The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-06
aLEAN1Nas AND GOSSIP.

a veil.
The Northern Pacific rail way COM
pany claim 1,178,000 acres OF land in
Washington and Oregon, and 5,120, 600
in Dakota.
-" How fast they build houses nowl"
said II. /; "they began that building
last week, and now they are putting in
the lights" " Yes, answered his friend
"and next week they will put in tho
liver"
"A Brooklyn Judge charged o jury in
a recent suit for breach of promise OF
marriage, that the "gleam os the eyo
and the conjunction of the lips are over
lures, when they become frequent and
, protracted."
At a party, while a young lady was
playing with peculiar brilliancy Of
, touch, by-stander bachelor exclaimed.
"Td give the world for those fingers y
"Perhaps You might get the whole hand
by asking" said the young lady's obser-
want mamma.
%, Love can take what shape he
pleases, and, when once begun his fiery
inroad in the soul, how vain the after
knowledge which his presence gives
we weep or rave, but still he lives, and
lives master and lord, amidst pride and
tears and pain.-Bayyy Cornl0au.
The intelligence of affection is car
ried on by the eye only; gOod-breeding
has made the tongue falsify the heart,
and act part of continued restraint.
while nature has preserved the eyes 10
herself, that she may not be disguised
or misrepresented.- d.-AddisOn.
Learn the value Of n mans words
and expressions, and you know him.
Each man has a measure of his own for
everything this he offers yon inadvert-
emily in his words. He who has a
superlative for everything wants meas
ure for the great or small.-LaU1tcr.
Grace is a quality different from
| beauty, though nearly allied 20 il, which
! is never observed without affecting MS
with emotions of peculiar delight, and
which it is, perhaps, the first object OF
the arts or sculpture and painting 10
study and present.-AHison.
An over-reaching borse-one whose
hind feet are frequently hitting the
forward shoes-shoud wear heavy
shoes forward and light ones behind.
The theory is, that the heavier hoof
will be thrown n little farther ahead at
each step than the lighter one.
Some jackass says "Cheer up,
cheer up; it's a long lane that has no
turn" Don't we know it? OF course
it's a long lane that has no turn. How
perfectly absurd to expect n fellow 10
"cheer mp" because n long lane has no
turn. We decline TO cheer up for any
such reason.
The most appalling case Of deaf
ness that we ever came across outside
Of an asylum was that of an old lady
who lives Just across the street from the
navy-yard. The other day. they fred
salute of twenty-one guns. The old lady
was observed to start and listen as the
last gun was fired, and then exclaimed,
/" Come in"
The Indiana Farmer publishes the
experience Of Daniel A. Mills, Of
Bridgeport, whose hogs we're "dying at
fearful rate" with cholera, until he
turned them into his apple orchard,
when all those which were not too sick
to eat fell TO and devoured the wind
falls with gusto, and began 10 mend inn
mediately, ga marked improvement be-
ing obvious in three or four days"
There is no creature more fatal than
your pedant; safe as he esteems him
self, the terriblest issues spring from
him, Human crimes are many but
the crime Of being deaf 10 all Gods
voice, or being blind TO all but parch-
ments and antiquarian rubbish when
the divine handwriting is abroad on
the sky-certainly there is no crime
which the supreme powers do more ter
ribly avenge.-Cdrlylc.
One of the readiest replies we have
heard latcly was made by an Irish la
borer gentleman travelling on horse
back "down east came upon an Irish
man who was fencing in n most barren
and desolate piece Of land. "What
are you fencing in that lot for, PatT
said he ga herd of cattle would starve
to death on that land" "And suro,
yer honor, wasn't fencin' it in 10 kape
the poor bastes ont of it2'
"A writer, expatiating on the fertil-
izing properties Of guano, gives a vera
cious account of Kansas soil in the fol-
lowing: ga few hours after planting
cucmber seeds the dirt began 10 hy and
the vines came up like q streak, and.
although he started off % the top Of
his speed, the vines overlook and COW
cred him and on taking ont his knife
TO cut the darned thing he found n largo
cucumber gone to seed in his pocket"
Alexandra Dumas used 10 tell the
anecdote Being at the San
Carlos, Naples, he entered into oonver-
sation with n stranger sitting in the stall
next TO him. 81 hope" said the latter
at the close Of the performance, that
we may have the pleasure Of meeting
again. am Alexandra Dumas" ooh,
indeed - replied the celebrated novel
ist, with his gay laugh, $50 am /"
The stranger collapsed.
M. Franconi, the Partisan circus
nan, has brought an action for ten
thousand francs damages against tho
of cafe concert for an
the exhibition Of a double
headed, four-legged, bibrachiate wo-
nan. The phenomenon proved 10 be
wo women strapped together. Tho
plaintiff bases his claim on the fact
hat this sham monstrosity threw
2, 900 slur on the four-legged woman
ne claims To pOgsPsss