The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Alabama is building ten new iron fur
naces.
There are 60. 900 MennOnites in
America.
Towboats make no charge for the
water they draw.
Leap year ought to make the valen'
tine trade hum.
Anything for a speculation. There is
a corner in canary seed.
The turning-point in an organ. grind.
er's life is generally the crank.
Young men have a marked preference
for the dollar Of their daddies.
The loss by the Chicago pig-stickers'
strike is estimated at $500, 900.
The first thing O man takes in his life
is his milk; the last is his bier.
Some New York bellies wear silk
riding hats with walking costumes.
Over seven million watch glasses are
sold annually in the United States.
There are 800 vacant houses in Mem.
phis, the result OF the late epidemic.
The maidstone has failed to cure q
Catawba, N. c., boy bitten by q dog.
A Jersey City man has returned from
Leadville with a fortune-in experience.
King Humbert of Italy has recently
had a sleigh ride-the first in min
years.
Ministers hold that poor and unosten-
tation people pay the handsomest mar
rage fees.
The dress ought to harmonize not
only with the features, but with the
expression.
We enjoy ourselves only in our work,
our doing; and our best doing is our
best enjoyment.
why are wives what they are?' asks
an exchange. We suspect it is because
they get married.
Maine has had five governors in
three weeks-Garcelon, Lamson, Cham
berlain, Smith and Davis.
Sam, what is bigoted?' Why said
Pete, 'bigoted is knowing too much for
n niger and not huff for two.
Sir Arthur Guinness, the rich Dublin
brewer, has sold his interest in the
brewery business for S., ZOO, 900.
The Cincinnati Gazette thinks women
will not know what to do with the
ballot, as it is not long enough for a belt
and not big enough for a hustle.
I'll drop your acquaintance said the
big man as he held one robber by the
throat while he knocked down the other
one.
Young man, when you turn over tn
new leaf, put the strongest kind of a
paper weight upon it, as it is apt to turn
back.
The three Bible types of character
Noah, Daniel and Job-the learner, the
worker and the INSTRUMENTATION,
duty, patience.
God often aflicts his people to bring
them nearer and keep them nearer to
Himself, to make earth less attractive
and heaven more desirable.
Mamma, what are twins made ior?'
asked a little girl the other day. Her
precocieus elder brother replied, so
that caDnibals may eat philopenas.'
Good books are to the young mind
what the warming sun and the refresh
ing rain of spring are to the seeds which
have lain dormant in the frosts of win.
ter.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat makes
mention of "a widow made happy but
it wasn't a second husband; it was only
her uncle who died and left her 81, 000,-
600.
Maine has as many governors in one
month as other states do in q dozen
years. No wonder people complain
that the Yankees are greedy and grasp.
ing.
An exchange tells of an Ohio man
who met a weeping woman and kissed
away her tears. The jury found a YER
dict for the plaintiff to the amount of
So, 800.
More than M rough customer has
never known how good he was until he
killed somebody and heard the lawyer
in charge of crimes and juries sum up
his virtues.
Although it is undeniable that the
wash-woman wrings the bosoms of a
great many men, still we will have to
give her credit for generally making a
clean breast of it,
The plan of an Evansville Wis. mar
BILE cutter to get work was to mutilate
ninety tombstones in a graveyard; and
it succeeded, for he will cut stone during
the next year in prison.
A Cincinnati woman lived for thirty
nine days on two beans, and young
men should be ashamed to say that they
don't get married because they can't
earn enough to keep a wife.
The most reasonable explanation of
the present remarkable weather is that,
this being leap year, spring is making
love to winter, and the old fellow con-
sequently has thawed considerably.
Said one of society's smart ornaments
to a lady friend: This is leap year, and
l suppose you'll be asking some one to
marry your oh, no. was the reply,
my finances won't permit me to sup
port a husband