The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-05


Franklin was a printer; Cardinal VOL
sey was the son of butcher, Virgil of
a potter, and Robert Burns was a simple
plowboy. They all, so far as known,
had great mothers, and believe that
most of the secret was in that fact.
49,
"The State of Alabama has gone for
me-" says Reuben +. KOlb to a reporter.
Yes, Captain; she "went for" you. Let
us shake.
"TO know all women, we must love
and be loved by one," says Count
TOlstOi.
About the most serious question in
this campaign is, What shall we do
with the surplus money i'll the country
which seems to be worrying everybody
by the sheer weight of it in their peck
cts? At least, one would judge so in
the way people seem to forget every
thing else in the elections.
y man il. Maine tried to commit
suicide by hanging himself with his
mOther-in-iaw's trunk cord; but, true
to mother-in-law perversity, the thing
broke just as he was quietly dying, and
let him down to life again.
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- he secret of success consists i'll the
wisdom that discovers the mistakes of
to-day, and corrects them in the work
of tomorrow;
Life is worth living only to those |
who so live that their lives make death /
worth dying"
",rhe cmptiest thing i'll some
churches" says DIR. Otis, ais the pull
pit, when it has a man i'll it who talks
for an hour and says nothing"
You forgot the old deacon who hasn't
had his morning drink, Doctor.
An investigator, who lived during two
years III a tomb at GiZeh, has collected |
evidence to prove that the tools used in
working stone 1000 years ago had jew
elled cutting edges, like modern tools |
He says that the builders of the pyr-
amids used solid and tubular TOOLS
straight and circular saws, and many
other tools supposed to be modern. In
some specimens of granite drill had
sunk one-tenth of an inch at each reVo-
luton, indicating that the pressure was
at least two tons. Nothing is known
of the material of the tools. As the
diamond was scarce then, it is probable
that cOrundum was used.
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According TO Rogers, the poet, Vernon
was the person who invented the story
about the lady being pulveriZed in India
by a sunstroke. When he was dining
there with a HindOO, one of his hosts
wives was suddenly reduced to ashes,
upon which the HindOO rang the bell
and said to the attendant who answered
it, Bring fresh glasses and sweep up
your mistress."-All the Year Round.
***
When little man starts out to do a
big thing, it is then that the gods smile.
~
The negro is the best laborer the
South can ever get. Let us treat him
Justly. Compare him with the striking
foreigners in the North and West, and
say if you would exchange.
There is nothing in life that is as diff
cult as living.
There used to be game called "freeZe
out" Wonder if it can be played this
kind of weather.
Mr.Vanderbilt's fine yacht, the saliva"
has sunk in the ocean, and it is now
thought that he has struck something
not even his money can raise.
lis with our Judgment as with our
watches-none go just alike, yet each
believes his own-Pope.
az live tor those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true;
For the heaven that smiles above me
And awaits my spirit too;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task my God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that 1 can do"
Goethe.
Were we as eloquent as angels, yet
should we please some men and some
women much more by listening than by
talking.-COlton.
No two men think ankle, act alike or
write alike. Therefore do everything
your own way; for you may be sure you
will never succeed as long as you imi-
tate others. The only really successful
imitation the world ever produced lives
in Africa.
A woman in Chicago threw glass of
ice water in her drunken husbands
face, and the reaction was so sudden it
killed him. We hope those ladies who
are looking around for way out of a
bad thing will paste this in their mats.
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A female in Detroit was dragged from
wrecked train. Her first thought
was not for her baby but for her poodle
dog.
An Item for Dudes.
Man was given brains for q purpose.
Bone never find this out.-TexAs Sift-
tngs.