The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-25
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"A lazy cook-One that frittcsrs away
her time.
How to prevent bad dreamss-Don' t
go to sleep.
In character, in affection, the ideal
is the only real.
Romantic death-A young lady
drowned in tears.
If you have taper fingers, mind
| you don't burn them.
Ones first business in writing is to
say what one has to say.
Mere art perverts taste, just as
mere theology depraves religion.
The pinnacle of a mans greatness
is the height of his own character.
Political parties, like fishes, are
steered by their tails Duke Of So7Js-
erset.
To those interested-For Mrs. Par
tington's last Inquire of the shoe
maker.
Every good book takes right hold
of that which lies unthought of in the
soul.
Mrs. Partington descanting on art,
called Michel Angelo one of the old
mastiffs.
He who does evil that good may
come, pays toll to the devil to let him
to Heaven. ...... ..........-
Too much is seldom enough.
Pumping after your bucket is full pre-
vents its keeping SO.
Most shoemakers are obliged to
stick to their awl,. because it's all
they have to stick to.
If all the world were blind, said
an Irish clergyman, what melancholy
sight it would be
Most men like to see themselves in
print Ladies like to see themselves
in silks and velvets. ' 1890.
The mind that busies itself much
with the future has need to be an un-
commonly cheerful one.
The hardest thing in the world is
to make a devotee out of a man who
thinks himself philosopher.
Intellectual emancipation, if it
does not give us command over our
selves, is poisonous.
Why is chloroform like Mendels-
sohn? Because it is one of the great
est composers of modern times.
Why is ballet-dancer a most in
human creature ? Because her great
est delight is to execute her grand
pas.
What is the difference between a
cloud and beaten child? One pours
with rain and the other roars with
pain.
What is the difference between a
sailor and a beer-drinker One puts
his sail up, the other puts his ale
down.
You must secure such time as is
necessary for yourself, and you will be
the better able to attend to the wants
of others.-DeSales. T
-Self-love is at once the most deli
cate and most tenacious of our senti
ments a mere nothing will wound it,
but nothing on earth will kill it.
No man who has to struggle to be
kind has learned the law of kindness.
Kindness shines with steady, uninter-
mitted blaze. .-Beecher.
The great multiplication of books
gives rise to a still-born learning, as
unprolific as the double flowers of our
gardens -Nie6,Lhr.
"A physician living in Kansas was
badly hurt the other day, by the caving
of well upon him. He should have
attended to the sick and let the well
alone.
We are so much creatures of habit
that no great and sudden change can at
first be altogether agreeable unless it
be here and there honeymoon.
ALI through the life of pure-mind-
ed, but feeble-bodied man, his path is
lined with memory's grave stones,
which mark the spots where noble en-
terprises perished, FOR lack of physical
vigor to embody them in dseds.-Hor- |
ace Mann.
An 1rishman, referring to the sud |
den death of relative, was asked if he |
lived high. ''I can't say he did," said |
Terence, " but he died high" Like the |
banks in these days, he was suspended. |
Strange, said Henry Rogers, if that |
excess of literature which we take to be |
a security against a second invasion of !
barbarism, should bring about condi- |
ton of things not much better
Poor dear sighed Mr.. Smith. stir
ring up his roaring coal and referring |
to the late lamented Mrs. s., how she |
did enjoy good fire All, well, let us
hope she's gone where they keep them.
"A negro preacher observed to his
hearers at the close of his sermon as |
follows My obstiaacious bredren, I
find it am no more use to preach to you |
dan it am for grasshopper to wear
kneebucklets.
"A society has been formed in New |
York-not before it is wanted-called !
the Ladies' Anti-ambitious-to-fgu fgure-in |
the -newspapers-with-n nc-useful- result |
and-to-the- neglect of-your own domes-
tic-duties Society.
Poetry should be an Alternative;
modern play-wrights have converted it
into sedative, which they administer
in such unreasonable quantities that,
like an overdose of opium, it makes
one sick.-J G. Hare.
=" Why don't you get down and lead
the horse? That is the way to keep
warm" said gentleman to boy one
cold day. "No," replied the Ameri-
can youth, cit is b-b-borrowed horse,
and I'll ride him if freeze
1t must be great satisfaction when
we come to some supreme hour in life
to feel that the training of the past has
done its utmost to fit us for that hour.
ALI ways of earning his bread are
alike becoming to al honest man.
whether to split wood or sit at the
helm of state. 1t does not concern his
conscience how useful he is, but how
useful he would be.-Lessing.
If you would have an idea of the
ocean in a storm, just imagine 1000 |
hills and 1000 mountains In a state of |
intoxication, running over newly plow- !
ed ground with lots of caverns in it for
them to step in now and then.
1T is a strange way of showing our
humble reverence and love for the |
Creator, to be perpetually condemning !