The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-12-04
FACTS n FAYCIEs.


aud coal is becol ling the cheaper fuel OF
the two.
An ounce Of heart is worth q ton OF
culture; the mightiesi lorcein the world
is heart force.
Bob Iniuresoup is one OF the fright
full results OF the Ciiclgo Tfibunc's i'm
proved method Of spelling.
Over forty thousand pounds OF ely
cerine are ufed annually in the United
States for mixing with beer.
Mistress-'Bridget, didn't you hear
me call2' Bridget-'Yis, mum; but ye
towld me the other day nivsr to answer
ye back-and | didn't.
Stephen Goodale died near Ports
mouth, n. Il, recently at the age OF
1lS years. He had been in the poor
house since the age OF seventy-s six.
At the farewell banquet rendered Gen.
Grant in San Francisco. his bill Of fare
was of solid gold, while those OF the
other guests we're Of silver, which were
TO be kept as souvenirs.
Are you a professor OF religion, my
little fellow asked a lady Of her pas
tors six ear boy, recently. NO,
man, was the little boys prompt re-
Spouse, I'm only the professors sonr
The Chicago artists have presented to
the Illinois Industrial School for Girls
an elegant illustrated album, valued at
81, 900. II will be sold by subscription,
and then presented to Mrs. General
Grant.
The other day q colored man, rear
Stars Mill, Fla, wounded a crane, and
as he took hold Of the bird, it suddenly
stretched forth it's long neck and pecked
out one OF his eyes and then made its
escape.
When a newspaper paragraph opens
in language as soft as the bosom OF love
and as sweet as the tinkle of a woodland
brook, it is always safe TO conclude that
the virtues of some patent medicine are
harnessed on to the end.
Ebenezer Stone and bis wife Flora,
out in Illinois, were divorced not long
ago, but afterward they came to an un-
derstanding, were remarked, and are
now happy together az far as we know.
II was a case of Ed and Flo, it would
seem: at any rate they are tide now.
Madame De F., who babbles as
she goes, has had her portrait painted by
a fashionable artist. Very successful,
don't you Think says one critic; quite
a speaking likeness Yes; n could
fancy it could talk If the original would
only give it a chance to get a word in
%edgeways.'
A New York letter. writer, speakingo Ct
George Francis Train, says: He is GER
tainly eccentric, and perhaps the most
absolutely clean man in the United
States. he takes a sponge bath twice
a day, a Turkish bath every other day,
and his linen, which is not washed with
that of any other person, is like snow,
and is also changed every day.
A city paper caustically remarks:-
From the appea 'ance OF our retail thor
oughfares yesterday it is evident that
the shopping season has set in in good
earnest. One lady was out all day and
returned last evening with half a dozen
cambria handkerchiefs, which she said
she got at a bargain. Her lunch down
town cost seventy.fve cents, but she
saved something on the haudkerchiefs.
Doctor Battle with great care, and
don't fail to test the bath with the ther-
mometer.' Nurse: Sure phwat wud
OF be afther dom wild a thermometer ?
If the baby-bless him comes out
blue, sure the wather's too cold; aud II
the ~baby-~bless him l-oomes out red,
sure the waters too hot. G)away wild
yer thermometer, doctor +.
An outrageous piece of villaipy occur.
red in Boston, A young lady was COM
ing down the steps Of Horticultural hall,
when she felt some one pull her hair,
which was braided and looped at the
back of her head. On examination it
appeared that some one had cut the
braid with a knife near the head, but,
owing to the fact that the hair was close
ly pinned to her head, the thief was
unable to detach it,
A few days ago Mr.. John Ady, Of
Norrisville, Nd, was driving out with a
friend in a buggy. The friend, in a
sportive mood, drew a pistol and fred
il. The horse ran away, the harness
broke, the buggy was upset, and Mr..
Ada and friend were thrown out. The
former was run over and severely bruis.
ed. The friend had one of his arms
broken by the fall, The buggy was
wrecked. The moral is obvious.
Hasskeni is a small village on the
Bosphorus inhabited principally by
Jews and composed of dilapidated houses
OF b~lackened wood. These Jews and
all others in the Levant country are the
lineal descendants Of those who we're
expelled from Spain in 1462, and il is
.a.l III ILL., o.o al11 aI1.zal a1-