The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-06-03
sNi5trlIany


narrowed garments seldom tit we'll
Haste often trips up its own heels. Men
often blush to hear what they are not
ashamed to do. What is not needed is
dear at any price. lie who buys too
many opportunities may be obliged to sell
his necessaries. A fool generally loses
his estate before he finds his folly. A
man that boards riches and enjoys them
not. is like an ass that carries gold and
eats thistles. Towers are measuscd by
their shadows, and great men by their
calumniators. That man who knows the
world. will never be bashful, and tina:
man who knows himself will never be
impudent. Success rides on every hour
-grapple it and you may win; but
without grapple it will never go with
you. Work is the weapon of honor, and
he who lacks the weapon will never
triumph.
GRATITUDE.-Thc memory of the
heart; lively recollection of kindness
GRANTED; the charity of silence given to
an enemy for favors bestowed, which
often times ripens into praise or hattery.
1t is feeling of the heart, enrolling to
human nature, and want of it, sinks
the creature below the brute, Ingrat-
tudc is considered the worst and lowest
of moral crimes; for savage is the dog
that bites tho hand that feeds it, and I'M
grateful is the man who turns his back
upon friend.
Three brothers, bearing remarka-
bio resemblance to each other, recently
went into the same barber shop, and on
the same day, TO be shaved, one going in
the morning, another at noon, and the
third at night. When the last one APP
pcarcd, the barber, who was German,
dropped his razor in establishment, and
exclaimed: "Vew, dat man has de fast
est beard | never saw zhavcs him dis
morning, zhavcs him at dinncr-times.
and he cooms pack now nit his pcard so
long as never wash"
SMALL SOUL. "A man who died in
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, the
other day, he left his wife one cent,
his brother few collars, and directed
the rest of his money, amounting to 3d.
900, be expended in building a monu-
mcnt over his own grave. His wife we
should say, could write an cpitaph for
that monument that would be worth read
ing.
To plunge a young lady six fathoms
deep in happiness, give her two canary
birds, half dozen moonbeams, twelve
yards of silk, an ice cream, several rose
buds, squeeze of the hand and tho
promise of a new bonnet. If she don't
melt, it will be because she can't.
Shaving.-"Spcaking of shaving"
said a pretty girl to an obdurate old
bachelor, 81 should think that pair of
handsome eyes would be the best mirror
TO shave by" eyes, many poor fe-
low has been shaved by thcm," the
wretch replied.
One watch set right will do to try
many; but on the other hand, one that
goes wrong may be the means of mis-
leading a whole neighborhood. And
the same may be said of example.
A youth asked Count Montrond, the
mcmoir-writer, to teach him tho art of
succeeding in society. "Oh it is simple
enough" said the court. "Talk TO the
middlc-aged and young ladies, and listen
when the old ones talk to you"
"Pompey," said good na.urcd gen
tloman to his colored man: 81 did not
know till to-day that you had been whip,
ped last week" Didn't you, NASSAU"
inquired Pompcy, 81 knowcd it at the
time"
"Guilty or not guilty I" said judge
TO a native of the Emerald Isle. "Just
as yer honor phases. It's not the like
o'me to dictate to your honor's worship"
WAS thereby.
"Why do you call me Birdie, my
dear ~ inquired wife of her husband.
Because" was the answer, "you are
always associated in my mind with
BILL"
"Janc, give the baby some laudanum
and put it to sleep, and bring me my
parasol. am going to meeting for
the moderation of the human race"
Let no one count tho number of his
friends till they have been bolted in the
seive of his own adversely, for there is
much bran in prosperous friendship.
An Irishman that was very near
sighted, about to fight duel, insisted
that he should stand six PAGES nearer
his antagonist than tho other did to him.
Fashionable suits for ladies this spring
are described as ornamented with every
thing, "from Jacobs ladder to pen wi