The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-12-25
PACIs AND FANCIEs.

N'~N "AN fASiou1 pSOplo WI Cast
the blame ON fate.
Promising is as easy as lying, and the
world is full of promising people.
A sweet temper is to the household
what sunshine is to trees and flowers.
An old adage revised to s7it the times:
Some men are born rich and others in
Ohio.
No one has any night 10 be cheerful
who does not do something to make 9TH
ers 30.
When you wake up at night and hear
the baby crying, look out for danger
for there is q rock ahead.
A philosopher remarks that il is al
ways safer to quarrel with temptation
than 10 debate with prudence.
There are two things to which we new
er grow accustomed-the ravages Of time
and the injustice OF our fellow-men.
When he signs for her, and she signs
for him, the sighin's of the times may
be considered suspicious for a wedding.
The most afflicted part OF a house is
the window. 1t is always full Of panes
-and who has not seen more than n
window blindi
The present high price Of cabbage is
owing to the competition between the
sourkrout makers and the manufactur.
ers Of cheap cigars.
A young man who sneers at a girls
false teeth hasn't a we'll balanced head.
Let him marry a girl who has toothache
and neuralgia, and he will see where he
was lame.
An unknown man, killed by the cars
in Connecticut on Saturday, had in his
pockets sixty cents and a pair OF scis-
sors, indicating that he was connected
with journalism.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that
George Washington never sat in a
friends Office with his feet on the win.
dow sill, whistling Grandfather's clock
against the edge OF a card.
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.
'Men often jump at conclusions says
the proverb. So do dogs. One recently
jumped at the conclusion of a cat, which
was sticking through the opening of a
partly closed door, and it created q
great disturbance.
Mother newly bereaved of a baby, to
surviving child, aged six-'Tommy's an
angel now, Mary Like the angels in
my picture book, mammal yes, DEAR
with white wings, too2' Eyes, dear
Has he got Aeas in them, like ~pigeonsP
You have not given me my change
said the gentleman to the saloon-keeper.
i gave you a fve-dollar bill, you know
'Shange, shsnge9' was the astonished
reply. 'Vot you meanp Wasn't you a
candidate; don't itP Wy you mustn't be a
sdranger!'
She never will Drown with her earnest love
The life Of some honest loving man,
For che kndled the fire in the kitchen stove,
With the lightscme tilt Of the kerosene can.
And he---his work has been laid away
Almost before it was well begun,
For he didn't know, they heard him say,
There was any load in the empty gun.
How admirable. says Oalino, some
words describe the objects to which they
are applied There's the word orange,
for instance. Now an orange is orange
in color, it has the form of an orange,
the taste Of IN orange /; nay it is really
and truly an orange, as the name would
lead You to expect
A child's hair has turned from dark
auburn to snow white, in Olean, N. Y.
A few weeks ago the little girl, who is
nine years old, saw two or three drunk
en- men in the street aud was terribly
frightened. She cried for three hours,
and her paroxyems Of grief were well
nigh uncomfortable. Soon afterward
her hair began to turn gray, and now
it ia white.
The katydid does all her singing with
her legs. Now if the young mar who
sits behind you at the concert and huns
the tenor softly were compelled to do all
his singing by rubbing the solss of his
feet together, how happy you would be.
And hep Oh, he would sing about as
well as he does now, and the musical
world wouldn't miss him at all.
When ladies participate in fairs, in
most places, they make fancy articles to
be sold; but the friends of the aristo-
cratic Seventh regiment, in New York,
in order to contribute articles to be sold
for the benefit Of the new armory, went
among the storekeepers with whom they
are in the habit Of dealing, and solicited
handsome articles, which the unhappy
dealers felt obliged to contribute for
fear of losing valuable customers; all
Of which savors of what is vulgarly called
blackmail.
passenger in a street car yesterday,
who bad been skipped by the conductor,
called him back to get his fare, and, just
as everybody was settling down to the
nnmfnrtahla thouoht that the wnrld Ia