Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

AA1C LA1AN EOOS.
Modesty is the citadel of beauty
and virtue. The first of all virtue
Is innocence, the second is modesty.
In youth we rcnounce a pleasure
with reluctance; in age with still
greater difficulty VIC rclinquish a
prejudice.
A New York clergyman advises
the praying bands to follow up the
milkmen who water their merchan-
disc.
Gov. Ames, of Miss, has held his
long-looked for levee, but Mrs.
Ames was not present. 1t was u
very tame affair; plenty of negroes
and carpet-baggers, but no women.
A Western editor puts above the
door OF his saDctum, Lady visitors
are requested to 90 TO the devil
when they wish to obtain an inter-
view with the editor
Frances Ellen Burr is said to be
the FIRST lady who has avowed a
preference for cremation. There
is nothing unpleasant, she says, sin
the thought of a handful of ashes
in a tasteful urn. How much bet
ter than the other thingY
When a husband returns homo
after long absence, and hears the
parrot shouting, kiss me, darling
as soon as his wife enters the room,
his interest in 'Enoch Arden natn-
rally begins to deepen.-Brooklyn
Argus.
A gentleman whose hair reaches
TO his shoulders, went into a saloon
yesterday. One of the lady watch
crs noticed him, and said: No mat
ter how long a mans hair may
grow, it don't destroy his appetite
for beer.'-Richmond Independent.
In its refnements, its elegancies,
its graces and adornments, is seen
the glory and perfection of life. 1t
is the highest honor TO be equal to
them and capable Of sustaining
them; and the greatest happiness 10
appreciate them properly and en-
joy them nationally.
The fool has an ancient sanction
Tor acquiring riches and rank by
inheritance, but that he should OBJ
tain them without this privilege of
birthright, and defraud the just
claims of talent and sagacity, is I'M
accountable, and makes merit blush,
and wisdom despair.
Gradations of feelings and senti-
ment are in general more natural
and habitual with women than with
men; while, with men, there are
positive and absolute love or ha-
tired, indifference or regard, all the
nicer shades or fluctuations of the
feelings and affections, in many ca
SEES belong to women.
The jewish Chronicle announces
that two members of the Hebrew
race have recently obtained high
distinction in the military examina-
ton at Woolwich. There are only
five Jews among the officers of the
British Army-Ono at Woolwich,
another in the Royal Engineers,
two in the artillery, and one in the
One Hundred and Fourth Fusi-
leers.
Abbotsford is now in possession
of Mary Monica Hope-Seott, great
granddaughter Of Sir Walter, thro'
that daughter Sophia, who married
Lockhart. She plainly must be
more Hope than Scott, since she
wishes TO shut up the place, and
keep it wholly TO herself. She is
but an unwilling custodian of this
shrine for pilgrims, and goes away
in disgust to Edinburgh, whenever
the travelling season begins.
A little child in Georgia recently
saved its foolish father frow sui
eide. Disguised with his poverty,
though no seems TO have bad good
health, Mr.. Meredith, of Cusseta,
loaded . double-barrelled shotgun
and put the muzzle TO his head
His child ran up rs he fired and
knocked tho weapon 10 one side
The n.a1's life was saved, and he
should 1.-Two and work, if only for
the sake of that little child
While in the East the past season
has been comparatively without
snow, in Oregon the snow storms
have been fearful. In Umatilla
county the snow fell almost contin-
uously from the LIST of December
until March 9, with occasional thaws
which dronched the grass, and rem
dered the condition of the cattle
deplorable. OF one band of sheep,
numbering 5000 head, 1000 died,
and nearly all the stock in that sec
ton is dead or dying. Yet it is
within short distance of the far
famed banana belt.
Mirrors are frequently spoiled by
being hung whore the sun will shine
upon them. 1t docs not seem TO
be generally understood that the
amalgam of tin-foil with mercury,
which is spread on glass plates TO
make mirrors, is readily crystalliz-
ed by solar rays, causing granu-
lated appearance in the looking
glass. Neither should mirrors be
hung near a stove or fireplace, or
too near a gas jet, as the heat will
often bring about the same injuri-
Gus capitalization.
The Paris correspondent of the
London Standard writes: There arc
people so mentally constituted that
the idea that they may possibly be |
buried alive preys upon their |
minds and makes them uncomfor. |
table. Those among your readers |
who may be subject to this infrmi-
ty will be glad TO hear that DR.. |
Bouchut, one of our leading practi-
TONERS here, has just got prize |
from the Academy of Medicine for |
the discovery of method to dis
tinguish real from apparent death. |
la his excellent weekly bulletin, in
France, DIR. Decaisne tells us what
the discovery is. When the tenn
perature of the body falls to 200
above zero in the centigrade scale
(6So FahrenheiD, death is certain.
DIR. Bouchut has devised a Their
mometer, which he calls necrome-
ter, so graduated that when placed
under the armpit of person sup
posed to be dead it marks zero;
then life has indeed departed be-