The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

The supply of diamonds from
South Africa has fallen off while they
from South America has increased.
Well informed persons assert that half
OF the diamonds worn in America have
been struggled.
The coffee planters OF Ceylon are
threatened with pecuniary ruin, the
rats having seized their plantations,
grasshopper style. Not being able TO
import American music, they are trying
to brighten off the invaders with the
tom-.om, home instrument.
There is an English paper which
thinks that in case OF war the chief
food producing nations, by combining
against England, could conquer her
without firing a shot or landing q
soldier by simply declining TO deal with
her.
The Patrons OF Husbandry OF Indi-
ana have resolved that they will not buy
certain agricultural implements, for the
very reason that the manufacturers re-
fuse TO recognize the grange agents, and
will only sell through the old established
agents.
"A farmer on the road between Charl-
ton and Worcester, Mass, having been
terribly annoyed by drummers, put mp
a sign: "No sewing-machines wanted
here. Got one" It was no use the
next drummer wanted TO see the
machine, sand perhaps he'd hitch mp
trade" So the farmer put up: ''Got
the smallpox here" That worked we'll
for little while, but then came along a
drummer frightfully pitted with the
smallpox, who smilingly said "Seein'
you've got it bad here they've put me
on this route"
The modern school girl must have
queer ideas. In a conversation with a
New York reporter at Vassar hop. one
of them querried, "Are you single?' an
she asked thougktfully, "Do editors
ever get rich ?" The "pencil HEAVIER
again replied in the affirmative, and in
stanced several leading journalists, and
then added, "I leave for New York to-
morrow, and it will take me three days
to pay my taxes and cut the coupons of
my bonds = els it possible !" replied
the miss, "and you so young, too"
If there is a manufacturing city on
this continent which might be called
the Manchester of America, il is
Lowell, Mass. There are daily en-
ployed nearly eighteen thousand opera
tives in the various mills. The capital
stock of the several corporations is
over $40, 900, 900, while the total valua-
ton would foot up six times sixteen
millions. In many instances the origi-
nal stockbo lders have, perhaps, more
than doubled their investments by mag
nificent dividends and it is a notable
fact that even in these depressed times
the stock of these old and wealthy cor
porations is not for sale at any price.
An observation-disclosures, Of course
relates that an American gentleman
who had at an early age gone the over
land route TO California, told him this 4:
We crossed the sandhills near the scene
of the Indian mail robbery and massacre
of 1856, wherein the driver and con-
iuctor persisted, and also all the pas
sengers but one. But this must have
been a mistake, for at different times
afterward on the Pacific coast,
[ was personally acquainted with
One hundred and thirty.three or
four people who were wounded
during that massacre and barely escaped
with their lives. There was no doubt OF
the truth of it ! had it from their own
lips. And one of the parties told me
that he kept coming across arrow heads
in his system for nearly seven years
after the massacre.