The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-07-04
MISCELLANEOUS Briefs.

It's the little cuss in the cradle that makes
home howl
CoIeridge said that liberation was impossible
till Indifference made it worthless.
A New York restaurateur announces ready
made. dinners for miscellaneous appetites.
Ii is said that the world owes every man a
living, but great many men are too lazy to
collect it.
Love-" says an amorous writer, lis an inter
nal transport" The same might be said OF a
canal boat.
A female student at Colby University, Maine,
took the second prize for excellence in declama-
ton. rot course.]
A Pela man has nursed to vigorous growth
$50 mullen plants, under the hallucination that
they were tobacco
A book entitled Lectures to Married Mem
has appeared in England. Have they not had
their share already?
ale is dead but he pays just as well as he
ever did" was the reply the Belfast Journal got
| to dunning letter.
This backward and disagreeable spring hal
been of benefit in one direction. The poets hat
no opportunity to afiiict us with spring poetry
Here is laconic description of fight in New
| Orleans: sVincent Blood Scolored) cut Wn
Thompsons (colored) throat Thompson was
trying to bite Blood's (colored) nose off,.
The latest case of ingratitude is that recorded
of a Western Editor who returns thanks for a
box of Strawberries sent to him and says he
will excuse the neglect to furnish sugar
And pious souls there are who view
The world through goggles colored blue
And others who have never seen,
Except through goggles colored green.
A writer on love says, "for the girl who has
made a shirt for the man she loves there has
come moment in the last stitch Of it sweeter
than any stars, haycocks, poetry or superlative
epithets have produced"
A will is registered in Waynesburg, Pa,
which contains the following remarkable clause !:
IT also give to my beloved wife one red COW,
one three year old colt, and the remainder Of
the kitchen and household furniture"
An exchange says: The editor Of this paper
is indebted to his friends Of the cornet band for
a delightful sersnade the other evening. The
sweet music caused visions of bliss and beauty
to linger around his pillow
A Bangor clergyman fell afoul of the spring
bonnets, which, with great felicity Of expression,
he calls "incomprehensible huddles Of tinery
and frivolity."
Rufus Choate, or somebody else, said that the
ways Of Providence and the decisions Of petit
jury are past accounting for. We may safely
say this Of the latter, since Pittsbarg jury
handed up to the judge communication en-
dorsed, "The honorable gug."
In Boston the city government has refused 70
appropriate any money tor the withdrawing
rockets and the blazing. swapping fancy pieces.
This the Boston Courier styles "a total suppress
sion Of The most distinctive element in the obser-
vance of Independence Day"
Here is the way atown youth grinds poetry :
To thee, were I q stickleback,
I'd swim as fast az fins can move,
To thee, were hunters hack,
I'd gallop OH the wings Of love,
But, as Pm but simple man,
I'll come by train, Iove-if 1 can
I'm Pesth, the other day, youthful prodigy
repeated the Lords Prayer in twenty-five Ian.
guages.0 We know newspaper man who can
repeat "criticise' in fourteen languages, and
sneak them all once. But an editor does well
who can repeat the Lords Prayer in one Ian
guage.
A quaint old gentleman, Of an active, stirring
disposition, had man who was at work in iia
garden who was quite the reverse. Jones
srid he, "did you ever see snailf !" Certain
W. said Jones. stThen," said the old man
ayou must have met him, for you could nevel
have overtaken him.
This Is what a virginin City newspaper say
Of one departed:
Aye, tenderly close his eyelids,
In the sleep Of the tyrant death,
Composing his cold limbs sadly,
with tears aud q bated breath.
The clods may above him harden,
With the turf or the chilling snow
Oh, bury your dog in the garden.
He'll make the cabbages grow.
An artist who had painted portrait for
gentleman noted for his frequent Ilbasions, invi
ted the gentleman's friends TO see ii. One 0
them, who was rather near-sighted, approach
ing it too closely, the artist, In alarm, exclaimed
DoRttsuehit; it is not dryp" No use look
ing at it, then replied the gentleman, III can,
Be ny frigud,7