The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.
THE WINE OF LIFE.

Swiftor than springs first blossoms fades
away.
Yet to have loved though Love has fed, il
bliss
For nothing warns the human heart like this.
or that glad wine my soul has drunk its an /;
Now the sun sinks,-lel night come when II
will.
The unknown hours may bring or shade or
shine,
The treasure in my heart is always mine.
THE immense cannon now being con-
struc ed at Woolwich, Eng, will cost
the British government ~, j0O,O
When a mau has business that
doesn't pay, n 3 usually begins 10 look
around for a artner 10 share his losses
with him.
The West Point cadet laughs because
| the Vassar girl ran screaming from
fright at the recent sham fight. Let the
cadet marry that timid Nassar girl, and
in six months he will take of his boots
! in the hall when he comes in nights
for fear she will tear the scalp of him.
A WOMAN of indianapolis has shown
| that she could be as murderously brutal
as almost any man. She pursued her
rival i'm love into a closet, shot her
fatally, and then, patting her revolver
! gleefully, exclaimed, "Oh, culver
That's right, die hard enjoy this, /
do"
THE largest library in the United
| Stats is the library of congress, which
contains 274, 900 volumes; next in order
is the Boston Public library, with 273,-
600, whilst the Harvard University
| library, with 1913 900, and the New York
|
! respectively third and fourth in point Of
! size.
A VIcKsBuRa lady was recently in
quiring of girl from over the river
how certain old acquaintance who
married widower few months ago,
got along. "Very poorly" replied the
girl there's five children, who ought
to be spanked twice a day, and Maria's
left-handed and can't begin 30 do 'em
justice. Poor woman, my heart bleeds
for her !"
CREMATION is regularly practiced by
the Ute ana Digger Indians OF the
Sierra region, pine wood being always
used f,r the pyrc. The widow dosent
hire a hack or buy any fashionable
mourning goods, but she smears her
face and hair with the exuding resin,
aud resolutely declines 90 permit tho
wooing of au euamored brave as long
as the pine Juice remains. Per-
haps, however, scrapcs IL sometimes
with "A chip, or eke stone, so as TO
hasten its departure being merely hui
man, you know.
MANY persons are in the habit Of
sleeping for half an hour Immediately
after dinner. Ten minutes sleep before
dinner is worth more than an hour
after. lt rests aud reircshes, and pre-
pares the system for vigorous digestion.
II sleep is taken after dinner, IL should
be in sitting posture as the horizontal
position is unfavOrable To digestion.
Let those who need rest and sleep
during the day take il before dinner
instead of after, and they will soon find
that they will feel better, and that
their digestion will be improved there
by.
\ FAMILY ia this city, the widowed
father Of which has been somewhat
illicted Of late with an attempted in
Of an uproarous sister-in-
law, has six-year-old girl that has a
faculty of prayer" A few evenings
since she enumerated the objects OF her
as follows God bless
papa and my governess, and my sisters
and brother, and my uncle Sam, and my
aunt Georgia, and M twin cousins aud
cousin Julia, and all my relations ex-
cept Maud and JanO and Ellen (the OBJ
loxioua auuts), and the less you have
70 do with them the better IL will be for
you. San Francisco Chronicle.
When you get fairly across the bloody
chasm you might as we'll wade mp 20 the
waisibaud. IL was oX.Gov. Andrews Of
South Carolina who was so affected 10y
the appearance and the enthusiasm Of
the Boston Indies as TO remark that he
" felt that an angel, "a thousand angels,
had come down and touched the pool Of
Misunderstanding, aud that henceforth
the waters were tO be pure and sweet, and
were 20 flow out and mingle with others
on every side from our great country,
all conyergiug in Cue united interest,
bearing upon their bosom aiiectionate
greeting 10 all the members Of our great
family" Gosh
An analysis of England's marriage
statistics presents some curious data
relative 10 the probabilities Of marriage
for women mt different ages. Thus,
the sum Of "A woman's chances
lf marriage 10 be 100, these statistics
show that she eXhaustB between the
ages Of 10 and 2l, a. chances. II she
lives unmarried from 20 tO %, % more
Of her chances appear 90 be lost and II
she remains unmarried for = more years
zhe will turn 30 with only 10 chances
ont of her 100 left. After 30 he has
H. chances and even after a woman
has lived unmarried go years, she still
has the tenth of "a chance out Of the
original 100.
FAIR HAGR.-Says q writer Shakes
pelre especially appears to have DO
lighted greatly in golden hair. Her
sunny locks hang ON her temples Ike
the golden fleece" he says Of PDrtid ln
''The Merchant of Venice" Twice only
m his PLAYS does he mention black hair,
while numerous scattered illusions
.vervwhere show that he esteemed fair
hair the peculiar attribute Of his deli
,atelv imagined and beautiful women.
Il is a singular fact that among the por-
rats by the great masters hanging in
.be national gallery of England
Flemish, Spanish, ana French-thero
IS net a single feminine head repre-
,ented with black hair among them All.
Pope has founded one ot his hnest
poems, The hape OF the lioch' uPVH
, woman's hair, and ho declares IN
we'll known couplet-
Fair tres-c- name imperial raco enHnhro,
And beauty draws mr. by single hnr'
As a race. the Chinese arc the most
nveterate aud consistent Of iatalists.
Their Indifference In the time OF grief
lud trouble, which We generally ascribo
o apathy, is more commonly the result
# their philosophy. Medicine, as rs
yoll known, is with them science in
which for hundreds Of years no progress
las been made, owing it would seem,
n a great measure, To- their fatnlism.
With "a Chinese population in city OF
welve thousand, there are, at the most,
lOt more than ten physcians, and these
Ierive their incomes m "a great measure
rom outside sources. Such remedies
s are commonly In use among them
ave probably been proved by the eK-
,erience OF centuries. A Chinese Grim
nal, not destitute Of money, IN many
ases refuses 10 employ an attorney, IN
he firm conviction that Whatever he