Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
nfural humbugs-Bees.

al saloons at Xenia, Ohio.
Emerson says: 'Thc way to max c
the world better is by reforming
number one; then there is surely
ono less villain in the world
you might have heard the un-
folding of Il cambria handkerchief,
IS French phrase for expressing
profound silence.
The clergy of Chicago have been
rcprimanded by the temperance
crusaders for not giving the move
meut either thoir aid or sanction.
Steel. gray is to be the fashiona-
bic shade for Easter costumes. It's
a gentle transition from Lenton sa-
bles to the rainbow hucs that will
be worn this summer.
A New Ooleans reporter was
found to have wife in Yicksburg,
another in Matches, another in Cal
70, another in Memphis, aud then
they stopped counting and put him
In Jail.
The Now York Tribune says that
the National Treasury is SO econom-
ically managed that when barrel
wears out the bung-hole is sent to
the cooper for repairs.
Refreshments were omitted at Il
Kentucky wedding last week.
Some swine entered the kitchen
during the ceremony, and anticipat-
ed the gustatory programme of the
other guests.
The editor of the Cincinnati En-
quircr arc growing truthful.--
Speaking, doubtless, for them
selves, they say: Next to pork,
whisky is our main dependence.
An eccentric old fellow who lived
beside a graveyard was asked if IL
was not un. unpleasant location,
NO. said he; Il never fined places
In my life with set of neighbors
that minded their own business so
stiddy as they do
"FidAno's" valentine TO Swim
burne:-
Bard OF the hectic muse aud lusthl Tyre,
Rant Is not passion, nor Is fever. IRE.
fhe sacred Spring, obi bard OF blood and
Foul not with satyr-tread, with charnel
Lave thy hot lips in the pure Hlppocrene
But--shame, stri keep the Muses. fountain
clean!
Lord Churchill is making great
preparations for his marriage with
Miss Jerome, ana what most en-
phatically establishes the good tase
of his lordship is the fact that he
has had new tail put on the ia
nous brass lion at Marlborough
House.
There is nothing 50 tends to
shorten the lives of old people, and
to injure their health as the prac.
tice Of sitting up late, especially
winter evenings. This is especial
ly the case when there is u grown
up daughter in the family. We
publish this itom at the earnest re-
quest of several young men.
A PLANETARY PAGEANT.-N
that tho great planet Jupiter is so
near the moon, tho opportunity for
Il popular Acquaintance with him Is
worth improving. Through an or
binary opera glass two OF his safe
lites can be seen, and common
house-telcscope will reveal the re
manning two also.
A clergyman for the explanation
of the young scholars of his Sun
day school, put the following ques-
tion: why did the people of Is
racl set up golden calfY Because
they hadn't money enough to set
up an OK was the reply of little
chap, who took dollar and cents
view OF the matter.
An enthusiast was turned out of
the gallery of Memphis theater.
the other night, for encouraging the
antics of Lydia Thompson with the
delighted ordinations of Bully
for you, old tow-top! Good lordy,
look ut her lickp Thus cruel fate
chills the ardor of the most ingenu
Gus spirit.
The largest Baptist church in the
world is Mr.. Surgeons, which re-
turns a membership of 1886. The
second largest church is said to be
the old First African, in Richmond,
Va, and the third is, curiousIy
enough, in India. 1t would seem
that seven years ago lost Septem-
Der there were but two native
Christians in the City of Ongole,
India; to day the church numbers
1857 members.
Tho fountain of perpetual youth,
it is thought, has been at last dis
covered. By buttermill< are we all
to live everlastingly. At least a
member of the French Academy
read paper before that great and
learned body the other day assert
ing that this product of the churn
contains an acid which destroys the
incrustations that form on the ar
tcries, cartridges and valves of the
heart, and that constant use of it
would prolong life far beyond the
allotted three-score-and-ten years.
Brownsville States: What the
South and West needs is, more
money and cheaper money. We
don't want any redemption Of the |
present currency in coin, nor do
we want any initiation of it. What
We want is it's entire abolition, and
the issuance in it's stead of u thous-
and millions of Treasury notes, re-
ccivable for all dues, public and
private, and to be declared equal in
value with gold and silver coin
Neither do we want any banks,
the individual members of which, to
be made responsible for the obliga-
tons of the banks.
They have a wonderful work OF
art in Cincinnati-a panorama of
Paradise Lost The loyal angels
in that battle, ages anterior to the
creation, appear mounted on hor-
ses and running down tho rebel an
gels; Michael wears a Prussian he'll
met, and Abdiel a steel pen coat of
modern fashion; and while Adam
after the fall dons a fg-leaf apron,
Eve, who ought to have been
ashamed to appear before any res
pcctable audience in such u plight,
wears Rone-it is probably in the /
wash.
Memphis Appeal: The bill intro
duced in the house of representa-
tives by Mr.. White, providing for /
.bo ~aaouN,ont of tho cOtfop 80, =;