The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-08
WAITS AND WHINrS.
APRIL vEsPERs


The turtles drum 10 the palseless b4v
The erekets cfeak in ths pricklui:hedxs.
The bulifrogs boom in the pudding .edss
And the vhoopoe ~hooPs.Ifs vesper iay
Away
In the twillght.soft and srly.
Two lovers stroll in ths Chatting gosm-
His hand in hsr'n and ner'n.in. his
She blushas deep-hs IL tslkin <ibiz-
They hug and pop ssfhey lisileSs, roaD-
They roam
It's late When they get back home.
Down by the little wicket'gafe
Down where the crespfuIivy grows.
Down where the sweet nasturtium blows
A box-toei parent lies in. wait
IN wait,
For the maiden and her mate
Let criekets cresk aud bullfro,4 b,orn.
The whoOpoe walls in the dismal dell
, heir tuue'ul throbs viii uesI dispsl
The planted pair, and rooted goon-
The gloom
OF the lovers dismal doom.
.Unalloyed sstisfsctions are too heav-
emily to tall to many mems share on earth.
Matrimony hath something in it of
nature, something Of civility, something
OF divinity.
God pardons like mother, who .
kisses the offence into everlasting for
giveness.
AS love without esteem is volatile
and capricious, esteem without love is
languid and cold.
"A weak mind is like a microscope
which magnifes ,trifing things, but .can
not receive great ones.
Some people are so constituted as
to be unable to see anything beautiful
in this life-not even in mirror.
AN exchange says that Napoleon
". is always poring over books. He
never reigns, but he pores.
He that falls into sin is a man;
that grieves at it may be g saint that
boasteth of it ISIS devil.
az never waste any time listening to
the meaningless song of the blue birds
when the dinner gong is winding its
mellow hum"
-" Bedsd," said patriotic Irishman
/" but it's q ripe watermelon that should
be the emblem of Ireland. 1t always
has the green above the red"
-" We are going out with the tied
said young man to friend, as he filed
down the church aisle after wedding.
" In that case" said alady in front, "you
can afford to get off my train" and he
did.
Julia a. Moore, the sweet singer of
Michigan, was uesrly psrslyzed with as
constituent when recently informed that
'eclat" didn't rhyme with "he cat"
she has not sufficiently recovered to finish
her half-completed poem On the birth
Of new spring"
L envy the man that kan tolk $50
days in the year on one subieckt, and
think he il original and interesting all
the time but / don't want to b. SOM
ip-law ov one ov these kind ov people,
Josh Billings.
Among the names Of the many base
ballists who have secured fame and
money by their achievements within the
diamond arena, we have never yet seen
the name of the prodigal son, yet the
fact stares posterity in the face that he
was the first man to make home run.
"A family is like unto an equipsge.
First, the father, the drsught horse;
next, the boys, the wheels, for they are
always running around then the girls,
they are surrounded by fellows. The
baby occupies the lspboard and the
mother-well, what's wagon withouta
tongue, anyhow?
"A gentleman presents himself at the
police headquarters to leave deserip-
ton of his daughter, who had been miss
ing for two or three days and was
thought to- have got her hence with all
advised celebrity snd toe cOachman.
" Describe her minuteJy, il you please"
SAYS the clerk. "Well," ssys the par
ent, "she's Pretty tall and light-eom-
plected, and Is about three or four years
younger than you'd take her to be-"
To find cut whether a garden has
been planted or not, paper gives the
following rule II one tOTgsts wheth>
er beds are planted or not. good way
to tell is to turn stray cat into the gar
den. If Tire beds are planted the eat will
proceed to 7soe round and dig into them,
and act as. if It had relations in China it
was anxious. to get at; while, if they
are not, il. will sit down calmly in the
path, and seem to be meditating on the
progress of missionary work in Africs.
A cats instinct seldom deeeiyes in this
matter"