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THE EXPRESS.
Cedartown, January 10th.
AM. SORTS.
Tlic laborer is worthy of his ex
celsior.
SUigh-riddlng nlfords k. k.—cold
comfort.
The prodigal’s return—Gold comes
to par.
A model buy-word—Cash.
Nothing was made in vein, except
human blood.
It is a good artist who can draw
pay.
With tho shrewd legislator “it
never too luto to a—mend.’
Judicious hanging is a need of
the times.
If the Boston I’ost can be believed,
no ghost need spectre go to heaven.
A man takes no interest in a bad
investment.
The inebriate’s song—This is the
way I long have sol.
Practicing in a pistol gallery is
deer shooting.
Actions speak louder than words,
in pantomime.
Isn’t a biliard player a baize ball
player—what think cue?
Garlic is said to be a sovereign
remedy for gout. There is no reme
dy for garlic.
A New York shopkeeper has writ
ten on his door; ‘Every one shuts
this door but you.’ •
In fishing for pickeral through the
ice you want to cut an angler hole.
It is not good for mail to he alone,
unless ho holds both bowers anti the
ace.
Mary had a little Inmh. It wub
roasted, ami she wanted more.
Spring ch ekens and new maple
sugar continue to cornu in ns usual.
Children raised in the lap of lux
ury are u long time in learning to go
alone.
Yuungimnn,jin beginning the jour
ney ol life, don't take tho train from
tho wrong deep-owe.
It lias snowed so much in England
this week that the little island looks
like Itobinsou Crusoe’s white-peak-
ed hat.
White ice at 890 per ton, it is no
•wonder that our young folks are ob
liged to skate on rollers.
The King of tht Keejee Islands is
■aid torelishj’Uaby Mine’very much.
He likes it well done, too.
‘Set solid,’ as the prill ter said when
the chair Ije sat down wasn’t - there,
And he landed on'tho Hour. J
A hint to ladies who will wear out
side pockets. Have your purses
mude up to look like prayer books.
A poor tire is a pokerish thing in
cold weather. Yes; oud u great bore,
too.
It cannot be that ‘all flesh is grass.’
Grass gets its dew—about the only
thing tliut does ill this world.
Thera are two kinds of men who
tell the truth—one from forces of
ciroumatnhecs and the other for a
change.
When Cleopatra speaks of her
"salad day,” does she menu her in
fancy, when she was dressed by sume
cue else?’
The New York Mail knows ol a
married man who was never asked
to take the chair in domestic affairs
but once, and then tho family were
moving.
A man with a cold in his heuduis-
likes togire event io his feelings in
clniroh, und consequently gets down
on his sneeze while there.
A fellow out SVest got a sentence
,of twenty years for stealing horses.
That is what might be called an Ev-
arts sentence. It was very long.
If “every mail is ilie arohiu.01 of
bis own fortune,’the most of them
had better abandon architecture and
go to sawing wood.
A great writer says: ‘Some people
are born Christians,’ Hut there’s mo
occasion for worrying over the mutter;
they generally outgrow it.
When a joke is U9 old as the hills
it has little vulley. O, it hasn’t, eh?
Then you don’t know u circus clown
getB 8125 a week.
A la Punch; What is difference
between last year und this one? Lust
year is S (ate; i. e., consumed or fin
ished); this year is !) (ueill, German
for ‘no’ or ‘not.’
Shoe dealers find Mint if they
mark!£ •»'> thvi | (f/ J I'j*.,3 shoes
(hey gel a fit and please Their cus
tomers, who would uot fer the world
put ou slices a mile too big.
A young lady Buid to her lover.
‘Charley, how laris it around' tile
world?’ ‘About twenty-four inolies,
my darling,’ replied lie, us Ins arm
enoircled her watte. She was all the
world to him.
Here is u horrible one from the
fiend of tho New Haven Register:
"•Don’t venture on the thin ice, just
yet, boys. If you should break
through you might take a bad cold,
D(1 perhaps have a cotllu fit.’
THE NEW LEAF.
JANUA11Y 1
New Year,
Seventy-eight,
No beer—
Water straight!
No joke—
Mighty true!
Wont smoke,
Never chew!
Don’t, care
Wlmt they think—
Wont swear,
Never drink?
FElIttUAHY 1.
Feel queer—
111 atease—
One beer,
If you please.
Don’t cure
Ifl do—
A cigar?
Yes, I chew.
Reel’s thill—
Weak stuff!
Whisky skin
Good enough.
Ilia Favorite Foon.—Mr. Eon-
gears started a conversation the oth-r
evening on favorite foods. One pro
ferred venison, anotherphensiint, and
so on, und bo on, till It came to tli ■
Hon. Eougears himself to name his
favorite- “Gwacious, 1 don’t know,
you know?’ he said; but Miss Neid-
elwytte. tile celebrated lecturer, who
wus present, suggested*—thist
les.—[Judy,
A Reckless Si-endthhift.—Po
lice Court Justice: “Well, und you no
•livings?’ ‘Yes, sir; about seventy-five
cents.’ ‘All, yes, I see; and you’ve
gone and spent it all in hideous or
gies. Six months.’
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The Cedarto
WEEKLY FAMILY NBWSPAPJi
tL\. vilhigu of Cedtirtown, Polk County,
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*3? H M 11P1
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Mote Heads. Mote Books,
Statements, Circulars,
Posters, Cards.
LEHAL BLANKS PRINTED TO ORDER,
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Add ress
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OunBiiiiths.
REMINGTON
Agricultural
Impremenj
PATENT CLIPPHIt
STEEL AND CABBOl
. PLOWS,
Cnltlvatms, Solid Steel Cultivator »«.,».«««
I'ulms, brought Iron Standard Cultivator Teeth
"d Points, Saver’s Patent HorseIloo'Shovel Plow
ovl’1 ^Jow Blades, Plain and with Wings, of all
Solid Steel Cultivator Teeth,
usujglitlron Standard Cultivator Teem
and Points, Bayer’s Patent Horse lieu,[Shovel Plow
wiiomnr ntoy bhwqes
Arch ami TrapezolcaL Truss. Forks, Caot Stee
Shovels, Citrt Steel Hoes, and Garden Rakes,
Planter s handled Hoes, Mowers, Wheel tiorso
Rakes, Needle Cotton tilns.
Armory and Principal Office,
11.40N, asr. y.
Bra(ch Offices'and Agencies:
281 * 888 lloadwar, New York, Arms, * Sewing
Machines. <,
-Chicago,S87 State St.. Sewing Meoeines * Arms
Baltimore,47 North Charles St. (Masonic Temple)
sewing Matlilnos and Arms. oct. 10 lm
NOTICE.
Land For Sale.
The ubaoriber being detiTmined
to leave sobrrupt a conimnnlty as snrroanda him
offers aboni >
1,300 kores of First Class Land
lying l/t Caar Vulloy .ml Coll«ri Toivo TaUqr. ™
* . MILL and a gook Caatoiu Wattr
<VEJY lo w fob cash.
f’wlll divide Slid lands to suit purchasers. Call
and examine sale Lauds. will gntrantee It to be
the, boat place Iri the Stale for an honest man to
die at, as h« jonld lohvvM vf^th fsfior regrets than
V