The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-06-17
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AN HONEST LIvING.-A young DOS
ton man, who proposed starting in busi-
mass IN New York city, made prelimi-
nary visit there, armed with letters OF
;ntroduction TO business men. These
presented and the usual compliments
nassed. one New York merchant inquir-
ed of Young Boston what he intended to
do. :.
~ have not exactly decided" replied
the young Puritan, "but expect to set
tie into some good business in which |
can get living honestly"
"a living honestly 7"
San honest living" repeated the Bos-
tonian.
"Young man." said the Now Yorker,
az congratulate you; there is not city
IN United States in which you will meet
with so little competition in your method
Of doing business"
THE ONLY SAFETY.-Let every man;
especially those in public life, who de-
sire to avoid a drunkards' death, re-
member that he is on the crumbling
verge of such an infamy whenhe begins
to feel that in order to prepare himself
tho doctor for consultation, the law
yer for case, the clergyman for SER
mon, the politician for speech-he
must take a drink of liquor or a plug of
opium, and the self same moment of that
discovery let him put his foot down,
raise his hand and swear, that by the
hely of God you will never drink anoth-
er drop.
A waggish fellow who does not boast
of much personal beauty, tells that no
once went to druggist to get some NOR
phine for a sick friend. The assistant
objected to give it to him without pro-
scription, evidently fearing that he in
tended to commit suicide. "Pshaw,"
said he, edo | look like a man who
would kill himself?" Gazing steadily
at him moment, the young man answer
ed, Il don't know. 1t seems 10 me if |
looked ike you, l should be greatly
tempted to kill myself.
Leisure Hours-It was a beautiful OBJ
servation of the late William Hazlitt,
that "there is room enough in human
life to crowd almost every art and sci
encc in it. If we pass no day without
line--visit no place without the compa-
ny of books-we may without ease fill
libraries or empty them of their con-
tents. The more we do, the more we
can do; the more busy we are, the more
leisure we have"
In little town out West a lady teach
cr was exercising class Of juveniles in
mental arithmetic. She commenced the
question, eff you buy COW for $l0,"
when up came little hand. "What is
it, Johnny ~ "Why, you can't buy no
kind of a cow for $40; father sold one
for $50 the other day, and she was a
regular old scrub at that J"
A Sunday School teacher asked a lit
tie girl who was the first man. She
answered that she didn't know. The
question was then put to an Irish girl,
who answered "Adam, sir" with appa-
rent satisfaction. ola !" said the first
child, "you needn't feel so grand about
it-he wasn't an Irishman !"
~ remember" says the celebrated
Wesley, Clearing my father say to my
mother, ''How could you have the pa
thence to tell that blockhead the same
thing twenty times over?" "Why,"
said she, "ifI had only told him nine
teen times l should have lost all my la
bor."
An Irishman noticing a woman pass
ing along the streets, ispied two strings
descending from under the lady's cloak
Not knowing that they were the style of
sashcs and were hanging in the right
place, he exclaimed: "Faith, ma'am,
yer gallasus are united"
"Do you Think" asked Mrs. Pepper,
'that a little temper is bad thing in
woman ~ Certainly not, ma'am," re-
piled philosopher; ''it is good thing,
and she ought never to lose it.
Our trying to love an object is like
trying to laugh when we are not pleas
cd the more we try the less we succeed.
The trying part of the process implies it
is thing we do not prefer.
Aunt Susan says: Suppose all the
men were in one country, and all wo
men in another, with a big river be-
tween them. Good gracious what lots
Of poor women would be drowned'
A London merchant advertised for a
clerk who could "bcar confnement."-
He received an answer from one who |
had been seven years in Jail.
Said friend to pale haggard smoll.
er: "You look as if you had got out Of
your grave to light your cigar and
couldn't find your way back again.
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