The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-01-02
ODDS AND ENDS.

A wELL-dresaed dog wears COLI
lar and pants in the summer.
/ MusIcALLY inclined boarders call
clearinghouse bread "Only Lit
tic Faded Flower.
Az Indiana jury recently return,
cd verdict Of "blode to pieces by
biler busting"
4 GLANCE al the past that which
one Marietta lady gives another in
the street to see what she has on.
"FElT slippars,' advertised in
the shoessstores. are thought to be
thoseIIelt by boys l'in their rude
younE1days. e. 1y4n
AN Atlanta editoi recently rode
Esixty miles on cow>caicher, aud
failed 70 catch the cow, after ALL
Grady, thinks the darned thing
ought 10 Be took Of, as it don't do
~hat its name indicates.
A msinber in Congress lately
rose in his place, and solemnly de-
clared, "Mr, Speaker, J cannot sit
still here aud keep silence without
rising and saying few words.
A dry-witted soldier Of the tenth
Vermont during the war, WAS heard
10 pray once. whenlthe bullets were
falling in showers, aasf,follows: 80,
Lord, malsehne az thin as a knife
Ara prayer meeting in Maine, a
few days ago, oneEof the members
prayed, "Lord, thou knowest that
Charles Tompkins has sold poor
boots to some Of us. Make him do
the fair thing"
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A young lrishman who had mar
.tied when about nineteen years Of
age, complaining of the difficulties
to which his early marriage subisct-
ed him, said he would never marry
so young again if he lived to be 90
old as Methuselah.
"'fHE slanderous soul is imbued
with the electric fire of hell, Ills
black heart enits the sulphurons
fumes till his whole nature is absorb>
.ediin one homo gensous mass Of hell
isbncss," is the way Greenville,
Tennessee, editor pulverized per-
son who slandered him.
We like the style of the maiden
referred to in the following clipping
| cIasped her tiny hand in mine; |
vowed to shield her from the worlds
cold storm. She set her boauteous
eyes upon me, and with her little
lips she said, tan umbrella will do
as well. nates H
"A friend of ours is the most abb
sent. minded man we know of. We
made an engagement to meet him on
Tuesday afternoon. All right, said
he. Shortly afterward he came
rushing in with "My dear fellow.
you'll have to excuse me Pve
prior engagement fact is, I'm CO.
ing TO be married Tuesday /; forgot
It completely"
Two negro women met upon the
street the other day, when the fol-
lowing conversation took place !:
First woman--ls you gwiBe to set
up wild dc copse tonight 7 Second
woman-No! my. husband won't let
me. First woman--Sha! | nsvcr
seed such husband as you is got.
He never wants to let you SEQ any
pleasure. #
The farmers porkers arc now be-
ing neatly shaved, and strung up by
the heels on q pole. Their stomachs
are prepared for Illustrating the
signs the zodiac and makiog the
children laugh in anticipation Of
spare ribs and sausage gravy Tie
cob 10 their mouths--we mean the
hogs moaths and not the children's |
may give them a facetioas OK
preston that becomes an open ceun-
tcnance, but we doubt II it rightly |
portrays their feelings.
The night has a thousand eyes,
and the day but one. Yet the light
of the bright world dies with the dy-
ing sun. The mind has thousand
eyes, and the heart but one; yet the
light Of whole life dies when love
is done.
HopE awakens courage, while de-
spondency is the last Of all evils; it
is the abandonment Of geed--the
giving up of the battle Of life with
dead nothingaess.