Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

There are %, $50 Odd Fellows in the
State of Indiana.
Richmond, Ind, has thirteen local
scandals at once. One gossip has
gained a pound of flesh per day.
West Chester, Pa, wants people to
believe story about a baby in that
town with four teeth in its nose.
Queen Victoria has had magnif-
cent stone sarcophgus made to con-
tain the remains of the late Napo-
leon III.
johnson says that the greatest ma
gicians of the age are the paper ma
kers. They transform the beggar's
rags into sheets for the editor to lie
upon.
The last match IN the box generally
fails to burn; so who he walks in the
dark all his life, and strikes for light
only on his death bed, is in danger Of
awakening naught but strong odor
Of birthstone.
The hardtimes also affects the In
dians. One horse will now purchase
two Apache women, and the owner Of
the women Will throw in a dog or two
rather than spoil trade.
An Ohio youth who desired to wed
the object Of his affections, had an in
terview with her parental ancestor,
in which he stated that although he
had no wealth to speak Of, yet he was
"chock fullrof days works" He got
the glrl.
A boy living on the Sugar Hollow
road ate twenty-one buckwheat cakes
one day last week, and so disturbed
| his stomach as to cause his death in
three days after. The last words he
uttered were of modest triumph. He
said: 81 slung emf
Apious but uueducated Judge closed
| 4 sentence with the following touch
ing reproach: prisoner at the bar.
nature has endowed YOU with a good
education and respectable family con-
nections, instead of which Won go
round the country stealing ducks"
4 stoical Scotchman was addressed
4 by his sick wife: "Ohi John, I shan't
/ leave this bed alive" "Please thee
self Betty, and theeu please me-" re-
turned John with great equanimity.
Il have been n good wife to you,
John, persisted the dying woman.
''Middlin, Betty, only middlin."
a worthy Quaker thus wrote: II
! expect to pass through this world but
once. If, therefore, there be any
kindness I can show, or any good
thing I can do to my fellow human be-
ing, let me do IL now. Let me not
defer nor neglect it, for will not pass
this way again"
A man whose morning dram had been
too much for him, in saddling his horse
/ got the saddle wrong end foremost.
Just as he was about to mount, q
neighbOr came up and called his at
tention to the mistake. The horse
man gazed for a moment at the intru-
der, as if IN deep thought, and then
said: 'You let that saddle alone.
How do you know which way am 60
ing?" And he looked daggers at the
officious neighbor.
A certain gentleman who is always
in a good humor, and who encourages
his children in their little games, no
ticed his boy spinning a top the other
evening, in which he failed several
times. ''Give me that top, Billy" said
he, "and I'll show you how they used
to do it when 1 was boy" He wound
it up In q business sort Of way, and
gave Il a tremendous throw. His
) youngest daughter now decOrates So
| ciety with broken nose.
The latest sentimetal grangerism:
on, hump yourself, my lovely Poll,
ANA IN the cause Of Anti-mOnOp.
Wen mulch the turkeys IN the fall,
And gran the ong clam on the hope