The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-14
GRAVE AND GAY.
len of color-Painters.

Men of eolor-Painters.
The best thing out-A confagra
tion.
No chain is stronger than its weak
est link. Af-fFs
An article you can always borrow
Trouble.
The worst thing under the canopy
"A musketo.
Vested interest-Money in the
waistcoat pocket.
Hell is more honorable that moth
ingness.
He who foresees calamities, suffers
them twice over.-POrteus.
One can always find sheet of wa
ter in the bed of the ocean. .H
BE not the fourth friend of him who
had three before and lost them.
| GteT. g. r..
Duties fulfilled are still recognized
as debt, for wholly enough is never
! done.
ALI the difference-The ancients
urned their dead the moderns earn
their living. afars e--sr
Rest satisfied with doing well, and
leave others to talk of you as they
please.-PythdgorGs. ~-.
Three short-horn heifers were recent
IL shipped from Kentucky to Lord
Dunmore, in Scotland
Every base occupation makes one
sharp in its practice, and dull in every
other.-Sir p Sydney.
We cannot control tho evil tongues
of others, but good life enables US to
despise them.-CdOO.
The English laws punish vice the
Chinese laws do more,-they reward
yirtue.-Goldsnrtth.
What are you doing ? said father
to his son who was tinkering at an old
watch. Improving my time, sir.
1T seems as if them as aren't wanted
here are tn only folks as aren't wanted
i tn other world. .-George Eliot.
The true is godlike it does not ap-
pear directly, but must be guessed at
from its manifestations.-Goethe.
Love that has nothing but beauty
to keep it in good health, is short lived
and apt to have ague s.--E'rasnus.
Happy is he who knows how to
place the lamps of the past so that its
beams shall light up the future course.
"A young fellow, fond of talking, re-
marked, / am no prophet True, re-
piled lady present, no profit to your
self or any one else.
I rise for information, said MEM
Der of Legislative body. 1 am very
glad to hear it, said bystander, for no
man wants it more.
There Is no apprObativeness in Ma
ture. She has no eye out for spectators
and no sense of the effect she produces
on Observation-Disclosures.
Why is coal the most contradictory
article known to commerce? Because,
when purchased, instead of going to
the buyer it goes to the cellar.
There are said to be good reasons
for supposing that sentimental young
ladses who write poems about death
and the grave have holes in their stock
ings.
"I believe In a God" Beautiful,
praiseworthy words but to recognize a
God when and wherever he may disclose
himself is true blessedness on earth
Goethe.
"A calf from a native COW, sired by
thoroughbred Durham, will be two
thirds Durham, so much preponderance
is there in the breeding qualities of
highbred stock.
Swift said the reason certain uni
versity was a learned place was, that
most persons took some learning there,
and few brought any away with them
so it accumulated.
The Pythngoreans make good to be
certain and finite, and evil unfinite and
uncertain there are q thousand ways to
miss the white there is only on to hit
it.-Mo11tdgtte.
When n. p Willis was asked to
make speech he replied, am by pro-
fession writer, and you cannot expect
q pump to give water from the handle I
as we'll as from the mouth.
Sorrow is kind rust to the soul
which every new idea contributes IN its
passage to scour away. 1t is the putre- |
faction of stagnant life, and is remedied !
by exercise and motiOn.-,JOhnSOn.
Hunger is the mother of impatience |
and anger and the quarter of an hour
before dinner is the worst that suitors
can choose. The Labins said, the !
has no ears-ZiD1D1ernaan.
MY dear. said the sentimental Mrs. |
Waddles home, you know, is always the |
dearest spot on earth. Well, yes, said |
the practical Mr.. Waddles, it does cost |
me about twice as much as any other
spot. ........
You ask for freedom Of thought ; |
but if you have not sufficient grounds |
for thought, you have no business to
think; and if You have sufficient
grounds, you have no business to think
wrong. g.-Rstskin.
--One of Charles Lambs friends Wis
iting him with his wife and children,
happened, in the course of conversation,
10 repeat the old saying, one fool makes
many. All, indeed, said Lamb, merri-
', pointing to the children you have
a fine family. -
I wonder whittier these clouds are
going said a poetic contributor to
editor pensively as she point
ed with her delicate finger to the heavy
masses that foated in the sky outside
the editors window. / think they are
going to thunder, said the editor,
Half the Misunderstanding of those
who can least afford to misunderstood
each other at all arise from two Joint
from want of frankness
IN the part of those who think they
nave no need to explain; next, from
want of faith on the part of those who
,an take nothing for granted without an
.-...
-Emmeline-D me that is a
charming song. It's quite new to me.
Have you heard it before, Algy? Al
think I have-one of
Arthur Sullivan's, believe-something
about lies" The snow-white hes," or
e The white snow lies, or "The snow
les white. Il don't recollect which,
md it's all the same
-Chastise your passions, that they
nay not chastise you. No one who is q
over of money, a lover of pleasure, or
/ lover of glory, is likewise lover of
mankind. Riches are not among the
number of things that are good. 1t is
lot poverty that causes sorrow, but
,ovetous desires Deliver yourself from
appetite and you will be free.-Epicte