The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
FACTS AND FANoIEs.


| Queen Victoria carried of the first
prize for pigs aud Herefordshire heifers
at the Christmas cattle show in London.
AT public meeting a speaker said
that a certain thing was "just as sure
as that Renee founded Rome"
If Eve should come now people
would say, What big feet she has No
one would tempt her with apples. They
would throw them Rt her.--AC1O York
R6rSLd.
The other day n Binghampton girl
offered to let countryman Kiss her ior
| FIVE cents. 81 gad," exclaimed the
bucolic youth, "that's darn cheap II a
fellow only had the money"
Petroleum springs have been dis
covered in Northern Germany, which
| in purity, clearness and specific weight,
are said to surpass those Of the United
States. There are also many in Russia.
We don't want TO make anybody
mad, nor discourage true genius, yet we
can't help but believe that the man who
spends his time writing the Lords
Prayer in a circle the size Of three
cent piece had better be seen working
around his woodpile.
Worse than evolution.-Ben Butler
said in a speech in congress the other
day that he stood erect in the image
of the God who made him, and dealt
with principles as seemed 10 him right"
If it gets out that Ben. Butler is an
image of God there will be a mighty
spread of infdelity through the country.
The New York Tribune notes that,
yrshn les fn
ing into theaters, the builders Of the
new Globe play house in Boston have
TO some extent, initiated the pew sys-
tenn. One hundred seats have been
sold outright in a kind OF fee simple,
to be held by the buyers, their heirs
and assigns forever.
The navigators OF the boisterous
Bay Of BiscRy lately euCuuutcrd "a new
terror in the shape Of iceberRs which
had been driven there by the late
severe storm. Icebergs, though found
farther south, have rarely entered the
limits Of this bay, and, hence their
presence there is an event Of peculiar
interest.
A German journal, published in
the interest Of sugar-refners, makes the
interesting announcement that the efilo-
"
medium is independent Of the quantity
of pure carbon IL contains. This being
the case, IL is stated that bone burned
TO whiteness decolorizes the liquor even
better than the now universally used
bone-coal.
1t would be a great convenience II
farmers generally would have their
names painted upon the gates in front
-
have much difficulty in finding persons
of whom they are IN search, which
would be obviated by this course. Be
sides, a nice gate, with the name Of the
occupants, add greatly TO the appear
auce Of a place, and looks az though
the inmates were not isolated from the
outside world.
In the official account just issued
by the Prussians, IL is admitted that at
Gravelotte Comte de Moltkc nearly lost
the battle. The official document says:
" Comte dc Moltke was not always 80
well informed as il he were the director
of both armies. He attacked, as he
believed, the right wing OF the enemy,
when it was their centre, the error was
soon corrected from the wast Of ability
on the part OF Bazaine; bdt IL is honor
ably avowed that the error might have
proved calamitous.
There Is n reasonable doubt as 10
the paternity Of the present king OF
Spain :. or, rather, there is no doubt
whatever, among a good many people,
that his legal father and the genuine
article are in nowise related 20 each
in fact, two people. The
same was held TO be popularity Of the
late Napoleon and there are even
of English birth
who do not hesitate 20 cast the same
sort Of a shadow over the paternity OF
the prince imperial. There seems 20
be some difficulty about royalty in
France and Spain, in that no ruler IN
either country is permitted 10 be the
son of bis father. or the father OF bis
son.-Chicdgo Times.
In the New York postoilice there is
a clerk whose memory Cf tho oiiico
brings him back TO the year 1885 when
a young woman used 10 call every week
for letter addr ssed 20 Miss Mary
81. Russell, post Office" The regular
ity Of her visits, her constant reserve,
and the uuietuess with which che re-
sented inquiry asto her history and occu-
patton excited in the Office a curiosity
which was never pratified. Until within
ZEN years she made her cnlls with accuB-
,omed regularity aud was never disnp-
lointed in her expectation Of letter.
Since, she has not been fCeu, but the
ettera come as OF old. Thew are for
yarded 90 the dead-letter Office where
hey are opened, but contain no clue 10
he identity Of either the writer or the
In each is 90 note, with
inc saying when tho next remittance
will no rnode-nctIiu0 moro