Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

III NJ idSAs lDuIueu anu iurnHGeN.
Friends shall say Of us-well dore!
MISCELLANEOUS.
Head-light-Brigbt eyes.
The kick of time-A wrinkle.
A Baptist discase-Dip-theory.
Engaged for every sct-A hen.
A beggarly sham-Robbing
Pauger.
Heaven means priuciplo-Confu.
ciu7.
The. wise mon of the yeast-The
bakers.
A blacksmith is always striking
for wages.
Moroseness is the evening of tur-
bulence.--Landor.
Great hopes belong.only to great
souls.-Martineau.
Necessity knows no law, but law
knows a good deal Of necessity.
When is ship like a railroad
track? When the cargo's on it.
The way to mako a fire real hot
il to kcepiit thorally coaled.
A stone which is fit for the wall
will not be left in the roadway.
Faith aud hope cure more disea-
ses than edicinc.-Martin Luther.
The word grace in an ungracious
mouth is but profane.-Shakspeare.
What throat is best for a singer
to reach high notes with? A soar
throat.
An article you can always bor-
row-Troublc. and are meyer O.
bIigcd to return it.
The feeling of gratitude has all
the ardor of a passion in noble
hearts-Aohilles Poincelot.
Purchase no friends by gifts;
when thou ceasest to give, such will
cease to lovo.-Fuller.
There is but one kind Of love,
but there are a thousand different
copies of it.-ROchcfoucauld.
An old wine-bibber says that an
empty champagne bottle is like an
orphan, because it has lost its pop.
The femelstrom is what a Day
ton newspaper calls the present wo-
mans movement in favor of tenn
perance.
An old Scotchman of Boston
used to say, 1'm open to convic-
ton, but I'd like to see tho man
that can convince me-
Success has no secrecy about it,
save this: Never attempt to do that
you are unable to perform.-Rcv.
w. II. II. Murray.
We lose some friends for whom
we regret moro than we grieve;
and others for whom we grieve,
yet do not rcgret.--Rochefoucauld.
The chateau Malmaison, the house
of Josephine, is offered for sale by
the French government. Only a
million and a half francs.
Cremation finds no disciples in
Chicago. Mrs. O'Leary's COW fur
nished cremation enough to last
Chicago till the final blaze.
A chicken in West Groshen, Pa,
has only one leg, and that grows
from the top of its lack. The old
hen did it with her hatch it.
The temple of Shiba, 27O years
old, and one OF the principal attrae-
lions of Yeddo, has been destroyed
by fire.
A crazy man hangs around the
Office of the Monasha (Wis.) Press,
and without the shadow of a hope,
drops down on his knees and prays
for the editor.
A Western editor apologises for
the deficiency Of the first edition of
his paper by saying he was detain-
cd at homo by second edition to
his family.
Bouquet matinees are popular in
Now Orleans. Everybody carries
bouquet in his hand, and the the
atre looks like an immense flower
bed in full bloom.
The thing in the world / am most
afraid of is fear, and with good rea-
son; that passion alone, in the trou-
BILE of it, exceeding all other acct
dents.-Montaigne.
The esteem of wise and good men
is the greatest of all temporal Gu
couragements to virtue; and it is a
mark of an abandoned spirit to have
no regard for it.-Burke.
A Parson once prefaced his ser
mon with my friends, let us say a
few words before we begin This
is about equal to the chap who took
Il short nap before he went to sleep.
A Now York tailor makes pants
with an attachment about the waist
band for eating big dinners. Tho
pockets are sometimes too short
for paying the bill, however.
BY their concers in London, and
in the provinces, the Jubilee sing
ers nave netted $4,000, which will
DO devoted to the charitable OBJ
jects indicated in the preliminary
scheme.
Freeport, H., is said to have IAN
array of fizgig girls Neither the
unabridged nor the almanac fur
nishes any clue to assist the bewil-
dered intellect of the anxious rea-
der.
In Missouri, after n man has had
five wives die very suddenly, the
neighbors begin to mark him as
an enigma, and he has got to carry
himself pretty straight or sell out.
Detroit Free Press.
A novelty has been introduced at
Partisan dinner-tables that may
lead to a falling off in duels. On
the back of the menu is given a
list of tho persons present, with a
short account of who and what they
are.
The marriage license of Jeffer-
son, the will of Washington, and
the will of Kosciusko have been
placed in the Virginia state libra
ry. Other libraries having the
same will do well to make note Of
this.
The young Parasian who swal-
lowed the fork, provokes more
smiles than tears. why asks a