The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-01-26

George of Cappadocla, born at Eplphania IN VI
ella, a low parasite, whip got lucrative con
tract to supply the army with bacon rogue anc
informer, he got rich, and had to run from Justice
He saved his money, embraced Arianism, collected q
library and got promoted by faction to the eplsco
pal throne of Alexandria. Wien Julian came, A D.
36l George was thrown into prison; the prison was
burst open BY the mob and George was lynched as
he deserved And this precious kuare became in
good time ST. George of England, patron of chival-
~ and the pride of the best blood Of the modern
world Strange that the solid, truth-speaking Brit
on should derive from an imposter. Strange thatthe
New World should have no better luck-that broad
America must wear the name of a thief. Amergo
Vespucci the pickle dealer at Seville, who went out
in 1899 subaltern with Hoje3a, and whose highest
naval rank was boatswans mate in expedition
that never sailed, managed III this lying world to
supplant Columbus, and baptise half the world with
his own dishonest name. Thus nobody can throw
stones. We are equally badly off in our founders,
and the false pickle dealer is offset to the false ba
con seller
There is something solemn in the oldest fnhabi-
ant he is the link between the living and the dead,
in the course Of nature the next to be called from
among us; his place is Immediately filed by Sc
cond brother. Generations have gone-passed away
into the far word-and left him the solitary pokes
rnan-the one witness Of the wonders that had birth
among them. He remains here to check the vanity
of the present by his testimony to the past Where
would be all human experience without the oldest
inhabanH
The methOdlStS nave q rare preacher among thetn
If we to believe correspondent of the Memphis
Christian Advocate, who says of Rev. T. E. Pitts,
one Of their pulpit orators Il have repeatedly heard
the most famed men of America but there times
when the flame of his pathos lEcks the everlasting
hills with rear that your soul to the depths
fathomed by few other men,
When Seth got home from m4ckereling, he sought
his Sarah Ann, and found That she, the heartless
enc had found another man. hnd then NEST awful
tight he got, and so he went Away, and bound him
self to 90 and cut live oak il. Florida. He pinned
upon the live oak lands; muir. hured in the glades;
his axe grew heavy in his ha4ds, all in the wild
wood shades. The mosquitoes bit him everywhere,
ne mercy did he get; ahl how terribly he'd swear,
whenever he got bit At LAST despairsng of relief
and wishing himself dead he went into the woods
a piece and cut off his own head. Thas died poor
Seth.
How many common fguratiyI2 expressions in our
language are borrowed from IT'D art Of carpentry
may be seen in the following se!itence:
The LAWYER who filed bill, shaved note, cut an
acquaintance, split hair ma3le an entry got up a
case, framed an Indictment in!paneled jury, put
them into box nailed a witness, hammered Judge
and bored whole court, all il one day, has since
laid down law and turned carp3nter."
modern poet makes the Aeinark that bright |
things will never die" Thist is utterly false. a
friend of ours who lately had "a bright red head of
hair made attempt to transform it into rich
brown, with the greatest SUCCESS TWAS found to
dye beautifully.
1t is proposed to establish an institution for the
education of young ladies, in which the science of
spinology and cc9ko6gy viii form
part. After obtaining these Accomplishments they
may receive the degree of F. F. F---Fit For Wives
Among the prominent BENEVOLENT objects of the
day we perceive the call for the formation of sect
ETY. for the amelIoratiOn of the Rendition of women
with saorting husbands.
''The wicked don't live out half their days" said
a good man to his negro servant. "Dat is queer"
said Cuffy 'Him no live out Falf his days? Den
spose he die bout leven o'clcEk in theforenoon"
"Moses was austere man, and made atonement
for the sins of the people,"
The clerk who could not exactly catch the SEN
.ence, repeated thus:
"Moses oysterman, and made ointment for
5he shins Of his people"
There is purple half to the grape mellow and
crimson half to the peach sunhy half TO the globe
and better half to
We go the grave of friend saying, "a man is
lead" Angels throng around him, aging, "a man
! born"
good minister prayed ferVqutly for those of his
congregation who were too probd to krieel and too
azy to stand.
In vino there is not only verEas, but sensibility
It makes the face Of him who drinks it to excess
,lush for his habits.
Flattery is sort of BAD mondy which our vanity
,ives currency.
heary Spartan being asked Iwhat made him live
o long, answered, ignorance otfphysic