The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-25
FACTS AND FANOIEs.

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in Cincinnati at last. A church spire
there will be three hundred aud twenty
feet high when il is completed.
A boy jockey in California, who,
during the past Two years, mas ridden
horses in several races, was lately dis
covered to be a girl.
An agricultural paper Gays that
kind words will cure COW OF kicking,
bat many prefer the old way OF maui
ing the critter with a fence rail until
her heart is broken.
-" What comes after T2" asked a
teacher of a small pupil who was learn
ing the alphabet. He received the be-
wildering reply: "You do-tO SEQ
Lie"
Mr.. Jewett, the new president Of tho
Erie railroad, has been induced 10 sign
contract to hold the position for ten
years at $4,000 per year, or S4OO,OOO
for the term.
"A Western poet, who had expressed
a wish TO die amid the grand solitude
of the eternal mountain tops" was re-
Gently killed by the explosion OF pint
OF ten.cent Kerosene.
Sharon, the silver mine millionaire,
whose daughter had the hobbiest we'd
ding in Saa Francisco, tho other day,
that the Pacific slopers have ever wit
messed, sports Sl25 coal-scuttle.
"A widow was weeping bitterly for the
losg of her husband, and friend tried
to console her. "No, no, said she
"let me have my cry out, and then 1
sha'nt care nythIug more about 1t.
The tyrant man has treated con-
temptuously the woman suffrage pro-
position in Michigan, and Suean swears
that if any voter ever let's her SIT IN ms
lap again she'll pinch him, 80 help her
gracious
Mrs. Ramsey, of Dubuque, isn't
spiritual medium, nor yet believes IN
such things, but Ramsay says she can
make rolling-pins and potato-mashers
fly all over the house when she takes
notion to.
An elderly lady purchased one Of
the Egyptian mummies at the niagara
Falls museum, the other day, Tor a
parlor ornament. She said II would
seem better to have n man around, even
if he was advanced in life aud withered.
William Penn would sit down under
a tree, gather the Indians about him,
and tell them of the land beyond tho
sea. and deal himself four aces and win
their ducats every time. That's the
last story.
The man who invents successful
type-setting machine will amass untold
riches. But il will be an inHgnlhcant
sum in comparison 20 the wealth that
will accrue TO that individual who dis
covers u method by which a baby may
be made to consume its own cry.
Fort Wavno isn't much on poetry,
but sends out the following On tomb
stone:
/ look upon the stars above
And rnun the halmy air
I'm waiting for my own trno love
With a hair-I Iu 800 my hair.
There is queer railroad trouble in
Indiana. A road being in debt for s3.-
500 worth of unpaid taxes the sheriff
the town where they are due trying
TO attach locomotive. The law does
not allow him 90 take the locomotive Of
a mail train, and now the freight trains
do not stop at that town, but run slowly
through, all hands deridiug the sheriff,
who sees no way TO secure his looomo-
tive.
"A small hoodlum sat on the post
Office steps yesterday, looking as II no
had lust returned from a funeral, and
bigger hoodlum came up and shouted
out: "Sk there ! what makes yer
Iook so mournful ?" The small hood
lum gave his nose n wipe ON the palm
of his hand and replied: "lf your girl
was down with the bilious fever, and
they expected she'd die every mint, /
guess you wouldn't feel much like
whooping and singing
Lieut. Lubowitz, who bet that he
would go from Vienna to Paris on tho
same horse in fifteen days, has won his
bet. and his horse was severely kicked
in a stable on the way. In the time OF
Louis XVI. the Prince de Ligne went
from Vienna 60 Paris in Elk dayn. He
was allowed 20 change horses as often
as be liked, but was never TO put hls
foot on the ground. His saddle, with
him in il, was lifted from horse 10
horse,
Miss Cushmnn is eaid 10 have made
more money than any other American
actor except Forrest. Her wealth ~
estimated at quarter Of "A million.
This may be too liberal n rate, but It Is
to be remembered that her engage
ments have brought Of late years at
least $500 a night. Other stars, how
ever, have done very we'll. Madam
Nelson is immensely rich, while joe
Jefferson, .Chanfrau and other veteran
comedians, are in independent posi-
tions.
"A case of extreme hardship lately
overlook an indianapolis man. He had
achieved in the short life Of thirty years
five divorces, and the sixth was pend
ing when sickness put him on his death
bed. To hear that mans prayers for
life 10 linger till the sixth decree could
be entered was truly hCart-rending. Six
divorces had been the limit OF his ambi-
tion-the aim of his life but the fell
DESTROYER lameuted not F; that Hoosier
died married, and was compelled 70
knock at the pearly gates with only i've
divorces for his passport.
AT a meeting in Indiana, the other
day, a speaker named Long responded
10 a loud call, and took the stand. But
a big, strapping fellow presisted in
crying out in a stentOrign voice, Long,
Long 7" This caused a little confusion;
but, after some difficulty in making
himself heard, the president succeeded
in stating that Mr. Long, the gentleman
honored by the call, was now address
ing them. "Oh, he be id" replied
the fellow "he's the little skcc-ickS
that told me 60 call for Long" This
brought down the house.
History Of Tobacco Using.
The tobacco plant Is q native Of Amer
ica. II was introduced into Europe
after the discovery of the new world hy
Columbus. II was at first used in Spain
and Portugal, and afterward introduced
into England by Sir Walter Raleigh. IL
was soon after carried into France, Ger