The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-12-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Two hundred dollars were paid for
American Girls shoes and yet people
say these are hard times.
"A Hindoostan work on music says
that emusic is the painfully acquired art
of speaking very loudly in a shrill voice"
During the last three months ,440
horses, 81 donkeys, and five mules were
killed in Paris for public consumption.
"A Swedish school house, for orexhibition
at the Centennial, has been shipped from
that country to Philadelphia.
Don't imagine that you were born
reform the world. You can't split
mountain with toothpick.
"A gigantic icc-house in Brussels,
Belgium. covers an area Of 500 square
metres, and has contained aJ one time
a million tons of ice.
"A large number of excursions from
England 20 America during the Centen-
NAL have been arranged, some of which
will come by special steamers.
The Gar recently gave young He
brew a commission in the Russian army.
This is the first instance in which Jew
has been made an officer in Russia.
The California trade with Australia
now employs more ships and more ton
mage than with any other portion of the
world, with the single exception of China.
To such an extent have we become
the purveyors to foreign governments OF
arms for warfare that we export yearly
between 500, 900 and 600, 600 stand ofarms.
Nearly ali the fat cattle in Colorado
have changed hands recently or will do
so soon. Never in the history of the
territory has the trade in cattle been 50
active.
The interest in fish culture is in
creasing rapidly, and there are more than
double the fisheries now established in
the country than there were a couple of
years ago.
ANGELS UNAwAEES-
In this dim world Of clouding cares
We rarely know, till 'wildered eyes
See white wings loss'ning up the skies,
The angels with us unawares.
Gerald Massey.
1t is now asserted that the angels in
heaven are all men. We have to give
up our seats here, and walk of into the
mud, and submit to all sorts of vanities;
it looks reasonable that there should be
a change some day.
To know how to keep tidy house
and well-aired apartments ; 10 know how
to select the best kind of food to know
how to prepare them in the best manner
these are the first things, and every
daughter should learn them before mar
riage
Emerson said Show us an intel
ligent family of boys and girls and we
will show you family where newspapers
and periodicals are plentiful" How
much more beautiful is that than TO say
~ Show me hustle, and / will show you
a newspaper bonanza.
1t cannot he that the spirit of poe
try is dead As long as there are women
and flowers the divine afilatus can't be
whatever may happen to the
reader. This little fragment" as it is
called, from the Brooklyn Argus, is
real heart reacher:
"A Norwegian paper reports that one
Captain Gunnerson, recently returned
from an Arctic voyage, has discovered in
Nova Zembla n diary written 10y Barent,
the Dutch Arctic explorer in the year
1850. The manuscript is said to be in
perfect preservation, and its publication
is anxiously looked for by scientific anti
quaries.
Not long since, the mother Of Katie
Curran, Jessee Pomeroy's victim, applied
to DIR. Cullis for admission to his con-
home, saying that she CON
tricted the disease which was wasting
life away by sitting outdoors in cool and
damp evenings, waiting for the murdered
return. She was received
into the retreat at Grove Hall.
Hers was a face
Whose occult charm no limner's art
Could steal; whose uameless grace
Elusive was, rs light that falls
Where waters part.
4 face SO fair,
So haunted with sweet mysteries,
1t scem'd a face astray from heavenly scenes,
And not of one who e'er
Had breakfasted ON buckwheat cakes,
Or dined on beans.
An American writer, dating his letter
from Gibraltar, says: "The more / see
of Gibraltar, the less ! wonder at the
tenacity with which it is held by Eng
land, and the dislike the Spaniards have
for the English tenure of the place. The
strength of the position l. something
wonderful. Nature and military art seem
to have worked together in making Glib
as invulnerable rs it is possible to be.
Nor does the engineer department allow
modern progress i'm either guns or bat
teries to pass unnoticed. OF the former
there are some fifty or sixty about to be
for Others Of a much larger cali
bre. Even as it is, the army of men has
never yet lived, nor has one Of the fleet
Of ships yet been built, that could for
two hours withstand the whitening fire
Of the guns now in position on various
parts of the Rock
The AthenRum says that a transla-
Iation of the "Pilgrim's Progress" has
been issued by native japanese pub
Usher. The veTnacular literature of ia
pan is extending at a rapid rate, adapta-
lions of the best English textbooks on
and physical science being
published almost monthly, and, though
far from being perfect productions, are
attaining a wide circulation. japanese
writer's have the greatest difficulty in
finding accurate equivalents in their
OWN language for European words used
10 denote recent European discoveries
and scientific terms. They are almost
llways obliged to paraphrase; thus dy-
lamite becomes "the powerful thing"
torpedo" underwater burstcr," and 80 on.
The great evil is that each different
writer chooses his own paraphrase for
such terms as "polarization "spectro-
cope" "protoplasm," etc.-PaH Mall
Gazette.
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