The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-19

S To show heart grief rent,
q To s'arye thy sin,
Not bins
. And that's to keep thy Lent.
+ According TO aFrench journal, there
$ are still living n France and its colonies
twenty-five thousai men who have
fought under the irst Napoleon.
-Eugenie ia said to be wasting away
with consumption, and her friends are
anxious that she should travel. She is
said to have "sged" very much the last
few months.
"A thous and years hence, Burnside
will be known to the student Of history,
not as statesman OF the nineteenth
century, but as the inventor of side
wbiskeTs.
OF one hundred aud six deaths
from deli,inm tremens in the Enslish
army in India, eighty six victims were
sergesnts, and onlytweniy priv ties. 80
,hev prcpose to investigate how it is
that Sc geants can get liquor so much
more freely.
- Texan palRontoloRists are positive
I as to the human origin OF skeleton,
twenty odd feet long, one Of whose
knee-pans fills a large oarpet-bag,
while a molar tooth measures eleven
inches in length and six inches across
the surface.
They say that their armies are on a
"peace footing " in Europe when they
have $50 600 men in the Austro. Hun
garian army. 100000 in the Russian
army, 800, 600 in the French army. II
it takes such armies TO declare peace 1t
! is somewhat alarming 10 ponder the
probabilities of the war-footing."
Who wouldn't be pedagcg que,
With moral force NJ vim,
| To trounce all pert, unruly boys-
That fail to wallop himS
Who wouldn't be a pedagogue,
Loves gauntlet grand TO run,
| Aud win all schColma ans witching smiles
Until he marries one
Queen Victoria, on Tecommenda-
tion of her prime minister, has granted
a pension of $3.50 year to the widow
of Giovanni Bactis Fa'c:eri, the ser
want Of Byron, who is celebrated in the
writings of his master, as well as IN
those Of Moore, Rogers and Shelley,
by the name OF a" Tita."
An eminent physiciin, who makes
throat and lung diseases a specially,
says the pressure OF the lar on the
arteries OF the neck is very bad for the
health, and asserts that about three
fourths of AL throat diseases would be
cured by wearing loose collars and
neckties.
The total quantity OF anthracite
coal mined in Pennsylvania, in 1874,
was twe1 ty-one millions six hundred
Thousand tons, or over five hundred and
sixty millions of cubic feet. Placed IN
one mass, this would form a solid wall
one hundred feet high, one hundred
feet wide, and nearly eleven miles in
length.
The porua'ion Of Paris, number.
ing about l 800 900, is said to consume
about 46, OOO, 600 gallons Of wine, nesrly
100000 gallons Of alcohol and alco-
holic liquors, 500, 600 gallons OF oder,
and G. SOC, 600 gallons Of bseI-some
twenty eight gallons OF wine, beer and
spirits a year for each Of the inl abit-
ants, including women and children.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr, thinks
the prappers have proved the best
friends Of the railroads. They have
stopped construction, which is a good
thing. II the mania for railroad build
ing had gone on unchecked much longer
there would have been nothing but
railroads left in the country. Every.
BODY would have taken to making
tracks.
The Rev. John II. Thompson, a
Scotch minister, says, in book enti-
tied "The MARTYR Graves of Scotland"
that he has found fern. house in
LochOoin, over the door of which is an
inscription bearing the date Of ll7s,
and that the present occupant Of the
farm is the thirty eighth OF his name
that has held the farm-the fomtly hay-
ing dwelt there for thirty-eipht gener-
is ever since the eighth
century.
"A Texas reporter says We saw
country girl on the streets Saturday
who had Just bought end was wearing
a pair of high. heeled bootees. But
didn't she wriggle tho. IL was the
first time she had ever experienced
those high heels. John she said,
Won must let me have your arm until
[ get used to these dog-on heels OF
mine John gave her his arm, but IL
was as much rs he could do TO keep the
little country miss steady"
The Russian government is about
% inaugnrate compulsory education for
her wild young Mnscovtes. The pro-
posed law requires that all children
rom seven to eleven years old shall
20 10 school. In the rural districts they
nust attend seven months. Parents
ire to be fined FOR all absences OF
heir children. The pupils are 10 have
i've holidays; Christmas day. Twelfth
Law, Lady day, Good Friday and
Easter week.
One of the noticeable sights about
Mexico, is the grove OF
expresses, faid 10 be from ono
houssnd five hundr, 10 two Thousand
,ears old. with trunks scarred and torn
" shot and shells fired in the imme-
iiate neighbUrhood. On the top oi the
'ock is the old Spanish castle, built Of
,orpbyry, marble and sandstone. IL
contains a fine scientific library and
The whole rock beneath
{ is honey.combed with passages,
tables, cellars, dungeons, store rooms,
nd powder magazines, some Of which
we're excavsted by the Montezumas.
There are five points in street-car
as well as in the other
canned professions. q don't deny,
aid a crcsstown man on a Chicago line,
pesking Of contemporary whose
merit had been recognize d 10y promo
ion from Milw yankee avenue, 81 don't
Ieny tnat he's a good conductor. Once
zee him bounce snoOzer three times
,igger'n him but, Lor' bless you, give
i'm a fat woman with a blak velvet
oat all over gle beads to tackle when
he cars behind time, and then you'll
ee that he hain't got the nerve Tor these
ristocratic lines, like this and Ini,sny
vanoo. Now, when pnt my knuckles
lto the small of n vomsn's back, no
latter if she's big ss a church, she's
OF 10 come. You heBr e3"- Western
'dper.
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