Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-06

loves her unutterably when he sits
in her presence for an hour with
out speaking.
The Pennsylvania clergyman
who offers twenty cords of wood
for good wife, evidently forgets
that chords Of affection would bet
ter accomplish his desire.
A fashion paper says that tom
foolery in ladies' dresses is fast be-
coming obsolete 1t ought to have
told where this kind Of trimming
was worn.-Boston Post.
They have a man at Vincennes
by the name of Welcome Sprinkle.
The supposition is thathe was born
at the close of long interval of
dry weather.-Terro Haute Ex-
press.
A man in Iowa named Gabriel
Schmidt has just killed his wife for
sewing wrong button on his coat.
1t was the last button on Gabe's
coat that dissolved tho connubial
link.
Put on your right glove first, stu
pid. Then you have your left
hand ungloved to button your right
withal. If you put on your left
glove first you have to button your
right glove under double disadvan-
tage.
A young swell in New York late
ly liquidated bill at his florists a.
mounting to 1851 so, incurred be-
tween the 1st day of January and
May the current year, being at the
rate of over $1,000 per annum for
flowers alone.
venerate old age; and 1 love
not the man who can look without
emotion upon the sunset of life,
when the dusk Of evening begins
to gather over the watery eye, and
tho shadows of twilight grow broad
or and deeper upon the understan-
ding.-Longfellow.
Ones age should be tranquil, as
ones childhood should BIO playful;
hard work, at either extremity of
human existence, seems to me out
of place; the morning and the even
ing should be alike cool and peace
full; at midday the sun may burn,
and men may labor under it.-Dr.
Arnold.
Boston seems determined to have
It's surfeit of eulogies on Senator
Summer. Three have already been
delivered, fourth is arranged for
Mr.. George VIM. Curtis, and now
movement is on foot in Boston to
have the City Government invite
Wendell Phillips to pronounce a
fifth.
Young ladies who take nap
Sunday afternoon should have the
door bell placed upon the head
board of their bedsteads. 1t is
very trying on young gentleman
who wishes to drop in, to be com
pelled to stand aud jerk the bell
for half an hour, especially when
his Sunday boots are waking up
his corns.
A School teacher in Dewitt
county, Illinois, has introduced
new method of punishment into his
school. When one of the girls mis-
ses a word, the lad who spells it
has permission to kiss her. The
Clinton Republic says: The re-
suit is that the girls are fast forget
ting all they ever knew about spell
ing, while the boys are improving
with wonderful rapidity.'
Madame Bazaine, the Mexican
wife of the ex-Marshal, is said to
be intriguing for the restoration of
the French Empire, and in connec-
tion with her intrigues, which have
assumed some Importance, it is init
mated that the time is not far dis
tant when the Vatican will openly
advocate the candidature of NapO-
leon " by urging the French cler-
gy to use all its power and inAu-
ence on his side.
The Boston Transcript says: THE
new law against allowing children
to appear as aerobats, proposed by
our legislature, meets with univer-
sal public favor Very good, adds
the Boston Bulletin, and tho law
ought to be such as to prevent in
FAINT violinists, petite vocalists, and
all juveniles under fifteen appear
ing in any character with mock
smiles before the foot-lights, and
in dread terror at tho Inevitable
cowhide that awaits them behind
the scenes in case of failure.
An English journal says: Few
persons are aware Of the magnitude
to which the rose may be grown,
or the splendid effect it can be
made to produce on lawn or pleas
ure ground; yet with a sufficiently
strong stem, and system of careful
and patient training, there can be
no reasonable doubt but that tho
standard roses can be grown to the
size and form Of the ordinary ex-
amples of the weeping ash, having
the branches of all produced from
the top of a single stem, and flow
eriug downward upon all sides-a
very ornamental object for the
lawn.
There are no less than five Scotch
men in Congress-Beek, of Ken
lucky, Mitchell, of Wisconsin, Phil
lips, OF Kansas, Wilson, of Iowa,
and MacDougall of New York
This is somewhat curious, consid-
ering how very small the Scotch ell
ement in this country is. The Irish
population of the United States
numbers many millions, and the
Germans number about as many,
yet it does not appear that there
arc as many Irish-born, or as many
German-born members of the
House as there are Scotch born
members. 1t is somewhat remark
able that the intellectual German
element and the talented and pun
gent Irish element, do not produce
more representative mon of that
high ealiber which appears in Con-
gress. The fact that so many of
the few Scotehmen who como to
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