The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1875-01-14
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Great works are performed more
through perseverance than strength.
What was never seen-Tbe impression
of kiss made oy typo on his girPs lips.
Young folks grow most when in love
1t increases their signs wonderfully.
Mr.. Griswold has sold the bull, eth
Duke of Oneida, to A. j. Alexander of
Kentucky, for 10000.
The dog tax in Massachusetts, is 81
per male and 50 dollars for a female.
The dog tax goes to the sheep fund.
PericIcs is dead. He was a Partisan
rhinoceros. Butler will soon be the last
representative Of the species.
By an Irishman. Why is a storm,
when its clearing up, like castigation?
Sure an amt it batting?
The man who three years ago married
aNewport belle says he begins to realize
that thing of beauty is jaw forever.
Says Miss Kellogg: GA young girl
in her training to become singer must
make covenant with her eyes, and not
look upon a man"
The first Agricultural Society estab
Iished i'm the United States was the
''South Carolina Agricultural Society"
organized in 1884
They have n new test for intoxication
over in Canada When a man can pro-
nounce "reciprocity" without tripping,
the police let him 60
There is Connecticut widower who
declares that nothing reminds him of his
poor, dear wife so much as to live within
earshot of awmill.
Now that Dio Lewis threatens to live
two weeks on Hubbard squash, advo
Gates Of intempcrance effect to see no rea-
son why he should live at all.
A steer was recently slaughtered in
Detroit which weighed, after being dress
ed, 3.OC0 pounds. It's live weight was
4,110 pounds-said to be the heaviest
weight ever reached in America.
A young lady in Cambriaborugh, tired
Of "goiug it alone" has married John
Rightbower. 1t is altogether probable she
will "order him up on winter mornings.
Miners Journal.
On retiring from business a wise old
man said to his son and successor: 'Now,
my boy, remember that common sense is
the best thing YOU can bring to bear on
every sfair of life except love making"
A Williamsburg man woke his wife
the other night, and in a startled tone of
voice, informed her that he had swallowed
dose of strychnine. well, you fool, >"
said she, "lie still, or it may come up"
An exchange, edited by an old hache-
lor says: "Man becomes a sort of eleva-
ted slave or servant to woman when he
marries" Probably that's why the place
Of sacrifice is called the highmenial altar
A country girl coming from a morning
walk was told that she looked as fresh as
daisy kissed " the dew. to which she
innocently replied You've got my
name right, Daisy; but his isn't
Dew"
The Georgia negro has no more faith in
banks He laws his money out in store
clothes and hair oil, and the news Of
bank suspension causes him to exclaim
Bust away wild We, but you can't hurt
desc Iavendar pants"
The report going the rounds of The
press that EXPre>idcnt Davis Is i'll, has
no foundation in fact, He is in as good
health now Il at any time for several
years, and appears on the streets of
Memphis almost daily.
Mary Bradys experiment proved a
"dead" failure. In getting up rather
late the other morning, she utilized the
coal oil-can to expedite breakfast, but
she was instantly cremated aud exited
out of life. Poor thing! but then she
had nice funeral.
A certain Jealous but ignorant negro
preacher, in eXpounding 20 his flock rs 10
the astonishing nature OF miracles, get
little confused in the matter. lie said
MY beloved friends, the greatest Of all
miracles was bout the loaves aud fishes.
Dere was 5000 loaves and :, 600 fishes,
an dc twelve 'postles had tn eat dem all,
and dc miracle is dey dii'nt bust"
Gen. John c. Breckinridge, who was
thought at one time to be hopelessly III,
is now 80 far improved that his friends are
hopeful of his permanent recovery. His
physicians are reported to have pro
nounced his pulmonary symptoms mere
ly sympathetic, and he now seems, in a