The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-15
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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An experienced old gentleman says
that all that is necessary in the enjoy
ment of love or sausages is conhdencs.
A plaster made of fresh Stacked
lime and fresh tar is a sure cure for can
GER, which, with all its roots, will come
out.
A st. Louis art critic takes occa-
sion to remind the painters that they
could do better business mending TIM
pans.
1T seems 10 be settled now, that
men who would avoid "see ng through
a glass darkly" should drink nothing
but gin.
A tea made Of chestnut leaves, and
drank in the place of water, will cure
the most obstinate cases of dropsy in n
few days.
The season of the year has arrived
when if you swear you won't catch any
fish, but you can buy big string for
fifteen cents.
"A crowd witnessing row in Detroit
was dispersed by the announcements ahat
"a collection would now be taken up Tor
q poor widow"
A Clergyman, who has bad habit
OF adding "ah" to many OF his words,
| told last Sunday, of those who had been
brought up on the Lords side-ah.
Any young man who will wear
| shirt-studs, and then wear necktie
long enough to hide them from gaze,
don't know the first principle OF reason.
The annual production Of snuff is
about 1000, 900 pounds, the greater
part of which is said TO be used IN the
southern states.
! The Alabama State Journa' repre-
sents that the negroes who have emf
grated from that state to the west are
retracing their steps.
"A Texas man claims TO haveinvented
hat-iron that will smooth a sheet in
minute, but "a is too heavy 10 be used
as a domestic missile.
"A tea made Of ripe or dried w1rtle-
berries, and drank in place of watCr. is
a sure and speedy cure for scrofui- MS
difficulties, however bad.
There is a man at Bay Ridge whose
pedal extremities are so large that the
urchins fill mp his footprints with wa
ter and sail boats in them.
A Maine debating society is now
wrestling with the question us
Sabbath-school superintendent justified
in wearing red neck-tie ?"
Navy officers are said 10 be very
popular in the matrimonial market at
Washington. is IL because they go on
such long and lonely voyages
Gen. J. b. Hood announces his in-
tention Of replying TO the reflections up
on his career contained in Gen. Joseph
T.. Johnston's book on the military oper-
ations OF the rebellion.
-"Good manners" says Swift, "is
the art of making those people easy
with whom we converse F; whoever makes
the fewest persons uneasy is the best
bred man in the company"
Kansas Judges are either very gene
rous or else they have little dignity.
One of them was called cold Skillet
legs " by a lawyer, and he only imposed
a fine OF S7t cents fer the contempt OF
court.
What will the ladies think when
they are told that the Lamarque bush
will produce four thousand full-blown
roses and twenty thousand buds looking
at them. 1t is said such is the fact in
Florida.
-Husband-"I as / said before,
Matilda, you still cherished that feeling
of affection for me which you once pro-
fessed, my wish would be law 20 You.
/ repeat il, Matilda-Law Matilda
-"Lor'P
-Twenty-one freshmen were lately
suspended from an English college be-
cause a professor couldn't fiud ont who
placed a ten-ounce tack in his chair.
He, however, knew all about who sat
down on it.
-Advices from Little Rock represent
Brooks men as out OF meat. When
those Arkansas fellows complain OF being
out of meat you may rest assured thRt
the chickens of the neighborhood are
roosting uncommonly high.
Mr.. Phillips, Nj. @. from Kansas,
lately received the following telegram
" Your residence, valued at S15. 900, has
been totally destroyed by fire but
great exertions most OF your
library, valued at $40, was saved"
A man has applied for a patent on a
fountain pen, which, by the pressure of
the thumb on a small rubber ball, pro-
iects stream of ink through the holder
into the face of the fellow who is look
ing over your shoulder while you are
writing.
On Wea Prairie, near Lafayette,
Ind, is little hut four feet high, with
n forty-foot lightning rod on it. The
being asked if e was traid
of the lightning, replied mot bit;
but it keeps those cussed lightning rod
fellers from striking"
Fathers Of families may be in,,r-
ested in the fact that the importation {
South African diamonds TO this country
has averaged fve millions year for tho
last three years. At present diamonds
are cheaper than they have been for tn
years, and pearls are dearer. Nov
the time 10 buy.
The Government bota ist who is
in Australia mentions, in an
official dispatch, a fig tree which in
size far surpasses the far-famed trees
in the Yosemite country. This tree
three feet from the ground measures
100 feet in circumference, and at 80
feet-where IL sends forth giant branch
es-the trunk measures so feet round.
Mrs. Anna M. Fitzhugh, who died
at her home nj Alexandria, Va, few
lays ago, bestows the bulk OF her prop
erty upon the children OF the late Gen.
r. II. Lee, relatives Of her husband, by
whom it Was bequeathed 10 her She
ras worth two hundred thousand dollars
in bonds, stocks and money, in addition
TO large landed estates.
A small boy got another boy, some
what smaller than himself, down on the
ground, and got hold Of both his ears,
placing his knee in the small Of the boys
pack, and asked him, in a very persua-
i've manner, IL he would give him that
white alley OF his'n. The boy replied in
.he affirmative. How easy it is 70 settle
things when one goes about it the right
way.
The Chicago Times thinks that the
Louisville public librarian should be
TO buy a liberal supply Of
and a few Thousand BIZ
1les, for the benefit Of the people Of
Louisville and "Hoyle on Games"
md the Racing Calendar" for the
1se OF strangers who wish 10 conform
10 the customs Of the city while they
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