The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-20
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.


What hast thine hidden hand 10 store
For mine, tomorrow, and for MOI
o thou tomorrow! what hast thou
In store TO make mo bear the now
o day in which we slall forget
The tangled troubles Of today
o day that laughs at duns, at debt
O day OF promises 10 paw
o shelter from all present STORM
: o day in which we shall reform!
o safest, best day for reform
Con, enient day OF promise
| Hold back the shadow Of the storm
o blessod tomorrow Chiefcst friend
Let not thy mystery bo less,
But lead us blindfold 10 the end.
Joaquin Miller.
you've pinned it back, he cried with grief,
much farther than you'd orior;
Your stomach stands out in bold relief
My darter! oh, my dSrter.'
The most civilized are as near 70 bar
barism as the most polished steel AZ to
rdst. Nations, like metals, have only a
superficial brilliancy.
NEws has been received OF fresh sup.
plies of guano on forty FIVE different
islands belonging to Peru. Some OF
the deposits amount 10 mil ions OF
tons.
The capacity OF sorrow belongs 60
our grandeur and the loftiest of our
race are those who have had the pro-
foundest grief, because they have had
the profoundest sympathies.
MANY definitions there have been Of
a gentleman, but the prettiest and
most pathetic, is that given 10y n young
lady. "a gentleman" says she, " is a
human being combining "A woman's ten
derness with mans courage"
DURING a recent tornado in Minnesota,
a couple of sheep wovc carried fully
mile and landed IN tree top. aud we're
found pinned together 10y board that
had been driven through the bodies Of
the poor animals.
IT is folly 60 call the Joys Of childhood
the greatest. They are like the earliest
flowers of spring, the crocus, lovely
aud richly-tinted, but small and scent
| less. 1t is summer that brings forth
flowers Of matured splendor and fra
GRANGE.
! NATURE is the only workman 10 whom
no material is worthless, the only
chemist in whose laboratory there are
no waste products, and the only artist
whose compositions are infinitely va
ried. and whose fe tility Of invention Is
ineXhaushble.
If some are refined, like gold, in the
furnace of alliction, there are many
more that, like chat, are consumed in
it. Sorrow, when il is excessive, takes
away feryor from plenty, vigor from
action, health from the reason, and re-
pose from the conscience.
IT was a beautiful idea in the mind OF
a little girl, who, on bcholding faded
rose around which three little buds
were just unfolding, exclaimed 10 her
little brother, 4" See, Willie, these little
buds have awakened in time 10 kiss
their mother before she dies"
HAVE the courage 90 give, occasion
ally, that which you can i'll afford to
spare giving what You do not want,
nor value, neither brings nor deserves
thanks in return; who is grateful fof n
drink OF water from another's overflow
ing well, however delicious the draught?
PRor. WILLIAM HAGEN, OF the acad-
envy OF civil eng neers, Berlin, predicts
the failure of the ietty system now be-
ing constructed at the mouth OF the
Mississippi, and declares that tine large
amount of money appropriated by
congress for that work will be a total
loss.
A REp.HEApEp lady, who was ambi-
tious of literary distinction, found but
poor sale for her book. A gentleman,
In speaking ot her disappointment,
said "Her hair il red il her book IN
not" An auditor, in attempting to re-
late the joke elsewhere, SAID She has
red hair if her book hasn't"
IT is impossible to refrcin from grum-
bin at every American watering place,
so long as the folly Of the fashionable
mother continues to flourish. In France
the children are not seen at watering
places. They ar5 ut school-anywhero
but at Vichy, Trouville or Dieppe. And
in England any dress but the plainest
is never bought for them.
A GENTLEMAN relates, after leaving
paper of which he was the editor, and
returning on visit, he wrote a leader
for the new editor, and lac really thought
it good-better than he had written for
months. Next day he met an old ac-
duaintance with a paper M his hand.
" Ah." said he, this paper is but
miserable thing now-uothing like what
il was when you had il and pointing
10 the article he had written, he con-
tinued-" Look, for instance, at that
thing Why didn't that fool let you
write the article?'
THERE is a story OF traveller who,
wishing to reach Barnet, had somehow
got turned ronnd, and was trottlng
along very composedly IN the opposite
direction from the right one 70 that
town. Meeting farmer in the road, he
drew up, and asked, " How far IS It to
Barnet, if Il keep straight on ?" "Well,'
said the farmer. with n twinkle in his
intelligent eye, "if ye keep strnight on
the way ye are going now, it's about
twenty five thousand miles; but II ye
turn right round, and go tother way,
it's about half mile"
A GENTLEMAN who has Just arrived
here from the west had n somewhat re.
markable experience yesterday. just
after the train left Fremont he aud his
daughter were engaged m eating
lupcb. when the daughter removed Btv-
eral handsome rings from her hng,ts
and handed them to her father TO tgk ke
care Of until the lunch had been dis
posed of. The gentleman took mp scmo
chicken bones with the hand containing
the rings, and, in a moment OF alb ent-
threw bones aud rings ont
of the open window OF the car. Tho
rings were valued at Sl, 200. Omaha
H,rdli.
In the accessories 10 n lady's toilet is
noticeable the extrayagant display OF
laces, Mcchlin standing high in favor.
Not only are the costly kinds, such as
point de- Alencon, Applique and Valen-
ciennes, called into requlsition, but tho
and nuily ones, which are
immensely becoming and within the
reach of all. The novelty In belts iB
the gross grain ribbon, not more than
two inches wide, and worn about TIE
waist, 10 fasten in front on the left side
in bow, with loops aud ends reaching
or quite TO the knee; also, tho
narrow Russian leather ones exhibited
in most OF the shops.
FpsIisb Nompn's Art In Dress.