Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

Brigham Young has made his
: will, giving his friends ten children
apiece.
In this country there is one doc
tor to every 6lS of the population,
while in France and England there
is only one to every 1000.
The strokes of the pen need de-
! liberation as much as those of the
sword need swiftness. Julia Ward
Howe.
SANDER, whose edge is sharper
than the sword, whose tongue out
venoms all the worms Of the Nile.
Shakespeare.
Nothing does so much honor to a
woman as her patience, and moth
ing so little as the patience of her
husband.-Joubert.
Perseverance Is Roman virtue
that wins each godlike act and
plucks success even from the spear
proof crest of rugged Danger
Howard.
Providence has hidden a charm
in difficult undertakings, which is
appreciated only by those who dare
to grapple with them.-Mme. SWEET
chine.
Applause waits on success; the
tickle multitude, like the straw that
floats along the stream, glide with
tho currents still and follow for
tune.-Franklin.
The farmers are beginning to
shun st. Louis. Babies OF I'M
known parentage are left in their
wagons while they are in the stores
beating down the middle men.
A California man tied one end of
a rope around his waist and lasso-
ed a COW with the other. He tho't
he had the COW, but at the end OF
the first half mile he began to sus-
peet that the COW had him.
In Germany, when the vote OF
the jury stands six against six, the
prisoner is acquitted. A vote OF
seven against five leaves the decis-
ion to the court, and by vote OF
eight against four the prisoner is
convicted.
An exchange gives this house
hold picture of the 'crematOry age:'
%, ma! maj Johnney's got the urn,
and is splitting pas ashes over the
foorP ooh! what q naughty John.
ny. Get the feather duster, and
sweep your poor father right upl'
A prominent religious exchange
recently appeared with a leading
editorial entitled, Our hope is in
Heaven. On the following Sab
bath the editor was observed steal
thily lodging through back lanes
with a fshing-rod on his shoulder.
brooklyn Argus.
An Ottumwa Qowa) paper says:
During tho wind storm the other
day Richard Warden, of the Cou-
rier, lost his hat, which went whirl-
ing into space, or rather into a mud
hole. Richard, however, was equal
to the occasion. He simply cross
ed his ears over his head and bid
defiance to the storm
A recent letter says: 'They ap-
pear to have solved the problem OF
paupers at Pompeii by SIMPLY not
allowing the existence of any at all.
In the portion excavated there is
positively no poor mans house,
There are large and small abodes,
but all show a moro or less obvi-
GUS elegance and wealth.
A few days ago a rural couple
drove into an Indiana city just rs
the village undertaken was moving
his stock of collins into an old
church he had rented. For a few
minutes tho old man looked at the
transfer of the collins to the church,
and then, turning to his wife, ex-
claimed: 'Sary, by golly, its chOle-
IA! Let's gitl
Chief Justice Chase, who admin
istered the oath of Office to Lincoln
in 1865, to Johnson soon after, and
twice to Grant, made a practice of
sending to the wife of the President
the Bible on which the oath was
taken, marking the passage therein
pressed by the Presidents lips
Andrew johnson, We are told, kiss
ed 2lst verse of the 18th chapter OF
Ezekiel, and Grant in 80 the l2lst
Psalm.
Think before you speak, what
you shall speak, why you should
speak, TO whom you shall speak,
about whom you are to speak, what
will como from what you may
speak, what may be the benefit
from what you may speak, and
lastly, who may be listening TO
what you may speak. Turn your
speech seven ways, and there will
never come any harm from what
you have spoken.
Pestered with contributions in
verse from o persistent rhymster,
till his patience gave out, an Amer
lean editor wrote to his corrcspon-
dent thus: If you don't stop send.
ing mo your sloppy poetry I'll print
piece of it some day, with your
uame appended in full, and send a
copy to Your sweetheart's father.
The poetical fountain was sponta.
neously dried up.
Alphonse Karr writes in the FL
caro-: France is in greater danger
now than she was at the epoch OF
the Prussian INVASION I'VE see a.
round US only greed and appetites;
there is no longer any question of
duty France is a country-it is
no longer a fatherland.' COR rath-
er, it is a gambling table on which
men play with loaded dice and
marked cards. There are people
who inhabit France-there are no
longer any Frenchmen.'
Ye men of gloom and austerity,
who paint the face OF Infinite Be-
nevolenee with an eternal froWn,
read IN the everlasting book, wide
open to your view, the lesson it
would teach. Its pictures are not
in black and sombre hues, but
bright and glowing tints; its music
save when ye drown it, is not in
signs and groans, but songs and
cheerful sounds. Listen to the
million voices in the summer air,
and find one dismal as your own
Dickens.