The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-27

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Dean Swift's recipe for courtship:
! Two or three dears, and two or three sweet
| Two or three balls, or two or three treats
| Two or three serenados given a. q lure,
I Two or three oaths how much they ondro
| Two or three messages sent IN one day,
| Two or three times led out from the play,
| Two or three tickets for two or three times
| Two or three love-lettera writ all in rhymes
| Two or three months keeping strict TO tho
rules,
Can never fail making a couple Of fools.
An organization called the "Nation-
al Federation of Employers" has been
formed in England, with the view OF
counteracting the influence Of the trades
unions.
In Decatur, Illinois, when a young
| lady declines an offer TO convey her
home, the would-bo escort asks per
mission TO sit on the fence and see her
go by.
The miners Of Colorado are seeking
20 have the mining laws Of that territory
made uniform with those Of the United
States, especially in regard 20 the width
! of the lodes.
-Experiments made in some OF the
| southern counties OF the San joaquin
valley. California, are so encouraging
that a good deal of land will be planted
in cotton this year.
Thus sung a to.be bride, in most
pathetic strains:
| Pass quickly. o Time over clustering March
| When B1reas the Rude holds bis court
| And il you've the least bit Of feeling Tor me,
| Let sun-showery April be short.
! I long the delights Of the summer to taste
! AndETye particular reason for haste
! yvould IL we, possible could arrange
SO We mis- ht have June before May;
/ But M / cant do Il, Genius OF lest.
Please let me sleep one month away.
| The reason wish 10 have summer 40 soon
/. his-Im engaged tobc married. H JN"'
The New York World, in referring
20 tla ,ropositiou TO "put God into the
Constitution. I" saws "In our humble
INDICTMENT it would be n great deal bet
Ter 10 nut Him in the hearts and con
sciences of the people. We have no
faith in attempts to propagate religion
by political or governmental machin-
cry"
The Richmond Enquirer says hun
5rods of we'll -to.do English families are
preparing to emigrate to Virginia IN lne
snrtnp. Land has already been pur-
! cbaeed Inv Englishmen in Amelia county
70 the extent of 500, OO0 and the settlers
are we'll pleased 20 own their farms m
stead of renting land at home for SD
an acre.
Coal from the Montevallo mines IN
Alabama has recently been tested Dy ON
GERS of the United States ut Pensacola,
who report that they 'iind 1t to be clean
and free burning, making steam rapldly;
believe IL compares favorably with the
Cumberland, now used in the depart
ment of steam engineering
-"Got anything for a sick man TO
read ?" inquired a pug-nosed boy at u
news stand the other day. res my
, tLiog Won want-Bibles, poems, reli-
, gions hooks. Christian Herald, etc, " re-
5iied the clerk. "Bibles - echoed the
how ado you think dads a hangel
Gimme a lively dime noyel-one with
an Iniun sculping n soldier.
Some Of the largest houses in the
, dry goods trade have decided not To
send out commercial trn ,elers TINS sea-
son, preferring to attract buyers 20 thei5 :
: warehouses by making prices low, ana
sending samples. They complain t9at %
trayolops Give credit rocklcssly in order
! tn sepd home large orders, and that
heavy losses have resulted from TINS
;. practice.
Galveston is evidently enjoying con,
, siderable prosperity. Our whaTVes'
a local paper says, ARE lined WIN We
|, sells, our presses overtOwlnB Wlth % l%lu
q geccv siopIe. Even the streets are
n whitened with cotton, for which II Is I'M.
. nossible 10 find shelter, and yet every
. troin and every boat brings forward ac.
. ccssions TO the already oyerstockeu
a Yards and warehouses.
t The tower TO be erected in the Gen,
h tennial building mt Philadel phla WI,
n be one thousand feet high. A cenirN
= tube thirty feet in diameter, eAtehlins l
a tba entire length, will be occupied hN
fonr elevators for the transportation o
4 visitors. Around this tube winds
n snirnl staircnse for those who prefer u
=. ,Tolk While 10 ascend 10y the lattel
4 will reouire n steady head, n stout hear
~ v,iII he necessary 20 those who under
.e take n trip, with its risks, by the former
It -Dprino n tour. last fall, along tn,
st rortbern boundary line Of the United
1t States. Prof. Osborn found distinc
q traces of magnctic iron sand, along th'
"a entir. line from New York eastward o
j. Ohio nearly 70 the west end OF LAX
's Snnerior. where a large deposit exists
G. THE steel formed from this ore, proper.
D. iempered and shaped, readily scratche
y deep grooves into glass. IL forms th
Q, so-ealied titanic steel, which IL not m
IF ;ured by n heat that destroys cemente'
le steel. or steel formed only 10y addition
a. of carbon.
= Mr.. Hornaby, Of Fond du Lac, at
tempted to go down cellar the othg
night to get a pitcher Of cider, III
wife warned him 10 be careful ana no no
RS break the pitcher. He slipped on tll
n. first stair aud fell 10 the bottom sh'l
ned his elbows and knees, bumped ~
ID head, broke his nose, tore his coat, hi
K Ian led on the cellar floor total WIeyf
,n but saving the pitcher. Mrs. hornsI iis, !.
Is called 10 him in horrlhed accents w w
h Hornaby, Mr.. Hornahy, did you DrS,, DN,
to the pitcher 2" He growled back, N'
ny / didn't, but by thunder l Will An
al he did.
ch The French government, acting o
Q tho recommendation of the committee g
~ Notifications, has determined 10 kee
"a for the next five years 1000 pairs
u u carrier pigeons for breeding. pnrpoS'
IA for service in wGr time. Each iortre
Dl- will have military pigeon-houS
as- and each pigeon-housc VIII COZ
VI tain 900 birds. Two BeneIul 9'
ge t;ons will be established, at each
es- which % 60. 900 pigeons will be ker
nj The German fortresscs nt Metz al
err Strasburg have been for year past co
me pected with the other German forts ]
lns nIs a system Of carrier pigeons.
BY, In speaking of Lee and Grant, " q
nd Hector and Achilles OF the Americ
m 'Iliad,'" the Saturday Review say
nj "The Virginian's character was OF IN
in noble kind which retains its full mes
the ure Of dignity in the shadow Of adv,
as sity. Though nothing succeeds j
err success yet, in the Last meeting OF I
hostile generals, our admiration and
w. spect are given chiefly TO him who 81
ge, renders his sword and, viewing The
'ty- as they appear in later years, when th
e is fortunes diverged so widely, the pr
or ident Of the great republic looks sm
be- and commonplace compared with :
ons broken-hearted school-mRster OF IL
ers. ington."
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