The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.
CANADIAN Boar soxa.-

CANADIAN Boar soNG.--
Family as tolls the evening chime,
Our voices keen tune, aud our oars keep time;
Soon as the woods on shore look dim,
Wen sing at st. AIMS our parting hymn.
Row. brothers, row, the stream runf fqet,
The rapids are near and the daylightspast.
Why should we vet our sailu unfurl1
There Ia not breath the blue wave TO curl
| pnf when the wind blows on the shore,
| OH sweetly wen rest on our weary OIL
| RIoU, breezea blow tho stream runs last,
: The rapids are near and the dayhghts past!
Utawa's tide! this trembling moon,
Shall see ua float over thy surges soon
Saint OF this green isle hear our prayers,
Oh! graut us cool heavens and fayorihe Ai5'
Blow. breezes. blow, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near and the daynBht = P"'s'
LEMON Juice and glycerine will re-
, move tan and freckles.
Most people are like eggs. Too full
of themselves TO hold anything else.
IT is not right, but the man with the
least mind has the greatest trouble in
making it up.
INcENDIARIsM in Canada is so preva-
lent that the insurance company have
ceased insuring p operty.
THE trustees of st. Andrews Church,
at Hamilton. Ontario, have been en-
powered by the convention 20 lock out
Rev. Mr.. Burnett, their pastor, who has
refused to enter the united church with
them.
A POOR Irishmau who was on his
death. bed, and who did not seem quite
reconciled to tho long journey he was
ooing TO take was kindly consoled by
good. .natured friend with the common
place that we must all die once.
"Why, my dear sir" reioined the sick
man, "that is the very thing that vexes
me. II / could die half dozen times,
should not mind it.
Ir is important TO know the difference
between toadstools and mushrooms but
it is not worth while trying to learn this
difference unless you belong 10 a very
long-lived family, and don't object to
being poisoned ut the end. lt takes
years to find out, and authorities diiier.
! The only sure test is TO eat one. III you
live, it is q mushroom. IL you die, 1t is
a toadstool.-H. Nicholas.
GoATs. according to the bible, arc
more wicked than sheep; but they are
! smarter. The sheep-raisers OF New
| Mexico employ goats as leaders TO their
herds of sheep, because they under
stand q persons voice 80 well, and VIII
come whenever they are called. The
goats have TO be trained, and the sheep
will always follow them. This shows
that the sheep know that hair covers
moro wisdom than wool, though tho
darbies do not like 10 be told 30.
she stepped into the car IA liant with
youth, and looking cool and bright IN
her flower trimmed has and speckless
suit of linen. -Four young men i'm
mediately offered their seats she nc.
cepted one with an enhancing smile and
instantly gave it 70 poor, wan, little
old woman who had been standing for
ten blocks. WhereupOn the young men
did not know whether 10 get up again
or not, and, tried their best not to look
foolish.
Mr.. GEORGE w. SMITH, of this city,
is the inventor of the patent velocipedo
now in use in Paris. These miclines
may he seen scurrylnR around there IN
all dirtc ions, cutting off the toes OF
children, carrying away the fouLces OF
ladies' dresses, and lasceratng the c1rns
of mOnaI ciists and republican,, hyer
since their introduction ayigliancs COM
mittee has been industriously look
ing around for Smith, but thus far he
has managed TO escape death by as
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gent Simpson. -BTOoklyn Argits.
A AN illustration OF the extreme dry
ness of the soil during the dry season in
Brazil, it is stated that in June all the
vegetation ceases, the seeds being then
ripe or nearly 80. In July the leaves
begin TO turn yellow and fall of IN Au-
gust an extent Of many Thousands OF
square leagues presents the aspect OF
European winter, but without snow, the
trees being completely stripped OF their
leaves the plants that have grown IN
abundance in the wilderness drying up,
and serving as a kind Of hay for the sus-
tenance of numerous herds Of cattle.
This is the period most favorable for tho
prepnrRtion of the coffee that grows upon
the mountains. The beans are picked
and laid on the ground which gives forth
no moisture. but on the contrary abaorbs
il and being surrounded by an atmo-
spbere possessing the same desiccating
properties, the coffee dries rapidly with
out molding
A PROFESSOR of spiritualism who has
lately been visiting Cairo gives ms some
interesting particulars Of the manner in
which the soul leaves the body. Tie
vital spark of heavenly flame, according
TO the professor, first withdraws from
the toes, travels slowly up the legs, re-
cedes along the body, enters the head,
and finally condenses itself INTO lumin-
ous ball in the neighborhood OF the
parietal bones, whence, as the last
breath leaves the lungs, NJ mounts up
ward like balloon. The professor OF
spiritualism says he has frequently seen
souls depart in this way. Indians, and
certain other supersti'ious people, be-
lieve that the soul goes out through tho
mouth, and that, if mnu ls hanged,
the choking rope shuts off that means
of egres, compelling the spirit to mako
its exit the best way it can, and causing
it TO labor under disadvantage forever
afterwnrd. If these aborigines could
be made 10 know that the soul goes out
through the top Of the head IN the man
ner specified by the Cairo professor, IN
stead of through an aperture, the knoWl-
edge would afford much consolation TO
such of them as might be under sentence
to the gallows.