The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-28
GRAVE AND GAY.
suspense-Hanging.

Win DaDy ID Jne n1gn1'
Art is nature passed through the
alembic of the soul. Emerson.
The only food that is always cheap
and abundant, is the food for laughter.
1t is in learning music that many
Youthful hearts learn lOve.-RtcGrd.
We should live as though our life
would be both long and short.-B10s.
"A mans conception of the Deity is
the measure of his greatness.-BtShop
Thompson.
Every parting is form of death,
as every reunion is type OF heaven
EdlOardS.
He who persecutes a good man
makes war against himself and all man.
kind.-COnJucins.
-Physic for the most part is nothing
else but the substitute of exercise or
temperance.
No man can be called educated I'M
til he has organized his knowledge into
faculty WhipOie.
When society is powerless to create
a government, government must create
society.-Talleyrand.
"Well, wife, you can't say 1 ever
contracted bad habits" "No, sir you
generally expand them
1t is hard but good law of fate,
that, as every evil, so excessive power
wears itself out.
No wonder the country editor said
he was puzzled in looking at ladies'
hair to know which was switch.
The life we live is but a small part
of the real life. A great man may be-
gin life in a hovel.
Model wives formerly took a stitch
in time now, with the aid of sewing
machines, they take one in no time.
is it not ia philosophy as in love /?
The more we have of it and the less
we talk about it the etter.-LandOr.
ALI extremes are error. The re-
verse of error is not truth, but error
still. Truth lies between these ex-
tremes.-CccH
A little philosophy inclineth mems
minds to atheism; but depth in philo-
sophy bringeth mems minds to religion
-BdcOH.
Any place where the mind of man
can be undisturbed, is suitable for the
worship of the Supreme Being. The
Veda.
An irate man who was disappointed
IN his boots, threatened to eat up the
shoemaker, but compromised by drink
ing a cobbler.
1t IS not enough to know virtue, it
is necessary to love it, but it is not
sufficient to love it, it is necessary to
possess it.-COnJucius
"A woman on marrying needs to
pray for one of two things in her hus-
band-the love which blinds, or the
good nature which excuses.
When the sun is setting, cool fall
Its CLEANS upon the earth and the
shadows lengthen but they all point
toward the morning Richter.
Whoever early experiences Imita-
ton easily attains freedom, but the
man upon whom, late in life, limitation
presses wins but a bitter freedom
Goethe.
The end of learning is to know
God, and out of that knowledge to love
Him, and to initiate Him as we may the
nearest, by possessing our souls of true
virtue. hilton.
A writer divides men, with regard
to their laughter, into three classes,
VIZ Il: the he, he, he the no, no, no and
the Ina, ha, ha! men,-the shallow, the
gross, and the refined.
OF all the portions of our life, the
spare moments are the most fruitful in
good or evil. They are the gaps through
which temptations find the easiest ac-
cess to the garden of the soul
Does any one suppose that men
first inferred that there was such a
thing as love by induction? No! The
human heart loves as spontaneously as
the bird sings, because it cannot help it.
IS. D. Fynney.
The most faulty translation know
of is of DleUnl into ttt,tn1. The sub
stantive umbrella is very frequently
translated in this way, and, what is
strange, the error of the translation is
seldom corrected.
-Oftentimes excusing of a fault doth
make the fault worse by the excuse, as
patches set upon a little breach, dis
credit more in hiding of the fault than
did the fault before it was so patched
Shakespeare.
The thoughts of the greatest num-
Der of Intelligent persons in any age OF
country are sure with more or less huc-
tatiOns to become in the end the public
opinion of their age or community
TGLlyraad.
Cultivate the soil, drain marshes.
and destroy dangerous creatures. He
who sows the ground with diligence ac-
qulres a greater stock of religious merit
than he could gain by ten thousand
prayers in idleness.-IHe Tend 4 UeSta.
The aim of all intellectual training
for the mass of the people should be to
cultivate common sense to qualify
them for forming a sound practical
judgment of the circumstances by which
they are surrounded.-JOhn ,Stua5T
mn.
I am fully convinced that the soul
Is indestructible, and that it's activity
Will continue through eternity. 1t is
like the sun, which to our eyes seems tC
set in night but it has in reality gone
to diffuse its light elsewhere. Goethe
In our times of bitter suffering
there are almost always three pauses
when our consciousness is bcnumbed t.
every thing but some trivial perception
or sensation. 1t is as ii semi-idiocy
came to give us rest from the memory
and the dread which refuse to leave us
| IN our sleep.-AdG1ls Bede.
When Mrs. Siddons knelt to i'm.
| plore her fathers pardon for having
married contrary to his wishes, he was
reminded that he had threatened, if she
ever married an actor, to discard hen
forever. Well, we'll, said he, can still
forgive her without breaking my word
The gentleman is not an actor, what
ever he may think himself.
Robert Kettle, a temperance mis-
sionary to Glasgow, left a few tracts
with a young lady one morning. Call
| ing at the same house a few days after
ward, he was rather disconnected al
observing the hacts doing duty as curl
! papers on the head of the damsel tC
whom he had given them. Weel. ma
| lassie, he remarked, see You have
used the tracts 1 left wi ye but, he
added, in time to turn confusion into
merriment, Se have putten them on the
wrang side o your head, my woman!
The records of travel tell us that
an adventurous Englishman in the in.
terror of Africa suddenly found himself
! confronted by the chief of the reoiOn