Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

comet In the presence OF the Wo-
man he loves.
This weak impress of love is as a s
figure trenchod in 100, which with G
an hours heat dissolves to water,
and doth lose its form.-Shakes-
peare. =.
A woman cannot love a man that
she feels to be her inferior; love
without vencration and enthusiasm
is only Observation-Disclosures Du-
devant.
A person who would secure him
self great Difference will, perhaps,
gain his point by silence as effectu-
ally as by anything he can say
Shenstonc.
There arc moments when petty
sights are harder to bear than Sc
rious injury. Men have died of the
fostering of a gnat Cecil Dandy.
The owner of Tom Bowling does
not believe in the best currency
the world ever saw. He will sell
the animal for 100000 in gold,
and take nothing else.
We are constantly told that 'the
evening wore on but what the
evening wore on such occasions we
are not informed. Was it the close
of summers day?
Sad thing to lose your wife,
said friend to Vermonter who
stood at the grave of his wife
We'll, tolerably sad replied the
mourner, 'but then, her clothes just
fit my Oldest girl
A navy department clerk tool:
his girl out riding yesterday, and
because he told her that he didn't
need a dashboard, as her feet would
answer every purpose, she won't
speak to him any more.
Tho advent of the grasshopper
causes our entire social fabric to
tremble. Maria, young farmer
wrote to his girl down in Maine,
Pm afraid we can't get married this
year; the grashoppors threaten to
clean out my crop
1t has been calculated that if
Chicago and st. Louis keep up
their competition in directories, at
tho present rate, each will have a
population of ten millions by the
year 1884.
The collecting Of an Infamous
dog.tax in Sioux City has compell-
cd one poor man to take his chill
dren out of school that they may
go to work and earn money to pay
the laws exactions.
Joshua Smith, whom the French |
papers call Josuath Smith, won 300,- !
900 +. on the Longchamps races and |
died suddenly before leaving town |
to return to London. Paris jour |
nalists look upon this as discoura-
ging.
A London correspondent writes: |
by the way, it is rather odd, but
have not seen in any English pa
per q word of comment on the mar
riage of Mr.. Sartoris with u daught-
er of the President of the United
S tates,'
Pride takes an early start in San
Francisco. When lad breaks
loose from his mothers apron
strings and secures a position at
three dollars per week, the first
thing no does after that is to hire a
Chinaman to run errands for him.
The youths of Lacrosse used TO
= put up purse of ten cents, and sec
who could hang TO a beam under
water the longest, but since sever
al of the lads remained down until
hauled up by the Coroner the rest
have stopped the practice.
Boston Corbett, who shot Wilkes
Booth, is living in Camden, n. j.,
aud on week days follows the pro
fcssion of halter in Philadelphia
He breaches every Sunday in the
Independent Methodist Church in
Camden, where he is very popular.
A slave who had escaped from
the King of Ashantee, arrived at
Cape Coast Castle In the last part
of May. He reports that King COT
fee is sacrificing as many human
beings as ever, and that he was
forced to run away to save his life.
The Princess of Wales has per-
suaded her mother-in-law to allow
her to wear the Kohinoor OCCASION
ally, in order TO teach the Duchess
of Edinburg her place, and con-
vince her that her new Ceylon sap
phire isn't much, after all.-Boston
Globe.
My spirits is crushed, Jane,
crushed,' sobbed Mrs. Marrowfat
to Mrs. Quoggs. That lovely bow
quettc-you remember-which it
was 1, Margery Marrowfat, as sent
it to Mrs. Splivins's funeral. Well,
the card got lost and nobody
knowed as who it come FROM And
here her great anguish stopped over
afresh.
Nearly all the great men in eve-
ry department OF human activity,
in all ages, have been moderate
drinkers. Nearly all the great con-
science, to art, and to literature
have been made by moderate
drinkers Now add to it: Every
drunkard, living and dead, has been
Il moderate drinker.
la these times of centennial cele-
brations it is interesting to know
that the old Papal town of Avig-
non, France, is preparing to cele-
brate the tive-hundredth auniversa-
ryof the great poet, Petrarch. A
statue of the gifted writer will be
solemnly unveiled on the occasion.
and all sorts of festivities will take
place.
Boston Transcript: Consider.
ate-Old Stingy TO an errand boy:
My lad have you a purse? No,
sir Sorry. If you had I'd give
you something to put in it, Next
time same question answered.
yes, sir. Glad. If YOU hadn't I
meant TO rive vO,, so,,..L.