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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06
WATCH YOUR TONGUE

1t is your tongue; it belongs to
you, and it is the only one tor which
you are responsible. Your neigh
boris tongues may need care also,
but that is their business this is
yours. See that it is properly at,
tended to.
Watch your tongue; it. needs
watching. 1t Eis fire. watch it.
1t is helm which guides vessel
let the helmsman keep wide wake ;
it can bless or it can curse; it can
poison or heal it can pierce hearts
and blight hopes it can SOW discord
and separate chief friends.
Watch your tongue. No one but
you can take care of that tongue.
You are its only ruler. Your
neighbors may hate it or fear it, or
wish they could bride it; but they
cannot do 1T. You have the power
watch that tongue.
That tongue has already got you
into trouble /; it may do it again; il
is "set on fire of hell" It burns ur
peace, blessing, reputation, hope
1t causes sad days, weary nights
fearful eyes and heavy hearts. II
a man will love life and see gooC
days let him refrain his tongue from
evil, and his lips to speak no guile. ;
Watch that tongue. 1t is the
glory of man. 1t distinguishes hin
from brutes. 1t was bought with
blood by the Son OF God. He claims
it as his. 1t should speak his
praises misemployed, it may de.
grade yourself and those around
you. You are charged to attend to
it.
Watch that tongue. The Lord
watches that tongue. "There is not
a word in my tongue, but 10, Q
Lord, thou knowest it altogether. .
For every Idle word we must give
account in the day of judgment.
What will be the record of that
tongue. Watch your tongue.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

FREDERICK WARD,a counterfeiter.
completed a term Of two years in
the Pennsylvania penitentiary the
other day for counterfeiting in that
state, and as soon as he left the in
stitution he was arrested for a SINH
lar offense committed in Michigan
He is said to have passed spurious
bills amounting to 100000. He
says banks are the easiest places to
"work."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

A dying woman in Indiana, whose
mind was evidently wandering, or
had been long unsettled, made the
strange request that she be dismem-
bered after her death. She wanted
her hands and feet to be severed,
and her heart to be cut out and sent
to France for burial the other por-
ton of her body she wanted buried
in Indiana. The strangest part of
the matter is that her daughter had
her requests complied with.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

John Lester Murphy is Queen
Victoria's private telegrapher. He
travels about with her and has moth
ing to do but attend to her telegraph
ic dispatches. His position is prac-
ticallya sinecure. The Queen never
dictates 20 him directly, but sends
her messages to him by secretary.
the Queen admires Murphy. Not
long ago at Windsor she remarked
that he was "the only man of sense
in the house" As the Prince of
Wales and Henry of Battenberg
were in the mansion at the time
Murphy felt quite fattered.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

A fatal accident happened at B.
W. Johns saw mill, near Warsaw.
last Monday. Mr.. Henry Barnett,
son of Mr.. Nathan Barnett, was
bearing off lumber from the saw.
when the saw struck plank in the
hands OF Mr.. Barnett and jerked
him SO severely that he fell on the
saw, which was running rapidly,
cutting off his right arm and cutting
three deep gashes across his breast.
He lived about fifteen minutes after
the accident. He leaves wife and
four children. -Alpharetta Demo.
crat.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

Servant-"The mistress says,
mum, that she is not at home. Who
shall Isay called" Caller-"You
may say that lady called who
didn't bring her name."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

Teacher-Supposing that eight of
you should together have forty eight
apples, thirty-two peaches, fifty-six
pears and sixteen melons, what
would each of you have p Pupils
in chorus-''The stomach-ache.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

The ancient proverb says "You
cannot get more out of bottle than
you put in it." That's an error.
Besides what he put in, he can get
a headache, sick stomach, and per-
haps ten days in the lookup.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

Funny, isn't it, that after man
has once his word he should try so
hard to keep it?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

No use urging doctors to got up a
trust. 1t is pretty much all trust
with them now.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

One of the main questions of the
age in regard to some, is not what
they live on, but why they live on.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

When the great Murphy temper
ance movement reached Erie, Pa,
some years ago, Conrad Shenfeld,
who was much given to drinking,
signed the pledge. He was upheld
in his determination to lead a life of
sobriety by Col. Charles NJ. Lynch,
a wealthy citizen of Erie, who also
assisted him financially. Shenfeld
started life anew, and the other day,
when he died, it was found that he
had willed the bulk of his property,
valued at over $4,000, to Col.
Lynch, who in the meantime had
become reduced in circumstances.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06
MARIETTA, GA
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 6. 1888.

