The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-05
SAYINGS AND DO1SGs.


She talks to herself and laughs. and sings
About the world and its beautiful thingsi
But. though he il good to all OF the rest
She ia very sure that he loves her best
Oh, how much better this world would "ag
N we all had hearts like little Rag-tag
-ChristidI Union.
THIS is the form in which they say
the dispatch first came: emperor OF
China dead; Prince Kung will BE re-
gent; head physician OF the court de-
capitated."
POWDERED chalk added TO common
glue strengthens il. A glue which wlll
resist the action of water ~ made py
boiling one pound Of glue in two quarts
of SKINNED milk.
IprYNEss is the dead sea that swal-
lows up all virtues, and the self-made
sepulchre of q living man. The le
man is the devils urchin, whose livery
is rags. and whose diet and wages are
famine and disease.
AN Iowa lady concludes an anti-suf-
| frape lecture a. follows You may
look at this matter in whatever light
you Like, but simmer it down and It IL
but a quarrel with the Almighty that
we are not all men,"
AKANsAs hypochondriac, meditoting
upon the death of dog-fancier IN his
neighborhood, gives vent TO the mourn
fnl thought "Our great men are pc
teIinR out sort o. rapid like these times.
Whisky kills most Of 'em some tum-
BILE overbo ard, and 'casiona'ly one gets
hung"
Butler COUNTY, Missouri, has the
most eccentric genus on record. hels
now sixty-five wears Ot age. Az the age
of twenty-one he commenced to count
two billions. He has counted almost
incessantly ever since, and his task rs
sill incomplete. He says he wants To
count that number and die happy.
The japan News gives currency to
statemen. on coed authority that > apan-
ese criminals prefer being sirangled TO
being declpitated. and that, too, on re-
Hpio1s prJunds the idea apparently
being that so long as the body is intact,
it's resurrection will be possible but
that when the head il once separated
from the body it may never be reunited.
THE SUNNY Soul
There il msny a rest ON the road OF lie
1--WE would only stop TO take Il;
And many a tone from the better land,
II the duerulous heart would wake it.
To the sunny soul that In full OF hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne'cr failoth
The grass il green, and the flowers are bright
Though the wintry storm pro'ailcth.
THE prefecture Of police of Toxic,
Japan. has issued the following circu-
lar "Auy person in European costume
meeting his imperial majesty will be
Obliged 10 salute the emperor by mold
inc his hat under his left arm and low
eting bis right hand to his knees.
Those who do not wear a hat Will be
obliged to lower both bands TO the knees
while bowing before the emperor.
SPEAKING of law books, recent lec-
turer on the subject said: Another
peculiarity of these books ~, that no
one but a lawyer ever reads them. All
other books have readers outside the
class for whom they are specially writ
ten and we have, accordingly, amateur
men of science, physicians, amateur
artists. and even amateur theoloRians,
but no one ever heard of an amateur
lawyer"
Oy Detroit sidewalk, the other day,
a portlv man snatched NJ the surround
ING air for n second or two, and then
went down upon the icy bricks with
force that shook his frame and made
him see stars. "Say," remarked n
newsboy to his companion who wit
messed the catastrophe, "that ere fell
Ipr's Free Mason didn't You see him
giving the sign?' Inside of minute
two boys were getting away, olcsely
followed by boot.
A SAN FRANCIsco husband denies that
the new chemiloon dress arrangements
Gre any improvement on the old s'Nle.
His wife has adopt ID il, and it takes
her seventy minutes on an average to get
unbarnessel at night, and on one occa-
sion the numerous India-rubber straps
cot into a snarl. aud, sud lenly counps-
inc. caused her TO perform double
somersault, during which her head came
in contact with the ceiling OF the room,
knocking her senseless.
sc,t,ar tbv life AZ tho summers shower pouring,
what il no bird through the pearl rain h soaring
what N no blossom looks vari adoriig!
TonI ,lJ' ta tbc Iife that was layishsd for iherl
80 the vild wind strews iis perfum"d caresseH;
Evil and thankless the desert u b'eSses;
Bitter the wave that it's soft piuion presses
What II the hard heart gives thorus FOR thy rosesi
what il on rocks thy tired bosom repotcHi
&, epter is music with mtnor-keyei Closes
Fatrest the vines that on ruins VIII cunR.
give a. the heart gives whose fet'crr arc brelknR-
life love aud hope all thy Il cams ana thy "hAlhg'
Soo,,, beayrr's1i river thy soul fever shaking,
Tbon shalt know God. aud the gin that lac gave.
VeRY stern parent indeed: Come
here sir What il this complaint the
sohooImaster has made against youY
Mach injured youth: cts Iust moth
inc NJ all You see Jimmy Hughes bent
n pin. and / only Just left It on the
Teachers chair for him TO look at, and
be came in without his specs, and sat
right down on the pin. and now he
wants Go blame me for 1T.
FSGtIsH PRoSUNCIATIoN.-
TTbe ease with which the Eugish language can
be acouired by foreigners will be underhtp'd aitet
a perusnl Of the following --,,. 81, ,,,u,,h
They're better than meat FOR my cough;
pray Iet them be boiled till hot through
But not till they're heavy or tough
Now-I must be OF to the plough,
And the boys, when they bad enough
Must keep the flies on with b0uBn,
While the old mare drinks at the trough
INSIDE of the hat of cattle thiei re-
Gently arrested in Detroit we're ionnd
pasted the following maHims lie.
member that truth is n jewel; do not
covet respect old age be content with
what you have; live that men Will take
your character as an example. 10 CON
sidera'ion of this excellent principles
governing the mans life the luogS9
KINDLY allowed him 20 retain the printed
slip containing them during bis years
soiourn in the penitentiary.
WE cannot too soon convince our
selves how easily we NAV be dispensed
with in the world. What important
personages we Imagine ourselves 70 be
we think that we alone ara tho lie OF
the circle 10 which We move IN our
absence we fancy that life, existence
and breath will come to general pause;
and. alasI the gap which we leave IS
scarcely perceptible, so quickly Is 1t
filled again; nay, 1t is often bnt the
place. ii not for something bettae. -
least for someth'"''
n PRETTY girl is employ ed 10 take mp
the collections in a Springfield church,
and the receipts are very heavy. II a
strange gentleman hesitites about CON
tributing, she smiles, mods and wInks
in such a queer style that thS Victim
~ a - -. o., 4 , tha ropig Of liR hair.