The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-07
SENSE AND SENTIMENT.

The finest hair casts shadow.
Goethe.
Command your temper, lest it, eom-
mand you.
O,W. Holmes says that humility is
the first of the virtues s-for other pec-
pie.
1t is better to have no opinion at all
of the gods than q degrading one
Bacon.
Politeness knows nothing OF better
and worse, and the polite person never
assigns inferiority to any one but bim-
self.
If the world is to be held together by
lies, the old, which are current already,
are just as good as the new. Lessing-
Not in the knowledge of things with
out, but the perfection of the soul with
in, lies the true empire of man.-LBul
wer.
Care to our co Ems adds nail, no doubt
A.d every gria, so mcr :, craws one out.
,hn WOlcct
Cato said: I would much rather
that posterity should inquire why no
statues were erected To me, than why
they were.
De1lu thC
rounds of a great city, and sooner or
later he will stop at every mans door-
But. after all, the shortest life is long
enough if it lead to- better aud the long
est life is too short, il it do not.
What do think of I.unDum, ask ye?
said old John Wilson, a sterlipg wor-
thy, on being asked his opinion Of the
great metropOlis-whatd d. / think OF?
It's Just ump of good gr'upd spoilt
wi ST he and lime.
ClOugh, IN one of his recently pub
lshed letters, tells story of an ageo
Cslvipist woman who, being asked
about the UniverSalists, said, Yes, they
expect that every body will be saved,
but we look for better things.
What use are forms? exclaimed q
petulant legislator to DIR franklin; you
cannot deny that they are often mere
empty things, Well, my friend, and
so are barrels but nevertheless they
have their uses, quietly replied the doe
Tor.
A Kind old father-in-law wanted to
know why the Feejeans were called
cannibals, to which Barnum replied:
Because they live off other people
Then. replied he unhappily, my four
sols- in-lax must be csDnfbals-they
live off me.
This is the way the Western papers
go on about ID. V. Their brains are
evidently affected: She wore a Dolly
Warden, the night when first we met
her chip hat, like a garden, with poSles
gay WAS set. a humping big blonde
waterfall, when next We met she wore;
her skirt spread out from wall To wall,
and busted off the floor.
Whitefield produced a great effect up
on his hearers on on occasion, by an :
illustration which appealed to the eye ,
as well as to the year. You seem To I
think salvation all easy matter. q. just
as easy for me to catch that insect pas
siEg 10y me. He male grasp at 4 ",
real or imaginary. Then he paused
moment, and opened his hand-But 2
have missed it. ..-.-.- q,
The secret of health: First, keep
warm. Second, eat regularly and slow
Iy. Third, maintain regular bodily
habits. Fourth, take early and very
light suppers, or better still, none at all.
Fifth, keep clean skin. Sixth, get
picnty of sleep at night. Seventh,
keep cheerful and respectful company.
Eighth, keep out of debt. Ninth, don't
set your minds on things you don't
need. Tenth, mind your own business
Eleventh, don't sci up to be sharp of.
any kind. Twelfth, subdue curiosity
If men are to he fools, it were better
that they were fools in little matters
than in great; dullness, turned up
with temerity, is livery all the
worse for the facings; and the most
tremendous of all things is maguani-
nous dance.-[SydneySmith.
Mere intellectual influences, divested
as it is, in too many eases, of all that
is mpreheusive and great and good,
is TO me more revolving than the most
helpless imbecility, see ming to be al
most like the spirit of Mephistophiles.
-TDr. Arnold. tf