Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-23

NCiNbo Vt LON y.
Swecter than music DER the water,
Brighter than sunshine on the sea.
Sweeter than dewdrop on the flower,
Comes loving word to me.
1t is not the victory that makes
the joy of noble hearts, but the COM
bat.-Montalembert.
To be great man 1t is necessary
TO turn TO account all opportunities.
-Rochefoucauld
We generally condemn the pas
sions of Others by other passions
either like or unlike.-Pasquier
Quesnel
a Little man observed that he
had tive negative qualities; he never
laid long in bed; he never wanted
a great coat.
The admiration bestowed on
former times is tho bias of all times;
Tho g0idou ngo- never was the
present age.-Howe.
II the wicked flourish and thou
suffer, be not, discouraged. They
are fatted for destruction, thou art
dieted for health.-FuIler.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts,
such also will DO the characters of
thy mind; for the soul is dyed by
the thoughts.-Marcus Aurelius.
indianapolis boasts of a versatile
divinity student who breaches in
English, prays in Armenian. sings
in Turkish, and holds his tongue in
eleven other languages.
What kind of sausages is them?
queried an old lady of the young
man ofliterature and peanuts as he
passed thrhugh the train selling
bananas.
Crinoline trade has dwindled
from S20,000,O0O to 100000.
Hoops are also reduced in size by
very nearly, if not quite so many
inches.
The greater part mnst be coRtent
to be rs though they had not been
to he bound in the register of
God, not in the record of man.
'Hydriotaphia'
A. d. 1900. Scene before a ere
nation undertaker's shop: Small
boy-I say, sir IS dad done vet? |
lf he is, please put his ashes in this
ere tin kettle
Breakfast for ninety-nine,' said a
water to a verdant clerk at hotel, !
not long ago. Thunder, said the
clerk, I'VE can't do itp The waiter
explained that ninety-nine was the
number of room.
How sweet is the prayer of the
virgin heart to it's Lowell Thy vir-
lures won mel With virtue pre-
serve me! Dost thou love me?
Keep me, then, still worthy to be
lovedl-Sir P. Sidney.
When you see a bare headed
man following a COW through the
front gate, and filling the cir with
garden implements and profanity,
you may know that his cabbage |
pldot5 nave Deen set out.
A Professor in Berlin is just now /
exhibiting a lot of performing fieas,
and there is an operate troupe of |
parrots in Lima. We shall proba-
bly, have next mosquito concert, |
and a ballet by trained bed bugs.
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist
pure and simple. He will never
borrow from others that which he
has not already, more or less,
thought out for bimself.-Charles
Kingsley.
Universal love is glove without
fingers, which fits all hands alike,
and none closely; but true affec-
ton is like glove with fingers,
which fits one hand only. and sits
close 70 Tint one.-Richter,
Curiosity is one of the perma-
nent and certain characteristics of
vigorous intellect Every adj |
vance into knowledge opens new
prospects and produces new incite-
ments to further progress John
son.
Never be argued out of your
soul, never be argued out of your
honor, and never be argued into
believing that soul and honor do /
not run terrible risk if you limp /
into life with the load of debt |
on your shoulders. -Bulwer.
Tho brightest diamond is only |
crystalized carbon, or, as it might
be called, charcoal glorifed and
so it is with souls that were coal
black in the defilement of sin,
which, by the power of grace is
made one OF Gods jewels forever.
The brains OF people advanced
in years should be greatly strength
cd by habits of study. Old people
should have their lessons, their
mental culture, like children. 1t
would be almost a cure for the
decay of the mind as age advances.
Martin Luther.
1t is high time that dogs we're
given original and characteristic
names. Let us confer fame, then,
on "Ponny," a Pottsville pa pood-
lie, whose owner thus named him
because the dog was one cent to
him, and has had ten mills with a
cat. Like every othOr bad penny,
this one always comes back.
Napoleon III. never had the
reputation of wit, but he said one
sharp thing after he had made him
self master of the destinies of
Faance. 1t was at the expense of
his princely cousin, Plon Plon.
who said to him one day, you
have nothing of your uncle about
YOU 'Ycs' he replied-'his family
Be careful to make friendship the
child and not the father of virtue;
for n any strongly-knit minds are
rather good men; so, though they
do not like the evil their friend
does, yet they like him who does
the evil, and though no counselors
of the offense, they yet protect the
offender.-Sir P. Sidney.
L wish woman to live first for
Gods sake. Then she will not
make an imperfect man her god,
and thus sink to idolatry. Then 5
she will not take what is not fit for
her from q sense of weakness and
Then, if she finds what {