The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

to death.
"A constable attempted 10 levy on q
Rhode Island woman's sewing machre
a month ago, and he isn't out OF bed
yet. She struck with her foot.
"A woman recently died in Alabama
leaving to somebody, il is said, an inner
itance Of no less than 2S7 hoop.skirts.
That woman was as we'll hooped as an
imported barrel of French brandy.
I'D like to give something TO the
poor" remarked Toledo lady. It's
hard times and they must be suffering,
but I've got TO use this $40 to buy an
other switch"
"A gentleman by the name Of Har-
riott has been haunting the approaches
to a certain newspaper office IN San
Francisco, looking for the editor who
called his Clara (lee Morris) a "Blonde
Bonanza"
1t is said that there nre many more
women than men in Massachusetts.
Give the women in that state the right
of suffrage, and the chances are that
they will vote all the men out of Office,
if not out of their pantaloons, in less
than six months.
An Iowa young woman is learning
the beautiful act of blacksmithing, and
when she gets up and says, Who's,
now," the most refractory OF animals
sees the necessity of keeping quiet
while she is pairing his hoof.
Walt. Whitman has begun 70 sing
about the cold weather. Warbieth
Wait
And with the howlment OF the whoop zip
yawp,
And with a million chil-betingled veins bow
| me to the winters sovereignty;
| o bitesome breeze o quakesome waves and
all conglomerate elements Of geld thingsl
Human intellect, though varying in
capacity in different individuals. has its
limits in all plans of enlargement by
acquisition and these limits cannot be
transcribed without aggregate deterior-
alton in distracting the attention, over
loading the memory or overworking the
! brain and sappiDg the foundations OF
| health. BigelOU, W. d.
In one of the courts. lately, there
was long and heated discussion be.
tween the counsel as 10 whether wit
| ness should be allowed 10 answer the
| following question "What did Mary
say?" Three judges took nearly an
hour to decide the point, and at last
answered il. The question was put TO
the witness by the defense, and the
reply was short and sweet -" Not
word"
An observant usher in one OF tn
theaters has got so he can tell mans
business by the way he asks for pro-
gramme. A real estate man wants
description of the play, hotel pro-
prietor " the bill Of fare" politician
l.. oil
points of the plot" and a lawyer al
ways asks: "Will you be good enough
to hand me bill Of particulars p
A coincidence in the matterof names
will be noticeable in the senate Of the
forty-fourth congress. There will be
two Camerons, two Joneses, and two
Morrills, and, with the exception of
I. two Johnsons-Senator Johnston, OF
Virginia, and Senator Johnson. of Ten
nessee. Did not the term of Mr.. Ham
ilton, of Maryland, expire on the 4th OF
March next, there would have been no
less than FIVE couplets OF similar names
in the senate.
Its a deep mystery-the way the
heart OF a man turns to one woman ont
of all the rest he's seen in the world,
and makes it easier for him 10 work
seven years for her, like Jacob did for
Rachel, sooner than have any other
woman for the asking. / often think OF
these words "And Jacob served seven
years for Rachel, and they seemed but
a few days, for the love he had for her"
George Elliot.
"A rich old widower of Oswego told
a young girl there 10 drop her other
beaux. She obeyed. He often took
her out riding, and assured her that
"when we get ready we can go off sud-
den like, and surprise the gossips."
The young lady did not demur. Then
the rich old widower popped off very
sudden like, and married iich old
widow about his own age. The jury is
asked for Sl5, 900 damages.
The railroad tunnel through the
st. Bernard in Switzerland will, mt it's
middle part, be enlarged, and rail-
road station be established there at the
foot of perpendicular shaft, up which
an elevator will carry the passengers 10
the top of the mountain, where a large
hotel for the use of visitors IL To be es-
tablished over the shaft. One can arrive
there then in very short time without
fatigue, aud enjoy the splendid pano-
rama, without having been subjected
TO the trouble and dangers Of the tedi-
ous travelling along difficult mountain
road.
DIR. Wilkes, in his recent work on
physiology, remarks that "it is esti-
mated that the bones of every adult
person requires TO he fed with lime
enough TO make n marble mantle every
eight months" IL will be perceived,
therefore, that in the course of about
A Il. r 80
mantlepieces and few sets Of front
door steps. IL is awful to think OF the
consequences II a man would be shut
off from his supply of lime for while
and then get loose in cemetery. An
ordinary tombstone would hardly be
enough for lunch for him.
Not only is it important for the
well-being Of society, but also it is
necessary for the purity Of every mans
moral condition that his impulse to-
ward the good should never subsido
into repose. He can never be safely
left one moment 10 be good on system,
but must be kept aroused into energetic
opposition 10 his foe, while out OF this
ceaseless antagonism of truth and false
hood, going on around him and in him,
will be produced n perfection OF moral
tempest are born the germs or terres-
trial beauty and fruitiulnCss.
In few remarks upon the action
of lightning conductors, Secchi, the
vel. known astronomer, describes the
storm Of November, 1872, in which the
cathedral and palace of Alatri we're
struck by lightning, these structures
having been free from such visitations
for many years. The damagu done on
this occasion was, as he shows, due in
great measure to the fact that the light
ning-rods, ms cad of being directly
connected with the metallic cutters and
other portions of the roof, were isolated
from them. The fluid, therefore,
sought TO make its own way 10 such
other good conductors as were near.
After quoting other instances, he ex-
pressed the opinion that the conditions
most favorable to safety consist in join
ing the lightning-rod directly TO all the
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