The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-27
GRAVE AND GAY.
"A tight fit-delirium tremens.
True to the core-A good apple.

have been writing play, which vii
soon be brought out at New York.
"THE honeymoon of widowhood
is the latest for young widows con
dition.
Talent is that which is in a man.
power; genius is that in whose power
man is.
Lowell asks: Which of us shal
leave a footprint as imperishable as tha
of the ornithorhyncus?
The grasshoppers are in southern
California and are cutting their way
clean to the north.
"A young mans friends object to his
being loose, but somehow, they have an
equal objection to his being tight.
Mailing a postal card with obscene
language upon it makes the writer liable
to fine ranging from 500 to S., 900.
AN Intelligent chap, who has read
the census reports through, says he
finds there are people who can't write,
but he thinks they might telegraph.
What an absurd thing it is to pass
over all the valuable parts of man,
and fix our attention on his infrmities
addison.
-Antigone says to Creon, when he
announces to her the sentence of death:
I knew that I saould die; thou only
tellest me when.
Every man must, in a measuse, be
alone in the world. No heart was ever
cast in the same mold as that which we
bear within us.-Ber7ae.
-Two-thirds of mems generosity is
what spills over the cup. When they
fill it full for themselves, they say You
may have the drippings. -Beecher.
In Missouri, when a man kills an
other on Sunday, they prosecute him
under the law against desecrating the
sabbath by shooting at a mark, and
have him fined five dollars and costs.
Since George W. Matsell who used
to publish the Police Gazette has be-
come superintendent of police in New
York, publishers and venders of OBJ
scene publications feel happier than
they did.
Gen. Jackson's Bible, which was
given to him during his presidency by
a Washington lady, and after his death
was presented to the Hermitage church
in Tennessee, was stolen from that
place recently.
Over all life broods poesy, like the
calm blue sky, with its motherly, rebuk-
ing face. She is the great reformer,
and where the love of her is strong, and
healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot
long prevail.
An exchange remarks that it is one
of the peculiarities of the boy, that he
G. l.. Is-ooo1e ,,,ooI1a 10 loo4hn nv0o3ot
so to speak, at the top of the lungs.
The bathing boys paradisaic uncon-
sciousness of nudity is also curious
matter of remark.
"A western jury recently brought in
verdict of "justifable breach of
promise" Shortly afterward an infu-
rated female was travelling around
town with a scowl on her face and q
seven-shooter in her hand. The jurors
laid very low that day.
"A celebrated man, living in his age,
is never the ruler of an epock-he is
but it's incarnation and he almost in
variably falls, if he desire to substitute
his own will for that of other, or to
turn the course of popular ideas to his
own proft.-A Brierre De- .BOiSnaO'at.
DIR. Dio Lewis says, that while the
saddle is the best exercise in the world
for man, especially one in consum-
tion or severe dyspepsia, he has no hes
itation in saying that until women can
ride astride, with free, healthful dress,
they had better shun this exercise alto
5ther.
"A French gentleman, learning Eng
lish to some purpose, replied thus to
the saIutations /" How do you do, mon
sieur?" "Do vat ?' Chow do you
find yourself ?" "I never loses my
self" GLOW do you feel ?' Smooth !;
you just feel me-" "Good morning,
monsieur !" "Good No, it's bad
one it's vet and nasty"
Our energies are inconstant almost
in proportion to their nobleness. We
breathe with regularity, and can calcu-
late upon the strength necessary for
common tasks. But the record of our
best work, and of our happiest mo-
ments, is always one of success which
we did not expect, and of enthusiasm
which we could not prolong ng.-RatSki'o.
"A Philadelphia paper gives wood
cut of the new French president, Mac
Mahon, which has been so skillfully
altered that only close observer would
detect therein the ferocious lneaments
of Capt. Jack, as he appeared in the
same paper, few weeks since.
"A Kentucky man has the following
notice posted on his premises "Nottis
know kow is aloud in these medders
any men or wimmen letten thar kow
run the rode wot gifts inter my med
ders aforeseed shall have his tail cut
OFF by me. Obadiah Rogers.
I've seen pretty clear ever since I
was young un, as religions something
else besides doctrines and notions. 1
look at it as if the doctrines was like
finding names for your feelings, so as
you can talk of 'em when you've never
known 'em, Just as a man may talk of
tools when he knows their names,
though he's never so much as seen 'em,
still less handled 'em.-AdGna Bede.
No one can read his neighbor's
grief no one can appreciate his JOY.
We always think we are going to one
another we only go near one another.
How hapless he who knows the expert
ence of this bitter fruit ! o God what
ever proceeds from my mind is born in
the midst of pain. The great world
welcomes with Joy whatever isnourished
by my sorroy.-Schuberts diary.
To ssign feeling and determin-
alton of will, as a satisfactory reason
for embracing or rejection this or that
opinion Or belief, is of ordinary occur
renee, and sure to obtain the sympathy
and the suffrages of the company. And
vet to me this seems little less irration-
al than to apply the nose to picture,
and to decide on its genuineness by the
sense of smell.-COLeridge.
Never contract a friendship with
anybody till you have first examined
how he behaved himself to his former
friends for you'll have good reason to
hope that he'll be the same to you as he
was to them. Take a sufficient time
before you profess yourself a friend,
but, that once done, endeavor to be al
ways such for it is equally shameful
to have no friends at all, and to change
them often.-LsOcrGteS.
Chicken on shell, said an English
man, looking down the carte at Bos-
ton hotel that must be a delicacy.