A man doesn't get even when he
gets married two times.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

A woman's motto: There always
room at the bottom-for postscript
or two.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

The oldest person attending school
in this country is an Indian who was
formerly chief of the Grow nation,
and who is being instructed in the
Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. He
is called Crazy Head, is more than
60 years old, and is known by other
attendants upon the school as a
warrior of note and a chiefof ability.
Heis learning the blacksmith's trade,
and works halfof the day and attends
the school the other half.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

Teacher-What is the plural OF
child? Boy (promptly)-Twins.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

A bar at which you can keep per-
fectly sober-the crow bar.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

The right to pay taxes has never
been denied woman.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-06

For sale ty c. NJ. CROSBY g. co
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
How Oil Rockets Are Made.

The use of oil to calm troubled waters is well known, and the latest invention, that of scattering it abroad through the medium of rockets, seems likely to prove invaluable. Lieutenant Cottman, of the Photographic Office, thus explains how the rockets are made: Above the rocket composition the shell is prolonged an inch and a half to receive the oil cylinder which contains within it an exploding cham Der filled with powder. Some loose pow der is poured on top of the fuse compo- sition and the cylinder then slipped on the rocket. The stick is weighted with lead to balance exactly, so as to pre- vent trembling. All being ready the rocket is set off from tube, and fol- lows the direction given it. The burn ing composition finally reaches the loose powder and the flame is com municated through a small hole in the bottom of the cylinder to the bursting charge of powder within the exploding chamber, the cylinder is thrown for ward and exploded, and the oil spread upon the surface of the water" The rockets have been tested and found to be successful in their work.-M r. MGiL and Express.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
A MODERN MIRACLE.
An English Miners Sight Restored by a Lightning Flash.

An English Miners Sight Restored by a
 Lightning Flash.
 A case of peculiar interest to the medical profession has just occurred at Bilston. Adam Bate, collier, twenty-six years of age. has had his sight restored to him through the agency of flash of lightning. On the Sd of December last he was follow ing his employment at the Coppice Hall colliery of MT. Barnett, Stubber's Green, Aldridge, near Walsall, when, whilst he was putting a charge of gum powder into hole in one of the work ings, the powder exploded, completely destroying the right eye and depriving him of the sight of the other The force of the explosion also broke the bone over the right eye. His injuries were of so serious character that he was in fits for seven consecutive weeks, and although he has been an inmate and is at the present time an out-patient of the Birmingham Eye Infrmary, the house surgeon has been un- able to give any hope that he would ever recover the sight of the remain ing eye. According to his story as to the recovery of his sight, he was re- turning home one Tuesday night, from Milfields, Ettingshall, accompanied by younger brother named Enoch Bate who was leading him. At the time a terrific thunderstorm was raging, and he remarked to his brother that he should like once more to see the lightning. At that moment he saw light through his spectacles, and he remarked to his brother: "Enoch, do you see it in my glasses?" Just as he had uttered the words the thunder broke over their heads in a heavy peal, and he was again saying to his brother, "Enoch, see light" when piercing sensation passed from the eye to the back of the head. The pain remained a short time only, and then he told his brother that he was able to see indis- tinctly the objects near to him. On Thursday his sight had so far returned to him that he was able to walk about the town without a guide.-Eaeglish Labor Tribune,
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
PITH AND POINT

A babe in the house is well spring of pleasure; but twins-twins are a deluge.
 The man who wants good show in this world must pay for a reserved seat.-Judge.
 He that has no friend and no enc. my is one of the vulgar, and without talents, power or energy--Lavater.
 Waiting for the fish that bite other peoples hooks is what wearies. MIL aOaukee Journal.
 Advice, like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
 Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of ap- plication, rather than of means, that men fail of success.
 -Self-confdence is the first requisite for success in life, but good many men fail because they think it is the only one.-Jour1at of Education.
 It is good to lay by something for the proverbial rainy day, but not to pinch for that purpose until present necessities unsatisfied give real dis tress.
 -One of the most unhappy men in the world is he who, instead of measuring his strength against his work, is always measuring it against the strength of other men, ChriStidn Union.
 Somehow or other, it troubles man when he tells his wife that he is thinking of going to Europe next sum- mer to have her look at him rather skeptically and advise him to begin UilLe Journal.
 -Badgered, snubbed, and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered, and indulged on the other-it is astonish- ing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nat ure has an element of great toughness in it.-Beecher.
 It is not good to cover our eyes from our mistakes and losses, or even our sins; the better way is to look at their worst, and with them all full in view, and then determine to avoid them in the future. Half our wisdom is gained through experiences that are unspeakably dreary.
 Be cheerful do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain, link after link, is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the travelling monument of despair and melancholy. - Arthur Helps.
 There is scarce any lot so low but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen; Providence having so ordered things that in every mans cup, how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops-some good cir cumstances, which, if wisely extract ed, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them-that is, to make him con- tented, and, if not happy, at least re' signed. -iSterne.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
WELL, WHY IS lT2
Petrifed Chestnuts Shaken Down by aI-
 Enthusiastic ArchaeOlogist.

