The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-06-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

! MISCELLANEOUS.
) GREAT MISrAKEs.-It is a mistake
to .sot t.up our own standard of right
aud wrong, and judge people ac-
cordingly. 1t is great mistake to
measure the enjoymeEts of others
by our own to expect uniformity of
opinion in this world to look for
judgment and experience in youth );
to endeavor to mould all dispositions
alike; not to yield in immaterial
trifles; to look for perfection in our
own actions; to worry ourselves and
others with what cannot be remedied;
not to alleviate all that needs allevia-
tion, as far as lies II our power; to
consider everything impossible which
we canrot perform; to believe only
what our finite minds can grasp; to
expect to be able to understand ev-
erything. The greatest of all mis-
takes s 10 live only for time, when
any moment may launch us into eter-
nifty.
IT is singular but not less true, that
Jefferson was born Just eight years
after his predecessor Adams; Madi-
son just eight years after Jefferson
Monroe eight years after Madison; /;
and John Quincy Adams eight years
after Monroe. Another curious fact
to be observed is that Adams w.s
just sixty-six when he retired; JEFF
ferson was sixty-siX; Madison was
sixty.six; Monroe was sixty-six; :;
and John Quincy Adams, had he
teen elected to a second term, would
have been sixty-six. Adams, JEFF
ferson and Monroe all died on the
4th of July E EeE y g. 4
q In China, man is not allowed TO
build house above his legitimate
rank in society He may acquire
fortune by his own exertions, but un-
less he holds some office, or is born to
some rank, he has no liberty of arch
itecture. The laws os the empire
detail and enforce, with greatest pre-
cisiOn, the mode OF constructing
residence of prince of the first,
second or third rank, of grandee or
Of mandarin. According 10 the
ancient law, the number and hight
of the apartments, the length and
hightof building, sre all regulated
with precision, from the plain citizen
to the mandarin, and from the man.
DARN up to the emperor himself.
GOETHE was i'm company with a
mother and daughter, when the lat
ter, being reproved for something,
blushed and burst into tears. He
said to the mother: How beautiful
your reproach has made your
daughter. That crimson hue and
those silvery tears become her much
better than any ornament Of gold or
pearls; those NAV be hung on the
neck of any woman; these ale ever
seen connected with moral purity.
A full blown flower sprinkled with
purest dew is not so beautiful as this
child blnshing beneath her parents
and shedding tears of
sorrow for her. fault. A blush is the
sign which nature hangs out to show
where chastity and honor dwell"
SFEND WIsELY-Look well to your
spending. No matter what comes In,
II more goes out you will always be
poor. The art is not i'm making money,
but in keeping it; little expenses.
like mice in a barn, when they are
many, make great waste. Hair by
hair heads get bald; Straw by straw
the tilatch goes OFF the cottage; and
drop by drop the rain comes into the
chamber. A barrel is soon empty,
if the tap leaks but a drop minute.
When you mean TO save. begin with
your mouth; there are manv thieves
down the red lane. The ale-jug is
great waste. In all other things
keep within compass. Never stretch
your legs further than the blankets
will reach, or you VIII soon be cold.
I'm clothes, choose suitable and last |
ing stuff, and not tawdry finerics. To
be- warm is the main thing; never
mind the looks. A foo, may make |
but IT, needs a wise man to
spend it,. Remember, il is easier to |
build two cllimneys, than to keep
,ne going. Ii you give all to back |
md board, there is nothing left |
ior the savings bank. Fare hard and |
work hard while you arc young, and |
,Ort have chance of res. when on
ire old. ..
Z WOmam's lore is estimated by an
English contemporary as follows: A |
French woman will love her husband
1 he is either witty Or chiyalrous; a
German woman il he is constant and |
faithful "a Dutch woman ifhe does not
listurG her case and comfort TOO
much; Spanish woman if he
vengeance OH those who in
'ur his displeasure All Italian woman
f he is dreamy and poetical; a
d uish woman if he thinks that her
native country is the brightest and
appicst on earth; Russian woman
il he dcspiscs all westcrners as
barbarians; an English
woman if he succeeds in ingratiating
himself with the court and aristocra-
cy an American woman if he has
plenty Of money.
A STRANGE FIsH.-On Saturday
last the fishermen at the SEQUEL !
beach while hauling their seine,
caught very strange fish il was
about four or five feet long, with a
head somewhat resembling an alliga-
tor. The mouth would open very
wide, and a sort of kissing noise pro-
ceeded from il. It had two fiery-like
eyes of agrccn ycllowish color, with
two horns of a liard, bony substance
protruding i'm from each side of the
head. The body was slim and long,
and it had four web feet, the legs |
being stout and short. Just below |
the two hind feet, The body separated |
into two tails, and on the ends OF !
each were two tasscls somewhat re.
sca-weed or coase hair. 1t |
was very spry and lively and the !
men were at first af aid to touch il, |
but finally one of the men struck it |
over the head with an oar and killed |
it.-Soafa Cruz (Cal.) Times.