The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-02-19
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ODDS AND ENDS.

HANDSOME features alone are incapa
Bile Of expressing real beauty, as speech
alone is incapable of expressing wit.
SeeeEss is full Of promise till men get
it; and then it is as a last years nest,
from which the bird has flown a
TIE nearest approach that an old
bachelor ever makes to real happiness,
is when hc dreams or in'agincs himself
married.
THE best bank is bank of earth. 1t
never refuses 10 discount to honest labor.
And the best shares are plew shares, on
which dividends arc always liberal.
\, MOURN not that you are weak and
humble. The gentle breeze is better
than the hurricane, the cheerful fire of
the hearthstonc than the conAagration.
A coNsCIlpr being told that it was
sweet to die for his country excused
himself on the ground that he never did
like sweet things.
FIVE elopcments from Boston last
Sunday night. Go it, girls-you'Il
have something to keep you at home
''by and by.
How much kinder the looking glass
than the winc-glass; the former reveals
our defects to ourselves only, the latter
to our friends.
Ali mankind arc happier for having
been happy; so that if you make them
happy now, you make them happy TWEEN
ty years hence by the memory of it.
MANY man thinks it is virtue that
keeps him from turning a rascal, when
it is only full stomach. One should
be careful, and not mistake potatoes for
principles.
A WESTERN farmer recently hung up
hoop-skirt in his cornfeld to brighten
away the crows. The crows went off
but the field was full of boys.
LOVERS see nothing but perfection
before marriage, and wonder they were
so blind afterward. Six months of we'd
lock add wonderfully to the power of
vision.
A MAN in Peoria conceived the bril-
liant ideaof blowing the SCOT out of his
stove pipe with gunpowdcr The
result was the mtnd was nearly blowed
out of him.
OArHs arc vulgar, scnselcss, offensive,
impious; like obscene words, they leave
loathSomc trail upon The lips, and a
stamp of odum upon the soul. They
are inexcusablc; they crafty no sense,
while they outrage taste and dignity.
If seaman should turn back every
time he encounters a head wind, he
would never make a voyage. So he
who permits himself to be baflcd by
adverse circumstances will never make
Roadway in the voyage of life.
HUMAN credulity is boundlcss and in
cxhaustiblc. Often as mankind have
been duped by schemes. they are still
rcady--as il anxious to be again gulled
and there is no absurdity too gross not
to find many to give it crcdcnce.
Gen. Rawlings recently dined with a
man who partook divine rather freely,
and became talkative. Finally the latter
said, speaking of somebody: ooh, that
mine enemy would write a book"
''Your enemy" said Rawlings, pointing
to the bottle, don't write books"
"MR. TiMorHY," said a young lady
who had been showing off her wit at the
expense of her lover, you remind me Of
a barometer that is filled with nothing in
the upper story" "Divinc AImira,"
lncekly replied The adorcr, lin thanking
you for that compliment, let me remind
you that you occupy the upper story en-
tirely.R
a DISTINGUISHED visitor once entered
the counting room of the late Baron
Rothschild, who was very much cngag0
ed. Without looking up he said ::
Take chair and be seated The
gentleman addressed, feeling agSricvcd
at such reception, remarked
'You did not, perhaps, hear my name,