The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-06-12
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

that can be caught on fly.
A Virginian is under arrest for
pawning his wife's corset for a quart OF
whisky. He believed that tight lacing
would kill her.
One can get big boa constructor IN
New York for forty.iye dollars, and yet
there are men who are constantly COM
planning about hard times.
"A young man of twenty-one hanging
to a lamp-post and singing Father
don't drink any now" ut midnight, rs
one of the curious phases Of city life.
A Detroiter who removed 20 Lone
Tree, Neb., a year or two ago, writes To
| n tobacco house in that city TO send him
five pounds of "lne.cut' 10y express,
1t is estimated that in Paris there
has been an average of three suicides a
day for the past year. During tho win.
ter the suicides occurred at the rate OF
four a day.
A marriage was broken mp in
! Duluth by the young man making an
unexpected call and finding the poodle
dog playing with his truelove's glass
| eye.
The wife of Edward s. Stokes, the
! assassin of Fisk, has obtained decree
of divorce. 1t seems that the matrimo-
NAL bonds between her and her husband
were severed by mutual consent.
An eastern poet gives this parting
advice to the bridegroom
% he alters kind, and never say shall,
And DO what You can tow please her,
For she's a hundred Mcricau gal,
And the cho-i-do our hundred Crsar.
"A cynical writer says: "Takc a
company of boys chasing butterflies
put lOng-tailed coats on the boys, and
turn the butterflies into dollars, and
you have beautiful panorama OF the
world"
To see how eagerly human being
will catch at n straw, it is not necessary
to witness n drowning. The phcnomo-
non is now manifest chiefly within sa-
looms, where one end of the straw is
immersed in n tumblcr.
An undertaken in New York ndver-
tises, "Coflins made to order-now's
the time TO get mp clubs" This ia
about as CHASTITY in its humor as the un-
dertaker's sign-board in Bellefonte, Pa,
"Coflins made and repaired"
A modern satirist says that an in
dolent man, who has overspent his in-
come and lives on the principal, is like
Heine's monkey, who was found one day
hilariously seated 10y the fire and cook
ing his own tail in a copper kettle for
dinner.
-"X's" don't amount to anything on
oyster cans or barrels Of flour. They
have got so they put fifty pound rocks
in a barrel of flour and then paint five
KS on the head, though the x-tra busi-
ness could all he done in minute 10y
the man who finds the stone.
"A Boston target company, composed
OF twelve young ladies, went TO Dor
chester Heights on an excursion the
other day. The shooting was good, as
usual, and gold medal was awarded b.
Miss Lizzie Flynn for hitting young
spooney in the leg so that he had 10 60
home TO his mother
Kate Field, in her letters about
Spain, gives MS the following moral re-
Election as the result of her study Of
Spanish human nature "lt is great
mistake 60 think that coed people are
the most light-hearted and contented.
They are bothered by conscience and
worried about everlasting salvation" ="
The following verse is said TO be the
flight which prompted Ucnnyson to call
Joaquin Americas grcatCst poet:
Alone and sad / rat mo down
To read on RuuEHeau'E narrow isle,
Below Geneva. Mile ON mrlc
Aud rot with many shining town,
Towrca Dent du Mid danced tho wave
Beneath the moon. Winds went and came,
And famed the stars into n flame.
On Ros-cauz isle, Ia Bou--caus shade,
Two pink and spicy drinks were made;
In classic shade, ON cluH-i' ground,
We stirred two cOcht0is round aud round.
A very pleasant perfume, aud also
a preventive against moths, may be
made of the following ingredients
Take cloves. caTrawav seeds, nutmeg,
mace, cinnamon, and tonquin beans,
Of each one ounce then add as much
Florcntine orris root as will equal the
D her ingredients put together. Grind
the whole TO n fine powder, put IL i'm
silk cotton filled bags, and place among
,lothes, etc.
A Philadelphia broker, worth at
)ne time n quarter Of a million OF dol
ars, is now peddling books for a liveli-
l"od. He derives his largest income
rom thrilling brochure entitled "a
Of the Philadelphia Centen-
NAL" Persons whom lac importunes To-
1uy a copy promptly knock him down,
md he RECEIVERS from five 30 ten dollars
rom each Of them in an action for as
iault and battery.
The president of Guntamala has
orbidden the clergy of that republic 10
wear the clerical dress except when
hey are engaged in the performance Of
heir ecclesiastical functions, and has
losed all the converts but one, that of
It, Catharine, the nuns of the abolished
onvents, one hundred and forty in
lumber, having the option Of either en-
ering the convent Of st. Catharine or
eturning TO civil life.
He was a quaint old fisherman. Ono
ay, along toward dusk, hs was fishing
q a trout stream, and as he swung his
v over the water il was suddenly snap
ed by large bat. The strange look
lg thing dangled and tapped its wings
/ the end of the line. The iiahsrmnn's
called out "Say, Sam, got
nythinp ?" "Ye-es," looking at tho
at on his hook. "Whnt is it2' 81
unno, unless it's a cherubim I"
Directions were given by the Uni
"a States senate the other day to have
hIlDb hthlkudlfAA III tll' iN I'lN'A kA'hAiAn
)r the equestrian statue Of Gen. Greene,
in conformity with the resolution Of
10 continental congress, passed in
1885," There was no occasion 20 hurry
bout it. IL is not II hundred years yet
nee the resolution was passed, and
no cares a continental what the conti-
entail congress resolved, anyhow?
"A curious fact in regard to- immi-
ration is that many who come 10 the
-nited States and Canada are from dis
lets in the British isles almost as
linly populated as Dakota or South
m Florida. About $50 immigrants
ON Kincardineshire, Scotland, recent
arrived at Halifax, bound for a new
ttlement. Yet one may travel tho
oors of Kincardine for miles without
eiDg n house, and the land is but
lorly cultivated.
"A few days ago a hungry party sat
,wn at the Widespread supper Of
und steamer, upon which one Of tho
shes contained n trout Of moderate
ze. A serious-looking individual drew
is dish toward him, saving, APOLOGIZE