Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-13

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IIehborne has erysiI'si.s.
Barney Williams lei -e-sllilIIoa.
Boyton has started ro1Ei is world
Judge David Davis weigiss pounds.
Bristow smokes more cigars than Gen.
Grant
The son Of the shah viii sumHler in
Paris. r
W. J. Florenee's ProReF name Is Co
man IA. rfs - fris
Judge David Davis was born IN Mary
land
ofenbacll win receive 81 ,aae . perform
anee- ~ ~
The Khcdive Of Egypt Is -, and has
four wives 49, -s
Robert Lincoln has been elected town
supervisor 1f 81 fs1ll.ies
Roseoe Genklins is noratie seymour
brother-in-law.-
DE. Russell, b R.-~lt.1lE Runner-is
not going to Philadelphia
Vanderbilt has no liberiy-; his feet are
imprisoned IN rallro@d sipcks-
BrigloE is getting hetfer u slsenid
" ea Qialned that he has been sick.
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busy editor, aud the eelitGr says, "6Iad
to see you're back, !" what does he meaug
The individual vino was accidentally
/ injured by the discharge of his duty Is
still very low.
A man has eye-dentiiied himself with
a lamp post by running against one and
injuring his sight.
Prof. Tartlock. OF PittsheId, owns a
book printed four hundred and two years
ago.
Dom Piatt is not Christian, aud has
no treasures laid uD where moths do not
corrupt.
Dom Pedro has always lived near the
equator. But his eonduct in this cOun-
try is rather cool notwithstanding.
Tommy shearman, the Chicago Times
says. has gone on the stage. Back seats
will command heavy premium now.
An exchange speaks OF woman so
cross eyed that when she weeps, tears
from her left eye drop on her right
cheek.
A Chicago lady, whose lord aud mas
ter ildulges rather freely in toe convivi-
al glass, says he is kind but indulgent
husband.
a sharp Englishman has written "a
treatise on razors." BY the way we have
never seen a razor with a treatise writ
ten on it.-Vicksburg Herald.
''How one thing brings up another."
said lady, absorbed in pleasing retro
spectiOn. YES" replied the practical
Dobbs, ''an emetie, for instance"
Daniel Webster will have share ia
the Centennial--a plowshare, at any
rate, which he used to own viii be ex-
hibited there.
And now President MacMahon thinks
his salary is too small. How long since
Frenchmen took 20 adopting American
fashionsy
Mr.. Babbage-nlOre generally known
as the phat bOy-Ought 10 study strategy.
Why doesn't he carry some of it on his
shoulaerss
Sims Reeves says spslling-bees are an
amusement for idiots. He ought 20 con-
slider, however, that everybody can't
spell by note, as he can.
Says country editor: 'sWho drinks
all the whiskey made in the United States
is what staggers us." 1t Is enough TO
stagger anybody.
JAS. 4. Fields says Col. BristOw is
man Of the John A. Andrew stamp, and
when Bostonian says that he means u
large amount Of business.
Frank MoultOn continues to shake his
clenched hand under Brother Beecher's
nose, and the latter has been heard TO say
that it's pretty early for fy-time.
wants 70 be an angel; but it IS generally
supposed he refers mostly to the prairie
hen.
An English lords oldest son, aged %,
has just gone into bankruptcy with
debts stated at f2,65l. against assets OF
60, Os, Od.
Mr.. Hen was prominent at a recent po-
litical conYenti )n ia Illinois, ard greatly
assisted in laying resolutions on the Ia
BILE.
Tom Thumb is going 70 Texas TO live,
and the Chicago Times thinks that some
day we shall hear of Tom being waylaid
and abducted by Texas grasshopper.
The residence of Leland Stanford, the
! president Of the Central Pacific railroad.
at San Francisco, cost 8, ,O00, 600; yet the
railroad is not making any money
Now they say the report Of that show
/ er of flies in Canada is true enough IL you
| knock the t@f" OF Of flies. They often
have such showers in Wellington
Vicksburg Herald.
Wanted, at this office, about four bush
| els of poems on 'fSpring." Our Office
boy, who sells the waste paper, wants 10
raise money 70 90 70 the Centennial OPEN
! ing.-Vicksburg Herald.
Letters directed to Horace Greeley are
still received frequently at the Tribune
office. They may reach him eventually
by way of the dead-letter Office, however.
Buffalo Express.
A printer out West, whose Office is two
miles from any other building, and who
hangs his sign on the limb OF tree, ad-
vertises for boy. He says, ga boy from
the country preferred
A musician in EIkhart adyertises 70
give instructions in music s'from first
principles 10 throughbOre." An inter-
view betFza the teacher and proof-read-
er has PROBABLY taken place ere this
''Biddy, what's the mean temperature
Of Summer weather in Ireland ?'' said a
cockney to a young Irish lass. Name,
sir! There's nothing name about Ireland
bad luck to yees for dirty spalpeen!"
A sylIogism.-Every Union printer is
'down on a rat. The scriptures stutter-
ingly affirm that Noah was down on A
ra-rat. Therefore, Noah was Union
printer.
For the first time In his life Brigham
Young has discovered a weakness In po-
lygamy. The other day thirteen Of his
wives gave each a different version Of the
same event, of which each had been an
eyewitness.
A high-toned New York woman won't
button her own CATERS, because its low
business. But she might elevate il con-
siderably by putting her foot on the man.
tie piece when she buttons her Shoe
Vicksburg Herald.
An Iowa woman has a kettle cast I'm
1853. Bnt unless that kettle was once
tied to the tail of George Washington's
dog, it doesn't possess enough historical
interest to be sent 70 the Centennial
Vicksburg Herald.
A Wisconsin editor illustrates the pre-
vailing extravaganza OF the people Of the
present day by calling attention to the
costly baby carriages in use now, while,
when he was baby, they hauled him a
round by the hair of the head
"Sappho was about the first woman
who struck Tyre. There may have been
other women as abiAa.ts herself, but the
Tyres were scarce" Sappho could have
struck heap of them in Congress as
sembled.-Cin. Saturday Night.
The New York Sun knows Of a general
in the army who hasn't been clear Of
debt for thirty-seven years. A Detroit
butcher says he knows of lots of men