The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

Latin quotation, "Tempora mutantur,
nos ct mutamur in ills" is not found in
any classic or Latin author. The near
est approach to it was g 'Omnia muta-
tur," &C., and this is found in Bourbo-
MUS, a German writer of the middle
ages. "Smelling of the lamp, is to be
! found in Plutarch, and is there attribu-
! ted to Pythias. ga little bird told me, :"
comes from Ecclesiastes, K, 20. /" For
bird of the air shall carry the voice,
and that which hath wings shall tell the
matter" .E E#7H E#EH#
'sHe that fights and runs away, z
May live to fight another day"
These lines, usually ascribed TO HUI
dibras, are really much older. They
are to be found in a book published in
1856. The same idea is. however, ex-
pressed in a couplet published in 1542,
while one of the few fragments of Me-
ander, the Greek writer, that have been
preserved, embodies the same idea in
a single line. The couplet in Hudibras
is:
"FOr those tina. fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.'
"Hell is paved with good Intentions"
though found in Johnson and Herbert,
was obviously in their day proverbial
expression. Walter Scott ascribes it to
"some stern old divine"
That's a good time coming" is an
expression used by Sir Walter Scott in
Rob Roy, and has, doubtless, for long
time been familiar saying in Scotland.
EriOuH coeLO fuln1era, Scea0traIn19ate
tyrGnTaiS, was a line upon Franklin
written by Turgot, the minister of Louis
XVI. It is, however, merely a modi-
fication of line by Cardinal Polignac,
Eri20uitQUe JOUi .fttLDle11, Pb0boque
sGgikGs, which in turn was taken from
a line of Marcus Manilias, who says of
Epicurus, Eripuitqete JoUi fatla11e11 ~
resqUi IO1a0,1ti.
Toc PopuIi, Vor Del. The origin
of this familiar phrase is not known,
but it is quoted as provtrb by Will
liam Of Malmsbury, who lived in the
early part of the twelfth century.
Ultima rata Teguna. This motto
was engraved on the French cannon by
order of Louis XIV.
s'WhistIing girls and growing hens
Always come to some bad end"
In one of the curious Chinese books |
recently translated and published in |
paris, this proverb occurs in substan- |
TALLY the same words. 1t is also an in |
junction of the Chinese priesthood, and |
a carefuIly-observed household custom,
to kill Immediately every hen that |
crows, as preventive against the mis-
fortune which the circumstance is sup
posed to indicate.
Mild Winters.
The mildness of the present season,
both here and in Europe, has induced
some of the book worms to look up
precedents. The result is that, so far, |
at least, as Europe is concerned, for we
have not the same records here to fall
back upon, the present bears no com
parisou to some of the winters long
gone by. In 1172 the temperature was
so high in England that leaves came out
on the trees in January, aud birds
Matched their broods in February. In
1899 the winter was equally mild, and
the maidens of Cologne wore wreaths
of violets and corn flowers at Christmas
and on twelfth da,. In 1421 the trees
lowered in the month of March, and
the vines in the month of April. Cher
ries ripened in the same month, and
grapes appeared in May. In 1872 the
trees were covered with leaves in Janu-
ary, and the birds Matched their young
IN February, as in 1172 in 1855 the
same thing was repeated, and it is ad-
led that the corn was in the ear at
Easter. There was in France neither
snow no frost throughout the winters of
1888, 1907. 1909, 1917, and 1859; final
ly, in 1862, even in the north of Ger
many, the stoves were not lighted, and
trees fowered in February. Coming to
ater dates, the winter of 1846-7, when
It Numbered at Paris on the 28th of
January, and that of 1856, the year of
he great inundation of the Seine, may
be mentioned as exceptionally mild.
"A female lecturer in California,
;peaking in behalf of her sex, saws