The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-06-10
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A PAPER gives the following reply to


You should write on foolScap paper, ant
bear on as soft as you can, using WORD
of such burning love that they will slz
zle ON the point of the pen. 1t is alsc
advisable to sling in bunch of patho'
occasionally, such as dearest Augustus,
love you with love larger than ar
elephants; l think of you every day,
and by-and-by, when the days grow
longer. shall think of you twice day.
1t is also well to put an ink-bfot in the
corner. with the observation, Darling, |
kissed this spot, Il hove sigh in this
vicinity
ONE of the most singular sights grow
ing out of the war, says the Alexandria
Gazette, is a continuous line of peach
trees around Petersburg, and extending
toward, Richmond. They arc growing
from the breast-works thrown up by the
Confederate army, and are the only leg
acy left by the poor fellows who werc on
the advance line. Having eaten the fruit
on picket duty, they cast the stones
aside, and now they appear in one con-
tinuous line of beautiful trees, which
Welded an abundant crop last year.
WoMAN's LAUGH. "A woman has no
natural grace more bewitching than a
sweet laugh. 1t leaps from her heart
in a clear sparkling rill; and the heart
that hears it feels bathed in the exhilar-
ating spring. 1t turns the prose of our
life into poetry; it filings showers of sun
shine over the darksomc wood in which
we arc travelling; it touches with light
even our sleep, (which is no more the
image of death, but is consumed with
dreams that are the shadows of immor
t@fty.
Daniel Webster said: eff we work
upon marble it will perish; if upon
brass, time will efface it; if we rear
temples they will crumble into dust
But if We work upon our immortal minds
IF VIC Undue them with principles,
with the just fear oe God and love of. our
fcllow-mcn--wc cngrave on these tables
something which viii brighten Through
all eternity"
A good story is told us of diminu-
tive mercantile gent of our city, who, it
is said, recently proposed to a young
and buxom damscl, with the following
result: ooh, no." said shey al can't
think Off for moment. The fact is,
you're little too big to put in a cradle,
and little too small 20 be put in bed
Whatever you DO, do it willingly. A
boy that is whipped at school never
learns his lesson well. A man that is
compelled to work cares not how badly
it is performed. He who pulls off hi
coat cheerfully, strips up his sleeves il
earnest, and sings while he works, is thu
man for me.
The Quincy Monitor publishes thu
following note from one of the Stat
teachers set up by the Radicals in tina
county:
"NIr. - and Family Sir your com
pany is Sirlisted to attend School tab
loo and Solicitation at My School Hous
on Monday Night May the 9th at
O'clock. yours with Respects.
We are acquainted with a |'monste
in human form" who says the only tim
woman docs not eXaggerate Is whei
she is talking of her own age. He is ;
confirmed bachelor and past all rcdemp
ton.
Whatever induces moral depression
=. i.,oC,,I - that ~ tr In
induces physical depression. FirmnesS
of will is, therefore, one of the most pow
erful sanitary means.
In a smiling region the man of money
sees only the relations of hay, grain and
wood his admiration, radiant with cal
culation, reduces nature to figures, and
adds up the scenery.
Tears are as dew which moisten the
earth, and renew its vigor. Remorse
has none; it is a volcano, vomiting forth
lava which burns and destroys.
approve of the youth that has some
thing of the old man him; SO am no
less pleased with an old man who has
something of the youth him.
A lover looking at his watch after
midnight said to his sweetheart, OTIS
tomorrow morning | must bid yor
good night"
Sandcd sugar and painted face arr
two things that look better than they
taste. Don't ask us how we found out.
Loafers toll not, neither do they spin
yet they manage to keep soul and body
together without working, which is :
very fine art.
A woman's life has two cventfnl pc
rinds One. when she wonders who shc