Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

No manners are so fine as. the
most awkward manifestations of
good will toward men.
Gen. John G. Breckenridge still
continues in very poor health, and
ais physicians are very anxious a
bout him.
There is growing conviction
that no troops can BIO spared for
Southern service. There are too
many Indians to be looked after.
In Montana when they start a
man down hill in a barrel they
speak of his appearance in a new
roll"
1t takes 373,979 cars and 1889
locomotive engines to run the rail
roads in the United States and Can
ada.
Brigham Young calls it celestial
marriage" because no earthly court
will hold it to be any marriage at
ALL
John Wells,aged sixty-eight, kill
cd Frederick Franks, aged seventy
years, near Westbrookville, Sulli-
van csunty, New York, Sunday
night, in an alteration about rent.
Boys will be boys. At Alton, Il
linois, a preacher asked all Sunday
school scholars to stand up who in
tended to visit the wicked, soul
destroying circus. All but lame
girl stood up.
What small boy does not envy
the nerve of the portly man who
enters church, takes out big hand
kerehiei, and deliberately blows
his nose three times before sitting
dewnY
The author of the little English
work, sHow to Economic like a
Lady, does not treat of saving
money, but of economy of time, OF
temper, and of sundry minor mat
ters.
Religion is like the fashion; one
man wears his doublet slashed, an.
other laced, another plain-but ev.
cry man has his doublet: So every
man has his religion. We differ a
bout trimming.
We are to have another moon as
large again as our present satellite
we are soon to receive telegraphiC
messages from the sun; and we not
to have Jupiter much longer, for it
is gradually burning up. Such are
the prophecies Of some far-sighted
astronomersl
MAY Heavens angels whisper
golden words as they kiss your dar-
ling Cheeks wrote a Lacrosse man
to his Betsy only last spring; and
now he wishes Heavens angels
would whisper to him how his
breach-of promise suit is coming
out, as his lawyer is doubtful
An Irish glazier was putting 1
pane OF glass into window, wher
q groom, who was standing by, be-
gan joking him, telling him to mine
and put in plenty of putty. The
Irishman bore the banter for some
time, but at last silenced his tor
mentor with, 'Arrah, now, be of
wild ye, or I'll put a pain in yel
head without any putty
There is so much of good among
the worst, so much Of evil in the
best, such seeming partialities il
providence, so many things to les
sen and expand, yea, and with al
mans boast, so little freedom o
his will, that to look a little lowe
than the surface garb, or dialect, OF
fashion, thou shalt feebly pro
nounce for SAINT, and fairly con
denim for a sinner.
Disease generally begins tina
equanimity which death completes
the distinctions which set one MAJ
above another are very little per
ceived in the gloom of a sick cham
Der, where it will be vain to ex
peet the entertainment from tn
gay, or instruction from the wise
where all human glory is oblitera
ted the wit is clouded, the reaso
perplexed and the hero subdueC
where the highest and brightes
mortal being finds nothing left hir
but the consciousness of Innocence
Never was a saint q millionair,
Never was a millionaire a saint
Men who get rich aim at gettin
rich. They live for that. To TIL
one purpose their thoughts an
their energies are directed. The
make their tastes, their Friendships
their pleasures, all yield to this on
engrossing object Of pursuit. Me
who get t. heaven aim ct getting t
heaven. To this great object the
deliberately consecrate their lives
The highest searthly interest mus
yield to this.
CHM. Times. Sunday night
nicely dressed colored girl, accom-
panied by a stylish young gent @
color got aboard Fourth street ca
bound east. The conductor kney
her by sight and knew where sh
liyed, and he calculated to stop tn
car IN front of the house. Whe
within q block of it the youn
man arose and pulled the bell, bu
the conductor nodded and the ca
kept on. Half a block from tn
house he pulled 1t again, and tn
s conductor said, Its all right-wer
stop right in trout of the house. >
No, you don't understand ex
claimed the young man, sdat's jus
what we don't want 10 do. De oil
man is down on me, you know, an,
if he's down dar by the gate whel
dis car stops, he'll make trouble 10
me, sure's yer bOrnP Everybod,
IN the ear appreciated the situation
and the couple were driven pas
and let out block beyond tn
house.
CASHMERE CoTToN.-We clip tn
following marvellous story iron
one of the Sc. Louis papers, we re
ally forget which one Of them. w
have no right to dispute the state
ment, but must say that it is rathej
tough: MI. Havek Bellyminger,
planter OF Soap Floating Springs
Fla, has ten acres of new cottol
plant, the cultivation of which ht
began two years ago from six seed
obtained in the Cashmere Valley
India. The plant is about eigh
feet high, tapering from the diane
ter Of sapling at the butt gradu
ally TO the top. 1t is planted Fir
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