The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-15
SAYINGS AND DOIEGs.
POPPING THE QUESTION.
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/ have heard q IN your sighs,
But my woman's heart replies
II you love me, tell me so
should give YOU Yes or Nof
Nay, girl may not cnniess Of,
That her answer would be- Cd Yes"
To such questioning, unless
lie who loves her tells her sD.
II YOU love me- tell me sol
Love gives strength to watch and waiii
Trust gives heart for any iatci
Rich or poor, unknown Or grcai-
II You love me, tell me sol
WINE smoking ON powder kcs'
Hcdruppcd q cindcr down.
Then rose he lihc mctcor
To the golden crown.
| Gone To meet q fellow who struck glyccrinc-ca
/ with a slcdgc hammer.
! HoT alum water will desttoy insect
| indoors or out, says the Journal Oi Nhcin-
| istry-one pound of alum 90 two quarts
of water. IL should be used while
nearly boiling, and applied TO all the
cracks and creviccs.
THE latest fashion for paper ~ iari~ ~
a single page of letter twice the size uSu-
| ally used for writing notes, and the hur-
der is exactly like pocket handkerchief
having broad baud of color and small
dots and devices beyond; the envelopes
match. and the sheet is folded in man
ncr that recalls To mind the turn down
collar.
THE fact is, to do anything in this world
worth doing. we must not stand back
shivcring and thinking of the cold anu
danger, butiump inand scramble through
rs well rs We can.-NidHcy Smith
ArrEn while o. o. halcyon day,
Whom the love we have lavi-hcd o'rr l"s'iu1
shall hlcas.
Then shall Dc true ryrry hand that we rrr1sr
The hearts We Cuutdr iu, The liln We r'l'.1
Au0r while.
"WHAT can do to make YOU love nae
more ?' asked youth fhis girl the other
evening. "Buy me "a ring, stop eating
onions and throw your shoulders back
when you walk, WAS the immediate rc-
ply. .
Aud ever hctviNt woul Bud woe,
We drift aud wHyrr tu and fro,
Irr1uac thv gods will have ii fu,
arr the great opcs prlsirutc lit,
-,, ih. Dr1rlt liftoi hish,
AMI uour bis destined tate can Ntf
Aud gll in vain We strive or rry.
- Eaviuidc.
"How strange" said Nrs. Spilkins the
other dav. "Lcandcr ha, only'sont me %
single line since hr left for Long Branch.
"Only a single line, ma remarked the
youthful Matiadc-, who is studying gc-
omrtry; that's something without q par
allcl"
BUTTER is composed of fat aud a little
albumcn. When the temperature iS
raised the albumcn acts as a Torment and
decompn~cs the fat, converting n into
acid-butvric. This is soluble in water.
No matter how rancid your butter. it
may be made perfectly sweet by wasl-
ing.
g loos y The banks whe,c 'gi9n NJ ssl aas h @ ,'a
Whore -aio from the hands Of tho starving and
Iicsp'c upon Pile Of the riittcins ores
Walk up 20 tho cuuut,r-ah' thcrc You may stay
Till your limls have grown old and yunf hur turns
And yn,ii find at the hank not one Of che clan
with money tp lend q" u money less man.
A MICE of Jefferson Davis lately
visited Washington, and was shown
through the immense law library at the
Capitol. On being told that 1t was the
LARGEST of its kind ia the country, She
ouickIv said: "Wcll, If all these
volumes were put into three or four and
the Bible placed ON top of thcm, th"
country would be- better on This viii
no doubt interest lawyers.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that m honest
man doesn't generally object to paying
a hotel bill i'm advance 10 the hotel is %
good one. the folluwin" conversation is
rcportcd to have taken place 40 e CHI
caro- house: You will not object q"
paving before YOU 20 10 your room, ~.
:. Certainly not make out the bill
81 For how long, sirg Well, say. iho
stranger, "you may charge me for about
ten minutes, ON the European plan. l'N
the end of that time / think ] shall hn aL
a hotel where the clerks wear smaller
and have more confidence in
human nature
TuE term "gig-s widow is said 10 lc
, rprruption of "gracc widow the for
mcr EXPRESSION being merely harluri-fm
Grace widow" j. the term applied toonc
who becomes widow 10y grace or hN"r,
not of necessity, as 10y death originated
in the early ages of European eiviliauIn,
when divorces were granted but Seldom
md wholly by the Catholic church. When
such q decree was granted 10 q woman
md a papal receipt stated "Niduca dc
,ratia.' which interpreted i- "widow "l
race" I'm the law of the French II would
read "Ncuvc dc grace or grace widow,
,vcuyc" being translated as widow.