The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
GRAVE AND GAY,

&c Grave" subjects
Disciples of -Prize-fghters.
-"Capita1" afairs-National loans.
Turf reform-Mowing your lawn.
Affections clarity the soul.-Quartes.
The end of the world-To make
money.
To remove stains from character
Get rich.-------
Every one is the son of his own
works.-CerUGntes. n -f-
Better diamond with flaw than
pebble without one.
They best can bind who have been
bruised oft.-MisS Mulock.
1t takes a good many shovels-full
of earth to bury the truth.
When pain can't bless, heaven quits
US in despair. - Young.
--Tuneful lyre-A music teacher who
does not keep his engagements.
-Unrestrained activity of any kind
at last produces bankruptcy. Goethe.
With most men life is like back
gammon-haIf skill and half luck
Holmes.
Even by means of our sorrow do
we belong to the eternal plan.-Huna-
boLdt.
Distinction is the consequence,
never the object of great mind
Washington AILston.
Beauty can afford to laugh at dis
tinctions; it is itself the greatest dis
tinction.-BoUec.
There is nothing that makes its
way more directly to the soul than
| beauty.-Addison
The most beautiful metempsychosis
is when we see ourselves entering into
| others-G0ethe.
Friendship is more firmly secured
by lenity toward failings than by at
tachment to excellences.
Mrs Snidkins says her husband is
three-handed man-right hand, left
hand, and little behind-hand.
What is the difference between a
gauze dress and drawn tooth? One is
too thin and the other is tooth out.
Brown says the mountain air is so
thin in New Hampshire that you can
see the mountains peak and the wood
pine.
If you want to be rich, give; if
you want to be poor, grasp; if you want
to be happy, deny yourself for others.
A little girl of eight or ten sum-
mers, being asked what dust was, re-
! piled that it was mud with the juice
| squeezed out.
A merchant advertised for a clerk
"who could bear confinement" and re-
ceived an answer from one who had
| been seven years in jail.
Seize the opportunity of excited
curiosity on any subject to solve your
| doubts for if you let it pass, the
| desire may never return, and you may
remain in ignorance.-W Writ.
What is the worst article in the
market to speculate in? Do you give
/ it up? Tea, of course, because it is
always sure to go to pot.
Wisdom is meek. Sorrows patient
child and empire over self, and all the
deep, strong charities that make men
seem like gods.-J r.. LO,CeU.
Somebody mentioned, the other
day, something about jokes that are
ten years old, whereat party inquired
whether such were decade jokes.
There is no hero, it is said, for the
valet de chambre F.; but only because the
| hero must be recognized by heroes.
| The valet knows how to value his
| equals.-GOethe.
Young people, at their entrance
upon the world, should be either bash
| full or giddy; a composed self-sufi-
| cheney generally turns to impertinence.
-Rochct0ucauLd.
1t was North Carolinian, who, in
| - Of
his neighbours hogs, said that he had to
put overcoats on them to enable them
to make n shadow in the sun.
One of party of friends, refer
ring to an exquisite musical compost
ton, said, That song always carries me
away when I hear it, Can anybody
sing it ? asked wit in the company.
-Swift's maxim in conversation was +:
Take as many half minutes as you can
get, but never talk more than half a
minute without pausing, and giving
others an opportunity to strike in.
| -Rousseau's saying was a true one,
that to write a good love letter you
ought to begin without knowing what
you mean to say, and finish without
knowing what you have written.
Boarding house chicken soup can
be made, it is said, by hanging up a
| hen in the sun SO that her shadow shall
fall into pot of salt water. The only
trouble is that on a cloudy day the
soup is liable to be weak
-Experientia docet Elder of Four
teen: Where's baby, Madge? Madge
In the other room, | think, Emily.
Elder of Fourteen Go directly, and
see what she's doing, and tell her she
mustn't .-Punch
Its poor work always settin' the
dead above the livin'. We shall all of
us be dead some time, [ reckon-it nd
be better if folks nd make much on us
beforehand, instid o. beginnin' when
we're gone It's but little good you'll
do a-watering the last years crop
George Eliot.
"A sign painter recently decorated
the side of a new house in an English
itals Mrs. Brown, Dealer in all
Sorts of Ladies'" The town was in n
tumult of wonder as to what might be
the nature of such a business, until
the painter, recovering from a weeks
illness, finished his work by adding
"And GentlemeA's Wearing Apparel. :"
Feelings are like chemicals
more you analyze them the worse
they smell. SO it is not best to stir
them up very much-only enough to
convince ones self that they are often
sively wrong, and then look away as far
as possible out of ones self for a puri-
flying power, and that we know can
come only from Him who holds our
hearts in His hands and can turn us
whittier he will Charles Kingsley.
If men would only open their eyes
| to the fact which stares them in the face
from history, and is made clear enough
by the slightest glance at the condition
of mankind, that humanity is of i'm
measurably greater Importance than
their own or any other particular belief,
they would no more attempt to make
private property of the grace of God
than to fence in the sunshine for their
own special use and employment
| Holmes.
The brusque DR.. Abernethy, when
rushing along London street in great