The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11
GRAVE AND GAY.
home-A beehive.
Irish Trick-Patrick.

Sweet hOme-A beehive.
An Irish Trick-Patrick.
"A creature of impulse-A football
The best thing out-A confagra-
ton.
To find good book-keeper-Apply
at any circulating library.
People who are always wishing for
something new should try neuralgia.
1t makes all the difference if you
put DR. before instead of after a mans s
name.
Great is bankruptcy, says Carlyle:
it brings an end to all shams under the
sun.
How does a young lady, who is en-
gagged, find herself? Mistaken (miss
taken.)
ALI things are systematized nova
days. Even every milk train has its
cow-catcher.
Adams nativity has at last been dis
covered. He was, according to Darwin,
germ man.
The nan most likely to make his
mark in the world-One who cannot
write his own name.
The wealth of soul is measured
by how much it can tell; its poverty by
how little.
Here is the newest floral sentiment
If you wish for heart's-ease, don't look
to mari-gold.
Can q civil engineer inform us how
it is that the mouths of rivers are larger
than their heads?
Love coming into a woman s nature is
like the last stroke of the artists pencil
to the landscape
You may CLEAN knowledge by read
ing, but yo-l must separate the chaff
from the wheat by thinking.
To seek the redress of grievances
by going to law is like sheep running
for shelter t. n bramble-bush.
Difference between perseverance
and obstinacy-One is strong will, and
the other is a strong won't.
The Infinite and the Eternal are
words without meaning till grief inter
prets them.-BCecRer.
Each departed friend is a magnet
that attracts US to the next world, and
the old man lives among graves.-Rich-
ter.
"A French author has translated
passage from one of Cooper's novels as
follows He descended from his horse
in front of the chateau and tied him to
a large grasshopper. The original
reads. a large locust.
The superfuous blossoms on a fruit
tree are meant to symbolic the large
way i'll which God loves to do pleasant
things.
In order to force mankind to turn
their eyes toward Him, God has willed
that no object should contain within it
self the first cause of its existence.
"A gushing poet asks in the first line
of a recent effusion, Chow many weary
pilgrims lie?" We give it up but ex-
perience has taught us that there are
good many.
The essence of true nobility is neg
lect of self Let the thought of self
pass in and the beauty of a great
action is gone, like the bloom from
soiled fower.-FFOUde.
With every one the expectation of a
misfortune constitutes a dreadful pun
isment. Suffering then assumes the
proportions of the unknown, which is
the souls infinite.
1t is certainly very important les
son to learn how to enjoy ordinary
things, and to be able to relish your be-
ing without the transport of some pas
sion or qualification of some appetite
Steele
Theology, is but a science of mind
applied to God. As schools change,
theology must necessarily change.
Truth is everlasting, bat our ideas of
truth are not. Theology is but our
ideas of truth classified and arranged.
-Beecher.
i pray you very solemnIy to put
haiti deaOf knowingal things in heaven
and earth out of our heads. It is very
little that we can ever know, either of
the ways of Providence, or the law of
of existence. But that little is enough,
and exactly enough.-Ruskin.
The duke of Argyle once asked Ed
mupd Stone, how he, poor gardner's
boy, had contrived to be able to read
Newton's Principia in Latin? To
which he replied, "One needs only to
know the "a letters of the alphabet in
order to learn everything else that one
wishes %
During late conference at Worces-
ter, the following conversation was over
heard between two newsboys: I say,