Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1891-08-27
HERE And THERE.

The man who attempts to floor Jerry
Simpson when he is 'doing the orator
ical" attempts the impossible. For in
stance, the other day Simpson, in one
of his speeches, while eulogizing Dan
iel Webster, referred, in compliment
tary terms, to his dictionary. A friend
on the stage pulled Simpson s coat tail
and whispered, "Noah was the man
who made the dictionary Simpson
gave his friend scornful look, and
whispered back: Noah built the
ark, and went on with his oration.--
ST. Joseph Herald.
The highest hauited point in the
world is claimed to be the top of Pike g
peak, on which hotel has been built.
The hotel is IA, lat feet above the sea
level, and is reached by railway start
ing from Manitau Spings, this point
itself being 5000 feet above the sea. In
order to keep the locomotive engine
from slipping backward it is provided
with cogwheels, which follow third
rail, also cogged. Here will be an as
cent quite equal in grandeur to that of
the Rhigi in Switzerland, which SO
many Americans travel long journey
to accomplish every sumner.
"Two-thirds of the church members
OF this country are women, the infidel
sneeringly remarks. Is there anything
about that to be ashamed of? Here is
another fact: Out of $4,000 convicts
in our State prisons more than $4,000
are men.-Johnson City Enterprise.
If an American were asked to guess
what is the leading product of this
country he would undoubtedly answer
the corn crop. Yet the whole corn
crop of this country does not amount in
value to as much as the poultry and egg
business, not by several million dollars.
The hen is mightier than the plow.
Thirty million dimes have been coined
in the last three years, and writer ex-
presses wonder that they should be
scarce in the circulation. But consid-
ering that there are sixty three millions
of people in the country thirty million
dimes will not go very far around
among them, even if the dimes were
split in two.
BLIND ToM-"Many people think me
an idiot and some assert that am but
trained animal incapable of doing
ought but that to which have been
trained, as yod would train a horse or
dog. This isnot true, for am confident
that am the possessor of at least as
much sense as those who think ! have
none. 1t does not pay a man in my bus
mess to let the public know that he is
just as srational as they are. Blind Tom
as a simpleton can play to larger houses
than he would draw if he was suspected
of being in the full possession of all his
faculties.
This is one reason why am billed
as an idiot, and confess that / longer
like it. My desire to keep out of public
office is the only other reason have for
permitting this deception to be practic-
ed. ! take lively interest in politics
and never miss an opportunity to exer-
else my right of suffrage when at home
in New York, but have an intense hor-
ror Of officers and office holders. 1have
always thought, and continue to think,
that our statesmen who display so much
solicitude for the purity Of the ballot
box as to enact laws establishing
educational qualifications for the voter
should so amend these laws that they
would also apply to the Office holder,
for to my mind it seems ridiculous that
the man who, by his lack of intelligence
is debarred from voting, should be
permitted to hold Office and participate
in framing the laws of city, county
or State in which he is not entitled TO q
vote by reason of his inability to read
the ticket which is handed him at the
polls. Until this defect in your laws
has been remedied they will llnever prove
satisfactory to the general public or
attain the object aimed at, viz: the
intellectual development of every
American citizen. Exchange.