The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-02-19

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grave ofanse to the faculty of Asbury
University, in Indiana, by reading be.
fore the students in a low.necked dress.
When you SEQ four or five children
who need combing, washing and patch
ing, holding q convention on a front
doorstep you have come to a house
where the mother paints pottery.
A man in New York State purchased
of a florist seeds which we're represented
to be- Of a rare petunia, but which turned
out to be something else, whereupon he
sued and recovered $50 damages.
A correspondent writing from the
neighborhood Of the recent cyclone in
Randolph county, Mo-, says that a om-
plete picture Of the cyclone may be seen
on the windows Of several houses near
its track.
The birthdays OF famous authors are
observed in the Cincinnati public
schools. Brief addresses on the life
and works of the person in question are
given, with Rotations and essays by
the pupils.
1t is stated hat no less than 1884
preachers in the Methodist Episcopal
church are pursuing the regular courses
OF conference study. The number of
preachers in classes for admission on
trial to conference is 568.
MY boy said a father to his young
son, treat every n with politeness;
even those who are rude to you. For
remember that you slow courtesy to
others, not because they are gentlemen,
but because you are one.'
A Miss Written, now at Damariscot,
ia, Me-, has probably the longest hair
of any woman in the world. 1t is eight
feet long, and when dressed in q French
twist it passes six times around her head.
The growth is perfectly natural.
Father, did you ever have another
wife besides mother?' NO, my boy
what possessed you to ask such a ques-
tion.' Because l saw in the old family
Bible that you married Anno Domini,
1886, and that is not mother, for her
name is Mary Brown
Wealthy Nh. Grove, of Washington,
Ind, cent a dollar to his runaway
daughter at indianapolis, with the mes
sage that it was all she would ever get
from him, snd she might go to hell
with it, She remarked that che would
go there at once, and committed suicide.
Two ladies of Rlcine. Wis, walking
home from church, Sunday evening, we're
grossly insulted by a couple of %loafers,
one of whom wal instantly compelled to
kneel in the mud and apologize. TIE
ladies didn't run or scream, but n Of
them had q trusty revolver and knew
how to use it.
A Western bound railroad train WAS
lately detained two hours and q half by
encountering an army of oriokets near
Reno in Nevada. The crickets covered
the track for about three miles, and when
the driving-wheels crushed them they
would whirl around without going for
ward an inch. TIE train men we're
finally forced to sweep the rails Gear
with brooms as the train moved slowly
onward,
John Wesley's red carnelian seal is
now the property Of q collector in Eng
land. 1t is engraved with a Roman cross
standing on a small mound Or elevation,
and surmounted by a five pointed celes-
tial Or martyrs crown The motto
which surrounds it is inscribed in
English and in Roman type: BE thou
faithful unto death The same collect
or owns the arm chair Of DR.. Watts; it
is one of the quaint old diamond.seated
chairs.
Where there is a will there is usually
q way to marriage. Two young persons
Of Madison, Ind, eloped to overcome
the obie ctions of a guardian on the one
hand and a stern father on the other.
When they stepped ashore from the
steamer at Evansville, the first person
confronting them was the guardian,
who allayed their CONSERVATION by tell
ing them to follow him to the county
clerks office and q friendly parsonage,
for the father had relented.
President Hayes went into the rotunda
Of the Capitol some days ago and sat in
n OF the seats set apart for ladies'. A
policeman who did not know him ordered
the President to move on. He did not
respond readily, whoreupon tho officer
arrested him and started for the guard
room, when an employee recognized the
officers mistake and informed him. The
Off ,er made profuse apologies. but the
President said: That 10 all right; l sup
pore you were carrying out orders
For the first time in the history of
Washington, writes a correspondent, a
member Of the house has come here with
his wife, and they have gone into the
lucrative businets OF taking boarders.
Not merely a few friendsfcr company
They have gone about IL in the most
cold. blooded and business-like way, ad-
vertising, etc. It'll all right, OF course,
aud much more reputable than some Of
the ways congressman have OF killing