The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-12
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD.


steady IN his walk, and said: where's
j. p. Jones? L want TO see him. i
want to know who I'm a votin' for be-
fore I vote. do" Jones struck an at
titude. saving, 81 am j. p. Jones'
"You!0 said the voter, taking a delib-
crate survey from head TO foot and
from there back again. ooh! you
won't do, won't do-No. . hat and No.
IA boots" And he turned and stag
gered away in sadness too great for
tears.
The education Of the girl as a house
keeper should be begun by the mother
early, and continued until the marriage
of the daughter, and no other duty of
the mother nor study of the daughter
should interfere with it. This and the
school education should go on stimuli
taneously. If anything is to be post
poned, let it be music and drawing and
philosophy, which, rs experience shows,
are usually unattended to and unprac-
ticed after the "happy event The
more and higher the education the
better. But let us have a real and
practical, instead of sham education.
"What keeps Mr.. N-irom kirk,
james," said q worthy minister 81
hope its not Methodism. " No. re-
sponded the verger; "it's something
worse than Mcthodism." "What, then J
l. it Calvanism?" Worse, your rev
erence, worse :" Surely, James, il is
not DeismT Much worse, an it
please your reverance, than even that p
"Good heavens" !" said the astounded
pastor. lean il be Atheism which de-
prives Us of the best church warden
that ever shook a box! "Tuly rc-
sponded pious james, "'tis q much
more serious matter; itis rheumatism =
The ladies in particular will bc glad
to know just how things are conducted
in a lodge of Frcomasons. a pamphlet
under the sanction of the bishop of
Toulouse, has been issued and eXtcn-
sivelv circulated, which declares that
the Frcemasons are possessed of 81
tanic secret; that they perform mock
cry of the mass on an altar lighted by
six candles; that every member, after
splitting on the crucifX, tumplcs It be-
meath his feet; and that, at the con
clu.ion of the ceremony, every one as-
cends the altar and strikes the holy
sacrament with a poniard.
Female devotion goes almost wholly
umrcwardcd in election times. Every
man knows that there Is every reason
il the world why he ought To stay out
until | or , o'clock in the morning II
he wants to. His ncighbor does, and
he makes up his mind 10 do IT, too.
Therefore, when he is stccrcd home nc
an unusual hour. and, from glimpscs
of gaslight through the window shutters
knows that his wife is sitting up waiting
for him. he feels tits not love on her
part. but tyranny. Ii is this that makes
him open the door stcalthlly, take his
boots off in the front hall, and 90 down
and sleep on the basement sofa.
A husband and wife were celebrating
the twenty-ffth anniversary of their
wedding, and when quite little circle
was gathered about them the husband,
with not a little self-complaccncy, said
"Here my wife and have been mar
ricd for twenty-five years, and IN All
that time neither of us has ever spoken
to the other an excited or mkind word.
"Thunder." said the witty DIR. NJ,
"what a stupid time you must have
had of itp
A little fvc-year-old friend, who was
ALWAYS allowed to choose the prcttlest
kitten for his pet and playmate, before
theother nurslings were drowned, was
taken TO his mothers sick-room the
other morning TO sec two tiny, new,
twin babies. He looked rcncctively
from one 10 the other for minute or
two, then poking his chubby finger M
TO the cheek OF the plumpcst baby,
he said, decidedly, "Save this one.
A New England fireman rose hastily
at the first alarm. lie ram along the
streets believing Fire. He was en-
Enthusiastically jumping the old ma
chine" and crying, "Now, jam her
down for our side, Johnny when by
the light of the ascending flames, which
were irving to toy with the palc-iaccd
moon. he discovered that lee had on
his wifcs velvet basque, spangled with
bugles and beads.
If the orphan asylums are not for
the shelter OF orphans, what are they
for? Such question was rroppundcd
recently hy Adam Scltz to the author
tiles of the German orphan asylum ~
Baltimore, when they vowed 10y his
name that they would not admit him
to the privileges of that institution.
Adam Scltz i, eighty years old, but he
is unquestionably an orphan.
Nothing tends more thoroughly to
shattcr one. confidence in outward ap-
pearanccs than TO see a young man,
clad in the height of fashion, sauntcr
into q crowded restaurant, pull Oft his
kids. languidly seat himself at a table,
consult the I'LL of fare, and then inn
mcdiatcly aforward to hear the walters
voice ringing out the magic words,
cone plate of hash and glass of
water
There is good reason to believe that
contagious diseases are often commu-
nicated by dogs, cats and other house
hold pets. 4 case of scarlet fever re
Gently occurred in England IN which
a dog conveyed the disease. lie had
been the constant companion OF a fever
patient, and his hair doubles became
impregnated with the malaria.
While a San Francisco undertaken
was drawing the tadc-liHc over tho
CORPSE of Il Chinese woman, hc WAS
surprised to see her roll her eyes up at
him. The surrounding friends showed
no surprise, but simply said, "Shc bc
deadec by twelve O'Clock
An Illinois editor boasts of being, the
proud possgssor of several ears of
Egyptian earn that are quite a curl
ositv. Husks not only enclose the ears,
but the kernels Themselves are each
covered with n husk, the same in text
urc as the outside hu-k
They tell us that postal cards are a
German invention, and were first in
troduced by the German government