The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-25

cnange he was allowed was CnaC OF
the weather.
The Editor of weekly paper says,
There has been another burglary in
town since our LAST
A butcher recently found a shawl
pin in COW he was cutting up into
steaks. 1t is supposed the animal
nd swallowed milkmaid.
BrOker.-"How are you off for mon
ey this morning?' Cashier.-"I am off
with what little there was in the
bank-Good-by.'
Justice Haines, of Chicago, has de-
cided that editors are professional
men, and that their scissors, paste-pot
etc, cannot be seized for debt.
Adam had one consolation when
he fell Fifteen or twenty acquain-
tances did't stand on the opposite cor
ner and laugh at his mishap.
The bee-keepers have failed to de-
termine how much honey single
bee produces in a year. This impOr-
tant subject should not be overlooked
Bookkeeping may be taught in a
single lesson of three wOrds--NeVer
lend them.
The first thing a promising youth
said to dog presenting his nose at
his heels, was: "Go away! Do you
think I N bone?'
For pure grit and Iong-cOntinned
patience you ought to go to Toledo.
A young lady in that town has sent
116 pieces of poetry to a newspaper,
and though all have been rejected,
she is struggling with another.
Chester Pike broke his leg in Con-
cOr1 and was carried home. His wife
was frightened, and in running to
meet him fell over a dog breaking her
arm. Now, if we could only find out
what happened to the dog.
A little girl asked minister. "DO
you think my father will go to
heavenw why, yes, my child.
he don't have his own way there, he
won't stay long, | was thinking
The shortest and surest way to live
with honor in the world, is to be in
reality what you would appear to be;
and if we observe, we shall find that
all human virtues increase and
strengthen themselves by the practice
and experience of them.
One editor says: This paper has
one subscriber who would lie awake
nights if he were in any way prevent
ed from paying his subscription for a
wear in advance on the 2Sth of Janua-
ry. We don't want our friends to
lose any sleep, but
The editor of the Atlanta, Ga, Her.
aid draws deep sigh of relief now
that the local lottery is over, says he
has been cured of drawings" and in
the future we will "deyote our entire
energies and our entire capital to the
legitimate improvement of the Herald
as newspaper"
A Peoria naturalist, in attempting
to warm the ears of a frozen wasp over
a gas jet, discovered that the tail of
the insect thawed out first and worked
with a rapidity that was as astOnish-
ing as the hideOus profanity OF the
naturalist, who held the insect by the
tail while thus experimenting.
The most appalling case of deafness
that we ever came across outside Of
an asylum, was that Of an old lady
who lives just across the street from
the Navy Yard The other day they
fired a salute of twenty-One guns.
The old lady was observed to start
and listen as the last gun was fired,
and then eXclaim, "COme in
An Iowa schoOI-teacher has been
discharged for the offense of kissing
a female assistant. Whereupon a
local paper inquiries, what induce
ment there is for any person to exile
himselftO the country district of Iowa
to direct the young idea in its musket
nractice, if he is to be denied the or
t;uarv lI1vrripS of everyday life2h