Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-25
AIIsCELLANEOUs.

live and die, and only die foryou.
or late such eyes looked a. melville Z
Al sunset, underneath shadowy plane.
In cid Eayona- nigh the southern sea-
Prem n Ealf-open lattice looked At me
And daEzlcd 70 the heart with glorious pain.
-A5rod Tellaison.
A merry wife Of Dayton, Nov,
aged hfty, has eloped with Lotha-
rio of fifteen, and the Injured hus-
band vows that il be catches the
destroyer Of his happiness he'll
spank him.
San Jose, Cal, is going to got up
Temperance ticket for its charter
election if enough sober candidates
can be found for all the offices.
Salem, Or, has imported fresh
lot OF smallpox from California,
which it is willing to dispose of at
a sacrifice. Tho invoice is said 10
be very taking.
A small Brooklyn boy proposes
to call council for the purpose of
considering whether it ia advisable
to drop his papa from the list Of
his friends.
The first public hospital sgas
found in Rome in the fourth centu-
ry by lady named Fabiola, as an
act Of penancc.
An Irishmau, speaking Of suicide,
said the only way to stop il was to
make it capital offehse, punisha-
bic with death.
An Illinoisan wrote to Horace
Greeley several times, asking him
what was good for catarrh, and f.
nally Horace got out of patience
and replied: Chop your id head
of"
Bobbs complains that his wife is
an inhatiOnist. She blows him up
every day, and makes him circulate
until he actually feels that dc is be-
yond rodemption.-Louisvillc Con-
mercial.
If a naughty girl should hurt
you, like good girl you would for
give her, wouldn't your 'Yes,
marm,' she replied, If l couldn't
catch her
A fuli-grown mouse, bottled in u
four-ounce vial, is a curiosity I'll
Lafayette, lad. The mouse is sup
posed TO have crawled IN when
quite small and was unable 10 get
out again. Probably the mouse
has name. If not call It Butler.
They have a statesman in Iowa
of the Tweed school, the chairman
of the board Of supervisors Of Jack
son county, who according to the
State Register, with seventy-soven
charges for malefcasanee 10 Office
hanging over him, continues 10
preside with dignity aud ease
First he is a trilie sprang; then
drunk as fool; then drunk as
boiled owl, and by this time he is
halfscas over, and things begin TO
double up. From this point on the
descent is rapid. He grows drunk
as blazes; then drunk as Q fiddler
then full as atick; then blind drunk;
then drunk as a lord; and finally
dead drunk, in which condition he
is oblivious TO currency imitation,
questions of theology, or what
o'clock it is
Au eccentric senius has sent in a
petition 10 the French national as
sembly asking for the passage Of q
law providing that every new born
child shall have its name and the
date of its birth tattooed on its
arm. Tho object is 10 facilitate
Identification. The sehoOl-teach-
ers are 10 perform the operation,
and parents neglecting 70 have the
childen thus tattoOed are to be pun
ished by heavy fne.
In Maryville, Cal, tho other day,
a Newfoundland dog walked into
market, dropped ten cent piece
out of his mouth, and walked of
with a whole salmon. Tho butch
err says some folks may call the dog
intelligent, but he thinks that a dog
that can't distinguish between a ten
cent slice and five dollar fish, has
not got even common sense.
A distinguished French physician
suggests that the annoyance Of hir-
ing wet nurses may be happily OBJ
waited by making infants take their
nourishment direct from a COW,
without the intervention of a bot
tie. The triiling Inconvenience Of
keeping a COW In the nursery, espo-
cially If ono has an apartment on
the fourth floor, is, Of course, scarce
ly worthy Of mention.-New York
World.
a welLdressed, matronly-loOking
lady walked into a saloon in Oswe-
90 the other day, laid her muf on
tho counter and took out pair OF
spectacles, when the bartender
promptly informed her that no Bi.
ble.readisg would be 10 ordor there.
Reaching down into her dress pock-
ct, the woman produced a fat bot
tie and cooliy called for pint of
whisky. She doesn't know yet what
that bartender was alarmed about.
The New York papers think
there ought TO be some sort of har-
mony between the live mans house
and the dead mans funeral. The
other day there was magnificent
funeral from a shanty in the out
skirts, which bore the sign Cider
Sold Here The man who was in
the splendidly mounted coffin and
plumed hearse, followed by thirty
shining and satin-lined carriages,
had been q railroad maker, whose
tools arc the shovel and pick-axc.
The man was doubtless a very good
man, and made q good corpse, but
the house in which he lived could
not have cost over $500, and his iu-
neral could not have cost lees than
5000. There's a queer dispropor-
tion here.
Chickory, which has to overcome
some strong prejudiees before il
can take the place Of coffee, has
been reinforced for the struggle by
chemical analysis, which tells Us
that the per centage Of nutritious
substance in chicory is more than
twice as great as that Of coffee. 1t
is largely used by the poor people
of Europe, and has found its way
into hospitals on account of It's su-
perior nutritious qualities, and q to-
tai absence of nervous stimulating