The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
aLEANINas AND GOSSIP.

"A handsome thing in ladies' hose
A neat little foot.
He who boasts multitude Of friends
hath none.-dristotLe.
The greater the knowledge the
greater the doubt.-Goethe.
Friendship, like iron, is fragile II
hammered too thin.-Saddi.
"A triangle Fishing for trout. A
right angle-Catching trout.
"A joyless life is worse TO bear than
one of active sorrow.-Fdbcr.
Look out for the best aspects Of a
man as you do for fine views in the
country.
A man may be great by chance, but
never wise and good without taking
pains for IT,
Whoever is in possession Of true
friend sees the counterpart Of his own
soul.-Gcero.
right that his adversary is completely in
the wrong.
We are often prophets TO others on
ly because we are our own historians.-
Madame StCetchinC.
We hear the rain fall, but not the
snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief
is silent.-AUcrbdch.
DIR. Lyman Beecher said of his pull
pit efforts, that he always roared when
he had nothing TO say.
Silence is a figure Of speech, uDan-
swerable, short, cold, but terribly Sc
we're. re.-7hoOdOre Parker.
Young men, like grayhounds, fol-
low by sight; old men, like blood
hounds, follow by track.
"A Dubuque banker dropped a two
cent piece in the contribution.box, and
took out a cent for discount.
Wade, the murderer, who was hung
in Pennsylvania the other day, left S21,-
900 secreted where no one can find il.
One million of dollars was the neat
sum left by Landseer as the result of a
judicious use of paints, brush and pal
let.
There is no solitude like that Of
the society of unlike, unsympathizing
natures, kept together by external rea-
sons.
For words are wise mems counters,
they do but reckon by them but they
are the money of fools. Thomas
Hobbs.
There is a double ignorance, as the
late Mr.. Mill once observed in parlia-
ment, ignorance of the fact that we are
ignorant.
ALI sects are different, because they
come from men; mortality is every
where the same, because it comes from
God PoLtdire.
The saddest mistake in life is that
which a great soul makes when IL has
taken little soul into its embrace and
is stung by its bitterness.
The man Of the World says that
" about the only use Of the wife Of the
period is abolished by the invention OF
a piano-playing machine"
Holmes disposed of a bigot at once,
when he compared his mind TO the pu-
pill of the eye-the more light you let
into it the more il contracts.
els the colonel here? ?" shouted n
man, sticking his head into n Kansas
City street-car. "He is" answered
men as they rose up.
1t is with narrow-souled people as
with narrow-necked bottles, the less
they have in them the more noise they
make in pouring it out.-Popc.
No good writer was ever long neg
lected no great man overlooked by men
equally great. Impatience is proof Of
inferior strength, and a destroyer Of
what little there may be.-Ldno,Or.
1T is said that if success in an un-
dertaking was proportional 10 the earn
brought to bear upon 10 hen
could run about eight hundred miles n
day.
"A good man and n wise man may at
times be angry with the world. at times
ever discontented with the world who
did his duty in it.-iSoutbey.
"A photographer in Gloucester has
been astonished by young man who
came TO ask, meekly and innocently,
u How long does it take 10 get photo
graph after You leave your measured
Until every good man is brave, we
must expect TO find many good women
,imid-too timid even 10 believe in the
of their own best prompt
ngs, when these would place them in
/ minority.
The fact is, that in doing anything
n this world, worth doing, we must not
tand shivering on the bank thinking Of
he cold and danger, but Jump in and
scramble through as we'll as we can
Sydney Smith.
"A Troy young lady plainly told n
voung man who called 10 see her the
,ther evening, that she thought him
cry fiat. To which the young man
laively replied that that was why he
wanted to be round her.
The cockney sportsmen Of Chicago
AVE such indistinct ideas about game
hat, since the season for prairie chick
ms has begun, the farmers in the re-
ion round about stick no signs on their
Please don't shoot the COWS"
What we call illusions are often, in
ruth, a wider vision of past and pres
Mt realities; n willing movement Of
lan's soul with the larger sweep of the
Torld's forces; n movement toward n
lore assured end than the chances OF
ingle life.-GeOrge Eliot.
"A lager-beer house in Hudson CO.,
lew Jersey, was formerly a church.
he shrewd Teuton who now keeps 10
'as about to erase an inscription painted
yer the door, but on second thought
Q left the last line untouched. IL is:
Let him that is athirst come"
johnny attends school, which will
xplain the following short dialogue be-
ween him and his father Johnny,
didn't know that you got whipped the
ther day." said he. "You didn't?
Veil, if you'd been in my breeche8
ou'd have known il.
-" What" confidentially inquiries
ne lawyer Of the day, d" is your defense
,r this atrocious crime 2" And the
lurderer of the day replies, with cheer
II confidence in the justice OF his po-
tion "About $780, ,000."
Uncle James, walking with niece
larry, aged four, points TO the neon,
D whose disc the dark spots show quite
lainly, and says: "There is a man in
le moon, bur ming brush" The infan-
le realist puts mp her little nose and
tufts, saying Yes, NELL the 'mokeP'
The great worries Of life are the so
llled "little things" which are from
ay TO day left unadiusted, till they fas-
N their victims like n net. The men
no die of "overwork" are not so much
by their great and useful la
ors as by the vexatious trihes which
,cunulate till they produce n cOndi-