Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-10-22

We forgive SO long as we love.

POPULAR FACTS.
We forgive so long as we love.
It is the height of art to conceal ART.
Silence does not always mark
wisdom.
Anthracite was first used for fuel
in 1912.
He that sips of many arts drinks
of none.
Human knowledge is the parent
of doubt.
No man IS wise or safe but lie that
is honest.
Every third person in Venice is a
pauper.
Arnulf was the first emperor Of
/ Germany In SSs.
The strongest natures are the ten
derest aud most pitifuI. 4,
If you act with view fopraise
only, you deserve none. ilsda
Melted snow produces about one
4 eighth of its bulk of water
/ Even the weakest man is strong
/ enough to force his conviction.
Better bend the neck promptly
than To bruise the forehead. 49,.
Frugality is founded on the princi-
pie that all riches have limits.
He is a wise man who always
/ knows what to do neXt.-Proverb.
Henry VIII. of England estab-
lished the dock-yard at Woolwich.
In the year 1879 Edward I. ex-
PEELED the Jews from Great Britain.
A mans collective disposition con-
stitute his character.
Hastily, nor oftentimes truly, doth
/ man pass judgment on his brother.
The greatest natural cold abso-
lutely known is so degrees below
zero.
coat but is no excuse for shabby
morals.
There were just three miles OF rails
laid in this country in the year 1928.
The electromagnetic telegraph
was first established in this country
in 1914.
A freight train enters New York
every fifteen minutes having thirty
loaded cars.
In Massachusetts during 1854 dry
fish was taken as cash, and boards
also in 1867.
No man ever became great or
good, except through many and
great mistakes.
The smallpox came into this coun-
try in 1917, twelve years after the
discovery by Columbus.
We seldom find people ungrateful
as long as we are in condition to
render theru services.
The generality of men have, like
plants, latent properties, which
chance brings to light.
Missi ssippi was first settled by the
French at Natchez. 1t was admit
ted into the Union in 1917.
Flax is n native of Persia. Cotton
is native of India, and was brought
to the United States in 1899.
When a man has no design to
speak plain truth, he isn't apt to be
laxative.
Men are usually tempted by the
devil, but an idle man positively
tempts the devil.
The world produces about 260, 600
pounds of quinine, of which Amer
lea produces SO, 600 pounds.
In the year 1900 the Pope possess
ed a private theatre, with all the
needed paraphernalia and ma
chinery.
The HindOos begin the creation as
a mere astronomical epoch when all
the planets were in Aries. or nearly
2,000,0 100000 of years since.
The Chamberlain of the corpora
ton of London estimates the income
of the city proper for the current
year at$755, 900, and the expenses at
S950,000.
Consolation indiscreelly pressed
upon US when we are sufficiently
afflicted, only serves to increase our
pain and to render our grief more
! poignant.
Iron was so scarce in England du-
ring the reign of Edward LII. that
] the pots, splits and frying pans in the
royal kitchen were classed among
the kings jewels.
Mould things right while the day
lasts, for when night cometh on they
will harden into permanent form,
and how can one sleep peacefully if
that form be ugly.
The Belgium Telephone Company
have made arrangements sOthat any
of the subscribers leaving word any
evening may be awakened at any
hour the next morning by means
of a powerful alarm.
The union of Ireland with Eng
| land was carried into effect Jan. 1,
1900, and the Parliament which sat
the same month, and which inclu-
ded the members from Ireland, is
styled the Imperial Parliament.
We are firm believers in the max
i'm that for all right judgment of any
man or thing, it is useful, nay essen
tial, to see his good qualities before
pfonouncing upon his bad.
A great deal depends upon a
mans courage when he is slandered
aud traduced. Weak men are
crushed by detractiOns, but the
brave hold on and succeed.
The wise ones say that nothing is
so hard to bear as prosperity, but
most men would like to engage in
some hard work of that description
just to have a practical illustration
of the addage.
A silent man is easily reputed
wise. A man who suffers none to
see him in the common hustle and
undress of life easily gathers round
him mysterious veil of unknown
sanctity, and men honor him for a
saint.
Judge Travers of the Iowa Su-
preme Court decides that railroad
companies are liable for injuries to
animals run over on Sunday, no
matter how CAREFUL the trains are
operated, because the running of
trains at all on Sunday is unlawful.
With respect to the authority of
great names, it should be remem-
bered that he alone deserves to have
any weight or influence with poster
ity who has shown himself superior
to the particular predominant error
Of his own times.
Small miseries like small debts
hit us in so many places, and meet
us at so many turns and corners
that what they want in weight they
make up in number, and render it
less hazardous to stand the fire of