Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-31
NUMBER II
MISCELLANEOUS.


Boston Post: a man in Philadel-
phia wishes TO exchange a cemetery
vault for a piano.
Virginia is manufacturing paper
from the reeds which grow SO album
dantly in the Dismal swamp.
a Nevada postmaster has written TO
Washington to know if he can rent
part Of the Office for faro bank.
Colonel Withers, the new Virginia
Senator, is the father of eleven chill
dren, and an unlimited number of
grandchildren.
An Indianapolis beggar, goes about
selling his wife's wedding-ring to buy
bread for his children. He has al
ready sold seventy-five of 1t.
a Young clergyman, small Of sta.-
ure, preaching as a candidate in a Ger
tain place one Sabbath, peeriug over
the pulpit Bible, announced as his
/ text: ''It is /. Be not afraid"
''How many daaths last night." in
/ quired a hospital physician of n nurse.
mine, was the answer. "Why, or
! dered medicine for ten" s'Yes: but
one wouldn't take it.
The Detroit Free Press saws that If
! You fire a shotgun in any direction in
/ this country you will hit poet. To
which the Ohio State Journal replies.
'We want shotgun.
The city treasurer of the new citv
0f Holyoke added 10 his oath Of of
| ice: "And l swear that if | see any
more stealing going on viii expose
it,"
1t Is claimed for Stuart Mace,
young man of MOulton, Iowa, that he
is constructing the smallest steam en-
gine IN the world. Its cylinder is to
be the size of a grain of wheat.
Kaffee Calcalli is the name of the
King of Ashantee, who Is afflicted
with 1888 mOthers-in-law. But, as
he can have any or all Of them sacri-
feed at a State funeral, he probably
enjoys quiet life.
Horse-thieves in Texas nowadays
go in gangs, headed by pretended
clergyman, who gets up protracted
meetings, and while the people are at
the house Of whorship, the rank and
file of the gang go for the stables.
y Western genius has Just invent
ed a patent self-raking, steam-wind- /
ing, breech-loading, seven-octave, non
explosive automatic urehin chastiser 1
and combined hair-comb, editorial /
protector and hash-cutter. He expects |
to make a colossal fortune.
A distinguished German surgeon
named Esmar,al- ir,ranted a Nnro- |
cess ~rhereby am putation of the limbs I
may be performed bloodlessly, by APP /
plying elastic bandages to the limbs /
above the point of operating. The /
method has been successfully tried in /
England.
Two Irishmen were in prison-one /
for stealing a COW, the other for steal /
ing a watch: 'HullO, Mike, and sure /
what o'clock is it?" said the COW steal /
er, can sure, said the watch stealer, /
Give no time-piece handy, but sup /
pose it's jist about milking time"
A written request for the pubhca- |
ton, in this paper, of the poem enti- |
tied '"The Beautiful Snow" has been |
received The writing is evidently |
that of a female hand, and the re- /
quest is signed II. G. S. II those in !
itials meant what they ought to, they
would stand for How Could She?.
COurieT-JOuynsl.-
According to the Tribune. the Rev. |
Byron Sunderland, d. D., chaplain of /
the Senate, in his opening prayer the |
other day invoked Divine Providence |
to hold in his own hand thatpowerful /
engine the public press This is the |
same clergyman who is charged with |
taking $3.50 as afre for lobbying bill |
through Congress.
Marie Verdin, a girl eighteen years
of age, is attracting the attention of
the medical faculty of Paris. She is
afflicted with a strange infirmity,
known as ayctdlOpe- that is, losing
the faculty of sight when the sun is
above the horizon and regaining it in
the night time. During the day Mile. /
Yerdin is obliged to keep her eyes |
closed and to wear a thick veil; but in /
utter darkness she can see so as to /
read and write with perfect ease.
A wretehed cynic writes: "a bright |
little five-year old was looking thro' /
picture book the other night, when |
she suddenly paused, gazed eagerly |
into her mothers face, and while there /
shone in her eyes the light of a wis |
dom beyond her years, said-Tblamed |
if we haven't forgotten what she |
said"
One of a. 7. Stewards old 1000 /
clerks doubles his salary in Boston /
house this year. a bid by a New |
York house with a $4,000 salary for a /
cloak buyerIn a Boston house couldn't /
touch him. An old Boston dl 7 goods /
employe has Just gone abroad as buy /
er for New York house at S35, 200 a |
year and expenses. A New York firm /
is to-day trying to tempt a Boston |
cotton goods salesman into its en- /
ploy at a salary of $1,000. A worsted /
goods clerk in New York at $1,000 is /
anxious to get back to the fold and his /
employers in Boston for 50, % } year. /