The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
FAoTs AND FANoIEs.


my, pickles aud counting, are the order
of the day.
Chicago will hereafter not allow
the presence of frame buildings within
her limits. Correct. r-.
Call girl young witch and ahtI
is pleased; call an elderly woman en- old
witch, and her indignation knows no
bounds.
Prairie grass has become the next
thing to intellectual food. 1t is being
exported from Illinois to Liverpool, to
be made into paper.
A new York company will insure
poodle dogs, but won't take a oent'a
risk on babies. They know which re.
ceives the most care.
The strongest propensity in woman'a
nature, says a cynical editor, is desire
to know what is going on, and the next
to manage the job.
The weather is 80 dry in central
Ohio that the sounds of a fond mother
whaling her only son with the boot
Jack can be heard iull mile when the
wind is right.
The simple inscription, David
| Livingstone, 1874" now marks the
place in Westminster Abbey where the
| great traveller lies buried.
Packing sardines is a new branch
| of industry recently commenced in San
| Francisco. Six million dollars worth
came from abroad last year.
A chap who spent 81 4OOto graduate
from Harvard is postmaster in Iowa at
S24 per year. Where would he have
been but for his Latin and Greek.
-- Mrs. Woodruff wants TO go before
the Plymouth church investigating
committee. She predicts that she
could "raise the roof" OF that interest
ing building.
TIN not in mourning" said
Young lady frankly TO querist " but as
the widows are getting all the offers
nowadays, we poor girls have 10 resort
to artiiice."
When a Michigan woman was TAX
en- from the cowcatcher OF n locomotive,
upon which she ha been caught and
carried half mile, she said with feel
ing, ct was just scooped up like goeh
almighty, wasn't ?"
A Louisiana man puts n two-ounoo
can of nitro-glycerine inside Of n chick
en-. tosses the chicken 20 an alligator,
and that alligator does not trouble the
bayou any more.
10, Lord" prayed n minister,
"keep me humble and poor !" 60,
Lord, il Thou wilt keep him humble
said the deacon who next prayed, "we
will keep him poor
A breach Of promise of marriage,
in which the damages were laid at $50,
600, has been compromised with pres
ent of five dollars and q new ohignon.
1t was in Kentucky.
Those Texas are bad men 30 be
trihed with. One OF them wanted
foundry at Galveston 10 cast him n
glass bottle, and when they laughed
at him he peppered three men with
buckshot.
The example Of Mr.. James Lick is
beginning TO bear fruit. IL Is said that
Mr.. Henry Shaw proposes 10 deed TO
st. Louis his extensive botanical gar
dens, which have long been the pride
OF that city.
1t is said that the mosquitoes are
large this season. The only
that people who are oblig-
ed TO remain in the city can get from
this is the hope that the old bull mos
auitoes will loaf around the baok-yards
at night and eat mp tie tom cats.
The present Dumas says: From
the fact that man wanders from the
right path, do not let us conclude that
it 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 not high crimes, such ms rob
berry and murder. which destroy the
peace of society. The village go SIP,
family quarrels, jeolousies, chickering's
between neighbors, meddlesomeness
and tattling, are the worms which eat
into all social happiness.
We do not know why 20 many are
the subjects Of astronomy
and spiritualism at the present time,
without il is because Venus is such
charming medium. She is to hold
grand scdnce in December next, when
lhe will do the tranc, 1T business for
he whole world.
"A canvass is going on in the prin-
,ipal towns of Michigan TO ascertain
whether a majority OF women want 10
7ote. While the larger number think
hey would vote on temperance and
,ther kindred topics If they had a
,hance, the result Of the canvass thus
ar seems TO show that they are not
Inxious for the ballot on general ques-
ions Of political policy"
An admirable improvement in the
present crude system Of communicating
w telegraph has been inaugurated by
he government OF Switzerland. 10 is
proposed TO allow parties at different
tations 20 hold interviews, 10 be paid
or in proportion 10 the time used, and
lot by the number of words. This will
uppiy an opportunity for detailed ex-
,lanation in business matters which is
lot afforded under the arbitrary system
hat is in vogue is most countries.
A walking stick with tar on the end
rot a brace of suspicious-looking men
nto difficulty in st. Louis, and caused
heir being conveyed as prisoners to
he police-station. The police seemed
o have an idea that the tar on the end
4 the stick was there for financial pur-
,oses, and was meant 20 facilitate the
auling in of a portion OF the loose
hange generally 10 found on the shelf
,ehind the counter i'm beer halls when
10 bar-keeper's back was turned.
THE Boston papers are getting 10
20 unlntelllRlDles ntItt loh lhnthhNNt
5 the Transcript that overhears this inn
ginary conversation Dearest, be-
ieve me, do love you with my whole
ervous organism. You share with no
ther being the emotions which pre-
ade my undivided gray matter, and II
were conscious Of a ganglion that
hrobbed but for thee, be sure 1 would
ot sleep till had procured its neurot-
my" IL is all owing 10 the recent at
ack OF DIR. Brown-Sequard.
-"Gideon," the Washington CORE
pondent of the Chicago Times, flares
10 at Parton's twaddle in Harper's mag
zine on the "Falsehood in the Daily
'ress," and advises him 30 "ccase his
amnable iteration Of cheap magazine
rivel, go west, and get elected 10 con-
ress from granger district, and
kinks after he has been hunted ono
ession by agents for Indian claims,
,atents for breaks and hats, and steam
,oat, railway, and mining companies,
10 will find out if the lobby is "Rigan-
ic myth"