The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
SAYINGS AND b0INGs.

= IT has been ascertained that bed-buF
can live a year without air or food. Pei
haps this is what IL meant by the SUI
vival of the fittest."
THIS conundrum is respectfully sul
= mitted to the best speller III S-i-o-u-
spells su, and eye spells /, and s-i-g-h
p ed spells side, why doesn't S-l-o-u'A
,e eyes i-g-h-e-d spell suicide.
- A ooTRMPoRARY asks: els mump
If singular, or are they plural ? Botn
a When you get mumps on both sides
your face at once, they are plural bu
they make n person look singular.
Il "GIRLs," observes an experienced
matron. remember that those mel
make the best husbands who can swal
# low dozen hairs 10 an ounce OF butte
S without knowing it.
}, kill himl kill himi" shouted q
e crowd in Virginia City as they gathered
5 around hotel. What for?" inquired
D a stranger. Hes got on alligator
a boots and a volvet coat. Mash i'm!
SCOTLAND spent last year fully e.,
600, 600 sterling on whisky for her own
: consumption, which is more than one
: half the annual value Of the lands and
heritages outside of the nine larger
burghs in Scotland.
THE friends Of Mile. d'Abbe, niece Of
the elected Empress Eugenie, are de-
termined to keep that young woman ont
of the poor house as long az possible.
Her wedding presents cost sixteen hun
dred thousand dollars.
THERE is no doubt that Byron was a
bad man. He played cards and drank,
for in his lines to Tom Moore occurs
this damaging admission:
ave ace high for those that love me,
And a smile for those that hate
NJ. MICHEL, Frenchman Of science.
proposes the application of the principle
Of bell rung by a change in the ther-
mometer TO the discovery OF that change
in the temperature of the water which
indicates the proximity OF an iceberg to
navigators of the Atlantic in foggy
weather.
The barbarous Persians are not slow
with their "brilliant weddings, though
| Jenkins doesn't nourish them as he does
here. When the shah's daughter was
married last month, she twas vailed
with what looked like n waving mass OF
molten gold, and was taken 10 her hus-
bands house by soldiers, with candles
in the muzzles Of their guns.
"I WANT TO know" writes a cores
pondeut, chow you pronounce the In
dian name Sioux" We didn't know it
was an Indian name, but we usually
pronounce it Sigh-oo- ucks. We some
times fear, though, that the fiery im-
petuosity of youth may lead us to place
too much emphasis upon the sigh aud
the ucks.- -CO,V'iCr-.IOTHdL
PARIS Figaro has this "answer 10 cor
respondents" A note written 10y io-
male hand asks us why, in polite society,
etiquette allows a lady 10 pay visit
with her veil down. / really do not
know, madame; but would bet II rs
the ugly ones who set the fashion, and
that il is only the pretty women who
make inquiries about it.
THAT Schenectady man who has thir-
teen daughters has informed his wife
that further additions TO his family
must be Immediately stopped, or Sun
day will have to be abolished IN his
caiico-factory until further orders. He
thinks. too, that the establishment of
female institute of his own has already
become a necessity which knows little
or no law.
ONE year ago she leaned over the
garden fence and told him that she
would wait for him till her brow was
furrowed and her hair turned white, If
necessary, and he went away thinking
he'd got "A soft thing. She's rammiug
around town now with "A fellow who
parts his hair in the middle and calls
himself "Chawlie," and he's her hus-
band, you know.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH is reputed TO
have discovered the potato, but NJ.
Teller, of Paris, claims the merit Of
inventing it., as he has i'm his garden
all the wear round new potatoes, which
continue TO increase aud multiply i'm
winter under ground like truflies, ls
well as in summer 10y the ordinary
methods. He has taken out no patent,
and will only reveal the secret n the
nation rewards HIM with an annuity.
Ir is said that the matrimonial pros
pects of the Baltimore girls have been
seriously damaged 10y that little Incl
dent of five babies at "A birth which
recently transpired in that city. lnas-
mucb as the mother Of that infant mob
merely intended to show what q Balti-
moro girl can do il she tries, II il really
cruel 10 hold the rest Of the girls there
for the very remarkable
success which attended the effort.
A TALENTED fellow.countryman says
that we may think what we will OF It
now. but the song and the story heard
aroupd the kitchen fire have colored the
tbouphts and lives of most of us have
given us the germs of whatever poetry
blessed our hearts, Whatever memory
blooms in our yesterdays. Attribute
whatever we may to the school and the
the rays which make that
little day we call life, radiate from the
God.swept circle Of the hearthstone.
CHAIR gettin' little, thin, sir, said
the barber. "Youug man. said John
Henry. looking down upon him from
the height of n solemn experience
" vounp man, when you are married
Won will never allude IN that Thought
less manner to domestic Affections. No;
don't apologize. My feelings are blunt
ed. But is there not some mysterious
soft, seductive compound
that makes the hair more slippery 70
the graspP"
THREE stone collins Of great antiquity
have been found IN Dundee. one con-
tanned skeleton, the body having peeh
apparently buried in rechning posi-,
tlOQ. Cord nHl D''h "'"liN
the limbs, which, with the skull' were
in excellent preservation. The second
coffin contained nothing the third col
FIN was six and half feet long, ana IN
Il were human remains. No olew 70 tho
lotca waa obtained. Two urns-ono
roueh and the other artistically, formed
were picked up in the neighborhood'
THERE is an isolated monastery IN
inhabited by twcnty-throe monks
who have not seen woman slhcS lh-
fancy. One of them is described by
visitor as follows % He had never seen
A woman, nor had he any idea what soIt
NJ things women were, or what they
looked ike lie asked me whether they
resembied the pictures Of Panagia lthe
holy virgin) which hung in every church .,,iIc
old him that all women were not ex,
,ctIv like the pictures he had seen, and
hat they differed considerably one from
another in appearance, manners, ana
A - % Nan ri