The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

mail on Sundays.
CENTER of gravity-A Quaker meet
ing.
BEFORE taking liberties with strange
dog observe his tail and wait for the
wag on.
SIXTY nations now fill their lamps
and kindle their fires with the nom
explosive kind Germany used more
than 80, ,O00, 900 gallons last year.
THE California highwayman still robs
stage-coaches and breaks female hearts.
He wears a slouched hat, short cloak,
red shirt, heavy moustaahe, lock OF
lady's hair next his heart, and has
tassels on his boots.
A DAKOTA miss Of thirteen, and as
pretty as a girl of that immature age
can be, recently eloped with a wild In
dian boy about nineteen years old.
When last seen the couple were flying
across the prairie on a pony with their
faces toward the setting sun.
BRITISH parson and commercial tIav-
eIer in the cars Cconyersation slow.
Usual question, "What line arc you
in ?" etc. Parson answers with faint
joke, that he is Gin the spiritual line"
"Ha, ha," says the other, "biossed II
didn't think so. But, I say, what a
price you have got gin up to-"
THE English pos-ofIice pays The
receipts for 1873 amounted TO $780,
600, the expenditure at the same time
was SIS, 1856, 600, leaving n surplus Of
no less than s7,775,OOO There are
AZ, 900 persons employed in the depart
ment, of whom many are women, this
number including 1880 postmasters,
1000 clerks, and about 10000 sorters,
carriers aud messengers.
THE kind of whisky they have in
Frisco after that the cloth was took
off, and the liquors war bro't IN. And
wot liquors they wuz, too The whisky
wuz none o. this yer kind that makes
a man feel like sayin': i kin lick any
son of gun in the house. and makes
him smash things Rinerally. No, sir It
war the kind that iist makes 4 mnn lift
his glass gintly, and SAYS Joe, old
pard, I'm lookin at yer.
A YOKOHAMA correspondent cav
European ladies', elegantly dressed in
full evening costume, on their way to
some dinner party in baby cart drawn
by stout coolies whose only clothing
was the tattooing on their backs and
breech. cloths, four inches wide. One
doesn't mind it after a while, but at
first it seems very odd. SO it did to
see a naked coolie operating a sewing
machine.
THE word "bonanza" has been freely
launched upon the sea Of journalism,
aud is likely TO become a household
word. A Nevada paper says it is Span
ish, and means "fair weather at sea-
Applied to mining it means "a body Of
rich ore" When a Spanish miner
strikes a good vain, he rCpli's TO the
query: Glow are you getting on?" in
his own language "Oh, ir en- bonan-
"a" which means in American slang:
"Oh, we're all hunkeydory !"
TRUE HOSPITALITY of the home is
never loudly and noisily demonstrative.
1t never overwhelms you with its greet
ing, though you have not doubt OF its
perfect sincerity. You are not disturb
ed by the creaking Of the domestic
machinery, suddenly driven at unwont-
ed speed for your accommodation.
Quietly it does its work, that it may
put you in peacable possession OF IFS
results. He is not the true host, she is
not the best hostess, who is ever going
TO and fro with hurried action, and
furried manner, and heated counte-
nance, as IL TO say, "See how hospitable
/ can be :" but rather the one who takes
your coming with quiet dignity and
noiseless painstaking who never OBJ
trudes attention, yet is very attentive
all the while; who makes you, in ono
most expressive word in the
English tongue-to be at home. There
is no richer, deeper, larger hospitality
than that.
FARMERS and dairymen have from
time immemorial imagined they knew
cattle disease called "horn all" or
" hollow-horn." Prof. Cressy now tells
them it is an old wives fable. The pro-
fessor has cut open innumerable horns
and found them all hollow. He tells
the cow-doctors there is no such disease
as hollow-horn." The cure practioed
is to bore into the horn and inject some
remedy. This is generally followed by
at the nose, which is supposed
to be a symptom of the disease and
sign that the remedy iR becoming effect
i've. The professor proves by cattle
skulls that the nasal passages are nor
mally connected with the hollows in
the horns, and this accounts for the
boring aud the internal application OF
the remedy. Horned cattle generally
will be glad to hear that the surgery Of
the gimlet is not necessary to their
health, az scarcely any Of them ever got
through life without being horribly
bored.