The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.


pistol pocket in his trousers.
AN Iowa court has decided that il is
not legal for n farmer 20 hitch his wife
mp with mule, no matter how anxious
he is to plow.
IT is probable that tobacco was intro
duced among the natives Of western
Africa by European sailors and slave
dealers. In 1907 the negroes at Sierra
Leone we're cultivatiDg the weed, and
smoking was common among both
sexes.
| SPEAKING about the ladies' fas hions
| it is worthy of remark that there has
| been this year n revival Of calicoes. IL
| is said that Madame Thiers, who now
sets the Paris fashions, instead OF tho
Empress Eugene, is responsible Tor
their restored favor in the fashionable
world.
KNG Louis, Of Bavaria, is the pet OF
lady newspaper correspondents, who 60
into ecstacies over him 10y. the column.
His mustache is blonde. his voice
light tenor, and his character s0 blame.
less as fully 10 account for the theory
entertained III less moral courts that hc
is not quite zane.
HE was a rich American in Paris who
discovered that an unploasant.l looking
fellow followed him every day from
morning till night. He became un-
easy aud diplomatic inquiry was made
whether the man who watched was con-
nected with the police. As "a result Of
much negotiation the unpleasant per
son was arrested, and proved 10 be
gatherer of butts OF cigars. The rich
and smoked them only halt mp, and IL
paid to follow him.
NJ. DE IA BAsrE having made glnes
elastic and malleable BY plungiDg 70
when heated into an oil bath, two Sile-
sian experimenters have turned their
ingenuity to the opposite extreme, and
have recently discovered method OF
making glass so hard and unyielding
that it can neither be bent nor broken,
and may be plunged, red hot into cold
water without injury. lndostructiblo
lamp-chimneys and window-panes that
defy snow balls are among the least
OF the advantages expected from tins
invention.
WHEN a street.car is crammed full,
and the scrawny little oiI.mule is bleed
ing from the cuts il has received m fall
ing on the track while strairing to start
the great load Of human selishness be
hind IL, aud the driver ia lnshirg and
cursinR the poor creature 10 make time,
there is always a woman, and some
times n man, standing on corner
square ahead. waiting 10 get ON and add
20 the woes Of that mule.
II this wretched animal has the power
to think one solitary thonght, 1t must
be that he thinks how grateful he ought
to be that he is not 90 20 10 Heaven,
where men and women go, when no
dies.
THE Milwaukee News has heard from
Old BlifTkins again. This time he Las
been in terrible trouble. He went 10
the other evening, leaving his
Young wife at home. At about two
o'clock in the morning he started Tor
his mansion with pretty good supply
Of whisky and champagne IN him, and
AZ he entered the front door, mutterlng
10 himself, "Two souls (hic) wiz buzzer
single thought" a tall figure IN white
nabbed him by the collar and jumped
him into the back room, and swee'
voice said, "Stop your noise, or III
knock the poetry ont of You J. And
then Blifr knew it WAS his wife, and he
leaned mp against the coal-stove and
Rept that he ever attended a wedding
)f any description.
How many poor women there have
been and are, whose pathetic story ~
old in those ten homely lines
Here lies an old woman who ulway- was tirol.
Cor she lived in q house whore help wasn't
hired.
Ter Last words ON earth Wcr'' h'hI lIioH"Tf
I am going
Where sweeping amt done, nor churuiug nor
,ud everything there will bo just to my
Wishes,
For where they don't eat there's no washing Of
m be where tho loud anthems will always bo
But, having no voice, I'll get rid Of the sing
Don, mourn for mo now, aud don't mourn for
me never,
For I'm going TO do nothing for over aud
ever
MARX TWAIN il credited with the fol-
owing description Of the Washington
as seen from the dome Of
he capitol "Still in the distance, but
IN this side OF the water, and close 10
ts edge. the monument 20 the father Of
lis country towers out Of the mud
acred soil is the customary term. II
,as the aspect Of factory chimney with
he ton broken of. The skeleton Of
s,afToldiug fingers about it's
ummit, and tradition says that tho
pirit of Washington often comes down
nd sits on those rafters 20 enjoy this
ribute of respect which the nation has
cared as the symbol of it's unnppeas-
.ble gratitude The monument is tobc
inished some day, and at that time our
will have risen still higher
n the nations veneratiOn, aud will be
,nown as the great great grandfather OF
lis country. The memorial chimney
tands in a quiet, pastoral locality, tnat
: full of reposeful expression. With
lass YOU can see the COW sheds about
/ base. and the contentcd sheep nib
ling pebbles in the desert solitudcs
hat surround IL, and tho tired pigs
ozing in the holy calm OF It's protect
ng shadow"
Ir ia singular the influence n stove
inc bas upon a married man. There
! nothing i'm this world he respects 80
oucb A passing load Of furniture
nav in it's general appearance, be 80
,rotesoue as to call forth the mcrument
4 tbe thoughtless young, but II there
: n niece of stove-pipe in II no larger
han n hat. he will not laugh. We
ont care who the man is, how he has
cen brought up, what his position,
yealth or influence, there is that aDout
length Of stove-pipe which takes hold
non his very soul with force that ~
eIpless to resist. And the mnrred
nan who can stand within reaching dis
ance of the stove pipe without feeling
lis heart throb; his hands clinch, Ing
air raise and his throat grow dry and
.uskv. is an anomlly which does not
xist. Stove-pipe has only one
INGREDIENT and that is contrari-
ess. II is the most perverse article
d existence. 1t has done more to GRE
te heartache, eInhitter lives, break un
omes and scrape off skin than All
ther domestic articles together. Ihe
tber domestic screw.driver pales IT'S
neffsctual fires in the presence OF
tove.pipe. and the family hammer
nst paws in the dust and wecps. We
Ion't care how much pains are taken 70
emember and keep in order the INKS,
bey will not some together az they
anne apart. This is not Joke, this ~
ot exagperation; tits simply the solemn,
truth. II we appear nm
uIv excited in this matter we are sorry
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