The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-10-30
FACTS AM FASCIEs.

ives head'llght.
A mans chance for seeing depends
upon his most when he is short sightet
and wears glasses.
Ohimney-sweeping must be a goot
business; il SCOTS everybody who tries
il.
fisherman is q very irresolute and uu
reliant person. He won't even sit down
on his own hook.
The same old story that makes five
hearts beat as one is often like a bar Of
soap-so full Of lye il won't wash.
A st%onecutter in Charleston, s. c.,
advertises q sale OF tombstones at auc.
ton TO make room for new styles
A pretty girl, posted in aquaticg,
wanted to know if a smack on the lips
was a beau trace. Her young man re.
ceived the question with overs OF
laughter.
Tennyson, the poet-laureate OF Eng
land, having refused to change his name
in order to inherit his brothers proper.
ty, his son Lionel will comply with the
terms Of the bequest.
The sin Of ambition, by which the
angels fell, will never be marked down
against the yonng man whose cole ef.
fort is to carry q light cant and a still
lighter moustache.
Many a woman dusts billiard chalk of
her husbands coat, aud a big tear
stands in her eye as she thinks how late
he works nights at his doak by the
whitewashed wall.
A young lady who didn't admire the
custom in vogue among her sisters of
writing a letter and then cross.writing it
to ELIGIBILITY, said she would prefer her
epistles without an overskirt.'
An Irish lad had complained the other
day before a magistrate of the harsh
treatment he had received from his IA.
ther. He trates me- said he mourn
fully, 'as if / was his BOD by another
father and mother
A Massachusetts man recently offered
a school prize for the best essay on
Honesty OF the twenty.three re.
sponses received, a large proportion
proved TO have been stolen, and one, a
poem, was stolen entire.
A German medical writer says that
there are but two authentic cases known
Of five children being born at one birth.
A third case is now reported from Kett-
wig on the Rhine. The children we're
vol formed, though very small; but they
lived only n hour.
A little girl, who is q lady by reason
of being a daughter Of a noble English
house, has betrayed q remarkable pro.
clivity. All the canary birds were dy.
ing, and the g%overness discovered that
the darling had been making pinoush-
ions of them while they we're alive.
a firm of coin collectors has on exhi-
bition q silver half dollar, Confederate
money, the only coin issued by the Con.
federacy. This is valued by the firm at
81, 900. A Jewish shekel made B. c..
1877, is also highly priced. This coin was
struck by Simon Maccabaeus during the
first revolt Of the Jews.
A waiter was told by q co~untryman to
bring something Of what he had The
waiter brought him a regular dinner
upon small dishes, as is the usual form,
and set them around his plate. The
c~ountryman surveyed them carefully for
a moment, and then broke out, well, l
like your samples; o bring on your
dinner
why do We say in the Lords prayer
'Who art in Heaven since God is every
whereP' asked a clergyman of some chill.
dren, For q while no one answered; at
last, seeing a little drummer-boy, who
looked as if he could give an answer, the
clergyman said: We'll, little soldier,
what say your Because it's headquar-
ters, replied the drummer.
A good word for the blackbirds is thus
spoken by the Natchitoches, La, Yin
dictator: 'Our farmers tell us that thou
sands of blackbirds are swarming in the
fields Of cotton and destroying the cot
ton-worm as they go. Very few worms
can be found 'webbed up and the
planter feels good. The destruction by
the birds this year is accounted for only
by the effects of the game law, which
are Just being felt
At a large public funeral of a promi-
nent citizen of Delhi, N. Y, the mourn.
ers were dressed in white, instead OF
the customary black, This was done in
approval Of the wishes of the deceased,
who, while living, strongly opposed the
inevitable heavy and expensive mourn
and requested them to dress in
white at his funeral, especially
they believed him to have entered a
happier world.
Two or three manufacturers owning
large silk and lace mills intend to bring
to this country about 800 Swiss weavers,
workmen in fine lace and delicate
fabrics, who do the work in their own
houses. II is the intention to select
but good land at some distance
from the railroad, but where the weav-
ors cannot be interfered with, and to di-
vide i. into lots large enough for a house
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