Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-12-06
NUMBER 4
MISCELLANEOUS.

' IS one Of them engaged than some
: gIOtesque occurrence breaks up the
e match. The last instance was on Fri
Z daY night, when young man leaving
his young lady's house fcH down the
front stOOp, and severely cut himself
) with the tintyPe of his adored, on
which he stuck IN a sitting posture
When he fonnd out what hurt him he
was so mad he could not speak, and
whom she discovered where he carried
her picture she was so enraged she
did speak-and TO some effect. They
then parted. She shut herself mp IN
her room, and he went for a doctor to
pick out ;he pieces. DaHbtJry Netrs.
Mr.. Kraus, the matchmaker, was
startled from his sleep, at late hour
last night, by an uproar at his front
door. On going there he found man
clnglng to the dOOr-post to keep him
self from pitching OF the stoOp, and
who, ON Strengthening himself, solemn
-ly invited Mr.. kraus to give him a
riddle to guess, Mr.. kraus kicked him
out OF the gate and returned 20 his
/ bed, very much disgustcd with Amer
leans as a nation. -DdRbHry Ne,rS.
Savannah News: Captain De
| Martin, proprietor Of the cOmmodious
stables, corner of BrOughten and
! Montgomery streets, now numbers a.
| mOng ms stock an animal which Is
half horse and half mule BE was
/ foaled IA Kentucky, and While his
fore legs aud body have all the looks,
| symetry, etc, of n fine, well-kept horse,
his hind legs and rear portion Of his
I body have the resemblance of a mule,
especially his rear appendage He is
a very kind and gentle animal and
makes a tirst-class buggy horse-mule.
A writer in California delivers a
Sunday-schOol address, of which the
| following passage is an example: 'You
/ boys ought to be kind TO your little
sisters. 1 once knew 4 bad boy who
struck his little sister blow over the
eve. Although she didn't fade and
die in the early summer time. when
the June roses were blowing, with the
sweet words of forgiveness on her pal
lid lips, she rose up and hit him over
the head with a rolling-pin, so that
he couldn't 20 to Sunday-scho for
more than month, on account of not
being able to put on his best hat"
A Young lady in Fond du Lac, while
out walking with her lover, was at
tackled by a savage dog, who seized
her by her breast and tore it from her
body. The lover tainted with horror 1
at the sight, but the young lady, much |
mortified, went for the dog with a I
picket, remarking; THAT ere cost /
me dollar and half, and want made /
for no dog to chaw up"
An old, rough clergyman once took /
for his text that passage Of the Psalms, |
Il said in my haste all men are liars" /
Looking up apparently as if he saw /
the Psalmist standing before him, he |
said: You said il in your haste, /
David, did you? Well, if you had /
been here, you might have said it af- |
ter mature deliberation.
Says Anna Dickinson of bath in /
Idaho: "YOG may laugh a much as
yOu please, and say | have no business |
TO gush at my age, but, girls, the de-
light of bath in that Idaho water is
very like the rapture you find in your
losers tender clasp. I've tried both,
an, l know" Can Whitelaw Reid,
read his without a groan?
1t l. the Bowling Green Democrat
which tells this: During an address
by Min Allen county, a few days
ago, a gentleman in the audience arose
partly to his feet, and with pathetic
tenderness ~rked, 'Ouchr He had
had just noticed It,.
Mrs. Bugsby has got nice place on
the Sugar Hollow Road, some three
miles from Danbury. But the family
don't like it, because it prevents them
from getting to church. They were
III to visit the circus to-day, and told
US about it.-DaRbtny Neics
The wife Of a Derby CComnecticuD
bacchanaiian notified the storekeeper
not to let her husband have any more
drink. But he led her such life that
she had to give in. So she wrote to
the stOrckcepcr; "Give my husband
all the whiskey he wants, for Jesus
Chrlst's sake, amen"
An Iowa wife elopcd with young
fellow recently, and as soon as she got
intimate enough with him to have free
access to his pockets stole 500 there
from and travelled triumphantly back
to her husband.
A Photographer iii Gloucester has
been astonished by young woman
who came to ask, meekly and Innocent
ly. "How long does il take to get
photograph after you leave your
measured"
The Chicago JOHrnal informs Us in
its Western News" that the light
ming struck n house in T.udipgton.
Wis, in which were a woman and
child, and spoiled its gable end. This
uncertainty as to where our sympathy |
should be directed is narrowing.
y veteran observer says that a little
baby is an easy thing to love, but
big baby is hard thing to love, es-
pecially if YOU have married her-or
him.
The Indians, it is said, first called |
the place on which New York was built
Observation-Disclosures. Theiranslation /
Of it is ''thc place where they all got
drunk"
John Lewis, living in IxiOnia, JEFF
fersOn county, Wis, is eighteen yoars |
old, y inches high and weighs 27
pounds.
An unknown philanthrOpist recently /
presented seventy charitable institu-
tions in London with 5000 each.
Some poor, but pretty girls at
tract lovers by the face; some plain /
rich ones by the figure.