The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13
FACTS AND PANcIEs.

tasted of sinners since the hood2
There are forty-one American firms
who are getting rich by making better
imported liquors and wine than can
be made in Europe.
Nothing cheers a man so much az
to sit on a cracker-box in the shade OF a
grocery awning and read an item about
the terrible scarcity of harvest hands.
| Carl Schurz is lion among the Ber-
liners. In Prussia they believe in sue
cessful men, especially in those who
Jump out of prison and achieve fame by
dint of energy and intellect.
-Geologists have discovered that the
ground of Southern Indiana, Kentucky
and Tennessee is slowly rising at the
rate of about foot every twenty-four
years.
Since tight dresses are worn the
street car conductor can tell just how
many he can get on a seat, and how
many he can't. He don't say "shove
up" any more.
-Naturalists have decided that no
hen can lay over six hundred eggs.
Therefore, when you have checked off
to that figure You can sell her for
spring chicken.
There is a row of ten graves in the
| cemetery at North Egremont containing
the bodies of members of the Milliard
family, the average of whose ages when
they died were over eighty, the oldest
being John Milliard, who was a.
Boston AdU.
An old Colorado miner writes thatall
man needs for complete summer out
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rifle, with ammunition, and one sack of
salt. Any energetic man can kill or steal
whatever else he needs.
In a New York saloon, where some
patent mead is dispensed, beehive,
containing %, 600 bees, who, so the sign
says, produce the honey from which the
mead is made, decorate the windows.
The bees are let out every morning for
q short time and are fed on molasses and
sugar.
-Idleness is a disease that must be
combatted but / will not advise n rigid
adherence TO particular plan of study.
/, myself, have never persisted in any
plan for two days together. A man
ought to read Just as inclination leads
him, for what he reads as a task will do
him little good.-Johnson.
"A new invention for preventing
railway accidents by an improved sys-
tenn of signaling, was exhibited in Lon
don several weeks ago TO a large num-
Der Of engineers and inventors. IL con-
sists of an insulated rail beneath the
four-foot way by means Of which station
masters can telegraph to a train while
in motion, or one train can communicate
with another.
"A young lady in Milwaukee undertook
to climb a ladder that had been left stand
ing against the side Of her fathers house.
but before she had gone a quarter of
the way up quite a crowd assembled,
perceiving which she began at once 10
descend, observing, with much feeling
well, now, there amt going 10 be ne
free circus here this afternoon, you
bet"
AT Atlanta, last autumn, a negr
built a coop, six feet by seven, into
which he put dozen partridges, the
ground being first covered with grass.
During the winter they thrived, in the
spring they mated, laid eggs, Matched
out several broods of young, and the
negro now has about sixty young par
tridges, all doing well. They are large,
healthy, and seem TO be contented.
On the day of the last annual
parade of the Dunkirk IN. " fire de-
partment, 1000 kegs of beer were
absorbed in that town. Next morning
a newspaper correspondent saw thirty
Young persons, some of them not more
than eight years old, and none of them
more than nineteen stretched along
the sidewalks and in the road, sleeping
off their debauch.
-Incredulity is not wisdom, but the
worst kind of folly. IL is folly, because
il causes ignorance and mistake, with
all the consequents Of these and 1t rs
very bad, as being accompanied with
disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, un-
and the like bad disposi-
tions, from which credulity itself, the
other extreme sort OF folly, is exempt
Barron.
Hair is the most delicate and last
ing of our materials, and survives ms
like love. It is 80 light, so gentle, 30
escaping from the idea of death, that
lock of hair belonging to n child or
friend, we may almost look up to
heaven and compare notes with the an
gelic nature, and may almost say, .
have a piece of thee here, not unworthy
of thy being now. leigh Hunt.
President MacMahOn has just par
doned Baron d'Ivry, condemned two
years ago to three years imprisonment.
It was a case that would never have
come to trial in this country. Hewould
have been politely bowed out by the
coroner. He was shooting ducks in
Japan and killed a native accidentally.
He has thus been in prison two years TO
learn not to play ducks and brakes with
the japanese.
Few footprints of the great romano
in the sand before the OVERLOOKING tide.
Long ago it washed out Homer's. Gu
riosity follows him in vain Greece and
Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-
upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes
is only coniectured from his gift 20 two
poor players in Athens. The age made
no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest
son, passed away WilLnott.
CARLYIE.-A correspondents of the San
Francisco Chronicle, who has been visit
inc CARLYLE. writes '"The pictures in our