The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-10-29
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Improbable employmeht-IAboring
lnder mistake. .-Meriden Recorder.
A French statistician says there are
5000 persons in Paris who spend $4,000
year and upward.
1t takes whole legislature to change
a mans name. A woman can change
hers by the act of a single man.
Ibid you catch anything on Sunday,
when you went fishing, Johnnie"
Nothing" said Johnnie. "till / 90
home, and then maybe j didn't"
The crow rarely opens its mouth
without Caws. 1t would be a great
blessing if this example were univer-
sally followed. YonktrS Statesman
An uncorked phial of oil of penny
royal left on the ledge of the window or
on table at the head of the bed will
drive away mosquitoes.
One Of the most affecting appeals we
have read for a long time is the leading
editorial in a recent number of the
jamestown (Dakota) Alert: "We
need money to pay wash bill of long
standing"
The doctors say that jumping the
rope has killed great many little girls.
We have known it to kill some full
grown men, because they couldn't jump
clear through it-shoulders too broad.
-BWrltncton HGa0keye.
The Japanese make very curious
and handsome kind of copper by cast
ing it under water, the metal being
highly heated and the water also being
hot. The result is beautiful rose
colored tint, which is not affected by
exposure to the atmosphere.
An anxious inquirer" writes too
know if we can advise young man to
"settle in the West" Yes, we can; but
we first advise him to settle at home Gf
he has anything to settle) and his friends
will not hate to part with him so bad
MiddIetotOn Transcript.
"Why don't you get marriedP" said
a young lady to bachelor acquaintance
who was on a visit. 81 have been try
ing for the last ten years to find some
one who would be silly enough to take
me, and have not yet succeeded" was
the reply. "Then you haven't been
down our way" was the insinuating
rejoinder.
They were walking in the field, and
Mary hesitated to pass through lane
that contained a pugnacious- Shocking
goat. "Why, Mary" said Charles,
come along; this is the first time you
ever refused me when l asked you to
pass the butter" Upon this appeal, OF
course she hesitated no longer, especially
as she now noticed that William was
tethered. Boston Transcript.
A ruined city of very ancient date has
been discovered in Southern Italy, near
Mamfredonia. Its location is in mersh,
beneath which it was buried by an
earthquake, soon after having been
nearly destroyed by the Goths. Among
the objects of interest brought to light
in the buried city is n magnificent temple
of Diana, adorned with q portico over +.
sixty feet long and an immense necropo.
lis. Valuable relics, which have been
disinterred in the course OF the excava.
tions already made, have been placed
in the Museum of Naples.
Are animals color blindP" asks
writer in scientific magazine. Now
there is man who has never wandered
through COW pasture with red fan-
mel shirt on. Come to think of it, we
have never wandered through that kind
IT COW pasture. either.
The Western women who go to Bos-
ton to kill the author of the following
story must go to the Office of the CONNER
ciGI Bulletin: "Is your programme
full, Miss Beetlecrushcrp" asked young |
man of Western damsel who had Just
struggled out of the reireshment room
with disappointment in her eye and an
' order of dances" in her hand. Pro-
yramme fullP" said the daughter of the
Setting Sun, "Waal, l guess notl l
lain't had nothing but II piece of cake
and an ice cream, an that don't 60 far
,oward filling my programme, l can
tell you"
The shooting OF tallow candle
through plank of deal can be per-
ormed with safety and success. "Set
Ip a half-inch or three-quarter-incb
eal OF board in the ground. It should
'e six to eight inches wide. Ram small
harge of powder into gun with wad.
'elect dip candle just fitting bore; cut
own to about five inches long with. fiat
nd. BE very particular to ram 1t down
veil, ior If there is air space between IL
nd the wad, there is risk of bursting
un. Take care that rest of barrel is
'leared of bits oil tallow. Fire at say
hree yards from plank. II you don't
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