The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-26
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD.


Two children were making most Of the day
In the sand their castles building,
While out in the harbor the sunset gold
Was every vessel gliding.
But the sea came over the castles dear;
And the charm Of sunset faded
oh, after labor is lost, may we
| Go happily home as they did.
For We Guild and build in different way,
III our heads are wise and hOary;
But after II all the sun goes down,
And the sea-'tis a common story.
Atlantic Monthly.
A wit once asked a peasant what part
he performed in the great drama of
life, 81 mind my own business" was
the reply.
A Chicago woman cured her hus-
band of staying out late at night by go
ing to the door when he came home and
whispering through the keyhole els
that you, Willie?" Her husbands
name is John, and he stays at home
every night now and sleeps with one eye
open and revolver under his pillow.
Here is a self-evident truth from the
Baltimore American: "An American
citizen ought at all times consider that
casting vote on election day Is not
merely a right or privilege which he
may exercise or not at his pleasure or
convenience, but that ii Is also duty
of the most imperative nature.
Two seas amidst the night
In the moonshine roll and sparkle,
Now spread in the silver light,
Now sadden, and wall, and darkle.
The one has a billowy motion,
And from land 20 land Il CLEANS;
The other is sleeps wide ocean,
And the glimmering waves are dreams
The one, with murmur and roar,
Bears fleets round coast and islet;
The other, without a shore,
Meier knew the track Of pilot.
Either a man must be content
with poverty all his life, or else be-
willing to deny himself some luxurics
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.
In might do one deed of good,
One little deed before die
Or think one noble thought, that should
Hereafter not forgotten lie,
/ would not murmur, though must
BE lost in deaths unnumbered dust.
That fiimsy wing that watts the seed
Upon the careless wind 10 earth,
OF it's short life has only need
To find the germ fit place for birth;
For one swift moment of delight
IL whirls, then withers out Of sight
p. ". BOUrdWOH.
English physicians are in the habit
of sending patients to Italy, to get the
benefit of the climate and drink asses
milk. In order to secure the purity OF
the milk, the asses are ordered each
day to the patients door, where the
milking is done under his own eye or
that of a servantOr friend. A traveller,
writing of this custom, says that "the
ass-milkers in the Italian towns usually
carry bladder of lukewarm water
under their clOaks, kept upto the heat of
the body under the armpits, the CON
tents Of which they furtively intuse in
the face of the domestics, who never sus-
pect the trick. Thus are poor patients,
when given up by the faculty and sent
to languish under an Italian sun, and
die, turned over TO the tender mercies
of tricksters, generally the associates or
creatures of cheating hotelkeepers.'
AUTUMN RoNDEL.-
From spring TO fall the year makes merry,
With days 10 days that chant and call
With hopes to crown and fears 10 bury
With crowns of flowers, and flowers Tor
pail,
With bloom, and song, and bird, and berry,
That fill the months with festival,
From spring TO fall.
Who knows il ever skies were dreary
With shower and cloud and waterfall?
While yet the worlds good heart is CHEEKY
Who knows ii rains will ever brawlg
The storm thinks long, the winds wax weary,
Till winter comes TO wind up all
From spring TO fall.
WEDDING journeys, like the practice
of making wedding presents, according
to the latest fashionable intelligence,
are out of style. Happy and favored
Young men and women of the day
Fashion, then, no longer requires YOU
to make a show of yourselves, and you
can get married in peace. No lost
time, no fuss, no crowds, no awkward
groomsmen, no chalky bridesmaids, no
marching up aisles, no execrable tunes,
no splitting gloves, no dropping ring,
no kissing parsons, no carriages, no re-
ceptions, no presents, no journeys, no
expenses, no cards. Welcome and en-