The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-26
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

write only on one side OF the paper.
HASTE and rashness are storms an
tempests, breaking and wreoking Du,
: mess; but nimbleness is n full fair WIND
blowing it with speed 10 the haven
Fuller.
In Vienna they have a single wor,
for a fact very common with MS now
= bursting of a water-pipe. This Is Tn
: word Observation-Disclosures -
j rehabilitation.
8 PAUL BoYNToN, the diver, says that
after a man goes down l6O feet into the
water he hes reached spot where den
sity o' fluid begins in sIch dead earnest
that diving has to stop.
, A GOOD rhinoceros costs 80, GOO, and
3 unless there's a great decline in the
market most of MS must be satisfied
, with five dollar narlor mat having n
! oolored tiger stamped on t.
MADAME MAoMAHoN refuses 20 dress
in the Paris fashions. "The example
Of strumpets," says sde, els not more
worthy OF imitf tion in matters OF dress
than in morals"
TP1s is the season Of the year when
the farmer tells his son John that IL he
will sort over ten bushels Of potatoes,
feed the stock, repair the fence aRd re-
shingle the corn-cTib he may have the
rest Of the day TO go rabbit hunting.
ONE eighte anth Of the land in Kansas,
except rev Indian resel vations, is de-
voted to &C nmou schools. IL cannot
be rold foI less than three dollars per
acre. It may be paid in cash or ia ten
annual payments at ten per cent. in
terest.
SoIE two years ago, Mrs. Morgan,
who lives on Wolf creek, in Giles
couu,y, Va, gave birth 30 five male
childro / at C7e time. They are still
living, ere rot deformed, ere OF good
constitution, ard as tprightly as we'll
fed kite Is.
MRs. SANFoPD. OF Connecticut, lured
by an Adonis OF eighteen summers, has
eloped from her third husband. Per-
hpps Anna Dickinson will stand up and
| say that nobody ought 30 throw sand
on that kind OF women.
An eastern poper says that il cost
them 81 TO get blacksmith TO pry
open q Phil; ie'phia charity box, and
when he got in !, and emptied out four
cents the charity ladies, who had been
engineering that box io' year, looked
an awful look at each other.
BRUYEKE once said: "An inconsistent
woman is one who is no longer in love;
false woman is one who is already in
love With another person; a tickle woman
is she who neither knows whom she
loves or whether she loves or not, and
the Indifferent woman one VINO does not
love at all.
PARIS is pluming itself on a new
l. l. 4 I'll. - 90
of tackle by which, when lady wishes
TO dance, the train of her dress is drawn
up to possible dimensions. This tackle
is made so as TO be oTnamented with
flowers or ribbons, and TO become n
great ldition TO the toilette generally.
WILLIAM FRENCH, the first victim Of
the revolutionary war, sleeps under the
following obituary notice
" Here William French his body lioa,
For murder iis beod for vengeance crier,
King GEORGE the third his Tory crew
That with a bawl his head Ehot threw,
For liberty and his country's good
II He lost his life his dearest blood
TIE Lords Prayer was recently
called to the attention of the San
Francisco school board, and after some
discussion the chair decided that the
Lords Prayer is partisan and sectarian,
and that the use of il in our schools is
contrary tot the spirit Of the school law"
It's chanting and reading were accord
ingly ruled out OF the schools.
AN Iowa woman went Co church one
Sunday and experienced religion"
Arriving home, she called her children
around her and said 81 am pious now,
and / am going TO give you two days
TO get religion. II you don't do IL in
the time I'll whale your hides of. /
have learned my duty. Do you hear
me-"
The girls attending n seminary in
Illinois set two chickens fighting in
their room last Sunday. Bets on tho
result ran high, and at the conclusion
of the contest the winning maiden was
better" by n gold watch, pair OF silk
stockings, a French corset, two rolls OF
false hair, pateut hustle, and n beauti-
full book-mark with Christ our Guide
worked on il in colored silk.
WHEN a citizen of Great Britain ar
rived in Wilkesbarre the other day and
found that his wife, who had come 10
this country twelve years before, wfB
married TO another man, he drove his
successor from the house and gave his
first love and her daughter n terrific
of such little incidents as these that rs
gradually undermining the public faith
in that Enoch Arden story.
A ScoTcH beadle was the one who
popped the question in the grimmest
manner. He took his sweetheart into
the graveyard, and showing her n dark
corner, said : "Mary, my folks lie
there. Would Won like 30 lie there,
~ a HEHHN NsNR
and expressed her Willingness 30 OBJ
tain the right 60 be buried near tho
beadle's relations 10y uniting herself 10
him in wedlock.
"IF Won want to please an Ohio man,
praise mis- cows; Kentuckian, his
horses an Arkansas man, his shooting;
a Kansas man, his dogs an Iowa man,
his girls; a Wisconsin nan, his feet a
Virginian, his family name; a Tennes-
seean, his mule" And ifyou want TO
please a Detroit man, praise him-but,
hang it, we know of nothing Detroit
man has that you can praise. Detroit
Free Press.
IN Iowa paper has this description
of a recent invention Among tho
other pleasant recollections which mark
the holidays, friend Of Burlington
and Missouri baggageman presented
him with a patent trunk litter. IL ~
made Of steel and brass. Two clamps
clasp the trunk ut either end, and turn
Of knob in the hand Of the baggage
man pulls both straps out 10y the roots,
at the same time an iron ball weighing
nine pounds hammers awayatth bottom
of the trunk, and a neat three iointed,
self acting rake, with twelve teeth,
reaches in as quick as n hole is made,
and sweeps from end to end Of the
trunk, fDally emerging through the
lid, where IL clinches, and by a sudden
jerk, turns the trunk inside ont. No
shouid be without IL.