The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1873-12-06
NUMBER 80.
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.


Several negro families are prepar-
ing to emigrate from East Tennessee to
Liberia.
"A stock company is said to have
been formed at Griffin, Ga., for the
manufacture of coffee from persimmOn
seeds.
One female clerk in the treasury
department can count 5000 notes IN an
hour, and has counted 1000 in twenty
minutes.
George Law at forty-five worked as
a day-IabOrer on the docks of New York.
He is now worth about so, ,00G, 900 law
full money.
Death Is as near to the young as
the old. Here is all the difference
death stands behind the young mans
back, and before the old mans face.
There has been q break in the en-
bankment of the Mississippi river, Just
below st. Louis, and the inhabitants
were obliged to coufscate a Chicago
mans boots to plug it up with.
"A western genius has an idea which
is an idea. He proposes to arrange
church seats on pivOts so the devOut
may more conveniently examine the
toilets of those in the back seats.
The sun is now working about ten
hours per day, but proposes gradual
reduction of time for the next five or six
weeks, in order to help the gas compa-
nv, and also the dealers in kerosene and
tallOw candles.
"A happy misquotation by young
lady, whose gentleman caller staid too
late, caused a speedy good-by. The
clock struck twelve, and she remarked
''Now is the witching hour OF night,
when people yawn."
Says the Detroit Free Press A
New Hampshire man was struck on the
head with an axe and made an idiot for
life, and yet the man who struck him
was fined only S65. 1t doesn't damage
New Hampshire man much to make
fool of him.
"You needn't come on Saturday
night, or any other night, was the
soothing remark, written In delicate
female Characters on a postal-card which
winged its way through the Leaven-
worth postoffice, the other day.
The whole number of AIodocs sent
to the island in South Platte river, near
fort Mcpherson, Neb., Is one hundred
and fifty-seven. the most noticeable OF
whom is Miss Mary Jack, who IS elgh-
teen, and handsome and has long, wavy
hair, and pair of black eyes that snap
awfully when anything is said about her
late father.
An old, rough clergyman once took
for his text that passage of the Psalms,
Sc said in my haste all men are liars.
Looking up l.JI5gL1v1atf- ~ 5 I've saw the
psaImist standing before him, he said
g You said it in your haste, David, did
you ? Well, if you had been here, you
might have said it after mature refiec-
ton"
A POET who writes with a metallic
luster IN Texas paper, sings:
There sat one day in splendOr,s
maiden young and fair;
With beautiful soft blue eyes,
And gold aud silver hair.
Now, this fair young maiden
Had a mission TO perform
Upon this terrestal globe
/ The maiden's mission was specie
payment. We know it by her hair
/ gold and silver.
The little things which you may do
! for those about You Will fall back upon
your heart as the summer dews fall up
/ on the vineyards. What if it Is nothing
more than a kind word to a schOOl-bOy
crying in the street it dries his tears,
and the aching heart grows glad again.
/ Who knows what cloud of darkness one
kind word may dispel.
DIR. Dio Lewis now tells our
girls that if they want to learn to walk
well they should " walk an hour day,
with a weight-say a bag of beans
upon their heads" a few days ago the
doctor advised ladies to eat beans to
improve their complexion. We begin
to suspect that he belongs to bean
ring" and is trying to bull the bean
market.
Joaquin Miller, in his Life Among
the Modocs." says When 1 die l
shall take this book in my hand, and
hold it up in the day of Judgment As
the book in question has been univer-
sally damned already on both sides OF
the ocean, Joaquin had better try to
part company with it on Judgment day
! if he has any judgment himself.
The New York Tribune gallantly
4 remarks: q There are those who be-
Z Geve there is a providence which watches
/ over drunkards, which sustalns their
2 tottering steps on slippery places, and
? which sOftens the paving stones tor
them when they fall. 1t would some
/ times appear that q similar care has or
= dered that whenever an especially mean
, and selfish scamp is driven into mar
+ riage. a woman of more than usually
S angelic character is provided for nm
+ and the more the scamp is developec
, in him, the more the angel blooms tortL
t In her"