The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-04-30
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Accounts from the maple orchards pre-
dict large amount of sugar this spring.
The exceedingly short coats worn now
adays might be called petty-coats.
Flesh persons may become lean by eat
ting slate pencils. 1t reduces them to a
mere cipher.
Mrs. jenkins complained in the even
ing that the turkey she had eaten did not
set well. Probably, said Jenkins, it was
not hen turkey.
The latest fashion in earrings in Paris
are little globules of rock-crystal, filled
with water and miniature sea-fshes and
mollusses.
The diminution of the size of the protu-
bcrance at the back of ladies' heads has
afforded abundance of material for the
stuffng of pincushions.
A large farm can be bought in South
Carolina for the price of spring ovorcoat
in Boston.
A little Swedish girl was walking with
her father one night under the starry
sky, intontly meditating upon the glories
of heaven. At last she said, ''Father |
have been thinking if the wrong side of
heaven is so beautiful, what will the right
side bep
The word ''Tariff'' comes from the old
Moorish fortress of Tarifa, on promon-
tory at the straits of Gibraltal. The
Moors occupying this fortress exacted
duty on all merchandise coming in or GO
ing out of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Presidents contribution toward the
imitation of the currency during the last
year or two, consists in the pardon of over
u hundred counterfeiters.
Between eighty and ninety million pins
can be made in day of ten hours by
machine lately completed by Hoxie &
Tolles, of Hartford, Connecticut.
General Chambers, of Louisville, had
daughter born to him on his 74th birth
day, and the members of the bar expressed
their admiration by presenting him with
silver cup.
One of the wealthiest men in Canada it
is said has a quarter of million of pounds
sterling, large proportion ofhis property,
invested in England at one per cent. He
made the investment during the first Fe-
MAN fright, and is now endeavoring to get
the interest increased.
According to NJ. du Chaillu, the canni-
bal tribes of Africa never waste q corpse
of one of their own number, although they
are never eaten by any of the family Of
which they were formerly members. Wo-
men are among them, as with us, consider
ed tenderest Though they view this quail
ifcation in carnivorous Light little girls
are splendid, small boys are thought to be
not bad eating, but old men are deemed
tough.
"That man, said Sidney Smith, sis not
the discoverer of art who first says the
thing; but he who says it so long, so loud,
and so clearly, that he compels mankind
to hear him."
How admirable is that religion which,
while it seems to have in view only the
felicity of another world, is at the same
time the highest happiness of this
"Biddy," said O'Mulligan to his wife,
''it's cowId ye have. A drop of the
crather 'ud do we no harrum." ''Oh hone,"
said Biddy, "pve taken the plidge; but
you can mix drink, Jimmy, an force. me
to swally it."
An irrepressibly boy of five years, who
was always compelled to keep quiet on
Sunday, having grown so inexpressibly
weary towards the close of Sabbath-day,
frankly and honestly approached his ex-
cellent, but rather over-strict father, and
gravely said: "Pa, let's have some spirit
ual fun" This was too much, not only for
the gravity, but also for the strictness of
the father; and for once he s'let mater Ca
per- till bedtime.
| A clothes line attached to a high CHM
ney on house-top in Lee, Massachusetts,,
recently shrank SO much from being wet,
thatit pulled the chimney down, smashing
in the ceiling below.
| There is story of celebrated French
preacher, who, on delivering sermon on
the duty of wives, said: 4 see opposite
me in this congregation woman who has
been guilty of the sin of disobedience to
her husband and in order to point her
out to universal condemnation, will fling
my breviary at her head" He lifted up
his book, and every female head was in
stantly lowered.