The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-17
PACTS \ PANCIES.

new Haven, Conn, dlsposes OF one
glass Of lager for each inhabitant daily.
Whispering in company is not aloud;
if it was it wouldn't be worth while do
ing il.
When a boy reaches the age of ten
years, he condescendingly begins to talk
about the children
The pebbles in our path weary us and
make rs footsore more than the rocks,
which require only bold effort to sur
mount.
Common flowers, such as hollyhocks,
exlips, cowslips, dandelions, pansies and
daisies are becoming very popular both
in nature and art.
He said but little, yet as he gazed on
the mutilated edge of his best razor, he
mentally vowed never again to marry a
woman with corns.
An exchange inquiries: Does hanging
prevent murder? It certainly does.
Who ever heard of a man committing
murder after he was hangedP
A Georgia woman awoke her husband
during n storm the other night, and
said: lido wish you would quit snoring,
for 1 want to hear it thunder
A damsel applied for a place behind q
counter. what clerical experience have
your asked the man of dry goods. Very
little she said, with a blush, for I only
joined the church last week.
1t is stated that many skin diseases
are transmitted to children by the use of
toy whistles and the like which are sold
on the streets, and are put in many
mouths and tried before being sold.
Straw hats for ladies' says the New
Haven Register ARE to. be uncommonly
generous in size this season-in fact,
large enough to furnish shade for two.
How thoughtful the milliners are, to be
sure
The best receipt for going through
life in an exquisite way, with beautiful
manners, is to feel that everybody, no
matter how rich or how poor, needs all
the kindness they can get from others
in this world.
We boldly assert that the man who
hauls q flaming advertisement about the
streets and rings a dreadful bell to call
attention to it is an exasperating public
nuisance. There is no advertising 80
effective as the noiseless notices which
are inserted in the newspapers.
1t is related that one day Colonel
Marshall Of Kentucky, said to Benton
Senator Benton, why do you talk to
yourself so much?' With great dignity
Benton replied: Colonel Marshall, /
can tell you very earnestly and very
truly why 1 talk to myself. 1 love to
talk to q great man, and 1 love to hear o
great man talk
-Four hundred thousand persons, FAC.
cording to the RailDay World, are EN-.
ployed on the railroads in this country,
and five times that many depend upon
the roads for support. 1t is also esti-
mated that between $500, 900, GOO and
$500, coo, 900 are annually. paid to en-
ployees and TO persons who furnish the
companies with supplies Of various
kinds.
A young mar of Germany and his be.
trothed tied themselves together and
jumped into a pond last winter. The
GOODNESS of the water produced a change
in the young mans ardent feelings, and
he disentangled himself and made fol
the shore, leaving the damsel to her
fate. he was lately sentenced to three
years and nine months in prison for the
performance.
Southern States are not the only ones
that prohibit marriage between whites
and negroes. Rhode Island has a strin.
gent law on this subject, and Michigan
makes mixed marriages a crime, and
pregcribes heavy penalties for the Of
Tense. But worse than all, Maine goes
further than its neighbors and not only
prohibits marriages between whites and
negroes, but also between whites and
mulattoes.
IF there is anything in the spring
time that makesa man yearn to come
homo early at night remarks an ex-
change, it is the last fond words Of his
wife, who says to him just as he starts
down town after supper, Dear, come
home early, 30 you can put up the new
window curtains That man agonizes
to go home early, but he sometimes stays
out late just to show his wife that he
can resist temptation. ~
A Paris paper says: q porter at the
Halles CentraIes cut the foreinger Of
his left hand q few days ago with a knife
with which he had been cleaning out his
pipe. The next day the finger swelled
and the arm became in1amed, while tn
mors appeared under the arm.pit. The
medical man called in, recognized pois,
oning by nicotine, and seeing that am.
putation was necessary, sent the patient
off at once to the Neckar hospital, where
he lies in a very precarious condition.
A ieweler in South Royalston, VT,
spied on the ingerof o highly-esteemed
young lady who was shopping in his
store a ring hat had been stolen from
his stock. She told him, in response to