The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
SAVINGS AND DOINGS.
THE Indian remedy for removing the
rarnovino fhe aoalp.

devoted to cotton cultivation.
WHEN Boston man takes q Russian
bath he imparts dark stain to aiKseen
gallons of water.
THERE are only three women in Mil
waukee who can direct an envelope
straight without first drawing a line
with pin.
A "PLEAsE help tho po~r" box in
Philadelphia received only four cents
during the year 1874, and three Of these
were very thin cents.
A CALIFORNIA man advertises for
wife, beauty no object. but wants her
friends to deposit 81, 800 with him as
security for her good behavior.
THE danger OF dabbliDg in French
politics is shown in tho fact that more
than 20, 900 persons have been arrested
in France for insurrectionRTy c3mmun-
ism.
An elephant is l ,227 $50 times larger
than flea, but yet there are women
who growl at paying two shillings TO
visit menagerie and, will turn feather
bed over for half day TO hunt a flea.
ALL the axes and buck-saws found in
the ruins of Pompeii are Of light make,
as if constructed for women's use.
Those old anoients knew their little
business.
A PARIS merchant who refused 10 ad-
vertise was challenged by an editor and
shot. The man who says anything
against advertising deserves to be shot
on the spot.
ADMIRAL PORTER says We have no
navy, and that there are n hundred
iron clads in Europe, any one Of which
is capable of destroying in action our
whole feet combined.
THE Indians at Petosky, according 20
the Clam Lake News, have the follow
ing expressive if not elegant saying for
one Of the Grand Rapids and Indiana
railroad employees: ugh, much talk,
id little do
VAsQuEz, the noted bandit Of Califor-
mia, has been convicted of thirty-seven
separate aud distinct murders. We al
ways said that when n man goes into
any kind of business he ought 10 do hia
best to make a success Of ii.
ga CRISIS exists in South America"
says cable dispatch from London,
"and revolution is considered i'm
minent." That is the kind Of news we
have been getting from South Amorica
for the last fifty years. IL is becoming
te1ious. Tell us something new.
THE San Francisco papers boast that
their new Palace Hotel" will require
four thousand locks and forty eight
thousand keys to make il just the thing.
These locks and keys will weigh seven
tons and will cost s2O, 600 in sold coin.
Chicago stands aghast. The Grand
Pacific must hide it's diminished head.
IF you wish 10 drown yourself, kick
and splash about as violently as you can,
and you will soon go 20 the bottom.
But if you remember You are lighter
than water, and II you calmly aud
steadily refrain from drawing your
breath while under the water, keepyo
head raised, and your arms under, you
will soon learn to float and swim like q
duck.
KATE, in a note from Brooklyn, e1-
presses her wonder that men generally
are not better ikilled in the art OF look
ing at a pretty woman in the strect.cars.
She says that all girls are pleased 20
have their attraction recognized in n
certain gentle way-the eyes lingering
for an instant only-but that a pro-
longed stare from a man, no matter how
handsome he may be, excites nothing
but feeling of annoyance and disgust.
STATISTICAL tables show there are in
the whole world about one hundred and
sixty four cities with 100, 600 inhabitant0;
nine with over 1000, 600; twelve with
from !. 900 coo down 10 500 900; twenty
with from GOO 900 20 400 600; thirty.
three with from 200 900 TO 300, 900; and
ninety with from 100000 to 100000.
The aggregate Of these large cities COM
prises 30, 900, coo Of inhabitants, that is
TO say the twenty. eighth part OF the en-
tire population Of the globe.
The Paris gossips call the marriage
of Mile. Giulia Strakosch daughter OF
Mr.. Maurice StrakOscb, and niece OF
Patti, Marquise De Cauz, with M.
Ernest Bourdillon, young and rising
advocate of the Cour d'Appol, a splen-
did match-a love match in the bar
gain, q thing not always found in
France. NJ. Bourdillon is n handsome
young fellow, OF very polished man
ners, and will GER ainly make his mark.
Mile. Strakosch is n sweet and winning
young lady, who inherits the musical
talents of her parents. A very largo
and fashionable assembly assisted at
the nuptial ben sdiction at tue Church
Of Saint Augustin.
AN interesting relic OF by-gone timo
has lately disappeared with the death,
on December %, Of Lord Byron's valet,
Falcieri, nc the age of seventy.eight.
After the poets death, his friend Sir
John Hobhouse, afterward Lord Brough-
ton, took Falcieri into his employ ns
courier. Before long, however, tho
courier returned 10 his former calling,
and continued to serve as valet with
Isaac Disraeli, author Of "The Curl
osities OF Literature" and father to
abe present Prime Minister until his
masters death. In 1852 Lord BrouRh-
ton got him a berth as messenger at tho
board of control. He was a very
pleasant, obliging person, and as assist
ant to the head ofIioekeeper, the po-
lite old Italian, with his broken Eng
lish, was often held in friendly chat by
those who came across him in the way
Of business.
IRON IN 1HE COLomSG MATTER or
and Jolly, in a
presented TO the Paris acad-
o..,, have ,,roved Eirat that the iron