The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-17
FACTS AND PAEorEs.

post OF honor iB the pfivasc STATION. -
lShdkspedre
"A single burst Of mirth is worth q
whole season full OF cries with melan-
choly. .--Byuyere.
"A barber at Portland, Maine, col.
lects his pay frem customers when ho
gets them half shaved.
If every man works at that for
which nature fitted him, the cows will
be well tended-La Fontdfne.
| A Nebraska man and his wife hap
pened to elope on the same night, and
each left note for the other.
Man without desire aud without
want would be without invention and
without reason.
| "A Maine husband wanted to bet his
wife that she could not whip panther
but she saw the joke and refused 30 try.
Said a justice 10 an obstreperous
prisoner, on the day OF his trial, /" We
want nothing of you but silence, and
id little of that"
=" Change cars I" is what city boot
black said 10 a countryman, the other
day, when no had finished blaclring one
Of his brogans.
-Unbounded patience is necessary 10
bear not only with ourselves, but with
others, whose various tempers and dis
positions are not congenial 10 our own.
"A western moralist seasonably re-
marks that it is painful g., hear an un-'
goIly man say, " It's as hot a. ginger"
when You know that he doesn't mean
,'giDger" at all.
"A number Of New England furnaces
haxa raoapN1rv atrav,avTa1 g.,aWaNfnua Nha
companies not having orders enough 10
clear out their manufactured supply Of
pig-iron.
"A young lady will sail in the next
steamer from Boston for Europe who
doesn't expect 10 marry nobleman
another one who isn't going 10 Italy TO
study music.
The foreman OF a volunteer Ere
company in Philadelphia is supposed 10
have perfect right TO knock folks
down, ride free on the cars and spit to-
bacco juice on the Westinghouse steps.
GEN. GARmALDI is 30 unwell as not 30
be able TO hold the pen or move his arm.
He cannot by himself bring food 10 his
mouth--indeed, he cannot move at all.
He now receives no one except his most
intimate friends.
The Brooklyn Eagle credits the re-
duction Of freights on live stock 20 the
grangers. It is said that the freights
on cattle from Chicago 20 New York
have been reduced from Sl35 10 $50.
and from Buffalo 10 New York from $50
to S45 per car load.
"A new game called. " Granger
Seven-up" is announced. Three per-
sons play for can Of oysters. The
first man out gets the oysters, the last
the can, and the middle-man" don't
get anything. That is High Low"
without either " Jack" or Game"
80 gracious ! no, exclaimed Mrs.
Marrowfat TO Mrs. Quoggs, fNssing her
hands and speaking in a very excited
tone "She was so i'll when hen hsw
bonnet came home, that she couldn't
get mp; but, dear sakes Jane, that
didn't matter nothing, for she just put
the hat on and lay with her head out
the front window the whole afternoon"
The other day an aged couple drove
into Indiana City, Ind, just as an un-
dertaking firm was moving into an old
church, which had been purchased for
shop. The old gentleman stood mp in
his wagon, his mouth and eyes distend-
ed, as the men silently carried coffin af-
ter coffin into the church. At last he
turned to his awe-stricken half and
gasped "Sary, be golly, it's cholera
Let's git !"
-" How do you do, Mr.. Jones ?"
said stranger, blandly smiling AZ no
entered the store OF a dealer. "Well,
thank you," stifiy rejoined Mr.. Jones.
81 You don't seem 10 know me am
10 live here, said the
\
Mr.. Brown" said Jones, relaxing and
shaking hands cordially; excuse me,
| thought you we're n drummer" 81 So
I am" said Brown. Tableau vivant.
"A new cotton factory has Just been
completed in Greenville, 3. O., with n
capital Of 100000. The proprietOrB
intend to run coo cards and 5000 spin
lles. and to manufacture cotton yarns.
The Piedmont cotton factory, just bo-
ow Greenville, on the Saluda, is par
tally in operation, and promises gTati-
wing results, and 10 close these latest
evidences that there ia life in the old
and vet, the English Manufacturing
Company of South Carolina" with a
capital Of $1,000 will soon have
arge factory at work in Spartnnburg
county.
A New York reporter who went 10
zee a new fountain begin 20 play, and
Who had determined TO write four or
i've columns about il, giving history
.lso of all previous fountains in the
world, returned 10 the Office a disap-
,ointed man, and humbly wrote The
yater was turned on in the beautiful
lew fountain in City Hall Park yester-
Law. A few muddy drops were seen 10
ome out of the holes under the sz@5s
roll down the sides Of the in
,erted saucer, and drop meekly into the
CUP dish. BY and by the water got TO
,e more and muddier, and filed the
CUP dish, running off the saucer like
hat shed from an umbrella on q wet
law. There were no graceful curves.
In attempt will be made to-day 10 fur
ish a sufficient head OF water 10 make
ONE graceful curves"