barrels, repeated the countryman,
speaking very deliberately, sten fights to the
barrel is a low estimate-and how many fights
is that?" Thirty thousand fights barreled
up in one house! Heavens! what war is in
prospectiyeP' and he passed on in a very deep
study.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has a notice ola
candidate for congress in Kentucky, (colonel
Hanson, and gives the subjoined specimen of
the coionels adroitness in extricating himself in
certain debate where his opponent had OBJ
tanned little advantage in relation to matter
Of history.
Colonel Hanson, in reply, said that on his
torical and scientific questions indeed, in ey-
cry kind of book knowledge-he had no doubt
that the gentleman was his superior; that he
had never been to school nor taught school;
that he had gone into active life very early, with
an axe on one shoulder and a rifle on the other
unlike the gentleman, his opponent, who calae
to Kentucky bearing in one hand spelling
book, and in the other bride, determined to |
make living by teaching a school or stealing
a horse.
Intellect can't bear fashionable refinement
and dies under it in one or two generations. I'll
you would select youth who is likely to nlake
his mark in the world, take one who is carting
mud in a clam she'll wagon, or building houses
in the sand; and not the delicate chap who is
fondIing China lap-dog on the parlor carpet.
Daniel Webster's father made cradle for lit |
lie Dan out of a pine log, with an axe and su-
ger; and Lewis Cass was rocked by his staid
New Hampshire mother, in a second hand SUI
gar trough The greatest architects for tile
of genius are poverty and repub
icanism. 45-g@-a
There IS no greater pest in good society than
IN habitual punster--a fellow without, iutig-
nent enough to keep his wit in control, nor wit
'nough to excuse his want of judgment-wiah-
'ut either modesty or politeness, who intrusive
Y thrusts himself between speaker ard listen
II, to the vexation of both-a word catcher,
lick mouth and trifler, who forgets the refi1e-
nents and courtesies that should adorn gen
leman, the limits of good breeding, the pro-
erties of social conversation, the respect due
. age or sex, and lays an nterminable tax up
n good nature for the sake Of wretched lest.
his nuisance ought to be abated.
II wish ny portrait taken, said a young
IAN from the country to daguerreolypst
Every well, sir just take a seat here" I,
ssYou warrant a resemblance"
"Cerainly."
"For how long time?" Ii
"Forman years, and when old<snu Auwr 4
Ikes you, there will be some tt
atures."
But suppose / catch the smal-p nm Can
on warrant durable likeness?'' c
Just bring II back, said the artist, smiling, !,
and will punch a few holes in it, :
It was Goblet who said-and he told the
nth, too-that woman is never SO amiable
when she is useful; and as for beauty, tho
an fall in love with girls at play. there is J
,thing to make them stand to their love like
eing them At work. engaged in the useful :
ices of the home and family. .
Fred, the prince of wags, was getting home 5,
Their late, and q little happy, when passing II
dark alley, large twotisted fellow step $
d out, seized him by the cellar, and demand :, 4
his money. d
Money said Fred, money. have none;a n
1t if you will hold on moment, I will givei
u NV note for thirty days. =