The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04
FACTS AND FAN0IEs.

W0en ne 0leu bne ONner Gay AAo aet
departed for a summer resort, and u
will take six men to wipe the sweat of
his shoulders"
I'm Boone, Iowa, the young ladies oi
the period meander through the streets
playfully kicking over dry goods boxes
and punching one another's hats OIL with
their parasols,
Gent (calling at the house Of lady
friend)-" Is your mistress in ? " Mary
-"She is, sur" Gent-"Is she en-
gagged ?" Mary" Faith, she's moro
nor that she's married"
The reason an urchin gave lately
| for being so late at school was, that the
bow in the next house was going 10 have
a dressing down by his daddy, and he
waited 10 hear him "howl."
1t was "darling Gweorge when a
bridal party left Omaha il was " dear
George" at Chicago at Detroit 1t was
George" and when they reached
Niagara Falls it was "Say, you"
-"I don't want 10 make any sacrifices
uselessly," said her husband, as he
rolled mp his sleeves and stood over the
wash-tub, while his wife executed a
pas Seul around him with q potato
masher.
People talk about the christian
spirit of forgiveness to be met with in
America, but let young man sit down
on a new plug hat at a Sunday-school
excursion and it mars the harmony of
the whole assembly.
1t may not be generally known,
says a Chicago paper that the enormous
arches which support the Chicago and
st. Louis bridge we're copied from a
cast taken from the instep OF promi-
nent st. Louis belle.
The Rev. Harding cautions his
readers against drinking vinegar 70 re-
duce corpulency. The vinegar is GER
tain 10 destroy the digestive powers OF
the stomach. He recommends red
eyed labor as a healthful substitute.
Baron Anselm de Rothsohild, who
died recently at his country seat, near
Vienna, possessed wealth estimated at
more than $500, ,000,0 900. BY his ex-
press desire his funeral was celebrated
without any pomp. The hearse was
drawn by two horses, and followed only
by q few servants.
A little girl remarked TO her man
ma, "I am not afraid OF the dark.
" NO, Of course you are not, replied
her mamma. ct was a little afraid
once when went into the pantry TO get
a tart" "What were You afraid oiY
asked the mamma. 81 was afraid i
could not find the tarts."
" What dainty note Of long-drawn melody
Athwart our dreamless sleep rings sweet and
clear,
Till ali the fumes OF slumber are brushed by,
And with awakened consciousness we bear
The pipe OF birds. Look forth. The same
white day
Blesses the hill-tops, and the sun ~ near
An misty phantoms slowly roll away
With the nights vapors toward the western
sky.
The Real enchants us, the fresh breath Of hay
Blows toward us soft the meadow grasses lie,
Bearded with dew the airis caress;
The sudden sun overtaps the boundary
on eastern hills, the morning ioyousness
Thrills tingling through the frame hteH
pulse boats strong;
Nights fancies melt like dow. 30 ends tho
song"
A somewhat important decision has
been rendered by the United States
liscrict court Of Wisconsin, to the effect
hat a national bank cannot be sued in
the federal courts outside OF the dis
srict where IL is located, and that ser
vice ON the cashier when within another
district does not give jurisdiction.
A Hartford man was drowned, and
friends brought home the dead body 10
nis afflicted wife. As they came TO the
'front.' door with the corpse the new
made widow appeared and sadly re-
narked CT guess you had better
AXE him around TO the back door, so he
won't drip on the parlor carpets
-" Missus Snowdrop," said a gentle
nan Of color the other afternoon during
! shower, to a lady of bis acquaint-
lnce, as de wedder is somewhat am
ohibious, will you do me de honor 10
IuorumY "Thank you, Mr.. Rillups,
will. In dis wedder an umbreller is
-ather cosmopolitan"
Mr.. Alfred Organ, of Sumpter,
has an acre of teasles that
ire now in the burr, and are looking re-
fine. Teesles are extensively
lsed in woolen factories for raising the
Jap on cloth, and owing to the small
PRODUCTION OF them in this country, the
market is seldom, il ever, overstocked,
in the west.
-Swinburne has put on his war
,aint, and is diminishing around do
handing Justice. When told, the other
ay, that his ten-mile poem, "'BOthwell,"
yould have TO be cut down for the stage,
o went on worse than DIR. johnson, and
hreatened TO emigrate 20 America. Al
ernon is a child of impulse, and won't
o anything else until he gets married.
The latest novelty in earrings is
l.. w.asw vyWINgmh
ported by a dashing Partisan belle at
scent wedding. From each ear hunga
nall gold gridiron, on which was laid
heart formed OF garnets, the idea 10
3 conveyed, says a gushing CORES
Ondent, being that OF bleeding heart
pom the fiery Goals of love
The death rate in London, England,
only half as great in proportion 10
)pulation as IL is in New York. This
dicates that there is something wrong
the habits Of our people and IN their
nitary management. Poverty and
ime, Ithe great accessories of death
ust be far greater among the crowded
illions of the British than the Ameri-
n metropolis.
"A young husband took his wife to
da fountain last evening, and, look
2 solemnly at the man who asked
EN- "what syrup2" said he would
ke "crusade." Imagine his horror
len she said she would try some too.
Q laughed feebly, but the cold sweat
bod in great drops on his clammy
ow but, fortunately, the soda man
yer lost his presence OF mind, and,
lile the husband threw in an extra
se of "crusade, his wife made a very
v face over ginger. She will never
: " crusade" again.
The editor Of the Burlington Qa.)
awkeye has discovered a woman who
II get up at six o'clock, kindle the
e, get breakfast, rout out the family,
.sh the dishes and six children, sew
,utton on the neck of her husbands
irt and hunt his hat, go 10 mission
and teach a class, attend
urch, rush home and have dinner
or and the things cleared away in time
afternoon Sunday-school, read the
nday-school papers TO the children,
TO church at night, and talk on her
v home about Sunday as "day OF
1. /"
"A tricolor flag on the summit Of
etz cathedral, which has been a con-
mt eyesore 10 the Germans, was re-
atly removed, reward OF SO
wing been offered for the feat, which
8 attended with considerable danger,
A.. n Az s,o4bfa t0NraF