The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-20
GLEANINGs.

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We never discover the value Of
thing until we have lost IT. The owner
tells us.
tistbegeneral opinion that the pes
tiferous potato bug succumbed to last
winters frigidity.
Western papers find fault with Spir-
itualists because they didn't tell us OF
Capt. Halls death at the time.
The meanest thief on record is a
Washington darl1y who was arrested
last week for stealing Grape of door
knob.
The religions we call false we're once
true. They were the affirmations of the
conscience correcting the evil customs
of their time.-Emcrson
The number of persons killed in the
streets of London during the past FIVE
wears by vehicles and horses has been
533 manned or injured, 7,494.
The Baltimore and Potomac railroad
tunnel at Baltimore has been completed.
It is z, ,4S0 feet long, and only second TO
the Hoosac tunnel in the United States.
No man can go TO Heaven when he
dies who has not sent his heart thither
while he lives. Our greatest hopes
should be beyond tine grave Wilson.
The hight Of nights is love. The
philosopher dries into a skeleton Ike
that he investigates unless love teach
him--T W. Higginson.
Let men laugh when you sacrifice
desire to duty il they will. You have
time and eternity to rejoice in.-7heo-
dore Parker.
The brewers an1 masters OF York
state represent n vested capital OF over
800, 600, 900, and give steady employ
ment to about 10000 men trained TO
the business.
The boy that recommended o few
drops of panegyric on sugar for the
child of disquietude, has his match in
another who, after successfully spelling
chicaneyy, defined il to be a large coop
to raise chickens.
Such as our actions are, such will
our habits become. Actions, therefore,
ought 10 be most diligently attended to,
and it is not matter of small moment
how we are trained from our youth
aristotle.
An Irish housemaid, who was sent
TO call n gentleman to dinner, found him
oQRdHGu III uhluG ~ tbohA~hhhNhs NNAAr
is he coming? asked the lady. Yes,
ma'am, directly he is just sharpening
1t is not isolated great deeds which
10 most TO folm a character, but small
acts, touching and blend
ng into one another. The greenness OF
! field comes not from trees, but blades
If grass.-,John Kerr.
If you want 10 see what men Will
10 in the way of conformity, says
modern philosopher, take European
lat for your subject of meditation. L
lare say there are twenty-five millions
If people at this minute each wearing
me Of these hats to please the rest
Edmund @. Hubbell, of New York
.ity, is probably the fastest compositor
in the country. He recently
ct in one hour 2, 905 ems of solid non
,ariel he has set 10000 ems in ten
lours, and 5000 is his average days
york.
The French nursery maid is fast
Iisplacing Bridget in that capacity in
Jew York, and with her neat dress,
White cap, pretty face and black eyes,
orms fitting escort TO the groups OF
eatly dressed children met with on the
ashionable avenues every fine after
oon.
Elder Shores colored Baptist
hurch at Cairo, ILL.,, is not harmoni-
us body. In n little discussion con
erning the division of the church
the other night, eight mem
ers, of both sexes, received severe cuts
nd bruises, and fifteen Of the rioters
ere arrested.
The setting of great hope islike the
citing of the sun. The brightness Of
ur life is gone, shadows of the even
ig fall around us, and the world seems
ut a dim reflection itself, broader
hadow. We look forward into the
oming lonely night; the soul with
raws itself. Then stars arise, and the
light is holy.-L0nafclio,r.