The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-20
GRAVE AND GAY.

Mexico is SAID to be ike the earth
because it has revolution every twenty
four hours.
Live as long as you may, the frs
twenty years are the longest half of you
ife.
For thinking one; for converse, two no more;
Three for an argument; for walking, four;
For social pleasure, five for fun,
The French opera house in New Or
leans, which cost 100000, has beer
sold for $4,000.
Passionate persons are like mer
who stand on their heads they see all
things the wrong way.-Pldto.
Soldiers are generally rather tired
on the LIST of April. Perhaps it is be.
cause they have just had a March oi
thirty-one days.
1t is rare to see rich man religious,
I for religion breaches restraint, and
riches prompt to unlicensed freedom =
FeneJon.
Don't you think, asked q conceited
fiddler of a critic, that play tho violin
like Paganini ? Yes, said the critic, or
any other ninny.
Uphold truth when thou canst and
for her sake be hated; but know thy
individual cause is not the cause of
truth, and beware that they are not con-
founded Goethe.
In middle life we hesitate to sit in
Judgment upon any one; we read slowly
and reverently the untranslated scrip
ture of another's heart but in youth we
are confident, and assign motives and
intentions as glibly as children pretend
to read nursery tales which they have
learned by rote.-Celia BurLeigh.
An unimaginative individual, ON
visiting the falls of Niagara, was greatly
perplexed at the astonishment expressed
by his companions, and on one of them
exclaiming to him, is it not most
wonderful fall replied, Wonderful no;
I see nothing wonderful in it. Why.
what's to hinder the water from falling?
You must elect your work. You
shall take what brains you can, and drop
all the rest. Only so can that amount
of vital force accumulate which can make
the step from knowledge to doing. No
matter how much faculty of idle seeing
man has, the step from knowledge to
doing is rarely taken. It is step out
of chalk circle of imbecility into fruit
illness. Emerson.
To comprehend a mans life, it is
necessary to know not merely what he
does, but also what he purposely leaves
undone. There is limit to the work
that can be got out of a human body or
a human brain, and he is wise man who
waists no energy on pursuits for which
he is not fitted; and he is still wiser
who, from among the things that he can
do well, chooses and resolutely follows
the best. Gladstone.
As some lady visitors were recently
going through penitentiary, under the
escort of the superintendent, they came
to q room in which three women were
sewing. Dear me one of the visitors
whispered, what vicious looking Great
uresl Pray, what are they here for?
Because they have no other home. This
This is our sitting room, and they are
my wife and two daughters, blandly
answered the superintendent.
We may be sure of facts, but our in
depreciation of facts we should doubt.
He is the wisest philosopher who holds
his theory with some doubt; who is able
to proportion his Judgment and con-
fidence to the value of the evidence be-
fore him, taking a fact for fact, and
supposition for supposition; as much
as possible keeping his mind free from
all source of prejudice, or, where he
cannot do this, as in the case of theory,
remembering that such source is there. |
M Faraday.
The force of the temptation which
urges us in scientific research to seek
for such evidence and appearance as are
in favor of our desires, and to disregard
those which oppose them, is wonderful |
ly great. In this respect we are all,
more or less active promoters of evil. l
believe that point of education which |
consists in teaching the mind to resist |
it's desires and inclination until they are |
proved to be right, is the most impor-
tant of all, not only in things of natural
philosophy, but in every department of
daily life.-M. Faroday.
sHAKEsPEREAN COMMENTARIES.
-" Mine host of the garter"-The
landlady, of course.
-''And thereby hangs a tale"-Dar-
winian theory.
-FT1ie lunatic, the lover, and the |
poet Properly classified.
-"Thou hast damnable iteration"-
The fellow that tells old jokes.
eel know bank whereon the wild |
thyme blows''-The faro bank.
-"Take oh, take those lips away =
OOLAO NC1 EAOOSJ nOAOh 49, 0''O
cit hath an ancient and fsh-like |
SMELL Goldfish aristocracy and Credit
Mobilier.
els she not passing fair ?"-Doubt-
less the lady engaged in passing the hat |
around at church sociables.
eff ladies be but young and fair,
they have the gift to know it''--They |
are indeed, remarkably conscious.
Gle draweth out the thread of his
verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument The "heavy" editor.
-"How use doth breed habit in q
man GOOD thought here. Use a
man meanly, and he'll soon get the
habit of kicking you.
=" "A needy, hollow-eyes, sharp-look-
ing wretch very picture of a
modern interviewing reporter. Truly
we can never do justice to the foresight
of the immortal bard.
&c It is a familiar beast to man, and
signifies es-love"-This refers to the love
of drink, and the beast is the imp that
climbs bed-posfs, and jumps all over
soakist who has pursued his love to ex-
cess.
BOXING THE EARS tends to dull the
sensibility of the nerve, even if it dose not