The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-11-13
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

are church1nB deacon uoWh bheto 10
using the expression.
-Thirty.five thousand Iowans ovo
ten wears of age can neither read no
write. and the rest of the population
read and write to little purpose.
A Russian proverb says: Before
going to war, pray once before going
to sea, pray twice; before getting mar
ried, pray three times"
"A lady correspondent Of a western
journal thinks there ought to be stat
ute of limitation against the reappear'
ance of long-lost husbands.
If you are going to Montana put a
few apples in your coat-tail pockets.
They will sell for forty cents apiece
when you get there.
The explosive force of the "fire
damn" t" which is the cause Of 30 many
accidents in coal mines, has been calcu-
lated 10 be equal to more than 1000
pounds to the inch.
A Belgian has started an egg farm
near Marietta, Ga. He has eight hun
dred hens and fifty cocks. The bus
mess now yields $4,000 eggs and 2,l2O
chickens per annum.
In October the affectionate husband
weeps TO see his wife skip about the
house forishing a duster, and TO hear
her shrek, in accents wild, XII him
There's another moth miller J"
A strong-armed American tooth-ex-
tractor has just opened his tool'chest
in Rome. Persons who have seen him
90 through the motions think that he is
destired to make "Rome howl"
Now is the proper season OF the
year to get up donations for your MIN
lister. and carry him n few pounds OF
dried apples, bushel OF potatoes and
three wards of cotton, and damage his
house TO the extent of fifty dollars.
A census completed 10y tho local
authorities in Minnesota, gives 552, 600
as the present population OF the state,
and rates the taxable value Of all prop
erty within its borders at $2l7, 900, 600
an average of a fraction over 1888 to
each inhabitant.
No man can spin around on the re-
volyinq seat of a three-legged stool 30
proudly, and at the san time carry
pen full of ink in such close proximity
to his eve without blinking, as the
newly. appointed secretary OF life IN
surance company.
-"Do YOU know why you are like
the third term ?" said Susan Jane TO
her brother, who fingered TO talk with
her Adolphus after the old folks had
retired. "No, 1 don't. " Well, re-
piled his sacharine sister, "it's because
you're one too many"
1t is stated that an exceptionally
large group of spots is now visible ON
the surface of the sun. They may be
with smoked glass without
the aid of a teles cope. According TO
w. f. Denning, Of Bristol, England,
the spots cover an area Of nearly 7S,0OO
miles.
The wife sof Udderzook, the con-
iemned murderer, refused 10 visit her
husband, but will in n few days quit
Baltimore, and, with her children, jour
new TO California, where she intends
a boarding-house. She has
not seen the wretched man for several
A teacher, questioning little boys
about the graduation in the scale oi be-
ing. asked: "What comes next 70 mann
whereupon little shaver, who was evil
lently smarting under a sense OF pre-
yious defeat, Immediately di-tanced all
by promptly shouting "HiS
shirt, ma am !"
A Pittsburgh preacher has been re-
Iuested to repeat his sermon, and SAY
I slow" In one of his sentences he re-
marks: 1.-THE marvellous multidinous-
ness of the minutiR Of the corroborntlng
are the insurmountable
lifliculties which Enthusiastically prevent
he skeptic from discovering truth.
We turn TO the right on the street.
.ather than 20 the left, as is the English
.ule. Our custom leaves the two dri-
,ers on the outside, where they cannot
veil see whether their vehicles will col
ide or not. whereas under the English
ule the two drivers come together on
he inside so they can see the danger OF
collision.
"A Richmond tobacco house lately
lad returned TO them by their agents IN
England two hogsheads of tobacco,
which was pronounced by the govern
nent analyzers as being too sweet for
under the law governing
he manufacture and sale Of tobacco in
hat country, it containing, according
o analysis, 12t per cent. of sugar.
A cynic shrewdly remarks that
gealthy clergymen do not, 10 any great
xtent, go forth TO bear the tidings OF
to the heather. Perhaps there
! n certain wise economy regulating
his thing, based upon the reflection
hat a tender. capon-lined, daintily nur-
nred laborer in the vineyard is temp
alton TO the anthropophagous savage
hat a poor, hoR-and -honey-fed clergy
lan is in less danger of offering.
The average value of the trade be-
ween Paris and the United States is
aid 20 be somewhere near S75, 5,OOO,OOO
er apnum. This estimate, however,
,cludes the sums expended by Amer
,an visitors in Paris. A large part OF
1is is for finery and fancy goods
,welry. hats, gloves, buttons, ribbons,
TO-. etc. Silks alone figured TO the
mount of 81, ,OO0, 900 in the last annual
fficial report of the American consul
eneral.
The city OF New York, at least so far
a itg municipal debt is concerned, rs
orthv 10 take rank with the very first
ties in the world. The statement OF
"a COMPTROLLER, Just published, shows
,at ON the 3Oth OF September the debt
mounted 10 s153, 726, 092, which is an
,crease of about S22, 500, 600 since tho
eginning of the year. There are, how
yer TO the credit of the sinking fund,
,curities valued at S26, s29, 732, leaving
le net debt on September 30, at Sl26,-
,6, 800.
AN old soldier in Sicily gave his
ife silk dress. His wife died and
as buried in the dress. Some weeks
ter the old soldier saw this dress on
oman in the country, and, making in
uiry, was told that she had purchased
from the Capuchin monks, who had
ie custody OF the village cemetery.
10 reported the case TO the police, who
Investigated and made the discovery
lat a regular trade was carried on IN
fleets taken from dead bodies. There
as even trade in hair.
A sduaw sat down on the curb IN
ont of the post.ofiice in Austin, New,
nd, unrelling a bundle of calico, com
Ienced the manufacture Of a dress. In
rs than an hour the dress was finished;
ld putting il on over her old clothes
le sduaw pulled ont n pin here, q peg
lere, and united a string in another
lace, made one step and, presto the
d clothes lay in the gutter. Gather
10 up the rags Just shed, the noble
A. Ir.ntr Of