The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-06-11
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
HALP.MAsr.

Move on! move on great throng OF men!
The echoes OF your tramping feet
Seem like the ocean surges when
On the white sands they break and beat.
Move ON move on : Life's quickened powers
And bounding pulse obey the call
Move on move on! the day Ia ours,
Tomorrow may the shadows fall
| Tired, oh so tired, and fainter grow,
! Your footballs TO nv listening ear
! How GLOW they move, how feebly slow!
! Deaths shadow is already here.
REIRIBUTIoN follows close on the
| track of guilt. The man who always
| borrOws his neighbor's Newspaper, be-
cause he was too stingy 10 buy, married
a red haired woman who wears black
stockings.
A NEW vegetable iiber has been dis
covered in California. IL is obtained
from a weed that grows in low, moist
earth, and makes height Of three 10 six
feet. It is exceedingly strong, and the
Indians have used il for bow strings.
SOME one who has been looking over
the turf register states that more prizes
have been paid 30 the owners Of fast
horses raised in Kentucky and Tennes-
see than to the owners Of horses in any
other two states.
As a garbage cart was dumped lately
in the suburbs of London human head
rolled out of the mass. IL was fresh
and bleeding, and the mystery is from
which one of the ash pans emptied into
the cart that morning 1t Came.
AN editor who is evidently man Of
family sagely remarks that boy who
will yell like Tarter if drop of water
gets on his shirt band when his neck il
being washed will crawl through "A
sewer after ball and think nothing OF
it.
The executive committee OF the ma
tional grange will meet on the FIRST Of
July next, when the place of holding
the next annual meeting Of the national
grange will be decided upon also the
location of the headquarters OF the
order.
OLD Deacon Roberts was worked mp
TO high state Of enthusiasm in revi-
val. He was exhorting the unconverted
to flee from the wrath 10 come before II
was too late, For, said he, 'the Lord
is here now, aud He may not be here
again in twenty years.
CARE the young ladies of the present
day fit for wives?" asked n Boston
lecturer of his audience. "They are at
for husbands" responded female
voice "but the trouble il that you men
are not fit for wives f. The applause
was great, and 80 was the discontinue
of the lecturer.
A SOUTH HILL woman applied 20 Mr..
Patterson, the other dag, for position
as driver on the street cars. "Can you
handle mules ?" asked the gentleman.
" Handle mules, | should remark that
| could" scornfully responded the fair
aspirant. 81 have handled two hus-
bands, and my third old man is in
better state of discipline than any mule
you ever saw"
The prince Of Wales in his tour in
India will be dressed like an eastern
pOtentate, in big turban and baggy
trousers, and his equipage will be as
az IL can be made. Tho in
tention, Of course, is 10 dazzle the ma
tives with a spectacular exhibition OF
their future ruler. The cost 81 this
royal show will be about million dol
lars.
THE good effects Of the artificial
Matching of fish is shown 10y the fact
that shad have been at n discount in
the New York markets, owing 10 tho
immense hauls lately made in the north
river. One day a single net set near
Weehawken was empticd Of G30 fish,
and the aggregate number Of Hhad e1-
posed for sale that day was estimated
at 10000.
HERE is a French lady's excuse for
eloping with NJ. Achille Had i
found in my husband man like Nj.
Achille, should not have failed in my
duties but he was nothinR-a mere
What would you have me
do? My husband would go 90 his
early in the morning when
he returned he was instantly asleep.
Besides, nc took snuff to excess, and
refused 90 wear night-gown."
OHro dogs killed and MANNED over
70, 900 sheep in that state during tha
wear 1874 This entailed n loss Of
1885, 900 on the sheep growers, and
such is the antipathy TO dogs that
bill has been introduced into the Ohio
applying the principle OF
the Adair liquor law to them, which
makes the owner Of the dog respon-
sible for the damage done 10 sheep.
A PURE white salt is now made nc
Alma, Wabansee county, Kansas, at the
rate of about five barrels day. The
brine is pumped from a spring seven
hundred feet below the surface, and is
80 strong that the salt crystallizes by
simple exposure TO the air. II has been
anaiyzed, and found 20 compare favora-
bly, with Michigan salt, and tO contain
no impurity except a srlall trace Aot
lime.
THE Tennessee state grange has Or
oanizcd PatrOn'a Mutual Aid society.
Upon hedeath Of any member Of the so
ciety, each surviving member il TO pay go
cents, 30 cents OF which is 10 go 10 the
parties representing the deceased mem
ber. Not more than 1000 members are
TO be admitted in one class. Any mem-
ber Of the order may become member
Of the society, # in good health, by
paving 81, IL under twenty years OF age,
Or 81 for each five years over that age.
THE Viceroy OF Egypt IL about 10
astonish the world again. He has re-
solved to build railroad along the
valley of the Nile 10 the interior OF
Africa. and az he has plenty Of money
and thousands Of serfs at his command
he will. no doubt, accomplish his pur-
pose. In few years African explorers
will be able TO travel in sleeping cars,
and 10 write magnificent descriptions OF
places which they will have passed
through in the dark.
Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN has been
pronounced insane by n Chicago court
IN the application Of her son. 10 was
shown that the eccentricities which she
showed Immediately after Mr.. Lincoln'H
have increased until her
,afety and that OF others require that
,he shall be protected from herself and
Kindly cared for in an asylum. IL rs
charitable TO suppose that her mental
began while mistress OF
he White House, and that 1t accounts
or many of her strange performances
while there.
Indian ElOquence.