The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-06-25
SAYINGS AND DOTNGs.

Connecticut who have not invented some
sort OF clothes-pin, or some kind OF
salve or liniment.
How q woman can keep on talking
while she is twisting mp her back hair
and has her mouth full Of hairpins, is q
mystery not yet explained.
ADR. GLENN, who is ranked as the
wealthiest and most extensive farmer m
California, has sold his wheat crop Tor
$500. 900.
LOOK upon an able statesman out OF
business like a huge whale, that Will
endeavor to overturn the ship unless he
has an empty cask TO play with.-Stcete.
Our two-cent and fve-oent pieces
have the motto "in God We trust, but
our new twenty-five cent pieces hasn't
When man gets wealthy, he don't
propose to trust anybody, You know.
BosroS swells wear style OF YES
called the "Longfellow," Of which tho
globe SAYS that with one of them, a rea-
sonably high pair Cf shoes, and hat, a
man is in full dress.
DR. MAURN suggests keeping the
wire or mosquito-bar blinds OF sick
rooms wetted. The effect on the at
mosphere is TO refresh 10, as though a
storm had occurred.
LIFE would be a perpetual flea hunt
| il a man were obliged To run down all
the inuendoes, inveracities, insinuations
and suspicious which are uttered against
him,
PETROLEUM oils are now anid TO be
coming into use for dressing heather,
and are claimed to be much better and
| cheaper than animal oils for that pur-
pose.
A ROY is a blessing until he puts ON
parts. From the period Of the first
| rent in his trousers dates feeling IN
the maternal breast that is not wholly
| afIectionate.
All, life is sacred. and therefore not
to be lightly taken, is a reelection which
occurs 10 many humane persons who
carefully extricate bugs from their
strawberries before eating them.
The Marquis de Blague, one Of Cam
bronnes Guard at Waterloo, died re-
Gently, denying TO the last that his com
mander said: "The Old Guard dies,
but il never surrenders."
TgF mania for suicides is becoming
40 general in the PrussiRn army that
proposition has been made 10 investi-
gate the cause, and devise means 10
remedy It.
TINS is the time Of the year when
mothers and daughters endeavor TO give
the breakfast table chat watering
place tint, while the old gentleman eats
hastily and departs promptly To hrs
business when bis second cup oil cohee
is finished.
A WIDOW has no bridesmaids; her
dress is generally gray or lavender,
never white. and she wears bonnet
and veil. IL makes no difference
whether she marries n single man or n
widower, or whether either party has
children.
IT costs s1 900, they say, 90 educate q
girl at Vassar college, but when she
gets her diploma she can hang on the
trapeze head downwards, kick open
gate. iump n fence or crowd n saucy
chap OFF the sidewalk, and the money ~
not wasted.
- THE Holyoke church horror appear
90 have been brought about 10y nom
expioslTe oil. n national cemetery
for the reception uf victims Of this
treacherous fluid we're to be started, II
WOulQ prove NDOub ~ AiAAAfAAN y hANN'N
yard a. could possibly be desired.
Ira lady wears a three-story hat 10
the theater. il 10 etiquette for the gen
tleman who sits behind her To climb mp
and roost on the back Of his seat2 Or
must he bob his head from side 10 side
TO catch furtive glimpses Rt the stage
around her head Will some modern
Chesterfield answer2
A GOOD many years ago Massachu-
setts man was elected 10 the Office OF
acknowledgements When the fact OF
his election was announced he was
called upon for n speech. He proceeded
TO acknowledge the honor in very hand
some terms. and added that he had no
doubt he should make n good heuten-
ant governor, as that was the Office ho
had always held In his own house.
OLD Zachariah jackson, Of Rocky
Gulch, Nevada, is forty-niner who
had been through the MILL The other
day he hobbled mp b party OF new
comers and observed Tend 10 yer
bizness, boys, and yen be all right.
I've been here nigh on TO thirty years,
and have been lynched, shot and
stabbed, knocked down, thrown OF
and mopped around generally,
but I'm here today, biggern'n a box
car"
A CINCINNATI woman says 81 never
knew but one woman, in my life, who
hose 60 make her husbands shirts, and
,onfessed she liked 10 do IL and she
rad nothing else 10 do ; could leave
hem any moment had some one else
20 make all the button-holes had
.eady.made bosoms, and when she fin
shed her half dozen WAS presented 10y
ler delighted spouse with twenty dol
ars in greenbacks. No wonder she
ked il"
IT is said that when Spaniard eats
ruit he always plants the seed thereof
or the benefit of posterity. As re-
nit, no country is 30 bountifully blessed
With fruit as Spain. The mayor OF
Topeka. Kansas, seems 10 be imbued
NTH a similar unselfshDess. One after
oon last week, at his request, all busi-
ess was suspended in the town, and
he whole population went TO work and
Ianted in the town about one Thousand
hade trees of several varieties. This TX
etter than spelling bees.
THE annual report Of the register
eneral. for 1874, Of the births,
eatbs. and causes Of death, in Lon
on and the other large cities OF the
Tpited Kingdom has been published.
no report gives the statistics for
large cities, and oi these
london ia the most healthy. The death
,te in London was only - per l,OOO
nj the excess of births over deaths
as IA. 1888. In London there are 10
ersons 20 each acre of space IN Edin-
nr0. AZ in Manchester, 50 IN Liver
ool 98 in Glasgow, 100. The re-
,ective rates of mortality are Lon
ON. % ; Edinburg, % Manchester, oOi
liverpool, 80 Glasgow, 81.
CARDINAL MAsNrNd, in a recent letter.
nts his foot down thus forcibly upon
visection 81 cannot pretend TO imi-
.te the scientific utilities OF viyisecton;
nj have no need Of any such refine
ents TO enable me 10 say that the IN.
ction of physical pain without lnst
,use il an abuse Of the dominion that
od has given 10 man over the lower
eatures. It is lawful 10 take their
Ie for the food OF man but 1t is not
wful. even for this just and necessary
,r,,osa IN taka their life by needless