The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-11-04
ODDS AND ENDS.

lie is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper; but he is more excel>
lent who can suit his temper to any
circumstances
You can get q dinner, with baths
ing suit thrown in" for sixty cents at
Atlantic city, But who wants bath
ing suit thrown into his dinner?
He that waits for repentance waits
Tor that which cannot be had as long as
it is waited for. it's absurd for man
to wait for that which he himself has to
do
Blonde hair is coming to the front
again rs the most fashionable color
Ladies who gave their blonde switches
to the grasshopper sufferers will soon
regret their generosity.
When Senior Mata gets back to Mex
leo, the United States will soon learn
what the M.ats is. He has gone home
mad, and 1t is now quite likely that
there will be lively times on the bor-
der before long.
The most polite, because the most
effectual, way of governing in family
is for the husband occasionally to lay
aside his supremacy; so in public as
we'll as in private life that king wll- be
most popular who does not at all times
exercise his full prerogative.
Shreveport Times: When you see
young married man scrutinizing baby
Carriages with calm and thoughtful
eye, as we did yesterday at one of the
principal stores where such articles
are Kept, you may reasonably infer
that the matrimonial sky is bright,
serene and little sonny
The Philadelphia Times puts It thus:
Senator Simon to Pennsylvania rep.
resentatives in the legislatures: "This
is my son, Don; you will elect him to
the senate" Senator Don to the Penn
sylvania representatives. in congress
"Ehis Is my father, Simon; you will
preset him to be minister to Eng
land.n
st. Louis Times: Zach Chandler
says that If he had a boy to day he
would rather have him go to work |
upon an eightySacre farm than into the |
best Political office that could oe found.
What pity 1t is for his reputation
that old Zach himself didn't have q
father to give him the same advice.
1t would appear that there is great |
sympathy between the mind of man and
falsehood when we have atruth to tell,
it takes better il conveyed in a fable
and the rage for novels shows that we
may not only divert extremely without
a syllable of truth, but truth is even
compelled to borrow the habit of false>
hood to secure itself an agreeable recep
ton.
Large numbers OF colored voters
helped to swell the great democratic
majority In Baltimore, last Wednes
day. The Gazette notes that as ia
hopeful sign for the future NJ the col
ored race. IL shows that they are be-
ginning to think for themselves and
are no longer to be played upon by
paltry promises or by threats of the
evils that will befall them under demo-
cratic supremacy.
Lieutenant Flipper, late colored Ca
Diet at the West Point academy and
now attached to the Tenth Cavalry,
denies most emphatically, 10 letter
to the Charleston News, that be has
any intention Of resigning his present
position 10 accept the chief command
Of the Liberian army. IL has been 80
stated, but is all mistake. Flipper
knows a good thing when he has got
it, and wisely proposes to hold on to 1t.
Among the tender, metrical obitus
aries found 10 the Baltimore Sus, Mr..
q. w. Childs' only rival, is the follow.
ing: 90 EF
farewell, dear wife, am a. rest,
Aud shall forever be;
could not stay with you on earth,
But you can come 10 me-"
No doubt this poetry was intended
TO express the most afiectioBate re-
gard. but 1t suggests the old epltaph,
nBeneaih this sione my wife doth lie,
Che Is at rest, and 40 am J"
Another beautiful verse In the Sun
commences, Tile faded as the rosy
flusb.n suggesting such continuation
ne before the calm ace bigh," and
such conclusion as "Gone 70 grasp 0
poker In the promised land"