The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-04-22
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WAYS the thing that God meant him to
do. and will be his best No agonies or
heart-rendng will enable him to do any
better. If he be a great man they Will
be great things if small man, small
things but always. if thus peacefully
done, good and right always, if restless
and ambitiously done, FALSE hollow and
despicable.
A student at Ann Harbor having re-
marked that men had more endurance
than women, a lady present said she
would like to see The young men of the
University laced up in steel-rIbbed cor
sets, with hoops, heavy skirts, trails,
high heels, paniers, chignons, and doz-
ems of hair pins sticking in their scalps,
cooped up in the house year after year,
with no cxhilarating exercise, no hopes,
aims or ambition in life, and see if they
could stand it as well as the girls
"Nothing." said she, ''but the fact that
women. like cats, have nine lives, ena-
bIes them to survive the present regime
to which custom dooms the SEX"
THERE are sixty-two books in the BIZ
be. written by forty different men,
Some by kings, some by shepherds,
some by hcrdsmen. some by vinedress-
ers, some by prophets and apostles
some by physicians. The authors lived
in different countries, and wrote in diff
fercnt ages of the world, there having
been 500 years from the writing Of the
first book to that of the last. Yet there
are no special contradictions, bat won
derfuI harmony through the whole.
A colony OF cmigrants from Michigan
have purchased seven thousand acres Of
land few Mules South of Grand juno
ton, Tennessee, and have settled there,
with determination to stay. Agricul-
tufc is rheir calling. They propose to
do their work without the aid of negroes.
These new Corners will diversity their
crops, and give particular attention to
com and pork. The farms will be small
and closely and scientifically cultivated.
An honest old darkey, whose expecta-
ton, Of getting a forty acre plantation,
and domestic jackass for voting the
Radical ticket, were entirely sincere,
now goes back on his friends in this wise
Dem carpet baggetin, scalIawag fellcrs
dey tell us dar war provisions, in dc
constitution, for we collad folks, but da
was a lie-dem provisions didn't come
Fore God, massa, ! ant seen dc fus
mou'ful."
Becchcr says that ascetcs, cynics
eremtes, mere sobricty mongers, are a
bastards Away with those fellows VIII
go owing through life all the while pass
sing for birds of paradise! lie that can
not laugh and be gay should look well t.
himself. lie should fast and pray unit
his face breaks forth into light!
Full returns show the total number o
votes in Cincinnati in favor of retaining
the Bible in the schools, Including tn
colOred votes, to be ] ,2iS while the az
gregate anti-Bible vote was l2,O74, an
ti-Bible majority of aggregate vote $50
and excluding the colored vote 800.
A Colorado romance: Seven miners
exploring the mountains found an enor
nous chunk Of gold. They fought foi
it's possession till all were killed but one
1t was too heavy for him to carry oft, S.
he sat down beside it and starved TO
death
"Inoycr ask a gentleman formoney,'
said New England preacher. "Then
how do YOU live 2" inquired a friend. -
"Why after a certain time conclude
that man is not a gentleman, and then
ask HIM"
"Gcrty, my DEAR" said Sabbath
school teacher to one of her crss, you
were very good little girl today
"Yes'm-I couldn't help bein' good |
got stiff neck" said Gerty with per
feet seriousness.
"Pa," said a lad to his father, II have
often read of people poor dm honest
why don't they sometimes say rich bu
honest?n Tut. tut, my son, nobody
would believe them answered the ia.
Their.
A bill is now before the California
Legislature prohibiting the expectation
of dead Cinnamon. With John the on
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