The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-18
FACTS \ FANCIEs.

A four-in-band is worth two in the
stall.
The man who opens a bundle eIer.
cises an undo influence on it.
The good student keeps shady, but
always avoids school places in hot
weather.
We see what a man has, and envy
him; il We Jaw how little he enjoyed,
we should pity him.
'Sprat' and Herring are the names
by which the Prince Of Wales sons are
known by their messmates.
A dead snake can be brought TO life
with q pint Of whisky. You drink the
whisEy and then look at the snake.
They fred two shots at him. wrote
an Irish reporter; the first shot killed
him, but the second shot wal not fatal
The two daughters Of the late Gen.
r. Z. Lee, Misses Mary and Mildred,
are spending their summer in Norway.
A certain dissatisfied wife states that
her husband is such a ~blunderer that he
can't wen try a new boot without put
ting his foot into IT,
The New Haven Register wants
everybody to give three cheers and
three cheers more for the boy who can
not whistle the Pinafore.'
DO you think asked Mrs. Pepper,
that a temper is a bad thing in a wo-
manP' Certainly not, ma'am,' replied
a gallant philosopher. 1T is a good
thing, and she ought never 10 lose it,
Ma said a little girl. do men want
TO get married as much as women do2'
'Pshawl what are you talking aboutP'
why, ma, the ladies who come here are
always talking about getting married;
the men don't
Annoyed residents Of Brooklyn, NY,
complained to the city authorities Of a
neighbor who nightly sits by an open
window and practices on a cornet, flute,
violin and banjo-which instruments he
is endeavoring to learn TO play.
A certain young lady who was a little
behind in summer outfit surprised her
parents the other day by asking why
she was unlike George Washington
When they gave it up she told them be.
cause she had no little hat-yet.
Give not thy tongue too great a liber-
ty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word
unspoken is like a sword in a scabbard,
thine;if vented, thy sword is in another's
hands. II thou desire TO be held wise,
be SO wise as TO hold thy tongue.
A rural editor writes: Thou should
not delude myself with the thought that
thou hast saved a few cents when thou
hast secured a dead head copy of his
paper, for whilst the printer may smile
and say it's all right, he'll never forget
thy meannesa.
The artist who engraved the goddess
of liberty head for the last silver dollar,
took the profile of Miss Annie w. Viii
liams of Philadelphia as his model, and
the contour of that young lady's face
will be handed down to posterity as the
ideal American face,
In Central Africa a large number Of
Jewish negroes have been discovered.
Nearly every family possesses the law
of Moses on parchment. They trace
their origin to the first captivity, when
some of the Hebrews fled to the desert,
and intermarried with the natives.
Joaquin Miller says: If you were to
take a newspaper in your hand and
crumple it up, and then spread it out
again, the creases in it might fairly
represent the streets and lanes and al.
leys of London, so angular, 60 awkward
and irregular is this, the greatest of all
cities of the earth.
A Harrisburg soldier lost his hearing
during n of the engagements Of the
civil war. A few evenings ago he went
into the river to battle, and while thrust
ing his head under the surface of the
water he thought heheard q loud report.
Instantly raising his head he was aston
ished to find that his hearing had been
restored.
The correspondent Of a metropolitan
paper complains of the coarseness Of
the majority Of the visitors Of Saratoga.
He says: OF course, there are people Of
refinement, not a few among the sum-
mer visitors to Saratoga; but they are
lost in the coarse MASS, Vulgarity has
full sway; coarse ostentation faunts it.
self everywhere. One stands amazed
at the material of which the mass is
made up.
Harry Bourne and Joseph Ingraham,
boys Of sixteen and seventeen, son Of
respectable parents, living in Westfeld,
N. j., have deserted their homes to fly
to the prairies, carried away by reading
trashy stories of border romance. They
are we'll supplied with money, having
by their W exertions earned about
two hundred dollars. Since their de-
parture it has been asoertained that they
carried with them q large trunk contain
ing extra clothing, n hundred pounds
of shot, a key Of powder and several
rifles and revolvers. It is supposed
they have gone direct to Leadville.
A Florida nan has a good word for
the mosquitoes in that State, saying a
novel feature of the cattle trade is the
cooperation of the mosquito in their
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