The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

THE Ohio senate has passed bili
fixing the compensation OF members oi
the legislature at $500 per annum.
MORE good manners at Nice. An
English lady, the wife OF baronet'
cheated Scotch marquis at cards, ana
the indignant Scot beat her ON the spot.
THERE is q theatre in Paris where che
actresses pay for the privilege OF appear
ing on the stage. When the manager
wants TO get rid Of any member OF MS
company he raises her salary.
| CusToMER-I want mourning suit.
Shopmau-What is the bereavement
may askp Customer-My mother-in-
law. Shopman--Mr. Brown, show the
gentleman to the light aflliction depart
ment.-Ft,n.
"J. GRAY-Pack with my box five
| dozen quills." There is nothing re-
markable about this sentence, only that
it is nearly as short as one can be con-
strueted, and yet contains all the letters
of the alphabet.
For generations past, French has
been the diplomatic language OF Europe.
On the close of the Franco-Prussian
war, Berlin wrote a diplomatic note in
German, Of the deepest Russian blue,
TO ST. Petersburg the latter replied ia
good Russisr, sixteen quarters black;
The exchange OF corresp pondence stopped
then and there in those two languages,
and French was resumed.
Ar last here is a new fancy in the
prestidigitation Lire. He borrowed
bonnet from lady in the audience, and
as he was about 20 return il IL caught
fire in the gas, and he had to stamp on
it with both feet TO extinguish the
flame. Misery of the lady It was her
best bonnet. Then he fred a pistol, and
a bonnet Just like it fell from the chan
delisr IN the middle of the theatlG
YoUNa fellew, If you have been
burning mp another mans fuel aud
coal oil all winter, without yet arriving
at a definite understanding with his
girl. you may expect to be chalked down
as light and pithless fraud, and may
look TO have the scathing finger OF
scorn and the black muzzle of bull
dog pointed at You il YOU attempt TO
take up your swing on the gate where
you left off last fall.
TALKING Of the tight skirts which are
now in fashion. n lady who was born in
the last century said the other day:
"You call those tight skirts Hou
should have seen Madame TalGen then
when she walked in the Tuileries with
a dress of an almost transparent text
ure, worn over n pair of silk tights
You have not come 10 that" No.
answered another lady, "bnd i hope
We never shall"
TALMAaE is back in his favorite role
again. In his last Christian at Work,
he offers a last word Of gratuitous
advice 10 theatrical people III You
will. only stoop down aud look through
The cracks in the hoor Of the stage
he SAYS, "you will SEQ fire aud smell
smoke. Better fly for your life. IL is
hard work getting 10 heaven from the
American theater. You will have 10
,prinP seventy-fve feet at the first
ump |"
A CLERGYMAN, at a recent teachers
Meeting in Ohio, said that teachers are
90 often selected in the wrong way.
{ Examiners make IN intellectual re-
Iuirement in straight jacket style, and
Iay no attention whatever to the par
ocular natural, innate adaptedness OF
he teacher for the profession, ard thus
nen and women are found at the head
,f our schools who are no more able 20
Ievelop the humru mind than n MDdoc
3 to draw picture of the heavenly
jerusalem with charcoal"
THE climate OF Texas soon makes an
Elephant of a man. The Daily Tele-
,raph, of Houston, says: Horses
nd alligators have but feeble constitu-
ions compared with many of the stall
7art sons of the Lone Star empire.
'istol balls and bowie.hnife thrusts are,
" many, considered the harmless re-
ults of playfulness and good humor,
nd the kick of n mule or mustang rs
ot sufficiently emphatic 81 call for seri-
us remark or notice"
ar Green Bay, Wis winter still
myers in the lap of spring, but the
eople don't mind IL, because they have
he garment known as the sawdustello.
)ne who has seen this useful invention
ays of it "This covering, which en-
races a coat and brooches all in one,
nd is donued by both sexes, ls made
Mt of two thicknesses of blankets,
lied in between with sawdust. Hay
r straw can be used for The stuiliDP.
he outfit looks n little olephantine 20
stranger, but the people Of Green Bay
ont mind the appearance 50 long asit
so comfortable"
Two children stlll and STARK on
nowy slopc-the girl wrapped round in
he coat of the boy, ana both young
ices fixed by frost in the calm repose
{ death was the picture presented 10
ne eyes of wearied teachers near
Iount AYR, Iowa, the other day. This
inters cold has taken many life, but
one of the unfortunates were found
so touching an attitude M this. IL
as not in the heat Of the conflict that
le boy died; there was no rattling
rum TO stir his thickening blood, nor
eyes 20 mark his heroic fall;
othing 90 rouse his young enthusiasm.
Mt the little coat folded carefully about
10 girlish form, and his own naked
.east, told of the quiet courage and
lf-sacrifice with which he had met the
tiless blast that blew as cold on him
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