Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

looks back.-Ben johnson.
Neutral men are the Devils
allies.-Chapin.
Man without desire and without
want, would be without invention
and without reason.
An Indian tribe in Michigan is
said to consist Of an old horse,
chief, and a demijohn of whisky.
Think of hearing this at the foot
of the pyramids in Egypt: Shine
yer boots Johnny five cents.
The Jews arc subscribing liber-
ally to the fund for the relief of
their starving brethren in Pales-
tine.
A Mississippi man was recently
sent to prison for five years for
stealing a hoopskirt-with a woman
in it.
From the body OF one guilty deed
thousand ghostly fears and haunt
ing thoughts proceed.-Words-
worth.
Through the shadowy past, like
tomb scarcher, memory ran, lift
ing each shroud that time had cast
over buried hopes. Moore.
1t is impossible that anything 80
natural, so necessary, and so uni
versa as death should ever have
been designed by providence as an
evil to mankind.
A Brooklyn reporter has been
dismissed for noting the increas-
ing fullncss of a soprano singers
voice by writing that it was get
ting fatter about the waist
A San Francisco reporter blush
cd at some remarks of Victoria
Woodruff, and was promptly dis
charged by his employers for 'con-
duct unbecoming q journalist
An Albany man who was demon
strating TO a crowd that there is no
such thing as hydrophobia was the
first to shin up BARRIERS pole when
small yellow dog came rushing
down tho street.
Sir Moses MontefiOre, OF London,
the generous protector OF the Jews
in Palestine, is over ninety years OF
age, yet he is now engaged in ex-
tending aid to the people of Je-
rusalem in their present distress
arising from famine.
1t is not uncommon in giving
advice to newly married young
ladies, who marry poor young men
to allude to tho fact that Eve mar
ricd gardener; but they dom
say anything about the, gardener
losing his situation on account o
that match.
A man who was seen coming on
of Texas newspaper Office witt
a split nose, with one eye and viii
one ear, explained to policeman
that he entered the Office simpl,
to inquire if the editor was il
'And he was in the victim addeC
mournfully.
Music once admitted to the sou
becomes a sort of spirit and never
dies. 1t wanders perpotually
through the halls and galleries 0
tho memory, and is often heard
again, distinct and living as when i
FIRST displaced the wavelets of tn,
air.-Bulwer Lytton.
According to a local journal, tn
rattlesnakes in the knobs o
Lincoln county, Kentucky, hav
formed corner in water, and tn
supply of some families is cut of
They gather in largo number
around the springs, and suffer n
one to approach.
A couple of neighbors became s
inimical that they would not speaI
to each other, but one of them hay
ing been converted at campmeet
ing, on seeing his former enemy
held out his hand, saying: tHoV
dye do, Kemp? 1 am humbl
enough to shake hands with dog,
At the wedding of Miss Schemes
in Brooklyn, the chimes of s.
AIMS, on the Heights, rang tn
bridal procession in and out of tn
church. This is probably the frs
time that the English custom c
the chimes playing, instead of tn
usual organ march, has ever bee
introduced in this country.
\ young boy in Athol, Mass;
chusetts, is exciting 10 little il
terest and speculation among tn
physicians by displaying an irresi
tible propensity to eat himself NJ
He has pursued this habit wit
such fatal persistcncy during tn
four years of his life, rs to reduc
all the fingers of both hands I
raw and bleeding stumps, while {
the thumb of the left hand nothin
whatever remains.
The ages of the fl soldiers {
the War of 1912, who met i
Paris, kentucky, aggregate 3,57
years, and their average age
eighty-one and a half years. Ha
Leslie Coombs been there ii
average would have been initiate
to about the even hundred.
There is nothing new under IL
sun, not even in slang. A popul'
and expressive phrase of IL
present day will be found in Shal
speare's Henry VIII, act V, scene
where the King says: fYou Al
ever good in sudden commend
ton, Bishop of Winchester, b
know | come not to hear such fla
tories now; and in my presence the
are too thin
Among well-bred people
mutual difference is affected, co
tempt ofothers is disguised, autho
ity concealed, attention given
each in turn, and an easy stream
conversation maintained withol
vehemence, without interruptio
without eagorness for victory, al
without any airs of superiority
Hume.
A worthy member of the churc
who is exceedingly deaf, was assis
ing the congregation to sing tn
good cid hymn:
eff you get there before do,
LOOK out Tor me, Pm coming too"
When the last verse had been fl
ished, what was the peoples amaz
ment to hear brother A.. draWl gu
all alone by himself.