The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
SAYINGS AND 6OINGs.


many weighing 80, 900 pounds: IL wa
made from cannon taken from IN
French during the late var. lt Is 10
the Cathedral church at Cologne.
: Spring brings Joy 10 the heart OF
western editor, who sings' y soon th'
dusky squaw will be seen strainl9l
maple sugar through her winter stoch
ings." .
When q common Japanese goes int
the presence of an ofice-holder he musl
say "Great and distinguished child
of the sun, deign 70 put your foot
upon my nerlS." There's some pleas
ure in holding an office in that country.
A THREE YEAR-oLD younaster saw a
drunken fellow tacking through the
streets Of Lowell, the other day.
Mother" said he, did God make
that manP" She replied in the afi rm-
ative. The little fellow reflected a
moment and then exclaimed, 81
wouldn't have done it "r-a,
THE Jardin d'Acclimatization, Paris,
| has a Chimpanzee which measures four
feet in height, is perfectly tame and ex-
tremely gentle While its MASTER lived
at Sierra Leone 10 performed in the
house the functions of a servant sslut'
ing visitors, opening the door for them,
escorting them out, and Offering them
their hats.
A PARTY who was looking at a house
in the sixth ward the other day, said he
couldn't afford TO pay so much rent.
"Well. look at the neighborhood." re-
piled the woman. You can borfoW
fat-irons next door, coffee and tea
across the street, -four and sugar on
the corner, and there's big pile OF wood
belonging to the school-house right
across the alley !"
THE removal Of substances from the
ear may be accomplished by doubling
n horse hair in the form of loop,
and, placing the patient upon tho
side, passing the loop into the ear as
far as it will go, then turning IL gently.
The substance will generally come ont
in the loop after one or two withdraw
ais. The application will do no dam
age il the hair be carefully used.
GoULD's st. Louis Directory for 1875,
just out, gives the population Of that
city at four hundred and ninety thou
sand on January l, 1875. Increase in
the population since the census, fifty
seven per cent, or moro than ten per
cent, yearly. Business and manufac-
lures of the city better in the aggregate
than ever before in spite Of the general
prostration. Annual value Of products
of manufacture, two hundred and thir-
ty-nine million dollars. Worry satisfao-
tory figures.
AT a recent blast at Crarae Quarry,
over thirty thousand tons
Of granite were dislodged at a single
explosion. A bore Thirty feet long was
driven into the rock, and was then con-
tinued at right angles for twenty-five
feet, when il was again sunk distance
Of one hundred and sixty feet. Here
powder chamber was formed, and
charge Of five thousand pounds Of gun
powder introduced. The result was
entirely satisfactory; the blast was one
Of the largest ever fired.
SOMEBODY wants TO know "who
wrote that article in the Houston
Tex Telegraph, and 1t promptly re-
spends thus "The man who wrote
that article early in life was hard
working blacksmith later he was a deck
hand on a steamboat, then he was q
or the frontier, but of late
years he has followed the profession OF
\ prize-fghter. He only became an
editor to reduce his flesh by starvation
20 as 10 become more of success in
MS peculiar line" The Telegraph re-
,eived no further inquiries.
ROUSSEAU once wrote. eft IL we're
1nly necessary for You 20 hold out your
1humb in order 20 cause the death uf an
immensely wealthy mandarin in China,
VIA SO heir you would be, are you sdre
hat you would not extend your
,humb?" This passage one day at
racted the attention of Henri dc
Llcrois, young Frenchman of excel
cut family, but whose brain had been
little affected by the loss Of his for
une. He thought, "If | could stretch
,ut nv thumb and that would be
enough TO kill my uncle aud cousin, /
hould become very rich" In n sort
If halucination he extended his arm
oward the photographs of his relations
md SAID, "Let them die, so that / may
Fifteen days later his uncle
nd his cousin were carried off by
yphoid fever. Within the last six
months remorse preycd upon Lacrois's
nfeebled intellect, and he imagined
hat his spell caused the death of his
elatives. He heard voices from all
ides of his room calling, "Thou hast
,illed US /! Thou hast killed us |" He
himself up to the police and
.sked TO be executed. He died a few
lays ago in an insane a.ylum.
THEREisnodaDger of our being claim
n by Sydney Smiths genuine Mrs. Par
inutou, il we say that somghow-we
ire not bound 10 tell how-the railroad
,rinps rain. Would it not be wonderful
{ that brace of iron bars Rcross the con-
inent should literally interpret that
pleasant Scripture "And the desert
hall blossom as the rose'2 And 10
ooks like IL. The old devices for arti-
icial irrigation are growing useless,
nd territory hitherto unproductive is
beginning TO do something for man.
md this, not because Of tho pioneers
o whom the railroad has made the
lesert possible aud accessible, but be-
ause Of its direct influence upon the
Innate. Rain clouds west OF tho
Rockies, that have never spoken loud
yord within the memory OF man, are
low talking as audibly and emphnti-
allv as IL thunder had been their
tongue from babyhood, and rank
egetatiou is growing where nothing was
ver before sown but fire. The vast
ystem OF iron network aud the hair
mes Of telegraph, about enough to
make a snare TO catch the planet, have
disturbed the electrical equilibrium,
nd the results arc seen in the new and
ovel phenomena of thunder and show
rs.-Bet,j. +. taylor.
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