The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-24

hidden in the wood-pile, and wondered
what it was.
Two glances make one bow, two bows
one how dye do, six how dye dos one
conversation, four conversations n ac-
qusintance.
The seashore season has opened and
the hotel proprietors have packed away
their co~nsciences in camphor, not to be
disturbed until cold weather arrives.
The Bipghampton Republican tells
of en- old lady in the Fifth ward who
can't see why baseball players change
pitchers so often. She thinks they ought
TO get one that would hold enough in the
first place.
The man who goes a-6shing and sits
in q cramp.inviting posture on q narrow
thwart from early morn till dewy eve, and
calls it fun, is the same chap that never
goes to church because the pews aren't
comfortable.
Edward A. Guy, of Cincinnati, gave
his fortune of $40, 900 in charity, and
goes about doing what good he can, re-
fusing all pecuniary consid Grafton, say
ing he is working for the Lord, who
will reward him.
The season is at hand, says the Bos-
ton Courier, when a whole family will
carry their dinner three or four miles
into the woods and sit down among the
bugs and ants and snakes to eat it.
They call it a picnic.
who was the first man ? asked q S1n-
day school teacher of her prodigy.
George Washington was the prompt
reply. No, no. corrected the teacher,
TT wasn't Washington, it was Adam,
you know Oh ssid the boy in rather
a disguised tone, perhaps Adam was, il
you're goin' to count foreigners
At the late Episcopal church council
in fredericksburg, Va. q valuable ring
was dropped in the contribution box,
and on its being discovered that it was
clearly a precious souvenir to the giver,
some S45 was raised to redeem it. The
owner was not known, however. II not
applied for, the ring is to be placed in
the cornerstone of the proposed new
church.
To a young literary man afterward his
amanuensis, Thackeray, the great nov
elist, wrote thus, on hearing that a loss
had beFallen him 4 am sincerely sorry
TO hear Of your position, aud send the
little contribution which came so oppor-
timely from another friend whom l YVES
enabled once to help. When You arc
well-to-do again, I know you will pay it
back and / daresay somebody else will
want the money, which is meanwhile
most heartily OF Your service
Pope Leo XIII. is tall and spare, with
a patrician air. He has a fine head.
crowned with white hair, strongly mark
ed features, the aspect Of an a%scetic,
with something marble-like in the gene
rel appearance of the figure. His face
is lighted by q piercing look, and his
smile is very winning. HIS voice is
sonorous, not so mellow as Pope Plus,
but more powerful. Though he is mod.
crate in his opinions, he does not lack
irmness.
When O woman buys q kettle Of paint
to paint, say, tho kitchen door, she
doesn't let what's left after covering the
door dry up. No, she paints everything
paintable in the house with it till the
last drop is exhausted, until all things
about the premises--tubs, boxes and
barrels, fower-pots, wheelbarrow and
Northumberland put on the kitchen
door tint, be it green, yellow or brown,
black, purple or crimson. She does this
to save the paint. Only this, and moth
ing more.
Three New York bootblack boys were
in custody for the theft Of an apple, and
the Judge was in o quandary to decide
which of the three should be held.
O'Brien had snatched the apple, and was
making off with it, when Carroll knocked
it out of his hand, and while they were
scrambling for it Dyer picked it up.
The Judge called on the members Of the
bar to help him ont Of the difficulty,
when one Of them paid the old woman
for the apple, and advised the discharge
Of the offenders with a reprimnnd.
At the last battle Of Bull Run, Capt.
r. A. Dimmick, Of Washington, and a
brother officer OF the Federal army, were
left on the battlefield terribly wounded,
and we're found by Hugh Barr, Of the
old Stonewall brigade, who, by his kind
ness, it is believed, saved their lives.
Capt. Dimmick and Mr.. Barr met for the
first time since that day at the memoria
exercises at Winchester, Va, and EN-.
braoed each other on the street. Capt.
Dimmick made profuse offers OF material
recompense to Mr.. Barr, but the latter
refused to accept anything but thanks
for his services.