The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-11-14
Ghp gtlarietta Sonrnal.
ODDS AND ENDS

it will in time be great puhishN
ment.
A hunter who always bags his
game---The rag man.
A school board that is never cleo.
ted-A blackboard.
Tho right man in the right place
"A husband at home in the even
ing.
What cups is a man pretty sure OF
after cups Of liquor Y-hic cups.
A sure drain on farm is heavy
mortgage at a high rate Of interest.
Why are clcrgymen like brakes.
men Because they do good deal
of coupling.
The great difficulty in arguing
some people out Of a thing is that
they have never been reasoned into
il.
Things may seem differently, and
differently shown; but actions are
visible, though motives arc secret.
The most beautiful may be the
most admired and caressed, but they
are not always tho most esteemed
and loved
When there is love IN the heart,
there are rainbows in the eyes, which
cover every black cloud with gor-
geous hucs.
A phrenologis: told man that he
had combativeness largely develop
cd. "No, said the man, 81 have
not and if you say that again, III
knock you down"
A sufferer suggests an improve
mcnt in the photography of the word
panics, He thinke it would be bet
ter to spell it pay nix
"Ma, said Fred, 81 should rather
be wild turkey and live my lie
out on the prairies than be a tame
turkey and be killed every year.
We once knew boy who said
that he liked "a good rainy day
too rainy to go to school, and just
rainy enough to so fishing"
Dogs that are not collared and
labeled, no matter how respectfully
connected, should have their nara
tives amputated one inch behind
their ears.
In Delhi, Indiana, four gentlemen
threw dies for the hand of widow,
who couldn't decide which to take.
She accepted the situation and the
German who threw double skies.
1t is estimated that Commodore
VanderbiIt's enormous fortune has
sustained a shrinkage since the panic
equal to twenty millions dollars,
Never was any proverb more err
roneous than the one which tells us
GLOVE is blind" Every lover can
see a great deal more in his sweet
heart than any one esle can.
The silk industry of Switzerland
is enormous, and rapidly on the in
crease, the exports of manufactured
silks annually amounting to two hun
dred and fifteen million francs, or
forty three million dollars.
In chasing an annoying dog the
other day, Portland man run
against clothes line, which widened
his mouth and extracted two teeth
without pay, and he didn't catch the
dog either,
A Junction City, Kansas girl
swallowed pin about year ago,
which recently made its appearance,
coming out through the left eye, en-
tirely destroying the sight.
A Milesian sstounded u grocer by
entering his shop with this request:
"Mr. McGray would you lind me
an empty barrel of flour to make
hen coop fur NE dogf"
a pretty and well-dressed young
lady, after looking at several pairs
oflavender. eoIored gloves in shop
lately, shocked tho assistant by ask
ms him which pair he thought the
"lavenderest."
"Iow far is it to Cub Creek 7"
asked a traveller of Dutchwoman.
"Only shoost little Ways Is it
four, six, eight, nine, or ten miles 7
impatiently asked the stranger
''iaas, ! drinks it is" serenely re-
piled the unmoyed gatekeeper.
An Ohio editor was rendered in
sane while going home at night by
hearing the following come from a
dark porch on a shady street: ''Oh,
John. | wonder if that moustaehe
feels as good on your lips as II did
on mine T. Johns answer he did
not wait to hear.
Two Milesians were standing at
the Paramount water works in Phil
adelphia, watching the big wheels
splashing the water in every direc>
ton, when one remarked, mike
isn't this quare countrhy where