Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Some politicians agrees With phys
biologists as to the power Of the
eye. A noted stump speaker late
1 ~ used the personal pronOun II
Fl .325 times in speech at Wash
ingtoa.
Many married men will rejoice
to learn that the California courts
hold that incompatibility Of tenn
per on the part Of wife's relatives
is sufficient ground for divorce, if
said relatives VISIT her husbands
house too often.
Mr.. Thomas, aged ninety-one,
who died in Vermont the other
day, said that he'd worried more
over buttonless shirts than all his
business affairs put together
1t is said that duel was recent
| ly postponed at Savannah on &C
count of the rain. The idea Of be-
coming damp corpse seems to
have been repugnant to both par
lAGe.- sIOtFtcG- OChf itfft.
An unstamped letter was depos-
tied in an Indiana post office last
week, and underneath the address
was the endorsement, Let her
slide, p. NJ, she's all hunk; inside
are one Of them post hole kerds.'
An Illinois sportsman Dragged of
killing eleven quail at one shot the
other day. But he hung his d.
minished head when he heard OF
the Kansas hunter who clipped the
heads off of sixteen pigeons with
one rifle ball while they were sit
ting on fence rail
A Missouri girl, on her wedding
day, sold her piano and bought
sewing machine and material G.
Dough for suit for her husband
and herself, and at once set to work
making them up, Her husband
blowed it. In two weeks her four
sisters were ali married.
An Indiana editor declined to
publish the proceedings in di- |
vorce case for two reasons: First. |
because seme of his friends were |
mixed up with it, and he did not
wish to publish the fact; and second, |
because some of his enemies were !
interested and threatened TO raw
hide him if their names appeared |
in his columns.
Glasgow, Ky, Times: we have
often heard q fellew say that there
was no danger of his gun going off,
as it wasn't loaded. The other day
II fellow at Nashville left his gun
empty at the door, aud that night
the gun went off and the fellow
hasn't heard of it since, or of the
fellow who took it. Now we don't
want to hear any more of there
being no danger of an empty gun
going Off"
Weston (Va.) Demo crat: On Fri
day, the Sd inst, the wife of Geo.
Brown, colored man, residing in
this place, gave birth to child
On the Sunday following, proba-
bly, forty-eight hours after the oe-
currenee narrated above, she gave
birth to another. This is said to
be one of the most remarkable ca
SEES on record, and parallel has
never been known for it in this re-
gion. A still more singular occur
renee is the fact that lady resid-
ing 10 Richie county, aged eighty
three years, few days ago be-
came II mother. Her husband is
seventy-seyen years old. Her
youngest child, before the coming
of the last one, had children mar.
ried, and they had children. Sure
ly the country is progressing.
The Jessamine, Ky, Journal, not
to be outdone, comes to the front {
with this: we have just come into /
the possession of the following in
formation through our friend DR..
J. +. Nave, regarding the age Of a
horse in this county, the correct
ness OF which can be vouched for
BY more than one person: 1t is a
pay horse that was purchased by !
Peter Hoover from Andrew Nc
lure in the year 1887, the horse
'eing seven years old, which now
outs him in his ADD year. The old !
-eteran tended crop last season,
5 wintering we'll and looks as we'll
Is he has done for many years
'ack Strange to say, this remark :
bly, aged amman is on the same
arm owned by Peter Hoover at
he time of the purchase of the
orse, and has nevor been traded
fl or removed from the place du- )
ing that time Ii is now owned =
y widowed daughter, Mrs. Mat
e Hersperger.'