The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-11-12
Chips. anu ThIngs.

The canvass has bern closed in Mississippi
by mutual consent Of Dent aud Alcorn.
Treasurer spinner Is receiving conscience
money with rush just now.
What IL the greatest want Of the age,--
WantOf funds.
Man is like 4 potato, never sure when he
viii ''get into hot water"
To be shallow, you must differ from people;
TO be profound you must agree with them.
Life is a corduroy road The faster you 20
the more you get jouneed.
There will be six ccipses next year, but
none Of them visible in the United states.
A colored man is Fifteenth Amendment
in Mississippi.
win aud wear it," Is inecribed on tho
crown of glory that ladeth not away.
A "settled aversion is ground for divorce
in Indiana.
Fine cheese Is made Of boiled peas and plas-
ter OF Paris.
There are only ten candidates for mayor Of
Montgomery, Ala. No asrirants down there.
Ex-Governor Dennlson, Of Ohio, owns d
10000 acre lot in Nebraska o.. ,..-.
The President and Mrs. Grant have broken
OF all connection with their relative Corbin.
Father Hyacinthe proposes to establish po-
| litieo-rcllgions newspaper, to be called "Le
| Chretlen." tes
Action should follow thought No farmer
can pow field by turning it over in hi.
mind.
| An Omaha firm in the wholesale liquor trade
began business with $500 capital four years
ago, and now has s200,0O0.
A Memphis jury acquitted traveller who
shot aud killed hackman for oyercbarging
him.
1t is doubtful If any man could by possibili.
ty do his noblest, or think his deepest, with
out preparation Of suffering.
A man at Bouckville, n. i :, has hitching
post in his front yard made Of the jaw bone OF
n whale.
! In New York diamonds are going out Of
fashion and are only worn by shoddyites.-
Pearls are all the rage.
| Fernando Wood has read up the papers since
returning from Europe, and says in speech
that he is "dsgusted with Grant"
Twenty letters for every man, womaE and
child in the United States were mailed in this
country last year.
Phil Sheridan has invited Prince Arthur to
hunt Buhaloes with him next spring, Amt
that tuftyi
A woman's rights paper, to be published at
Charlottesville Ind, will bear the terrifying
name Of 1.-THE Avcngcr."
Susan B. Anthony says she "depends on
coffee for much of her executive ability" An
exchange spells it "cugee."
Beware of judging hastily; it is better to
suspend al opinion than to retract an asscr-
ton.
An Eastern wit wants Miss Dickinson to
name her Salt Lake lecture "Across the Incon-
| tincnt."
The great Count Bismarck is reported drunk
every day. He met his match in John Barley
corn.
| Ben Butler thinks II "God ever made nni-
sance, the interviewing reporter is one" No
doubt.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker wants Lev passed
compelling men to marry before they are forty
years of age.
| A Russian member of Gen. Lees staff, Pu-
laski Sanduskai, has gone to work in Il saw
mill in Orono, instead of settling in Sandusky.
| It is estimated that one-fourth of the whole
tobacco crop In Barren county, KY, has been
destroyed by the late frost.
An old lady, seventy weight years of age, who
| lives IN Massachusetts, prides herself on hav.
ing declined forty offers Of marriage Wen
bet she's q lovely g'hal.
A young wife of u. in Chicago, has got q
divorce. she married a fellow who said HI
/ had $500, 0OO. when he hadn a cent. Beside.
that, he pinched her. .t.
| No newspaper reporter has as yet interview
cd the stone man dug up At Syracuse, They
say he resembles Grant very much in CONVEX.
sation.
"Convcrsion and Death Of Twelve More
| Heathens! Glory TO God and our Cavalry ~
il the heading to an Indian fight in "a from
| tior IN ner