The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1874-08-15
FACTS AND FANCIES.

| An exchange menllOnS OIhuBs-pStl
as power behind the thrown.
-Delicately Put.-Customer-"I'm
afraid I'm getting little bald !
The Minnesota grssshoppers can
cradle twenty-four acres Of wheat in an
hour.
A Boston man says: at is very easy
to remember the poor. l can remember
cases twenty years ago."
Patriotism, Conservatism, hog, hom-
my, pickles and courting, are the order
of the day.
Chicago will hereafter not allow
the presence of frame buildings within
her limits. Correct.
"A marble company at Brandon, VT,
is making one hundred thousand head.
stones for dead soldiers.
"A new York company will insure
poodle dogs, but won't take cents
risk on babies. They know which re-
ceives the most care.
"A chap who spent 81, 400to graduats
from Harvard is postmaster in Iowa at
S24 per year. Where would he have
been but for his Latin and Greek.
A marine editor at Cincinnati dares
to say that there is not a steamboat
man on the western rivers who would
not die rather than tell the truth.
The editor of the Panama Star ap-
clogizes for the non-appearance of his
paper by saying that he had to haul off
to dig buckshot ont of his legs.
go, Lord" prayed a minister,
"keep me humble and poor !" go,
Lord, if Thou wilt keep him humble, "
said the deacon who next prayed, "we
will keep him poor.
"A Louisiana man puts two.ouncs
can of nitro. glycerine inside Of a chick
en-, tosses the chicken to sn alligator,
and that alligator does not trouble the
bayou any more.
Those Texas are bad men to be
trihed with. One of them wanted a
foundry az Galveston to cast him a
glass bottle, and when they laughed
at him he peppered three men with
buckshot.
When a Michigan woman was TAX
en- from the cOwcatcher of locomotive,
upon which she ha been caught and
carried half mile, she said with feel
ing, "I was just scooped up like gosh
almighty, wasn't ?"
The example of Mr.. James Lick is
beginning to bear fruit 1t is said that
Mr.. Henry Shaw proposes to deed to
st. Louis his extensive botanical gar
dens, which have long been the pride
of that city.
1T is not high crimes, such as rob-
berry and murder. which destroy the
peace of society. The village go'sip,
family quarrel, iePlousiee, chickering's
between neighboIs. meddlesomeness
and tattling, are the worms which eat
into all social happiness.
The present Dumas says; From
the fact that man wanders from tho
right path, do not let MS conclude thst
il is woman who will lead him back
again. She can only follow him when
he has found the right path again, and
he will find it himself alone"
1T is said that the mosquitoes are
unusually large this season. The only
satisfaction that people who are obllg-
ed to remain in the city can get from
this is the hope that the old bull mos
ouitoes will loaf around the back-yards
at night and eat up tie tom-cats.
In the new university at Newbury-
nort all the students acquiring any
special tongue are to be .domiciled as
boarders with family speaking that as
their native language; and all foreign
professors are to be natives OF the coun-
tries to which their particular langua-
ges belong.
"A walking stick with TAR on the end
got brace Of suspicious-looklng men
into difficulty in ST. Louis, aud caused
their being conveyed as prisoners to
the police-statisn. The police seemed
to have an idea that the tar on the end
of the stick was there for financial pur-
poses, and was meant to facilitate the
hauling in of portion of the loose
change generally to found on the shelf
behind the counter in beer halls when
the bar-keeper's back was turned.
Said that DetrC it Judge to Henry
Mellus, the other day: "This affair
will wrench $40 bill from you unless
you want to go up for riuety days. Be
careful how you sling your fists around
after this. John G. Heenan gained
some hing of a reputation by blowing
his L uscle up, but public opinion has
changed. If you want to be famous
you must discover comet or hang
around reservoir and look out for
breaks"
Little Sherman W. Smith accom-
panied his mother to Boston auction
store. The Globe says: &C. lie soon ran
behind the counter, out Of sight, and
climbed on chair got hold Of pistol
that had been placed on shelf. He
began playing with this dangerous
weapon, which was a Smith & Wesson
seven-barreled revolver, and pulled the
trigger once behind the counter, with
out the cartridge exploding, he then
came round the edge of the counter,
and presenting the pistol at bis mother,
who was sitting facin him at the sew
ing machine, before any one had time
to notice him or to be made aware Of
what he was abeut, pulled tho trigger
seconed time and shot his mother
through the heart. The poor woman
could only calculate. Was that load
d?' before she fell dead upon the
floor"