The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-07-03
CURRENT DOTS.
WHAT trade is it whose works are
trampIed under foot2 A shoemaker's

The police in Reading, ILL.,, keep
a list Of the ladies who fiirt in public,
i A sensitive girl has broken off the
match because he said she had a foot
| like raisin box.
! WHEN deaf and dumb lovers are
married two members of the wedding
party are sure to be unspeakably
happy.
GREEN Bay has decided that a
widower ought to mourn at least three
weeks before shying around for a
second wife.
A Cuban dollar is now worth only
thirteen cents, but they keep on CALI
ing it dollar just for the fun of the
thing.
EXCURSION tickets to participate
in the festivities attending the exc
cution Of Jim Davis" are advertised
at half-price in Texas.
"FoR a young woman to begin to
pick lint off a young mans coat col
lar" is said to be the first symptom
that the young man is in peril.
Kentucky farmer says that three
good bulldogs roaming the yard
nights will do more to keep a man
honest than all the talking in the
world.
A Kansas boy earned nice Bible
by committing three hundred verses
to memory, and then he traded his
Bible for shotgun and accidently
shot his aunt in the leg.
A NEW style of boys trowsers has
been invented ia Boston, with cop
per seat, sheet-iron knees, riveted
down in the seams, and waterproof
pockets, to bold broken eggs.
A GERMAN physicist proposes to
make poplar trees do the work OF
lightning rods. Ifby this means he
can succeed in doing away with
lightning rod peddlers, we can't see
why this shouldn't be poplar
method.
A NEVADA paper says: "There
was no regular trial in the case of
John Flanders yesterday. He had
an interview in the woods with few
friends, however, and it is perfectly
certain that John won't burgle any
more.
NAUGHTY young Indianapolitans
are immersed in water barrels by
their fond mammas until they prom
Use not to go fishing with Bill Jones
again. This is called moral suasion,
and doesn't break child's spirit like
whipping.
HAsHED is the latest and most
graphic way of saying that man
has been run over by a locomotive
and ten or fifteen cars.
Or course it was 8 spiteful st.
Louis paper that remarked the other
day that when Chicago man takes
young woman out riding he doesn't
need a dashboard. Her foot ans
wers every purpose.
AFTER the first of January, 1875,
the postage on daily or weekly
papers will be two cents per pound,
prepaid in all cases. Weekly papers
are to pass free, however, in the
counties in which they are pub
lished.
REFEERINa to the way the least
rumble Of Bald Mountain, down in
North Carolina, sends people there
about to their knees, a Chicago pa
per piously remarks that Bald
Mountain wouldn't be bad thing to
have in Chicago.
~ TELL YOU" said a Wisconsin
man to neighbor next day after
burying his wife, "when | come to
get into bed, and lay thar, and not
hearing Lucinda jawing around for
an hour and half, it just made me
feel as if I'd moved into strange
country"
"MY dear boy" said fond aunt
to a very fast living nephew, "don't
you know that in leading this irregu-
lar life you are shortening your
daysgv tits quite possible that |
may be shortening my days, but then
look how lengthen my nights" was
the reply.
THE most diabolical pun ever in,
vented was perpetrated by very
harmless sort Of person the other
evening. When Mr.. Soberleigh read
that a father in the West had chops
ped his only son in two, he innocently
remarked that he didn't think they
ought to arrest a man for simply
"parting his heir in the middle.0
THE other day an aged couple
drove into Indiana City, Ind, just
as an undertaking firm was moving
into an old church, which had been
purchased for shop. The old gem
tIeman stood up in his wagon, bis
mouth and eyes distended, as the
men silently carried coffin after cof-
| fin into the church. At last he turned
TO his awe-stricken half and gasped !;
"Sary, by goIly, it's choleral Let's
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