Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-12-20
PARAGRAPHS.

HASTE AND HEALTH.-It is not at
all wholesome to be in a hurry. Lo-
comotives have been reported 10 have
moved a mile in a minute for short
distances. But locomotives have often
come to grief by such great rapidity.
Multitudes in their haste to get rich
are ruined every year. The men who
do things maturely, slowly, dcliber-
ately, are the men who oftenest sue
ceed in life. People who are habitu-
ally IN hurry generally have things
to do twice over. The tortoise beats
the hare at last. Slow men seldom
knock their heads against q post
Foot races are injurious to health, as
are all forms of cOmpe etitiYe exercise;
steady labor in the field is the best
gymnasium in the world. Either Ia
Dor or exercise, carried to exhaustion
or prostratiOn, or even great tired
ness, expressed by tagged out, -
always,does more harm than the pre-
vious exercise has done good. All
running up stairs, TO catch up with a
FelHcle or terry-boat, are extremely
injurious to every age, and sex, and
condition OF life. 1t ought to be the
most pressing necessity which should
induce a person over fifty to run
twenty yards. Those live longest
who are deliberate, whose actions are
measured, who never embark in any
enterprise without sleeping on It,"
and who perform all the everyday
acts of life with calmness. Quakers
are proverbially calm, quiet people,
and Quakers are n thrifty folk the
world over.
WASTs TO SELL.-Any body wish
ing to speculate in real estate can buy
a house uptown cheap. 1t is situat-
ed between two churches that have
clocks; and that's the reason Mr..
Johnson wants to sell it. One of
these is invariably a second or two
behind the other; consequently when
Johnson stops out until one o'clock,
as he often does, Mrs. Johnson says
to him as each of the clocks strike
one
.'There, \ nice time for married
man to come hOme-two O'Clock -
Johnson, like the gay old sport that
he is, thought he might as we'll stay
out until two, inasmuch as he got the
blame for it. So he stayed, and Mrs.
johnson she stayed tOo-she stayed
up until he got IN, and made him lis
ten as the clock struck four. Then she
threatened to go to her ma or get her
ma to come and live with her, as il
was impossible TO live all alone in the
house. This kind OF frightened the
old fellow; so he came in next night
before twelve o'clock, and rs those
clocks commenced a duet at twelve
and iingled out twenty-four strokes,
be looked at his wife with smile, as
if to say
''Now I've got you -
She began to cry, and said he stay
ed ont until ''all hours" Thus it is
that johnson is grieved and wishes to
dispose of his property.
OLD LETTERS. Never burn kindly
written letters; 1t is so pleasant to
read them over when the ink is
brown, the paper yellow with age, and
the hands that traced the friendly
words be folded over the hearts that
prompted them, under the green sod.
Above all, never burn love letters. To
read them in after years is like q
resurrection to oue's youth The
elderly spinster finds in the impas-
stoned offer she foOlishly rejected
twenty years ago a fountain of re-
| ljuVenescenee. Glancing over it, she
| realizes that she was once 4 belle and
4 a beauty, and beholds her former self
in a mirror much more congenial to
+ her tastes than the one that confronts
Z her in her dressing room. The "wid-
ow indeed" derives a sweet and SOL
/ cmn consolation from the letters of
l the beloved one who has jouneycd
/ before her 10 the far off land, from
which there comes no message, and
where she hopes one day to join him.
( No photographs can SO viyidly recall
TO the memory of the mother the ten
! derness and devotion Of the children
( who have left ut the call Of heaven,
as the epistOlary outpOurings of their
love. The letter of Il true son or
daughter to 4 true mother Is some
thing better than an image of the
features: it Is a reflex of the writer's
soul Keep all loving letters. Burn
only the harsh ones, and IN burning
them forgive and forget them.
! MARK TwAIS'5 ADVENTURE got
into the cars, took seat IN iuxta-
position to 4 female. The females
face was a perfect insurance company
for her. 1t insured her against ever
getting married to anybody except a
blind man. Her mouth looked like a
crack in dried lemon, and there was
no more expression in her face than
there Is in cup OF cold custard. She
appeared as if She had been through
one famine and got two-thirds of the
I way through another. She was old
{ enough TO be great-grandmOther to
Merry that had \ little lauph- She yros
chewing prize popcorn, and carried
: IN her hand a yellow rose, while {
e band-box and cotton umbrella nestled
sweely by her side. I couldn't guess
, whether she was on a mission of char
, its or going West to start saw mill
a 1 was full of curiosity to hear heI
: speak. So I said: 1.-The engencies o
a the times require eircumspeetion il
+ a person who is travelling" s'What?
avs she. 'sThe orb of day shines re