Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

Outs
How to turn peoples heads
Come into a concert late in thick
boots.
In England there arc now forty
two Protestant missions in cxis-
tencc where sixty years ago there
were none.
"a prudent man. says n witty
Frenchman, 'is like pin; his head
prevents him from going too far
Mon are said to be like bugles,
the more brass they contain, the
more noise they make and the
further you can hear them.
The saloon keepers of Chicago
have agreed to suspend the free
lunch system, and many good citi-
zcns will now have to go to work.
The United States Senate was
gallant enough to confirm Miss Ada
q. Sweet as Pension Agent at Chi
cage without the usual reference to
committee.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton
Railroad, 236 miles long, with AGO.
600 acres of land, is to be sold to
satisfy . suit entered by the first
mortgage bondholders.
Sir Samuel Bakers African ex-
petition cost the Khedive of Egypt
over 100000, while the results
were comparatively moagre, and his
Highness grumbles
@. B. Berthuman, a noted Ken
lucky desperate and a fugitive
from justice, was caught and killed
In his mountain recess a few DAYS
since by a party of officers attempt
ing his arrest.
According 70 a Brussels paper
the health of the Empress Carlotta,
widow of Macmillan, is excellent,
but there is no Improvement in her
mental condition. She lives in con-
slant fear of being poisoned.
The Paducah Kentuckian saws
that every farmer in Jackson's Pur-
chase, and every man owning an
acre of ground outside the city linn
its of incorporated towns and cities,
has Joined the Changers.
At a juvenile party, one little fell
low, rejoicing in the splcndor of his
new clothes, went up to another
with the triumphant remark: you
amt dressed as we'll as l am.'-
well, retorted the other, Il can
lick you anyhow
In some natures the lofties un-
selfshness is often stril1ingly man
Tested. There is a Brooklyn man
who keeps his family at a cheap
clearinghouse, in order to spare
the means for his mothor-in-law to
travel abroad.
1t is related that an Irishman
once visited New Hampshire, and |
after having inspected the numer-
Gus hills and mountain ranges, ex-
claimed: 'Bedad! l never was in
country before where they had so |
much land that they had to stack it, /
Our life is but winters day;
Some only breakfast and away;
Others to dinner stay, and are full fed.
The old man but sups and goes to bed.
Large is his debt that fingers out theday;
He that goes soonest has the least to pay.
The story is told of an old man
and his wife, living at Stone Noun
tain, Ga, both 81 years old, whose
cup of welded joy has run over re-
Gently by the addition of a pair Of
twins to thoir household gods.
A child was lately born in North
Carolina which has but one eve.
one car, one nostril, twelve fingers,
and twelve toes, and is neither male
nor female. 1t is from all appear
ances healthy child, although it
eats but little.
III twcnty-seven inches of snow
give three inches of water, how
much mill; will COW give fed up.
on turnips? Multiply the flakes by |
tho hair on the cows tail, then d. |
vide the product by turnip, add a |
pound of chalk, multiply the whole |
by the pump, and the total will be !
the answer.
Don't tell a child you will do any
thing for it unless you intend to
keep your promise. A strict OBJ
servanee of this rule may save you
the agony of seeing your child be-
ceme a liar. Ii you say 'I'll skin
you alive! go and skin it, though it
bring tears to your eyes.
A crossing sweeper was trying to
get gratuity from an exceedingly
dandified individual, who, in resist
ing, urged that he had no change,
nothing but twenty-dollar bill. |
Il can git it changed for YER said
the youngster. On seeing the dan
dy hesitate as if from fear of trust
ing him with a twenty-dollar bill,
he put in again, If yer doubts my
honor, hold my broom
An Episcopal revival is in pro
gress at the Ritulistic Church of the
Advent in Boston, where Father
Hall, of England, is preaching a Sc
ries of discourses to very large au-
diences. At the close of the Sab |
bath evening services the listeners
are requested to stop after the ben
ediction for further instruction.
and the meetings that follow are in |
effect what neutrality-suspicious. would |
call inquiry meetings'-a method |
which would hardly be expected of |
the Rltualist.
Did any one ever hear of or see q |