The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
FAoTs AND FANoIEs.

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-Captain Jacks widow is going 10
marry soldier of the regular army, and
Is now learning to eat hard-tack and
drink bean coffee.
: Those hats which turn mp Of the
sides are jaunty, but part OF the natural
effect is lost when the wearer hasn't
cigar in her teeth.
The ST. Louisian never dies sud
denly. He walks around half dozen
wears. telling people about his liver
and chewing quinine, before crossing
the river.
-Tbev talk about the reckless e1tray.
aoance Of the American people, ana
yet q Bangor man worked all day TO
clean a three-cent stamp so that ne
could use II again.
The Chicago Times describes an
oflice-holder as collector OF the port
~ Ararat. when Noah arrived there
with his ark, and has uninterruptedly
held Office ever since.
"A Jersey City lawyer was making
hiph. flown speech tho other day, telling
about angels tears, weeping willows
and tombstones, when his honor SAID
"Confne your remarks to the doB
fight"
Now comes the smallpox scare to
mako a man grow pale clear behind the
! ears. It's one thing, and another thing,
and some more things, until one feels
! that he might as we'll remove to New
Jersey and let everything 60 to blazes'
-"Short and pudgy women ought
| not to wear BELTS This rs GOOD Rd-
vice throw away. There is not wo-
man in the world who believes u ap-
! plies TO her. "Short and pudgy !"
Not for Josephine.
-"If You will inst take notice, says
tho Detroit Free Press, ''you VIII ma
that bald-heRded man never raises ms
hat TO a lady" IL would eeem, then,
that mans politeness, like Samsons
strength, lies in bis hair.
A western exchange tells us that
Idaho schoolmasters are allowed 20 kick
small boys up and down long flights OF
stairs, but the fathers of small boys are
allowed TO kick the top Of the school
masters head Off for doing so.
No. bub, we've always made II
rule never 10 buy barrel Of flour I'M
less there are four red KS on each head,
with thirty one stars in n circle,
and chrome picture in the CEN
ter, and our cook has good luck with
biscuit.
"A girl in Georgia brought a suit
against a recreant lover, claiming SlOOOO
damages, but she compromised for four
bales of cotton and a new parasol. Her
LAWYER took the cotton for his fee, and
she kept the parasol to heal her wound
ed affections.
A popular clergyman says it 10 in
teresting TO observe how many people
20 TO the circus "just TO please the
children" and very curious TO notice
that sometimes IL takes several able
bodied men and motherly women to look
after one little boy or girl on such an
occasion.
The Britishers are casting an eighty
ton gun TO carry SSOlb shot ten
miles A charge Of 300 pounds OF pow
der will be required. The gun is 10 DO
of steel, 81 fe { long, 6 feet in dinme-
ter at the truruion and 1G inches bore.
This formidable missile is TO be compile
ted next June.
-"What think you Of tho prices
charged TO hear Patti, says a Paris cor
respondent. "you who grumble at pay
ing three dollars n seat 10 hear Nilsson,
Maurel and Campanini? Boxes at tho
Italiens, from twenty-five 10 forty dol
lars; single seats in the parquette,
twenty dollars balcony, twelve dollars;
second tier the same"
An erring husband, who had e1-
hausted all explanations for late hours-
and had no apology ready, recently
slipped into the house about one o'clock
yeTv softly. denuded himself gently, and
began rocking the cradle 10y the bed
side, as il he had been awakened out OF
a sound sleep by infantile cries. He
had rocked away for five minutes, when
Mary Jane, who had silently observed
the whole manmuvre, said, " Come to
he'd, Won fool, you the baby amt
there"
The legal ruling in England is that
TO secure n copyright in that country
an American author must either first
publish his work in the United King
dom, or publish IL upon the same day
here and there. He must, too, be some
where on British soil on the day OF
publication-Canad Foil will answer
the purpose. In the United States no
foreigner can obtain n copyright unless
he is n citizen or q resident and res
idence is held 20 mean staying with
can intention Of permanent abode"
"A grocer in Detroit keeps ga little
brown Jug" near his cider barrel, aud
when nc wants TO do the fair thing by
a customer he mingles some Of the con-
tents Of the aforesaid iug with the ci-
der. He made n mingle for nm old
farmer, but got in great deal OF whisky
and very little cider. About an hour
after drinking, the farmer was observed
leaning against a fence, and was heard
Go soliloduize: "It's too late fer sun
strokes and too early 10 freeze 10 death,
and ] guess it's a touch Of the shakin'
ager."
In the reign Of the late king OF
Siam, the currency of the realm con-
sisted Of lead and zinc coins. Copper
CONS were subsequently introduced,
but they we're so easy Of imitation that
counterfeits were soon in general circu-
lation. Cowries we're then used, and
the copper coinage was Withdrawn.
The heads Of gambling houses-privi-
lege institutions in Siam-put in circu-
lation q crockery currency, which they
recall at pleasure. This crockeTy cur
rencv, however, is now 10 be recalled
by the government, and paper notes Of
small denominations are TO be geneI-
ally usediuntil proper coinage can DO
decided upon.
The mighty intellect that presides
over the "Answers 90 Correspondents
of the New York Ledger has on bis
hands the case of n Memphis young
man, who writes 81 am young man,
twenty-five years of age. j have been
very little in ladies' society. / have
mary invitations 10 evening parties,
but / feel such an embarrassment that
when in the society Of ladies / blush
and perspire, and feel very uncomforta-
BILE, and can not act myself. j can talk
with them on business matters when
in the store-I am in the retail grocery
business-but when get in the parlor
feel very much ont Of place. Please
tell me what 10 do to overcome this
weakness"
"A Mr.. Atcherloy has recently tested
a large number Of samples OF malt
liquors in England expressly for lead,
and has found that there is poison in
most of them. The liquor acts, IN bis
opinion, upon the lead or composition
mining uapd nv beer retailers for con-