The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-08
FACTS AND FANCIES.

-''Was not her death quite sudden?
said condoling friend to bereavedi
widower. "Well, yes, rather, for her"
Russia goes for a Communist like a
wild policeman for mad dog. Long
terms of imprisonment or Siberia IS the
penalty for being Communist.
A Pennsylvania camp-meeting was
recently broken up by six poor little
skunks. The devil comes in various gui-
ses.
-Wanted-the name of race horse
which hasn't "made the quickest time on
record" this summer.
| Italy is having four monster cannon
made, but they will be of no use except
as curiosities 1t costs 81 200 each to fire
! them, and one salute would bankrupt the
/ country.
The King of the Friendly Islands in
| the Pacific Ocean is n licensed local min
lister of the Methodist denomination, and
his wife. Queen Charlotte, is class
leader,
Barry Sullivan is fifty-one years old,
and is a native of Dublin. He performed
in the United States from the fall of 1858
to the summer of 1860. Since then he
has been in Europe.
The three wonders of the world nc
present are--How fluff accumulates i'm
vest pockets; where pins go to, and why,
when man comes out of saloon Inc
looks one way and goes the other.
"A fierce war is raging between the
allopathic, homeopathic, and eclectic
schools of medicine in st. Louis, and
while the doctors are thus employed their
patients are exhibiting alarming symp-
toms of convalcsence.
IMMENSE deposits of iron ore are said
to exist in all parts of the Russian en-
pirc. The consumption of iron by the
Russian people is now enormous, and an
energetic development If the mines is
probable.
The population of Road Island
shows a gain of over eighteen per cent.
in the last five years, and establishes the
claim of that state to being the most
densely populated state in the Union.
BY decree of the Khedive of
Egypt, the calendar i'm use among Chris
tain nations will heneeforth he used in
Egypt, instead of the Mahommcdan cal
endar, dating from the Hcgira.
VIM. Coulter, the oldest railway con-
ductor i'm the United States, having re-
fused to wear the uniform and ticket
satchel recently ordered Icy Pennsylvania
railroad company, will retire and build
$50, 900 house.
Here is a chance for an cnterprising
ghost to aid some impecunious friend WHO
still fingers in the flesh. A 500 gold
note has been deposited in a bank in San
Diego, California, and the Spiritualist
who can tell the number oft can have il.
According to the London correspond
ent of the Liverpool Post, a marked
change seems to have taken place in the
domestic life and habits of the male
members of Queen Victoria's family,
and their almost complete retirement
from fashionable circles is much spoken
Of
A New Orleans gentleman has sued
the Times of that city for libel, claiming
two hundred and fifty dollars damages,
for calling him a midnight rufiian."
he would not have objected to
the simple epithet ruifian, but enid
night rufian that was grain too
much.
LEMON PIE-Yelks two eggs white
Dne, Juice and rind of one lemon, eight
tablespoons sugar, hot milk added the
last thing; bake and add when done the
whites of two eggs, four spoons sugar
we'll beaten, return to the oven and
slightly brown.