Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-12-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

A frst-class life poliey-Kcep
out Of debt.
The virtue Of prosperity is tenn
perancc; the virtue Of adversely is
fortitude.
Il was remarked recently, OF a
solemnly precise youth: 'He looks
as If he were setting an example
to his ancestry
With total lack Of professional
courtesy, some Minnesota wolves
chased 4 couple of lawyers five
kkrt,iles.--
stephen Lowry, ssree last q -.
Swamp Angels, was seen two or
three times last week at Moss Neck,
North Carolina, armed to the
teeth.
Thoughts come into our minds
by avenues which we never left
open, and thoughts 60 out Of our
minds through avenues which We
never voluntarily opened.-Emer-
son.
The United States possesses more
miles of railroad than all the ma
tons Of Europe combined. The
completed lines of the States meas
ure 20 It's miles, exclusive Of AZ, 900
in course of construction, while in
all Europe there are scarcely Co. OG0.
Near Rochester there is All &C.
centric old fellow who lives along
side q graveyard. He was asked
If it was not an unpleasant situa-
| tion. sNo," said heal never jined
places in all my life with a set of
neighbors that minded their own
business so stiddy as they DO"
A lawyer once attempted to palm
himself of as Rufus Choate in
New England town. At the sug-
gestion of printer who was pres
ent, the writing test was applied
10 him. He wrote legible sen
tonce, and was promptly kicked
out of the company.
They have an interesting clergy
man in Edinburg. He lately quo
ted a passage Of Scripture in his
prayer somewhat differently from
the version of King James, and adj
ded, apologetically, 'For that, o
Lordl is the correct translation Of
the PASSAGE 1t is well to keep
the Lord informed on these points.
A Kansas congregation was re-
Gently disturbed in their worship
by three rowdies, whereupon the
preacher descended from the pull
pit, wore the raseally trio ont a.
gainst the ground in good deal
less than no time, and had his sala-
ry Increased fifty dollars per an
mum on the spot.
An old man in Illinois ehewed
tobacco sixty years, then took to
hard drinking for twenty-five
more, reads the paper by moon
light, walks four miles before break
fast for a dram, attends to the
wants of his old and feeble grand
children, and superintends the flu
nerals of the onnre neighborhOod
with energy and animation.
The late Mrs. Charity Barnum,
the wife Of p. T. Barnum, was six
| ty-five years of age, one year older
than Mr.. Barnum. She was born
in Fairfield, Connecticut, and was
married to Mr.. Barnum, in Boston,
in her twenty-frst year. The later
period of her life was devoted to
quiet and unostentatious deeds OF
benevolenee.
SINGULAR INCIDENT "A singular
| ly painful circumstance attended
the death of u Monroe gentleman,
which occurred last week. He made
an agreement with his wife to the
effect that she should kindle the
fire mornings for six months, he
would do 1t for the same length
of time. She had just completed
her part of the contract when he
died. 1t is a very sad affair."
Danburry News.
| Kate Stanton in her lecture on
"The Loves Of Great Men," asserts
that the planets revolve around
the sun by the influence of love as
a child revolves about its parent
When the writer was boy he used
to revove around his parent a
good deal, and may have been incl
ted thereto by love, but to an I'm.
prejudiced observer it looked pow
crfully like a trunk strap. Dan.
bury News.
The gentlemen employed in the
new translation of the bible for the
Church of England have got as far
in the New Testament as tho TWEEN
ty-ffth chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles. They will have compile
ted their work in about two years
more.
The character of our world de
ponds moro upon our inward life
than upon any accidents of out.
ward circumstances. Il is not in
our material surroundings that VIC
are to look for blessedness. We
are to realize it only by means OF
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