Petrified Chestnuts Shaken Down by aI-
 Enthusiastic Archaeologist.
 Why is cats tail like the earth? It is fur to the end.
 What kin is the door-mat to the door? A step farther.
 What is waist of timeP The mid dle of an hour-glass.
 Why is doctor never seasick? He is used to see sickness.
 Why does an old maid wear mittens? To keep off the chaps.
 Why is doctor in potential moodP It's would, or should be.
 What is the board of education? The schoolmaster's shingle.
 What sticketh closer than brother? A postage stamp, by gum.
 Why is tin can tied to a dog's tail like death? Its bound to occur.
 Why does sailor know there's a man in the moon? He has been to sea.
 Why is the north pole like an illicit whisky manufactory? It is secret still.
 What is it that will give cold, cure cold and pay the doctors bill. A draught.
 What does man take when he has mean wife? Hes takes an elixir Che licks her).
 Why is it easy to get in an old mans house? Because his gait is broken and his locks are few.
 Why is man who makes pens very wicked? He makes people steel pens and says they do write.
 Why is city official like a church bell? One steals from the people and the other peals from the steeple.
 Why is it dangerous to go out in springP Because the trees shoot, the flowers have pistils and the bullrush is out.
 What is the difference between a dog's tail and rich manP One keeps wagging and the other keeps car- riage.
 What is the difference between an engineer and a school teacher? One trains the mind and the other minds the train.
 What is the difference between a soldier and pretty woman? One faces the powder and the other pow ders the face.
 Why is sheet of writing paper like lazy dogp A sheet of writing paper is an ink-lined plain, and an incline plane is slope up.
 What is the difference between an apple and pretty girl? One you squeeze to get cider and the other you get side her to squeeze. PittSburQh DiSDatch,
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
FREDERICK'S KINDNESS.
Courtesy with Which He Treated French
 Family During the War.

Family During the War.
 The Berlin Borsen Courier prints a letter from a lady at Versailles, in whose house the late Emperor Friedrich lived during the winter of 1870-71: 'These were indeed bad times," she says, ''but we thought our selves happy to be under the protection of that stately and friendly gentleman, who appears to us, as we now think of him, to have been a good genius, who warded off mischief from our house. hold. Although, according to the laws of war, he was our master, and the owner for the time of all that we had, he behaved himself always as if he was our guest. 1 can never forget the | gentleness with which he used to ask for any thing, whether for himself or his adjutant, apologizing for giving us trouble, fearful of causing any inconvenience, and inquiring whether this or that would interfere with our own arrangements" On Christmas Eve, when huge chest ar rived from Berlin for the Crown Prince, he invited his hostess and her family to partake of his Christmas cake. ''This cake" said he, as he cut off slices for the French ladies, twas baked by my wife, and I must oblige you to taste it." He then chatted to them about the Christmas festival in bic Oun bon111, household ond +ronC lated passages from the letter of the Crown Princess and the letters of his two eldest children - Wilhelm, the present Emperor, and Charlotte. '.In those fateful days" she continued. i've learned to know the whole good and open heart of your late Emperor. The terrible 18th of January, 1871, when there was fighting at Mont Valerien, Bougival and St. Cloud, and our troops were driven back upon Paris many thousands of my fellow-countrymen were taken prisoners. At six o'clock in the evening the Crown Prince had learned that among them were several men who were not professional soldiers lawyers, artists, teachers, merchants and others. He asked the French off, cers who were taken prisoners to noti- fly these civilians that if they gave their names to him he would place es- cOrts at their service so that they might return to their homes and work This generous nobleness in your Prince made a deep impression upon the French mind. It has never been for gotten, and 1 know with what pro- found respect the knightly conqueror was spoken of at that time. The older folk in France, in whom the recollec- tion of those days must always abide, hold the memory of the noble Emper- or Friedrich in the greatest esteem"
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13

thing and let me get off to the hay-held as fast as I can."
 ''Jes' as your orders is," said Mary Ann.
 And I say, Letty!" he added.
 "Yes! George"
 "Write to your Cousin Dora. Tell her we'll be glad to board her if she will assist you about the house"
 But you've hired Mary Ann!"
 'There's work for 'em both," said MT. White.
 And he sat down and took refuge in last weeks paper while Mary Ann wrestled with the charred remains of the breakfast and cut fresh slices of home-cured ham.
 In this world there are bloodless bat ties and victories won without clash of steel; and in this category may be classed Mrs. Whites victory over her husband, in respect to the question of ''hired help. ."- Yankee BLGde.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
Tommy's Lesson.

