The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-07
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.


| "He lives 10 learn in Iife's hard school
| How few who pass above him
Lament the triumph and his loss ,
Like her because they love him
The badnsomest calf in Massachusetts
is the offspring of Jersey ball ana
Brahim cow-the sacred co" Vi Ah''A''
SOME of the statisticians who are IN.
vestigating negro life have found that
that race, above all others, abhors sui
eide. Only two cases have been re-
corded on the police books OF Rlchmond,
Virginia, for several years.
The British house Of lords consists OF
five princes of the blood, twenty-eight
dukes, thirty-two marquises, one nun
dred and seventy-one earls, thirty.seven
viscounts, twenty-six prelates, and one
hundred and ninety-two blrons.
San Francisco has the champion
religious idiots, who dress as children,
act as children, and play marbles and
leap-frog, because they believe tx
cept We be converted and become as
little children, We shall in no wise enter
the Kingdom of Heaven
THERE'S nothing kills a man so soon
as having nobody 10 find fault with but
himself. It's a deal the best way OF
being master to let somebody else DO
the ordering, and keep the blaming In
your own hands. It 'ud save many
man a stroke, l believe. EtiOt.
A GENTLEMAN in Europe writes
see in the American papers notices OF
bank bills altered from one denomina-
ton 10 another. This is impossible in
this part of the world, though the very
simple device of having bills OF diiierent
values made of different sizes.
CONSIDERING that there are half
million words, more or less, in the Ger
man language. it's a fortunate circum-
stance that the spelling OF each and
every one is exactly indicated 10y thepro-
nunciation, rendering spelling matches
unnecessary, if not impossible.
A LUGUBRIoUs LOOKING individual
approaching n musician, asked him IN
earnest and melancholy tones, Friend,
do You know mans chief end ?" Tho
innocent fiddler cheerfully replied:
4" No, sir but if you'll whistle 1t I'll
play it"
The indianapolis News says without
much exaRgeration Advertising has
created many a new business, enlarged
many an old business, revived many
dull business, rescued many n failing
business, and preserved many large
business, and il insures success IN any
business"
In some of the colder states the saloon
business has ceased TO be profitable.
The four saloons of Hutchins, Iowa,
have been closed because the wife OF
man who froze 20 death while drunk on
their whisky went into court and got
verdict of $500 against each OF tho
proprietors.
COMMENTING on the comparative sue
cess of compulsory education IN New
York city, nine "truant agents" having
captured $50 street Arabs, the World
suggests Whether or not It would be
wise 10 appoint "agents' TO see that
children were properly and adequately
scrubbed and spanked is question TO
be commended 10 tine advocates OF tho
compulsory system.
A CONDUCTOR on the Union Pacific
railroad put dead beat of his train
POLITELY once: kicked him of three
times; then finding the impecunious IN
the car again, inquired: "Where IN
blazes are you going, any wayY
"Well," said the MOTTO be got-rid-of,
I'm going to Chicago, if my pants
hold ont, but il Tn going 90 be kicked
every five minutes, | don't believe III
make the trip T. The conductor let
him ride a little way.
ONE day lady came in n carriage 10
ask Corot, the famous French painter,
who has Just died, for 900 francs with
which to pay her rent "She is well
dressed" said the maid who had seen
her. " / can't understand how anybody
with such clothes can borrow money.
II were you j l.ould refuse" Take
that to her, my child, said the artist,
Offering bank note for the required
sum, "and remember that poverty In
silk is the worst kind of poverty
WE need to labor with our minds and
hearts, as well az with our hands, IN
order to develop what is within us, 10
make the most Of our possibilities and
TO enable us 10 live nobly and worthily.
We need a careful balancing Of our
duties and relations in life and a due
allotment of time and energy TO each,
that we may not develop into one-sidod
ard upshapely characters, but attain
the symmetry and beauty Of true excel
lence.
PRESIDENT PORTER. of Yale, recently
gave the following laconic advice to
the students in the course OF an ex-
tended address: Don, drink. Don't
chew. Don't smoke. Don't swear.
Don't deceive. Don't read novels.
Don't marry until you can support
wife. BE earnest. BE selt.reliant. 80
generous. BE civil. Read the papers.
AdvCnuGse your business. Make money,
and do good with it. Love God and
your fellow men,"
A FRENCH chemist has 80 far suo-
ceeded in his experiments az TO have
hopes OF producing at least
black diamonds, il not cOlOrless ones,
from sugar. He has already obtained
a carbon cylinder hard enough % cut
glass by exposing the perfectly burned
sugar 90 n temperature of 800 degrees
in a closed vessel without
access of air. IL will be an interesting
development, as far as regards the pro
iuction of sugar-yieldiDg crops, II TINS
shall succeed fully IN his
designs, and cane and bcets come TO bo
grown with n view % their final trans
formation into diamonds. Truly, Wo
are living in a wonderful age.
The French nation from tho earliest
period of history has been the leading
nation of Europe. It's original races
ong disputed the supremacy a the all
Romans. They gavo TO
Roman literature some OF its most
elegant writer's. Cicero learned elo-
luence from one OF their teachers, and
Caesar acquired in Gaul new arts OF
var. All through the middle ages, IN
he crusades, in the great national
vars. in the religious CONNEXIONS OF
he sixteenth century, their gallantry
vas the conspicuous splcndor OF the
lines. Their writer's have since cleo
.rifed human thought; their brave
leeds have revolutionized modern
politics their more elegant arts have
Deen the despair Of all other peoples,
md their manners the standard OF
whatever was polished, courteous,
and pleasing in address.
LONGEVITY. There are frequent and
instances Of longevity
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