Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-17
WING AND TRIBUNE.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A TRUE WOMAN.

Il NOAAAN
In her,
Though doubiy-doweI'd, mother and
qu'en,
There lived soft, perpetual mAidenhood.
An inexperienced trust. timid, yet frank
Shy, yet through guilelossness forgetting
shyness.
She seem'd a hower-like creature come to
fruit;
She moved among her babes an elder as
ter;
Then, Weakened by an infant cry or laugh,
Full motherhood returned.
When a Maryland doctor spells
it 'accufottus,' is it any wonder that
a patient dies on his hands,
A COW died in Springfield, o.,
from eating too many apples, which
gave rise to some trouble in cider
No man can read about all these
burglaries without q determination
10 have his wife sleep on the out
side of the bed.
A tobacconist with commenda-
BILE frankness advertises: q shall
continue to keep on hand imported
cigars of my own manufacture
The little boy speaks again-this
time correcting his mother. She
said he was FALL over dirt and be
said dirt was fall over him.
They that deny a God destroy a
mans nobility; for certainly mans
kin to the beasts by his body; and
if he is not kin to God by his spir-
it, he is base and ignoble creaturel
In Japan the law requires that
when a person cuts down a tree, he
tall put one in its place. In this
3 the supply Of wood is kept up.
20 Washington owes his country
tree.
Mr.. Bergh's attention is called
lie fact that q number Of ladies
~ their furs away in snuff during
summcr. Hundreds of moths
J.. ve sneezed their heads off in
sequence.
Will you please insert this obit-
lary notice? asked an old gentle
nan of an editor. Il make bold TO
s~lz it because know the deceased
mad great many friends around
who'd BIO glad to hear of his death.
Harry, after looking on while his
new little sister cried at beng
washed and dressed the other day,
turned away saying, If she scream
I'd like that in heaven / don't won
der they sent her off,
A Maine paper is publishing a
list of all the accidents by drown
ng during the last forty or sixty
years; and the little boys are great
ly impressed by it, and frequently
read the sad chronicle while wait
ing for their hair to dry after they
have come out of the river.
This is a pretty fact: The man
who has never tried the companion
ship of little child has carelessly
passed by one of the greatest pleas
ures of life, as one passes a rare
flower without pluckIng or know
ing it's value.
There is a quiet courtesy and
modest unobtrusiveness about a
wise advertisement that creates a
certain responsive feeling of sym
pathy in the reader. We all like to
be solicited, and it is natural to
suppose that he who most politely,
clearly and persistently solicits US,
stands the better chance for our
trade. The familiar advertisements
of local papers often show these
points with great tact and inge-
nuity.
The election IN Louisiana, Nov.
2, is TO DO for State Treasurer, Leg
islature, and local officers. The
Legislature will elect a United
States Senator vice Kellogg's col
ored man Pinchback, to whom Kel
logg, when handing him his ere
dentials, is said to have remarked
Pinch, if you're no Senator l an
no Governor The United State.
Senate has declared Pinchback tC
be mo Senator.-Chicago Tribune
If you want TO see how beautiful
your wife looks when she's angry
suggest that the young lady who
lives across the street, and who al
ways sits at the window with be-
foreinger pressed 10 her temple
and a pensive smile on her fac,
while you're smoking your even
ing cigar, is the handsomest wo
man you ever saw. Take car
that your head isn't out of the win
low when you make the remark
This was the situation with Mr.
Spellbacker the other evening"
The window came down so rapid,
ihat he hadn't time to get all hi
head in, and be doesn't look wei
half-scalpod.
A gentlemau of our Acquaintance
found the other night, much to hi
surprise, that his wife knew some
thing about draw poker. The wa,
of it was this: The couple have tw,
fac boy babies. Seeing them a
sleep in the same bed the admirinI
father wondered if anybody had
better pair than that. The Wit
thought not. Tho husband thel
said. speaking in parallels, as b.
thought, IF we could draw thre
queens We would have a full tina
would be hard TO beat And tn
lady promptly replied: Excuse me
if you please; we'll stand pat on tn
pair We have
n. Y. Herald: A rumor was il
circulation yesterday, and traces
to a good source, that Presiden
Grant had expressed the stronges
interest in behalf of Mr.. Beeehei
and to the Presidents interest i
attributed the retainer of Mr.. Conk
ling. 1t is generally believed ais,
that Mr.. TiltOn himself will address
the jury in his own behalf. Mr.
Tilton has rare gift of eloquence
and he will have the privilege.
A well-dressed chap entered
jewelry store in Detroit, and asked
if he could see those cups in tn,
window, pointing, as he spoke, Il
some silver cups lined with gold
These, said the jeweler, handins
him one, ARE race cups Rae
cups-what are race cupsl' 'Why,
replied the jeweler, they arc cups
have ordered to be made for prize
to the best racer well, il that
so, suppose you and me race TO