I thought when a boy was big enough to have a slate and book and go to school, he was big enough to take care of himself, and go the way he wanted to. So I did not go straight down the road, as my mamma told me, but climbed the fence to go across the field. By and by something said: ..Bow-bow-bowi" and there was a big dog running right at me. Didn't run! That dog almost caught me before l got to the fence, and I tumbled over and scratched my arm and broke my slate and tore my collar; so l had to go home to mamma
 She said: "Ah, Tommy, boy, people never get too old to go in the right way instead of the wrong one. The straight path is the right path. Remember thatr' And that is all the lesson I learned in my first day at school 'cause I didn't go.-UniteG Pres6y- teI-idD.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
VOLUME XVII
THE LIGHT OF HOME.

When every star that gems the sky In darkness hides its silvery ray, And midnight shadows thickly lie,
 Like sable curtains on the way, One light remalns to pierce the gloom, One ray-it is the light of home. That light where e'er undimmed in shines, Unnumbered blessings sheds aroundi Where fall its soft and tender lines There truest happiness is found. There is no light beneath the dome So precious as the light of home. Within its sacred circle blend
 The purest virtues, true and strong; Here friend deserves the name of friend, And love resides, nor fears wrong; And when the heart meets pain and i'll That friendly beacon cheers it still. For one afar it's radiance streams The proof of joy and hope and cheer, And draws him with its welcome beams To all he holds most prlzed and dear. Ills heart is glad, hIs eye grows bright, AS he holds its faithful light. And thus as we with weary feet, Life's dark and tangled mazes tread, Let us take heart, for, pure and sweet, There is light that shines ahead, That leads us onward, while we roam, To find in Heaven the light of home.
 Boston Journal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
THE RocKING-HoRSE TRIP.

My pony has pretty head And a very dark brown mane, And is faster trotting-horse Than grandpa's heavy cane. His name is Billy Button Budge, And he and to-day Must take trip, and it is time That we were on our way. The sewIng-machine is a buzZing Mill, That has so nice wheel, Where I must go for bag of flour And half-a-peck of meal. At Bookcase Corner will stop To get my papa's mail, And at the Center Stand I'll ask What fruit they have for sale. A pound of tea to Betty Brown I'll not forget to take She lives down in the narrow lane The chairsa and table make. Then at the grand Piano Hall, Some music must hear, While pony stands all safely tied To the rack so handy near. Then half way-at the Sofa Inn Some luncheon we will eat, And Budge shall have his hay and oats, And I'll have bread and meat. Waste-basket manager ready stands Where pony always feeds, And scuttle-trough is ever full Of all the drinks he needs! Bay-window Market must see With all its flowers fair, And order too gay bouquet For sister May to wear. A trot we'll have all up and down The carpets howery Park. And yet get home to Mothers Chair Before 'tis very dark.
 -Baby Land.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13

Woman (to Tramp)-"Have you got any friends or relativesP" Tramp -"I have a brother Bill" Woman ''Is Bill tramp, too?" Tramp-''No Bill didn't turn out very well. He tried most every thing and finally drifted into the milk business. '- IEnle.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13

The limited space under many a corner peanut stand in New York is not only used for sleeping place by the thrifty Italian owner, but lodgers are taken in and lie packed like Maine minnows in a French sardine box.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13

An old negro in Birmingham, Conn.,, drank down pint of molasses almost at a swallow the other day, and then followed it up with quart of the saccharine fluid, to the great delight of the crowd who watched him. He poured the molasses down his throat as easily as thirsty man would swallow as much milk.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-08
A Return to Duty.

This is always desirable, and the speed
ier it takes place the better. DoHbiy
welcome is it in the case of those usually
industrious little organs, the kidneys.
which, when they 60 on strike-so to
speak-and drop work. seriously imperll
health in more than one way. First and
foremost, their inaction begets their dis
ease, which is hydrs-headed, including
such dangerous maladies as Brights dis
ease and diabetes. Next, when inactive
they fail to assist in removing from the
blood impurities that beget rheumatism.
gout and dropsv. Third, their inaction
weakens the bladder. All this is pre-
ventable and remediable by the pleasant
promoter of organic action. Hostetter':
Stomach Bitters, at once q tonic and 9
regulator. This gently but efectually
impels the kidneys to return to duty, and
strengthens them and the bladder. Upor
the bowels, stomach and it likewise ex'
erts a. regulating and invigorating infiu
ence, and it strengthens the system. and
averts and remedies the malaria and rheu
matism.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-08
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