The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-29
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

THH Scientific American has found a
woman eighty-three years OF age VINO
attributes her long life TO abstinence
from bathing.
A GOOD little girl writes to the New
York Tribune: "Papa has given us
three cents day for not sucking our
thumbs. We send one dollar for a
child in Kansas"
A aRowN.UP young lady Of Minnesota
who ought to have entertained higher
sense of flial duty, has bad the author
of her being arrested and fined twelve
dollars and half for spanking her.
A CANADIAN murderer wanted them
to put off the day OF execution, owing
to his being afflicted with the toothache;
but the sheriff said he'd got to 60 to
mill next day and he couldn't acconmo-
date the prisoner.
AMONG the numberless contradictions
in our nature, hardly any is more glar-
ing than this, between our stnsitive-
ness to the slightest disgrace which we
fancy cast upon us from without, and
our callousness to the grossest which
we bring down on ourselves. In truth,
they who are the most sensitive TO the
one are of the, most callous to the
other.
ONE who has tried it says that a cup
of coffee is a sure barometer, II you
allow the sugar to settle at the bottom
of the cup, and watch the bubbles,
arise without disturbing the coffee he
the bubbles collect in the middle, the
weather will be fine if they adhere to
the cup, forming n ring, it will be
rainy and If the bubbles separate
without assuming any fixed position
changeable weather may be expected.
SOMEBODY gives in substance the fol-
lowing idea in regard to the proper way
of treating the secrets Of other people
which accidentally come into our posses
sion If you see person drop purse
IN the street, and you pick 1t mp, OF
course You return il to him or If you
could not give il back at once, you
would keep it safely until you could do
so. That is Just what you should do
with secrets when people drop them
accidentally, and you pick them mp.
You have no more business to use them
than you would have 10 use money
which you obtained in the same way.
DURING the year 1874 more than &C.,
600 steerage passengers left this country
for Europe. Many of them, no doubt,
took advantage of exceptionally low
fares 70 visit their old homes, and have
already returned, or will DO so. More,
however, are believed 70 have been
driven away permanently by the hard
times. The New York commits sioner Of
emigration believes that about $4,000,
or two-thirds of the whole number, in-
tend to be permanent absentees. The
revival of business will bring many OF
them back, and tens Of thousands OF
new comers with them.
THE Sandwich islands are twelve in
number, comprising in all little over
G, 600 square miles-about the size OF
and Rhode island. Two
thirds of this area belongs TO the island
Of Hawaii, although Oahu is better
known generally for it's containing Hon
olulu, the capital city, which has about
l6, 900 inhabitants. The population OF
the whole group in 1872 was 56,s97. 1t
appears by the last census Of the IN
habitants that there we're 40, O4i persons
1f the pure native race, 2, 4SB of mixed
origin, 1888 Chinese, SS9 American,
il9 English, and the remainder hailed
from other European countries. The
twentieth degree of north latitude runs
through the group, 70 that they are in
The same latitude as Cuba.
THE pretty little maid Of honor whom
he Grand Duke Alexis married all un-
leknownst 70 the old folks appears to
De as spunky as she is beautiful. Alexis,
{ will be remembered, was sent to
America that he might forget her, but
while that plan cured the grand duke, 1t
lidn't appease his bride, who was sent
,ut of th. empire by special train. She
vent TO Geneva, and recently II appears
hat Count Shouvaloff was sent to treat
With her. It was proposed that she
hould renounce all claim TO the hand
4 Alexis, should change her name and
disappear. In return for this service
he would receive one million roubles
Iown and an annuity Of seventy.hye
thousand roubles, which would be con-
inued 10 her child in case the latter
urvived her; but Mrs. Alexis wouldn't
IN il She loved Alexis too much for
hat, and so matters stand AZ present.