The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-05-22
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T CREMATION makes light of agrave
subject
TAILOR, measuring fat customer
-"Would you mold the end, sir,
while go round 7"
WHY are clergymen like railway
porters Because they do good
deal OF coupling
A Hoboken editor, being challeng
ed, sent word in reply ''When l
want to die | can shoot myself"
The Western women have in a
great degree stopped praying in
public and are making up their sum
mer clothes.
81 SAY" said rough fellow to a
fop with conspicuous bow-legs, 81
say, don't you have to have your
pantaloons cut with acircular saw ?"
IT is good ground for divorce in
st. Louis if wife finds one hundred
and thirteen love>letters from red
headed woman in her husbands
pocket.
II WANT to know whether we are
going to keep house or board before
going into this thing" said young
lady at the altar in San Francisco.
Commendable foresight.
JOHN Randolph met personal
enemy in tho street one day, who
refused to give him half the side
walk. saying that he never turned
out for rascal. 81 do" said Ran
DELPHI, stepping aside and politely
raising his hat. "Pass on"
A BOY who had been taught that
time is money appeared at the bank
the other day, and remarked that he
had an hour given him, and he
would like to spend a quarter Of an
hour, and would take the change for
the other three quarters.
AS two children we're playing to-
gether, little Jane got angry and
pouted. Johnny said to her, "Look
out Jane, or I'll take a seat up there
on your lips" "Then," replied
Jane. quite cured Of her pouts, "I'll
laugh, and you'll fall off"
THE most fashionable of Saratoga
cottages rent for $4,000 for the sea-
son Of three months. Others bring
So, 500, others $4,000, and SO ON
down to $500.
IT is understood that the new race
of pigmies found by Bayard Taylor
in Africa are to be impo rted to this
country to serve as Radical politi-
clans, and the fact that they are as
much dwarfed in intellect as in
stature adds strength to the state
ment.
AN Illinois woman, when they
first began to have Congressmen-at-
large out there, hearing the fact al.
luded to, straightway rushed into
the kitchen, exclaiming, "Sarah
Jane, don't leave the clothes out tne
night, for theresa Congressman at
large" -
A politician who found it wouldn't
do to try to please everybody, gave
it up and declares, "Henceforth /
am free man and shall not try to
please more than four out of five
Some one is always sure to be Of
Tended. If even sound the praise
of my Maker, it raises the dander of
the Old One.
g. w. WALTON, the negro mail
agent on the day route of the Yves
tern & Atlantic Railroad, was ar
rested last week in Chattanooga for
robbing the mail. The letter from
which he abstractsd FIVE dollars was
found in his pocket. He is in Jail.
GAINES CHIsoLM, who killed Penn
Bedell in Atlanta, had his trial last
week. The jury returned a verdict
last Monday morning of ''Not guilty"
| and Chisolm once more walks the
streets of Atlanta freed from the
law, but not from the blood Of two
mon that he sent to their long home.
1t is difficult to convict one gambler
for killing another. Raspberry kills
ed man at one corner of the Kim
| ball block, Bedell killed Raspberry
at the second corner, Chisolm killed
BedeII at the third, and now it re-
mains for somebody to kill Chisolm
at the fourth, that they may be
known as the "four fatal corners"
dyed with human blood.
They tell good story on Boully,
of the Hamelton Visitor, during
recent visit to Columbus. Ofcourse
be had his hair cut, and the operas
ton gave him more psin than usual.
"Are you trimming my left ear,
now I" said Boully. "No, sir; not
till I've done the right" said the
barber. "Oh," said Boully, Il
thought from what / felt that you
were passing through to the left ear
without going round"
A friend at our elbow says he
thinks il just as reprehensible for
women to get tight by Iacing as for
men to get tight by whiskey.-