Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-25
III SORTS.

a bad bin that passed-Bili Tweed.
Bishop Haven as Bragadior in the
third term army looks well.
A Western female lectures on ..The
Old Boy
Martha warhington, of Paris, Ky,
takes in washing.
Oldtown, Mason county, W v, claims
10 have goose 10 years old.
\ Moulton, To-, bachelerof l0f has just
married blooming young widow Of SO.
Two young tarkies set their daddy on
hot stove to cure him Of rheumatism.
A New YorI; journal figures out that it
takes $4,000 to rig out a fashionable fe-
male.
a Detroit woman could think of but
twenty-nile different Ingredients 10 put
into a mince lie, and she wept at the
idea Of losing her powers Of memory
At one Of tho colorcd A. II. +. church.
es in Columbus, Ca, the other night,
woman screamed, Glory! lse jest like
soda water! lse b'ilin' oveFt''
Brigham Yolng has purchased himself
monument, and We learn from The Inter
Ocean thar he has led All Over Il IN the
most modern fashion.
A French paper describes young lady
as one who kisses her gentlemen friends
until she is six years old, and then leaves
of until she is sixteen.
'sWell, III divorce you this time; but
mind, not another decree shall you have
from this court till you are eighteen
said a stern judge out west, as he granted
divorce TO a petitioner Of sixteen.
There is a married woman with four
] L.
have two Of them sawed OF, her husband
/ is obliged 10 work sixteen hours day in
order to keep ler In striped stockings.
A pious Holly father entered saloon
with a horsewlip, one night last week,
and found his son playing euchre. He
4 tanned the young mans jacket, sent him
home, and then sat down and finished
| the game himself.
/ Belle Boyd, who labored as a spy dur
! ing the war, lectured to an audience Of
/ fifteen persons in Charleston tho other
night. 1t IS true that Belle is somewhat
venerable and homely; but should that
/ interfere with the invited gush of a CRATE
ful peoples
Mrs. Henry" said John to his wife,
the other morning, ''if you give me a
Christmas present this year, please ar-
! range IL so tha. the bill won I come in iii
the next month. It's just as well TO keep
mp the illusion for short time"
You can STOP. clock At any moment,
but you cannot stop watch. 80 IL is
with the talk Of men and women. Man
is 4 great, ugly, coarse machine, aAd you
can silence him. Woman is u beautiful,
fragile jewelel thing-but she viii run
on until she stops of herself.
An exchange wants somebody TO in
vent a new dance for the girls Yes,
do, Get up one where the young ladies
dance around the house helping the old
| lady to get breakfast, wash the dishes,
and sling dirty shirts In a wash-tub. DO,
see how the girls won't-danee worth
cent.
Susan Denim being dead, il may now he
| assumed that the rising generation is COM
paratively safe. Kate and She were very
pretty and very naughty. and were new
e. 50 happy as when they had new af-
/ fair. They were, accordingly, at their
happiest most Of the time.
An old preacher, who had several calls
TO take parish, asked his servant where
! he should 20, and the servant said: go
/ where there is the most sin, sir The
/ preacher concluded that was good advice.
and went where there was most money.
1t is stunning blow to the doctrine of
| foreordinatiOn-the statement that if
! buck-wheat cakes had been foreseen from
the beginning the human arm and hand
would have been so formed that man could
easily scratch his own back between the
shOulder-bi AIDES.
A gentleman once called on the late
/ Mr.. Astor TO solicit donation for char
liable purpose. lie gave s.. 'Why, Mr..
AstOr,' said the solicitor, chow is it you
give so little: You son, JnO. Jacob, gave
US $780," 'Well, f" replied the OF man,
He can afford It.. He has rig' father
and | haven't