Eye openers [electronic resource]: good things, immensely funny sayings and stories that will bring a smile upon the gruffest countenance . e members chieflydiffer from the ancient stock in that, in orderto acquire the notoriety we have always yearnedand hungered for, they have got into a lowway of going to jail instead of getting is not well, when writing an autobio-graphy, to follow your ancestry down too closeto your own time—it is safest to speak onlyvaguely of your great-grandfather, and thaskip from there to yourself, which I now da I was born without teeth—and there EichardIII
Eye openers [electronic resource]: good things, immensely funny sayings and stories that will bring a smile upon the gruffest countenance . e members chieflydiffer from the ancient stock in that, in orderto acquire the notoriety we have always yearnedand hungered for, they have got into a lowway of going to jail instead of getting is not well, when writing an autobio-graphy, to follow your ancestry down too closeto your own time—it is safest to speak onlyvaguely of your great-grandfather, and thaskip from there to yourself, which I now da I was born without teeth—and there EichardIII. had the advantage of me; but I was bornwithout a humpback likewise, and there I hadthe advantage of him. My parents were neithervery poor nor conspicuously honest. But now a thought occurs to me. Mv own AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 19 history would really seem so tame contrastedwith that of my ancestors that it is simplywisdom to leave it unwritten until I amhanged. If some other biographies I haveread had stopped with the ancestry until a likeevent occurred it would have been a felicitousthing for the reading public. How does itptrike you f. II JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE. [From the Bunkum Express.] The editor of the Memphis Avalanche, swoops thusmildly down upon a correspondent who posted him asa Radical:—While he was writing the first word, themiddle, dotting his is, crossing his ts, and punchinghis period, he knew he was concocting a sentence thatwas saturated with infamy and reeking with falsehood.—Exchange. T WAS told by the physician that a Southern*? climate would improve my health, and soI went down to Tennessee, and got a berth onthe Morning Glory and Johnson County War-Whoop as associate editor. When I went onduty I found the chief editor sitting tilted backin a three-legged chair with his feet on a pinetable. There was another pine table in theroom, and another afflicted chair, and both werehalf buried under newspapers and scraps andsheets of manuscript. There was a woodenb
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