The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-16
FACTS AND FAEoIEs.

No man who will eat one Of those
clawing Holsters has any business 10
stand on barrel aud declare that alli-
gator meat is unhealthy.
1t took the hides OF 165 cattle 10
furnish leather for three large belts
lately sent 10 Augusta. Ga, by a manu-
facturer at Chicopee, Mass.
1t was a Chicago lady who sent an
order To Rome to n celebrated sculp-
tor for 4" one marble hgger of Apoler IN
his close, TO cost not more nor Sl,OOO.
A man who respects his wife and
family will never tell lie when anyone
asks him how he got that scar ON ms
nose, but will explain how "a suck OF
wood flew up, you know.
Three snakes we're caught sucking
a COW at st. Martins, n. b., few days
ago. and two of them we're killed. Lhey
were a ward long, and in the stomach OF
each was found pint OF milk.
1t is not an uncommon observation
that a man who is continually talking
about his ceaseless yearnings after
Righteousness" can't get trusted at
grocery store as quick as man VINO
swears.
As small letters hurt the sight, so
do small matters him that IA TOO muoh
intent upon them they vex and sur UP
angel, which begets an evil haoit III
him in reference to greater a1airs''-
Plutdrch.
The proper way for n lady to direct
a letter this fall is 20 run the direction
from corner to corner, scatter three
one.cent stamps over the envelope, ana
write Important" on any vacant
space left.
-Ha S'death We're yon bitten ny
a cat thirteen years ago? Did the wound
heal up all right2 Hal Beware You
can't tell what moment il will open ana
you will become mad Ha SeVera
more has
1T doesn't make any difference II
man has said his prayers before going
To bed. lot him find crackers crumos
between the sheets, and he won't go
hack ON the satisfaction Of three or four
"swears," anyhow.
A party of sixteen ladies we're
bathing in group at Long brGnch tho
other day, and n Boston drug clerk VINO
stood near declares that the amt ana
powder turned the water orignt
orange color for a considerable distance
around.
A church OF England clergyman
knocked his sister down and sat on her.
This "a ALI the information that reaches
us lint IL she had the spirit OF woman
land any pins) in her bosom, he wont
be able to sit on anything else ior
goodly period.
In n single county in Vermont
there are ninety-hve farms vacant au9
one hundred and thirty-six aoahaohS.o
farm houses. Lack OF railroad iac,h-
ties is the cause assigned Tor the Whoi2-
sale exodus Of farmers.
1T must indeed he dry in Kansas, II
IL be true, as a local paper says, that
90 the suffering catfish lies stranded on
the bIisteripe bottom Of his late happy
home. waving his tail in the crisp
breezes as a signal of distress.
The CIearfeld fair consisted OF a
calf, a goose and pumpkin ~ ralneu
SO hard the first night that the gooso
swan off, the calf broke loose ana NC
the pumpkin, and thlei proving
around stole the calf, and that ehue"
the fair.
-"Giye u.s." says the New Hamp-
sbire Workingman's Advocate, the
man with brown hands, smut on his
nose and sweat on his forehead. All
him by express last night
also a woman with a long chin ana
wart on il, TO keep him happy
in dreaming don't dream OF white
elephants. A young lady at Cairo h19
sncb n dream. and the next day wild
steer pinned her lover against sand
hank and held him there until his spirit
had drawn aside the mystic curtain
which hides the valley OF death from
the vision of the living.
IT "a no Longer considered necessa-
rv. saws an English reviewer, that thefe
should be any connection between
novel and it's title. They are thlnEs
apart from each other. When the mover
is written, name is bestowed upon ~
not in order 90 indicate it's contehW'
but TO call attention TO tho TACT that the
novel exists.
A collection of pictures by old mas
ters. mainly Spaniards, has been sent 70
Che Boston museum 10y the Duke de
Montpensier, and is now on e1hipiton
there There are fifty-iiye OF these
works brought from Seville, and they
are said TO include productions OF the
frst class. Murillo, Velasquez, Bur
berap. Sebastian del Piombo, Herrera,
and Salvador Rosa, are among the mas.
ters MANY amateurs of art will VISIT
Boston for the purpose Of seeing. thes9
pictures.
Miss Mary Louise Hulburt, beau
tiful and accomplished daughter OF the
Rev. Victor Hurlbut, OF Stone hluBe'
New York. met with n sudden and pain
fnI death fortnight since. She sang
in the gallery, and the last notes OF tho
frst bymn she sang with great clearness
and nreoision. As she touched her scat
she threw her arms around he protnsI
neck. blind and unconscious, ana uie9
soon after, her Geath being auIlpu.Su
to the breaking OF blood vessel IN tue
brain. superinduced by the eEertion oi
singing.
Tho Scientific Americans editorials
are written with the three -cornered TAN
of n borsesboe crab. (This may sound
like abuse. but it isn't.) Visiting tho
says that paper we
chanced TO find the empty shell OF OIL, one
NJ these singular creatures. Whllo
holding il up by it's spiky tail, friend,
remarked that the tail would make On
odd penholder. The suggestion W1s
carried out, and the product was odd
enough. But it was something more.
n was a revelation Of needed reform
IN penholders. We have used IL LOT
weeks, with daily increasing convio-
lion that the goosequill was an uniortG-
nate model. The perfect penholder j.
three-sided."
Nil. c4,4ggtiru