The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-16
GLEANNGs AND GOSSIP.

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with soft tar, or dip the rat in a cup of
tar and let it go, and IL will tar-plaster
every hole in the house.
An obituary notice in westey7n ,a-
per contained the touching intelligence
that the deceased "had accomplished a
little money and ten children"
An English jury recently valued
curl from lady's head at seventy-6vo
cents. 1t was burned off by barber,
who used curling iron which was too
hot.
"A Delphi belle dropped her wire
symmetry in crossing muddy street,
and gallant Irishman handed il to her
with the remark, "Ma'am, here's your
muzzle."
A Pennsylvania auctioneer sold n
muff worth about $40 for SO, and drop
ped dead while taking the money. The
doctors try to make out that he had tho
heart disease.
New Jersey backwoodsman report
that the mosquitoes have not destroyed
the bears in that state, as was supposed,
large number Of the latter animals
being met with this year.
A Dubuque young lady gave up
the man she loved and took the one her
parents favored, in the consideration Of
the sum of three thousand dollars and a
sky-blue merino dress.
Detroit Free Press "What a
blessing this genial weather is TO Susan
B. Anthony, and Anna Dickinson, as IL
saves the trouble of taking hot brick
to bed with them"
"A Kentucky jury has Justly deci .
ded that 80, 900 would scarcely compen-
safe Miss Tubb for the breach of prom
Use which deprived her OF an opportu-
nifty TO change her name.
You can Judge how cold il is
around st. Paul by the fact that young
lady froze TO death in a sleigh while
riding four miles, and folloI had hia
arm around her al! the time.
-"Whats the matter there, Alice?
Don't your shoes ftp" "No, papa,
they don't ct me at all, replied the lit
tie one; "Why, they don't even
squeak when 60 out for a walk"
Orange culture in Florida must be
pretty profitable, if Mr.. Dummitt's
grove on Indian river is a representa-
tive one. The care of il, last year, cost
him 81, 900, and it yielded him sll, ,000
-"Good-by, you old scolding red
headed heathen," wrote a Dubuque
man to his wife the last thing before
suiciding. She says she'd like 10 have
got hold of him for about one York
minute.
A Missouri paper thinks "Whattho
women OF this countrymost need is not
suffrage, but sympathy not rights,
but nationality; not place in our leg
islative halls, but place to fasten their
stockings"
"CAN you steer the main mast down
the forecastle stairs ?" asked n sea cap
tain of a new hand. "Yes, sir, / can
if You will stand below and coil II up."
Captain didn't catochise that man any
more.
At a recent tea party in Salt Lake
city young man, who had been relat-
ing his more than wonderful exploits in
various parts of the globe, was not a
little set back by a remark Of an old
traveller "Young man, amt you
ashamed to talk so when there are older
liars at the table ?"
"A Green Bay woman, whose hus-
band kicks her down stairs every sec
ond night, says she likes to look over
his old letters commencing with i: "My
dearest, darling little angel Minnie,
heaven alone knows the depth OF my
love for you."
If a glass stopper won't move, hold
the neck of the bottle to a flame, or
warm it by taking two turns Of string
and see-saw IL; the heat engendered
expands the neck Of the bottle before
corresponding expansion reaches tho
stopper.
A waiter in st. Louis restaurant
was asked for a tOOthpick by one OF the
patrons-he had just finished a bowl Of
oyster soup. "What do You want with
a toothpick? ?" quericd the waiter, who
had cultivated considerable familiarity
with all. the customers. 81 want to
pick an oyster from my teeth" "Oh,
no you don't There was only one oys-
ter in that soup-and I ate that on my
way from the kitchen p
A st. Louis lover gave mp n match
with $50, 900 heiress because she oh
iected to smoking. So states an eN-
change. Another adds:
"The maid, az by the papers doth appear,
Whom fifty thousand dollars made 70 dear,
To test Lotharios passion simply said
'Forego the weod before we go TO we'd
For smoke take flame I'll bo that hames
bright tanner;
To have your Anna give up your Havana.
But he, when thus sho brought him 20 tho
scratch,
Lit his cigar and threw away his match"
One Of the most touching Of the ro-
corded incidents in the Vile du Havro
disaster comes in letter from Rev. Mr..
Weldon of London 60 Mr.. Waite OF the
New York Brevoort house, giving somo
account OF an interview with his son
Charles, who was among the survivors.
Charlie informs me, says Mr.. Weldon,
he swan for a quarter of an hour, dur
ing which time two of Mrs. Spafford's
foated to him, caught his
pockets and thus held on till he got
plank. Then he took both in his arms
and held them till they (the chhdren)
we're exhausted ard died.