The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-28
A C AMI FANCIEs.
Defer not charities till death.

A bird in the hand is better than {
nightingale of Cape Hatteras.
Let the play be ever so mirthtul, the
alter audiences are generally found in
tiers.
Sherman, Tex, is supplied with ex-
cellent ice by its factory at n cent 9
pound.
The hot weather is very facilitating.
Even picnic lemonade is growing weaker
and weaker.
Find out what men laugh at, and you
know exactly how refined and intelli'
gent they are.
Better bare feet and c~ontentmeni
Herewith than patent leather boots and
a corn on each toe.
A Nevada mule was killed and care
fully dissected because he had swallowed
ten twenty-dollar bills.
1t is very extraordinary, but it is new.
ertheless quite true, that it was the first
pair that ate the first apple.
BE on good terms with your own soul,
and treat your body with all the respect
and reverence tina. are due the temple
Of the soul.
Every school boy in this country will
see a terrible warning in the fact that a
San Francisco schoolmaster dropped
dead while Furnishing a pupil.
Rowing lamb (6aok again in the
fold. 'Three clochsh Nonshensh, m
dear Positive heard clocksh strike
one clocks three times as passed corner
streetshp
Have the people who are continually
signing petitions to do away with capt.
tai punishment ever thought of address.
ing an appeal to murderers to cease
killing their fellow beings2
Mrs. Cunningham, who was a promi.
nent figure in the surroundings of the
DIR. Burdell murder in New York years
ago, is now residing in a finely.appointed
house in West Haven, Conn.
In Germany betrothed persons ex.
change rings, and both the man and the
girl go about wearing their betrothal
ring. This stamps them as both out oil
the market and prevents mistakes.
On the return Of a couple to Sims.
bury, CONF, from their wedding tour,
a party Of girls met them at the train,
put them into a carriage, took hold OF
the shafts and drew them to their new
home.
Some lives, like flowers, n fair, but
not fragrant. We love to look at them,
but do not care to hold them. Others,
then, are sweet, gladdening, but with
less Of outward perfection; yet we would
have them near us always.
The clergyman in a certain town, as
the custom is, having published the
banns of matrimony between two per-
sons, was followed by the clerks read
ing the hymn beginning with these
words: Deluded souls, that dream OF
heaven
Old Mrs. Cuir says she has always no
ticed that in the summer time when it is
not needed, the sun is always as hot Ms
an oven, while in the winter, when q
warm sun would be very agreeable, it is
as cold az an ice house. We have no.
ticed this, too. II must be the fault of
the almanac makers. III.
While Philip Swing was being mar
ried in the Camden, N. J., jail, in the
presence of the keeper, three of his fell
low convicts were removing the bars
from q window, SO that when the official
returned from escorting the bride out of
the building, he found his prisoners
had escaped. Swing was subsequently
caught.
A quaint writer says: Il have seen wo-
m en- 30 delicate that they were afraid to
ride a horse for fear of the horse run.
ming away; afraid to sail, for fear the
boat might upset; afraid to walk, for
fear they might fall; but I bsve never
seen N afraid to be married, which is
far more riskful than all the others put
together
An old farmer, intent on making his
will, was asked by the lawyer the name
of his wife, when he gravely replied:
well, indeed, ] really don't recoIlect
what it is; we've been married for up
ward Of forty years, and I've always
called her my old woman The lawyer
left a blank, to be filled up when his old
woman's name was ascertained.
An eccentric brother at an evangelical
camp meeting near Bucyrus, Ohio, the
other day, prayed that there might be a
death in each family in the town that
did not belong to his own sanctified
sect. Thereupon some of the young
men tore down the tent and treated the
eccentric individual very roughly. The
local paper mildly insinuates that such
proceedings are not Of great service to
the cause of religion.
A good colored man once said, in a
class.meeting: Brethren, when / was a
boy, Itook a Ratchet and went into de
woods. When / found a tree dat was
straight, big and solid, 1 didn't touch
dat tree; but when l found one leaning
a little and hollow inside, I soon had
him down. So when the debbil goes
after Christians, he don't touch dem dat
stand straight and true; but dem dat
lean a little and are hollow inside