Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-10-26
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The best "help'-hcip yourself.
Syracuse has a bill posters" p%arlor.
Sixteen lectures on the 70 Semitic arc
to come out this season.
Three hundred and City million pounds
Is the grape crop Of California.
4 Western paper tells Of poverty fin
gers staring a woman in the face.
It has been estimated that the new crop
Of cotton will amount to $4,000. bales.
4 notice over the sleeping car Office in
Atlanta reads, births can be secured
Lere."
In a single year the locomotives in the
United States consumed S56,0O0,000
worth of wood.
The Temperance Banner, o. Attica, \
Y, has for its motto, Eight for the right
and never get tight"
\ Southern paper spea1s Of the death
Of several citizens ''frQm throat disease,
superinduced by r~azors."
4 cotton factory has started at Augusta,
Georgia, with accommodations for one thou
sand looms.
Silver coffin trimmings are hired out
for private funerals IN Lewistown, Me-, to
be returned after the ceremony,
A woman at a revival meeting in Ohio
said she found her jewelry was dragging
her down to hell, and so gave it to a
young sister.
.Sheet-iron park seats are a specific
for corporal punishment" So says the
Philadelphia Star. Its editor knows just
how it is.
Georgia increased more last gear in the
value Of Its property than in any previous
year in its history. This increase is esti-
mated at $40, 700, 900.
Jose Corresco of Mexico is the wealth.
est silver mine owner in the world. lie
owns several mines, from one of which
alone he receives 100000 per month.
In time the mulberry tree becomes a
silk gown-and a silk gown becomes a
woman
Indiana feas are stripped of their leg
and sold for fax-seed. Mote You needn''
believe this unless you want to-.
Mr.. S~purgeon's thousandth printed ser
mon has appeared. He prints sixty-twc
annually.
The day to pick your wife is Choose.
day. "Wednesday is the day to be mar
ried on, of course.
..What is a smile p asked a mar of
little girl. 1.-The whisper Of a laugh
replied she.
AS daylight can be seen through very
small holes, so little things will illustrate
a p~esron's character.
A Hartford man advised a slender
friend to chalk his head and 60 to a mas
auerade ball as a billiard-cue.
A wise old gentleman, who knew al
about it, on retiring from business CAV
the following sage advice to his son ant
successor :"Common sense, my son, Is val
liable in all kinds of business-excep
Io~ve-making."
Rev. Vim. II. Milburn, the ''blin'
nreacher." after five years trial of th'
Protestant Episcopal Church. has with
drawn from that body to return to hi
first love, which was Episcopacy of tn
Methodist sort.
A Wisconsin girl wanted her lover
swear on the Bible that she was all tn
world to him, and when he wouldn't sn
knocked him down with the sacred vo
ume.
Every ..leading politician" in New Jel
sey is said to be 'in the hands OF h
friends" as a candidate for Governor.
II is said that "as the twig is bent til
tree is Inclined" Some of the youn
ladies will grow querly if the Grecia
bend style lasts.
Funds of the Eric railway. amountin
TO $50, 700, were stolen from the sale
the Railway Hotel and Susquehanna d
not at Binghampton, oil Sunday night.
Georgia las now in full blast great fan
- Atlanta and Macon, and on the I'll
Of November there will be a grand exp
sition of the Industrial Association OF Il
State at Savannah.