The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-12-11
FACTS AND PANCIRs.
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1--we 10 sheet hhu so Is sugar, but
sometimes there is a good deal Of grit in
both.
ne governor Of Arizona offers $500
obbsy person who shall kill a highway
.rIo"i none as the young
clined to hiTt.
II is not what q mau OF
him down. 1t is what is oRiBg and he
can't get that floors him.
During O terrific wind storm at Mount
Washington, n. H., the wind attained
a velocity OF 1872 miles an hour.
Says the New Haven Register: If
rain doesn't come pretty soon, milk will
have to be sold by dry measure
Mr.. Edmund Lyon, Of Rochester,
N. Y, has just contributed $4,000 TO
the Presbyterian home missions.
Madam Christine Nilsson, for singing
twelve times during the wedding festiv'
tiles OF King Alfonso, is TO receive Sl9,-
900.
A man bates TO own up that lie isn't
as smart rs a hen, hut he's got TO allow
that a hen can sit on an egg and not get
mad.
When an honest hen is Staying the foun-
dation for a family and doing oil the
hard work, some absurd rooster is ready
to do the growing.
Grandma-'Yes, children, when l was
young as you are l used to walk in my
sleep Tommy, (eagerly)--'Say, grand
ma, what time did you maker
Love is sentiment-marriage is bust
ness, says the Boston Transcript, and
every employee OF the cradle factory is
willing TO back it up in any assertion.
There are now 40,S55 ~postofices in
the United States, an increase Of 1897
within the past year. There are over
100, 600 persons connected with the pos
tai service.
Colonel Robert IDgersoll's bible lies
on the center table in his parlor. In it,
at the appropriate place, are leaves for
the family record, and on the in
raised gilt letters is the inscription
This is an inspired book The volume
is q copy of Shakespeare,
Mr.. Moody remarked in Cleveland,
Ohio, last Sunday evening If the queen
of England or ex-President Grant or
President Hayes should die, | suppose
it would make quite a commotion in the
nation. I don't know that it would be
noticed in Heaven
A clever English teacher has origin
ated the idea of shopping classes, i'll
which girls might be taught how to buy
dress aud Housekeeping goods. If sew
ing be a woman's business, so is shop
ping; and why should not one be taught
as wellsas the othor
Miss Florence lincoln, n of the 30
ciety bellies Of Cincinnati, took the vail
in a Catholic convent in that city. She
was arrayed in an elegant bridal dress
made by q famous Partisan dressmnker,
which, after the ceremony, was laid
aside for the simple habit of a nun.
Tray to boggin is the new rainy day
country house pastime in England
You take q substantial large wooden tray
to the top of o flight Of stairs, sit in
it, hold. on we'll to the sides, and let
yourself go. If you manage well, you
slide right down; if you don't, you twist
and are tumbled over. Ladies' are said
to do it best.
Madame Annette Essipoff is about to-
be married to her early master and ad-
wiser. the pianist composer, Leschetit-
sky. II she thinks, after having forced
us to wrestle with the correct pronun.
citation Of Essipoff, she can come I'VE
here as Madame Lesohetitsky, it's time
for her TO understand that no woman will
be allowed TO work that racket twice.
She'll be called Mcguire for short.
A congregation; anxious to get rid of
their pastor, we're considerably perplexed
how to do it without hurting his feelings.
After considerable discussion they o II
cluded to inform him they we're obliged
to reduce his salary. A delegation was
appointed to wait on him and notify him
of the fact. Brethren, was his reply,
Il have been with you in prosperity and
l will never desert you in adversely
A blind man got the better Of cavaliers
lately in Connecticut. They challenged
his vote upon the ground that he could
not read the constitution of the United
States. But he had been n pupil in a
blind asylum, ana had, among other
books, a copy of the constitution in rails
cd letters, This he brought to the polls,
and read from it aloud by the use Of his
fingers, and his vote was, of course, re-
ceived.
Small girl, very harshly, to a doll in q
toy carriage, dolly having tumbled from
the seat-'Sit right up, you horried old
thingl Don't you. dare to do that again,
or I'll whip you Seeing a passer, who
had approached uuobserved, she modi-
fed her voice and continued in dulcet
tones, Now, sit up straight, and be
careful not to fall and hurt yourself.
Which showed she understood the way
of the world as well as her elders.