The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-12-03
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD.

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dollars and sense.
One of the darkest moments in n
boys life is when he suddenly reflects
that he has Just swallowed dose Of
castor oil Internationally.
If in instructing child, you are
vexed with it for want of adroitness,
try, if you have never tried before, to
write with you left hand, and then re-
member that child is all left hand.
1t is estimated that the child popula-
ton between the age of six and sixteen
in the United States and Territories is
about 10, 2SS, 900, and that about 300
600 teachers are needed to educate this
host of future citizens.
A Louisville girl was shot in the
foot a day or two ago, and the doctors
are now engaged in mining for the
ball. One of them has worked MS
passage into the foot for so great dis
lance that they are obliged TO let his
provisions down to him bya rope.
Many very good people are annoyed
by sleepiness in church. The follow
ing remedy is recommended: Lift
the foot seven inches from the floor,
and hold it in suspense without sup
port for the limb, and repeat the rem
edy if the attack returns.
1t is estimated that the yield of
gold and silver from the mines of
Colorado Territory for the first six
months of the present year foot up IN
gold S1,052, 709, and silver Sl,OO4,-
139. This is not supposed to include
the products of the placer mines of.
the territory for that reriod.
Either a man must be content
with poverty all his life, or else be
willing to deny himself some luXuries
and save, to lay the base of lndepend-
ence in the future. But if man
defes the future, and spends all he
earns whether his earnings be one
dollar or ten dollars every day)let him
look for lean and hungry want at some
future time-for it will surely come, no
matter what he thinks.
SUNSHINE what you can to
make sunshine in the world. How
many great men have testified that
their whole lives have been influenced
by some single remark made to them
in boyhood? And who cannot recall
words spoken to himself in his child
hood, to which, perhaps, the speaker
attached no importance, but which sank
deep and immovabIy into his memory,
and which had never lost their power
over him.
Make sunlight! the world at best Is
dark enough. Do what you can to
make it more cheerful and happy.
THE SOLACE OF AGE
Howeer DER youths unclouded sky
The miSts Of grief may fall,
And lift TO heaven the pleading eye
And prayers imploring call
Re sure that ripper age will bring
Occasions few nor brief,
When mercy's overshading wing
Must send thee sweet relief
Be sure that when the hair grows gray,
And youth seems dim and far
And that long rest beyond the way
CLEANS ike welcome star
BE sure that then the boon of prayer
Most shows its priceless worth
A blessed guard against despair,
A link tween heaven and earth.
When Mother Eve the tempting fruit
Plucked for her only kin,
She then and there did institute
precedent for sin.
She knew the apple tasted sweet,
But thought not Of its price,
And said to Adam, " Let ms eat
It's naughty, but it's nice"
For several years past an Italian ge-
Dlogist has made a study of the trem-
blings or quakings of the earth, and
more especially those which are so eX-
tremely light as not TO be perceptible
ave by pendulums placed in the fields
IF microscopes. In one year he recog-
lized between 5000 and 5000 of these
and graphically represent
ng the same over many years by
,urve, he finds that the line CORE
spends neither with the thermometric
,urve nor with the tidal phenomena,
Tor can it be brought into any relation
With the distances or positions of the
un or moon. With the barometric
,urve, however, it is otherwise, and II
appears that, in the large majority of
he cases, the intensity of the move
nents augmented with the lowering of
he barometric column, rs if--as the
Investigator states--the gaseous masses
Imprisoned in the superficial layers of
he earth escaped more easily when the
weight of the atmosphere diminished,
which certainly is an interesting fact.