The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-10-27
WIT AND WISDOM.

All are not hunters that blow the
horn.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes
open. .-.-~
The biggest "guns" arc often the
greatest "Eores."
Is it fair to define baby clothes as
bawl-dresses ?n -.......
Observation-Disclosures the Bohemian
Diet is full, the adjoining country is
Hungry.
The stream of life forks; SO that
religion will sometimes run In one
channel and business in another.
1t is only by labor that thought can
be made healthy, and only by thought
that labor can be made happy.
One of the toasts drank at recent
celebration was: "Woman; she re-
quires 10 eulOgy-she speaks for her
selfw r...
A cynical lady, rather inclined to
flirt, says most men arc like cold
very easily caught, but very difficult
to get rid OF.
We worship the promotion OF all
good, all that is very beautiful, shining,
Immortal, bright, everything that il
good. [-Iend Avesta.
An unjust acquisition is like barbed
arrow, which must he drawn back.
ward with horrible anguish, or else 1t
will be your destruction.
"Name the longest day In the
year." said q Nashua teacher to
Young hopeful Of five summers. "Sun-
day." responded the little woman.
InviOlabIe fidelity, and complacency.
| Of temper outlive all the charms OF q
fine face, and make the decay OF it
invisible.-[Tatler.
The most fruitful and natural exer-
else of the mind in my opiniOD, Is
conyeJation. find the use Of it more
sweet than OF s.i7 other action of life.
-[Montaigne.
Beauty in q modest woman is like
! q fire or sharp sword at distance
neither doth the one burn nor the 9TH
er wound those that come not too close
to them.
Voltaire, i'm conversation with
| Gretry, the musician, while speaking
of fame, said. ooh, I'd give hundred
years of Immortality for q good diges-
ton, any time"
There are two ways Of going through
this world: one is to make the best
of it, the other to make the worst OF
| it: and those who take the latter
course work hard for very poor pay.
"My dear" said husband to bis
better half, aftara quarrel, "you will
never be permitted tn 60 to Heaven"
"Why not 2" Because you will be
wanted as a torment down below"
els molasses good for q cough 2"
! inquired Jones, who had taken asiight
! cold and was barking with cODsidera.
BILE energy. at ought to be-" said
Brova, it is sold for consumption"
A love-lettes, ricSe.i Up in Spring
field, ILL.,, had the following para
graph =" / chawed the postage stamp
on your last letter all to thunder, be-
cause / knew you licked it on."
Nothing shows one who his friends
are like prosperity and ripe fruit. i
hal 3 good friend in the country,
| whom ! Gii,Sst never visited except
in Cherry-time. By Sout ftuits you
shall know them.
No sincere desire of doing good need
make an enemy of single human be-
ing; that philanthropy has surely q
| flaw in it WHICH cannot sympathize
with the oppressOr equally IS with the
oppressed.
It's quite the fashion to drop now
and ther lump of piety into personal
conduct, but too often there is little
care to "work it in." A life prop
erIy seasoned with grace has mi
form fiavor.-[ Ii. w. Beecher.
Do not talk about yourself or your
family, to the exclusion ofother topics.
What if you are clever and a little
more so than Other sople, it may not
be that other folks will think so, what
ever they oEeht 70 ~,