The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-15

"Men of genius nearly always nave
some Deculiarities aud tits said Bona
parte would tremble at the sight OF
cat: Cavendish hated women; Sarrlck
was vain almost to insanity; Sir Walter
Scott wrote best while walking around
and debating"
We clip the above from an exchange.
Let us add a few more, such as; Dave
Crockett drank like trooper; ;. >. Prem
tiss was fond of his tOddy; Andrew
Jackson swore like all possessed-and
wkv 90 further? Great men are like all
other men, and have their frailties. we
love them for what they did.
*x*
A Columbia minister hands US the fol-
lowing; "There is a great deal OF oil
ference between Christianity and
Christianity"
Gentlemen of the newspaper fraternl-
tv. lot us form a compact and hereafter
black ball any member who will ever
write that a prisoner was "thrown into
PRISON. or "dragged into court" or,
concerning a drowning man, "Just as
he was sinking for the third time" we
must quit it.
Literary genius has been poorly COM
pensated in this life. Milton SOLD MS
manuscript of "Paradise Lost" for F'o'
in three payments and practlcally
| ended his life in ObscuritY.
-
| What is the matter with politlcsE Ii
it possible the people have become more
interested in making a better living
than in fussing about who shall go u
the Legislature? For the sake OF the
chronic politician, we hoP5 not. Inc
fact ia. that is the chief trouble with thl'
good government-we have too many
elections. We are voting on somethlns
all the time-from church meetings u
President. If, as some stock men say
slike begets like" it is wonder som'
American baby is not born win
printed ticket in his hand.
l=Dave Crockett was the peer OF an
man who ever lived for sincere love
country and a fine mother W.T. Z
bishop once sought to confuse him u.
suddenly calling on him at a publ
dining for a toast on his well-knowl
enemy-the tories. "The tories" sal
Crockett, "may their ribs make grid
irons in hell" The banquet adjourned
, the language was too vigorous for tn
J bishop.
The signs is bad when folks com
A-fndin' fault with Providence
And balkin' cause the earth don
shake
7 At ev'ry prancin' step they take.
No man is great till he can see
!, How less than little he would be
Ell stripped to self and stark ana OAR
l He hung his sign out anywhere
NV doctern is to yet lay ASIDE
c Contentious and be satisfied.
4 Jest do your best, and praise or Diam
= That foi1ers, that counts jest the same
t I've allus noticed great success
: Is mixed with troubles more or less'
4 And it's the man who does the pest
= That gets more kicks than al I p;id res
t James Whitcomb riley
!; ~
:. "Cider," says Josh Billings, "may b
e a temperance drink, but can manag
to get so drunk on it can't tell one G
: the Ten Commandments from by-ia'
3, of a base ball club"
q ~
a Milton, it is said, was once asked If h
II intended to instruct his daughtt
q in the different languages. "NO, SIR L
n said; zone tongue is sufficient for W.
maryland he might have added for
# man also.
e Speaking of languages, we never y
IS saw man who could hit partrlde
q every time he got up, or play perfe
a game of billiards, or talk in several lal
t. guages, who was fit for anything els
II ~
5 The Inconsistencies of the best OF me
4 are so numerous, so certain and so u
4 expected that it's a wonder man know
Of himself half the time, let alone h
te neighbOr.
e. So
ir "The world is empty enough" sa.
Goethe, "when we find in it only mou
~ tains and rivers and cities; but here al
Va there we find some one who symp
It, thizes with us, and with whom we tao
es lv live, converts the earth into an l
% habitable garden"
No ~
g There are several things which a XII
III providence did not expect of weak al
to erring humanity-one is a strict reg
l tration with view of fultillment OF
l lovers VOW, and the other is for "
a., al man who has good looking baby
rs, brag with any strength on another
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