The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-18
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

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The London critics say that these
Hamerican hactors karn't pronounce
Hinglish, you know, TO save their hize,
'ang 'em.
All through the German Empire
they are taking statistics o. the com.
plexion, color OF the hair and eyes OF
the children in the schools.
The st. Louis custom-house pays
nearly $1,000 a year for gas. The best
government the world ever saw lis not
seen to advantage by gaslight.
-Coggia's comet is now visible in
the southern hemisphere, and the Chi
nese are 10 a terrible stew about 1t,
considering il hsrbinger OF evil.
What sublime courage was that
displayed by the Nevada woman, who,
when the stealthy savage spproached
her, Just pulled off her hair and gave IL
TO him.
At n recent marriage ceremony at
Lexington, England, the wedding-rlng
was placed on the third toe OF tho
brides left foot-because she had no
hands.
DIR. Mary Walker has got into her
fall pants. They are greenish IN color,
having large square check, and 'bag
as gracefully as the slack OF n schoon-
er's main-sail.
IF an edge tool is so hard rs 10
crumble. grind IL on n dry stone until
the edge turns blue IL will then cease
10 break, and the temper will generally
prove to be right.
Two firms in Richmond, Va, are
under contract TO supply SS,OOO,OOO and
s6. 600. 600 worth of tobacco respectively.
The first contract is for France and the
second for Austria.
A New York auctioneer says that
twenty-five years experience has taught
him that people are willing to pay as
much for old things at auction Rs new
things would cost at the store.
1t is nothing for Arizona girls TO
own 5000 cattle and 10000 sheep; but
pause. young man. She stumps around
barefooted, spits through her teeth,
and plays a clone" hand OF euchre.
There is a paper in Wisconsin which
callsitself the Trempeleau county Week
ly Messenger and Journal and Record.
II complains that its exchanges do not
give full credit when they copy it's short
jokes.
It's awful lonesome in Mexico just
now. and tears trickle down the fathers
cheeks as he takes his son on his knee
and tells him how the country used TO
be blessed with a revolution abont sy-
cry two weeks.
At a recent local election in Swiss
commune il was decided that women
shall hereafter have the full right OF
voting, and that with this right should
90 the "privilege Of being eligible Tor
any situation"
-" Tape-worm Johnny" Is the eu-
phemistic name Of an individual in 81.
Louis, whose voracious appetite mas
frightened the hotel keepers TO such an
extent that they refuse him admission
to their dining rooms.
Tile Mikado Of japan is developing
into the practical business man. In
recent number OF his "organ' he adver-
tises fine lot of imagj s, one OF which
is described as ga very fine idol. with
six arms. It is fifteen feet high, and
wss cast at Sheffield"
Among the visitors at Santa Cruz
"a California watering place. IL san
Francisco lady, the wife OF prominent
stock-broker, who has made herself CON
spicuous by wearing hideous-looking
mask of chamois leather. It If said she
envelops herself in leather to save q
singularly beautiful complexion. She
ia alluded TO in town as "the woman in
the yellow mask"
An English writer says that his
nlan has proved successful in protect
l..
takes a ball of thread and fastens tho
end to twig of goosebeiTy or ourrant
busb. and then crosses tho thread from
twio 10 twip in various directions. Or
trees NAV be treated in the same man
ner. The birds come TO settle on trees
or bushes, strike against the slender
snares, and fly away in haste.
-Concha has been co 0pelled TO
modify his decree that $1,000 was ms
GOOD as an able-bodied man, so far as
II extended 10 the cavalry and colored
militia, and now only the substitution
of a healthy soldier will relieve a
drafted man from actual service. Re
are called for from all
sides. and the chief OF staff Of the
island has taken command OF the
troops in certain districts in person.
The chancel OF the parish church
of Horton. in Buckinghamshire, con-
taips monument 20, as we'll as the re-
mains of, Sara Milton, the poets moth
er. who died in 1887. This portion OF
tbe edifice is being restored in stone
entirely at the expense OF the rector OF
Horton. the Rev. r. q. Foot. For six
Years John Milton attended the church,
Horton being the residence OF his
The place has long been cele-
hrated for the neutrality-suspicious. Mil
toms sonnet 10 that bird.
-"Havinp ascertained the weight Of
what could live upon, so as 30 pre-
serve health and strength" says tho
Rev Sidney Smith, "and What j really
nave lived upon, / found that between
Inc ages of ten and seventy years I had
eaten and drank forty-four horse wagon
Ioads of meat and drink more than
wouId have preserved me in life and
nealtb The value of this mass OF
I consider worth seven
thousand pounds sterling SO by my
zoracitv must have starved 20 death
'ully a hundred persons; frightful
but irresistibly true.
The Druggist, a London paper,
states that a young lady VINO nhd long
,een addicted TO the use Of opium APP
,lied TO an eminent physician TO make
lypodermic injections Of morphine.
by injecting a mixture OF NOR
ohine and water, he gradually increased
he proportion OF water, without letting
he patient know Of IL, until after short
lime he used only the pure water; AZ
er each injection she would gently iall
INTO a refreshing sleep. For several
months the treatment was continued,
he patients system being gradually
.enovated by tonics. At length the
adv was informed that for months she
lad not been under the influence OF
opium at all, and was greatly reioiced
q find herself cured Of any desire Tor
he drug.
Religious Musical Expression.