The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-05
Loves Reason.
FEMININICAL.

FEMININICAL.
There isa skeleton i'm every lady,s
dress.
Tea punch" soothes the New York
feminine palate.
Crying widows marry fist. There
nothing like wet weather for trans
planting.'
A New Haven lady climbed a Iamp
post to see the inaugural parade. She
wished to see it i'm good light.
They govern the world-these sweet
Tipped womcn,-because beauty is the
index of larger fact than wisdom.
st. Petersburg has prominent
female barristcr i'm the person of
Madame Krictzoh.
The Queen of Tahaiti is a gifted
creature; she smokes with grace and
plays carte t. perfection.
The wife Of the Marquis de NoaiIIes,
recently appointed French minister to
Washington, is lady of great personal
attractions and most fascinating man.
ners.
An old lady who inquired for "the
dollar warden hat" went away sorrow-
ing when the clerk told her that they
We're just out, but he had plenty OF "six
dollar vardens.'
The London Spectator is strongly i'm
favor of a woman's University i'm Eng
land, on the ground that the Judgment
of educated women is needed on MANY
of the most important questions of the
day.
The word l,vc in the Indian language
is nlamourtchwager." How
nicely it would sound, whispered soft
ly in lady's car-"I schcmlenda-
mourtchwager you"
A young lady says that a gentlemen
ought never to feel discouraged when
the momentOus question" is mega
uved 10y the oject of his choice, " for i'm
life, as i'm grammar, We always decline
before we conju.ate."
A poor forlorn boy, only seven years
old, complains most bitterly of his big
sisters harsh treatment of him. Last
winter she grabbed his astrahan cap,
and now she has captured his straw
hat, cut down the rim, and calls it
sailor"
Women govern us; let us render
them perfect: the more they are en-
lightened, 20 much the more shall we
be. On the cultivation of the mind of
women depends the wisdom of men.
IL is by women that nature write; on
the hearts of men.
If a milkmaid, four feet ten iuches
i'm height, while sitting on a three
legged stool, took four pints of milk
from every fifteen cows, what was the
size of the field in which the animals
grazed, and what was The girls age?
a lady seeking situation bccame
interested in the advertisement of n
rich widowcr who wanted Il lady to do
light housekeeping. So she wrote to
the advertiser asking where the light.
house was, and if there we've any way
of getting To shore on Sundays.
Musical criticism nowadays runs in
this wise: Miss wore "a rich purple
suit trimmed with a handsome shade of
lavender, white over-garment, tight
fitting, with flowing sleeves, and a
white bonnet trimmed with the same
shades of purple and lavender-and
she sang finely.
1t is great mistake TO suppose that
woman with no heart will he an easy
creditor i'm the exchange of affection.
There Is not on earth more merciless
cXactcr of love from others than Il
thoroughly selfish womaI; and the
more unlovely she grows the more
ealously and scrupulOusly she eXacts
owe To the uttermost farthing.
The congregation of the Methodist
"hurc hat Geneva, ILL.,, is composed
of apI .rnyoaI
in-love spinsters. The efforts of the
Latter to get male members into the
fold ar persistent but unsuccessful, for
the widows, rendered wise by their
matrimonial experiences, are anxious
TO keep them out.
The last proposition of cradicating
polygamy is To introduce into Utah
vast quantities of fashionable millinery
goods and induce the Gentle women
TO "come out' in gorgeous style. This
will produce such a competition on the
part of the Mormon sisterhood and
such heavy bills for finery, that the
saints won't be able to stand the pres
sue.
A man i'm Providence, addicted TO
tangled foot" having imbibed consid-
erably more than WAS for his good,
took a seat 10y the fire, and soon didn't
fell as well as he used too. Near the
FIRE WAS brood of young goslipgs i'm a
basket, that had been brought in, the
weather being stormy. The heat made
the man sick, and the disposition was
strong within him to relieve his over
charged stomach. No vessel being
handy for the purpose except the bask-
ct of goslings, the load was quickly
deposited there. Calling his wife, he
exclaimed. Phe- Phoebe, where did ]
(hicl did 1 eat those gos-liDgs?"
THESPECTRoSCOPE ON THE NEBULAE
HYPoTHkSIS.-The existence of i'm
mense nebulous masses, from which
Laplace supposed the solar system to
have beeu derived, was thought tO
have been proved baseless by the in
creased power of modern telescopes,
which have resolved into cluster OF
stars many objects supposed TO have
been nebule. But since spectroscope
has been SO improved as To be pracii-
calIy employed for determining the
the character of such distant bodies
the nebulous theory is again coming
into favor. if indeed it may not now bt
considered fully established on astrong
er foundation than ever before. Prof
Kirkwood has made extended obser-
vations in this direction, in which the
evidence in favor of the hypothesis il
decidedly cumulative. Even progres
sive changes in the physical condition
of some of the nebule have been clear
ly indicated. In some parts OF certain
nebulae nuclei have been established
the mass of gaseous matter evidentl,
passing from its attenuated form int
mi-solid state. The spectra obtain
edprove this fact beyond the possibility
OF doubt. This class of spectra reveals
constitution similar that recently OBJ
served in certain comets belonging Il
our own system.