Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Ring for woman to have a
finger in--Thc wedding ring.
The newest handkerchiefs are cut
roundcornered, and have the mon
ogram or initial in the centre.
The new bonnets have very long
streamers at tho back, either of vel
vet or ribbon of heavy quality.
One Of the handsomest garments
of the season will be tho velvet po-
lonaise with jet trimmings.
Cicero said, 'The pursuit of all
things should be calm and tran
quill How about capturing feast?
For full-dress occasions the very
low corsage is worn, finished with
standing lace or plated tulle.
Artificial orange flowers are now
generally used for trimming and
ornamenting bridal costumes.
The last Partisan rumor threat
ems the ladies with a revival of the
Dig DODuelS OF iCOt.
Omega is the namo given to the
sixteenth child lately born to cit
izen of Kentucky, In the hope that
it will prove the last.
The divorce lawyers OF Chicago
hang their heads in shame over the
announcement of silver wedding
in that city.
Now furs arc taken out from their
summer hiding places, and the tear
full snceze of be-peppered husbands
is heard in the land.
A barber is no longer simply a
'tonsorial artist He is 'proies-
sor of eranicultural abseission and
genealogical transis.'
A Milwaukee man who needed
some action and regular exercise,
was advised to mix his own cock
tails.
Marshal Bazaine has escaped, to
be sure, but his Mexican mother-in-
law is coming to live with them al
ways.
A Danbury Sunday School schol-
ar being asked what became Of men
who deceive their fellow-men,
promptly cxplained: They so to
Europe
yes, Job suffered some, said an
Illinois deacon, 'but he never knew
what it was to have his team run a
way and kill his wife right in the
busy season whom hired girls want
three dollars a week
In Thompson's Gazetteer is the
following erratum: 'For Dutchman
read DR.. Adams This is almost
equal to the amusing erratum in a
Hartford paper: For Alum Water
read Alma Mater.
This is the coolest October which
Boston has had for twenty-one
years. The usual range of the Bos-
ton thermometer in this month is
from seventy-fve to .eighty-six de-
grees, but this year it has stopped
at sixty degrees.
AS the mornings grow cool, and
winter draweth near, a matin song
steals oft and sweetly from your
neighbours window, alter this fash
ion: Sam, if you don't get up and
come down to breakfast, I'll wallop
the skin off of you
We never stand by when a wo-
man enters a hardware store, shuts
her teoth together, and inquiries the
price of them ere iron-handled
rolling-pins, without feeling there
is rest beyond the grave for her
husband.
A gentleman sat down at table
in an Oshkosh restaurant the other
day and called for bill of particu-
lars brooklyn, by thundorP roar
cd tho bystanders in gust of NOR
al indignation, rs they stoit him
through the doorway with the We
locity of a Remington rihe.-Brook-
lyn Argus
As 'nouc' means mot any, accor-
ding to the best dictionaries, it
should be followed by q verb in
the plural.-Arcadian.
A mistake. Mono is simply the
two words no and ono compaeted
together; aud only singular verb
is proper in it's predieate.-N. Y,
Sun.
The report of Gen. Humphreys,
Chief Engineer, has been submitted
to the Secretary of War, aud he re-
commends an approprIa ton for the
improvement Of the Cumberland
river below Nashville of $4,000,
and for the Tennessee river, $780,
600.
The salary Of $4,000 per annum
paid TO President Jewett, of the E.
rie Railway, is the largest paid to
any railroad official in tho United
States, and, it is believed, larger
than any paId to any railway officer
in the world.
An extraordinarily largo turnip
was dug in a garden at Salt Lake
the other day, which, on being cut
open, disclosed largo sized frog,
we'll and hearty, which tumbled
out and hoped of, just as if he was
not tho creature. ot..a sswonderiul
phenomenon.
The New York Mail says thst
the average fomale is just now era
zy over bats. If she hasn't got q
soft felt, with a rakish crown and a
thievish-looking brim, she is crazy
to get one, and if she has got one
she is mad because she didn't get
the other pattern
They have just been having a
nose show in Austria. Eighty per-
sons competed Tor the prize offered
for the most extraordinary nasal
prominence il form, size and color.
The jury decided that only three
out Of the whole could be admitted
TO compete for the prize, which was
finally adjudged to a competitor
from Vienna, possessOr of what is
stated to DO "a gigantic nose, of a
deep violet-blue.'
lord Sandwich was once one of
tho famous statesmen of England.
He was q great minister, but also !
great gambler One day he had
never moved from the gaming ia.
bic. Suddenly he felt hungry
he cried TO the servant to bring
him something to eat. They brought
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