The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Great works are performed not by
length, but by perseverance,.

Great works are performed not by
strength, but by perseverance,.
-Injun probabilities: "Mebbe snow
next week mebbe heap dam hot"
Nine cents Of American money will
buy Cuban dollar. just think OF
that See what a chance 20 make ninety
cents by investing ten
The girls at Vassar college are
learning to swim. Fourteen Of them
p get into a wash-tub at once 80 as TO
give each other courage.
by this time the school girls have
told each other where they spent their
vacation, and, taking mp the burden Of
life again, have resumed last seasons
quarrels.
To be happy, the passions must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and mel
ancholy. A propensity TO hope ana JOY
is real riches; one to fear and sorrow,
real poverty.
"A Terre Haute child. on being asked
what she would do If her mother should
die, said "I would die, too" Being
asked how she would die, replied: Eat
myself to DEATH"
A London paper saws that old
horses are boiled up in England and
the fat is used TO make butter, but it
can't discourage an American from tax
ing his usual allowance.
As she rolled up her sleeves and
looked hard at big basket Of tomatoes
she remarked "There's get up, pay
up, bang up, 60 up, step up and climb
up, but here goes for catsup.'
-"When you sec man partickler,"
says Mrs. Marrowfat, cas- never TO take
glass of water ithout looking through
il for insects, don't trust him-he's on
his way to a drunkard's grave"
"A gentleman who landed from an
Erie express train attracted universal
attention by the maPnihcence Of his
diamond breastpin. He was supposed
to be hackman from Niagara Falls.
There are now sixty Chinese stu
dents supported bv their government in
Connecticut and Massachusetts. Thirty
came two years ago, and thirty arrived
year since, and thirty more are eK-
pected in about a fortnight. SO far
their department has been excellent
and their progress quite remarkable.
"A party of twelve crack-b brains left
Chicago recently TO join in the estab-
of community" similar TO
the Oneida community in New York, on
Valcour's island, in Lake Champlain,
the foundation of the society being "ab-
solute social freedom, and its only gov
erning law complete, univeral free
love-"
"A pouting bride, on her first sen
voyage, writes home "The motion
Of the screw steamer is like riding a
gigantic camel that has the heart-dis-
ease, and you do not miss n single
,hrob. 1 know of nothing TO compare
With il for boredom, unless it be your
when you have married for
money"
We are now told how we can reach
he gold regions in the Black hills.
in the neighborhood OF one
hundred dollars will carry one through.
But we would advise the honest miner
o take two hundred dollars along. He
will need the other TO get back on, and
% buy hod to commence work with
md likewise a wig.
"A novel street car, built somewhat
n the shape of balloon and capable OF
eating fourteen persons, has been put
n use in San Francisco. IL revolves
N the wheels, and, in case the street is
,lockaded, the driver can turn back nc
nee on his return trip. No conductor
s required, the passengers putting
heir fare into n box. A great advant-
ge of the car is that it cannot be over
rowded.
A reporter of the Boston Transcript
5 in luck. A very pretty girl asked
i'm if a vacant car seat by his side was
After saying "No, miss, he,
ighly appreciating her beauty, uncon-
ciously said, care you p She so
leasantly and promptly replied, "No,
ir," that the agreeable conversation
,hich followed for ten miles leads him
D hope for better acquaintance before
is season ticket expires, and he pub
shed his adventure.
We have been told recently of
lergyman who was killed by lightning
8 he stood on a river bank rebukiDg
Ome wicked boys who were breaking
ne Sabbath by swimming and now
lere comes from Paris a story that in
ecent thunder storm the electric fluid
into the Office Of great
nancal establishment in that city, but
10 cashier was not touched, as no had.
lst left for Belgium with all the avail
Die funds of the company.
In Paris the dealers in refreshments
ave had congress 60 agtee on the
1portant reform Of reducing from six
five the number of pieces Of sugar
rived with n cup of coffee. Formerly
ey served six pieces with each cup;
10 customer put three pieces in his
,fee, two in his pocket, and left one
his saucer out Of respect TO public
,inion. Now that only five are served,
puts three in the coffee, still leaves
10 out of sense of public decency, and
lly puts one in his pocket.
In the government OF Pieskau, in
ussia, letter was circulated which re-
,rted that the government intended to
nd 1000 Of the prettiest girls OF tho
untry TO Africa TO be married TO ne
oes. There was panic, and the girls
ade haste TO marry any one who would
we them, and there was any nnmber
marriages. One brandy dealer made
small fortune out of il, for AT Russian
,ddinRs they must have brandy. Now
@ authorities have discovered that this
Drchant started the story, and they
Q not yet done with him.
TO Rochard, a veterinary
rgeon, a simple method Of preventing
es from annoying horses consists in
hitting the inside of the ears, or any
her part especially troubled, with n
v drops of empyreumatic oil Of iuni-
r. IG is said that the odor of this
bstance is uncomfortable 20 flies, and
at they will keep at a distance from
Q part so anointed. If this treatment
onld accomplish the alleged result,
may, perhaps, be equally applicable
repelling mosquitoes from the faoo
d hands Of tourists and sportsmen
len passing through the woods or
sadows.
Fashionable Misery.
A correspondent saws: 1.-THE most
.eresting picture mt Saratoga are the
lies in their last decline, and yet they
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