The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

boston, is sign bearing the words
Don't wipe your nose on the towel.
Don't listsn to tales Of his bounty.
Don hear what they say OF his birth,
Don't look at his seat i'm the county,
| Don't calculate what no il worth;
| But give him a theme TO write verse on,
And see IL no turns ont hs toe;
II he's only an excellent person,
My own Araminta, say "No!"
"SHE is n perfect Amazon" said a
pupil in one of our schools Of his teach.
er, to companion. Yes" said the
other, who was better versed in geo.
graphy than history, Z" L noticed she
had an awful big mouth
| SPEAKING of the awful chilliness OF
Venetian bouses, Charles Warren S,od-
dard says that at the day OF Judgment
he has not a doubt in his own mind but
that these Italial domestic refrigerators
will be the last thing on earth 20 get
warmed through, and it will be the fret
time they were ever comfortably heated.
A GOOD story is being told of George
William Curtis. He prides himself, IL
is said, on his English accent, eschew-
ing the Yankee "drawl." Therefore,
when he was over there and went 10 n
tailor's he was not little mortified at
the masters exclaiming "Arry, show
the Hamerican gentleman the weskets. "
ave known many a lass,
Who would thoughtlessly pass
Whole hours parading the streets;
While the mother would scrub,
And rub at tho tub,
Never minding the cold nor the heat.
II is so? It il so?
You NAV smile as you like
But it's so."
THE San Francisco Bulletin says that
the first piece of gold found, which
raised such a revolution on the Pacific
coast is still TO be seen. It's value il
between four and five dollars. 10 re-
sembles piece of spruce gum Just out
of the mouth of school girl, with
similar indeL tations. IL could easily
be identified by any one who had ever
seen it.
A BUFFALO paper prints the following
letter from one of its old and prompt
paving patrons Please discontinue
my paper from the time / have paid up
to. l do not stop the paper because i
do not want it, but TO get rid OF an in
tolerable old bore that intrudes himself
in my house, regardless of time or cir
cumstances, to sit for an hour or two,
three or four times a week, To read my
papers, and who is a thousand times
more able TO take a dozen papers for
himself than / am TO take one. If the
nuisance is stopped, shall send for
the paper again"
In general we may observe that cour-
age, of all national qualities, is the
most precarious; because IL is exerted
only at intervals, and by few in every
nation; whereas industry, knowledge,
ciyility, may be of constant and univer-
sal use, and, for several ages, may be-
come habitual to the whole people. If
courate e be preserved, it must be by
discipline, example aud opinion. The
tenth legion OF Caesar, aud the regiment
Of Picardy, in France, were formed
from among the citizens
but having once entertained a notion
that they were the best troops in tho
service, this very opinion really made
hem uch.-HUBlc.
The Matrimonial News, journal de-
voted TO the promotion of marriage and
,oniuPal felicity, has wide circulation
al over Great Britain. There are more
han thres hundred advertisements in
is last issue for husbands and wives.
Jlergymen, army officers, members OF
parliament, manufacturers, merchants,
ohysicians, chemists, farmers, univer-
,ity men, an earls sou, "A reporter, gem
,lemen with expectations, and gentle
men without any bachelors and wild
,wers, Roman Catholic and Protestant,
Ill urge their suits through this con-
7enient journal, which contains full
of characteristics, physi-
,ial and spiritual age, condition, prop
,rty and family connections.
An EXPERIMENT IN NATURAL HIS
,oRY. One often reads Of the oiscov.
nv of live toads i'm the center Of trees
n inside OF appar arently solid stone. A
French nauralist, Nj. Margelidet, has
ust published the results OF an expert
nent of that nature. On the 18th of
anuray, in the year 1870, he caused a
avity 10 be followed in a large stone,
,ut a toad into the cavity, and then
ealed up the mouth of the hole with
cement. The other day,
i've years, day for day, Einco he bad put
he poor creature into durauce vile, no
,roke open the cavity at the museum
f natural history, and found the toad
within alive and well, though in tor
lIu COuulblOlls Nbl AAh1 ~ HiAAA' ANh ~
ease taken any nourishment whatever.
In the days when rouRe-et-noir flour
shed at Baden Baden the Prussian Of
icers we're strictly forbidden 30 play.
)na of them, however, dressed as
civilian, ventured TO place 10 Napoleons
N a color. The color came up twice,
nd the officer was just about 10 take
Ip the money when his eye fell upon
he king Of Prussia, who was watching
he game with interest. In his fright,
he officer did not dare 10 remove his
yapoleoLs. The play continued and
he same color came up n third,
ourth, a fifth time, and 5000 francs
yere added TO his pile, but the winner
BOD motionless, erect as If on parade,
Expecting the next instant TO sec all
is winnings wiped out. The king put
n end to his suspense 10y approaching
nd saying in a kindly mood: ad.
ise you to draw in your winnings and
D be quick about II, before / notice
on your luck cannot continue so
avorabla "