The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
FACTS AND FAYCES.


often forget that the earth il q. revolver.
Mrs. One-Who-H o-Holde-the-Lodge- Pole
With-hands was before a Dakota grand
jury as a witness the other day.
The Chicago Times is willing to for
give JEFF. Davis for AndersonYille, but
can never forget that he was once an
insurance man.
WILL you have me, Sarah ?" said a
young man to a modest girl. "No,
john" said she; "but you may have
me, if you will"
Mrs. Hon. CONGRESSMAN is the
modest and tasteful WAY the wives Of
some Of the Washington members"
print their cards.
The German Immigration amounted
10 Zl,54i at the port of New York during
1919, being falling off Of Is, ,745 in COM
parison with 1874
1HE POET's LAST SoNG.-
Like TO the leaf which falleth from the free.
OGod: such only is NV earthly life
Lord am ready when Thou caIIest inc
10! Thou Clnst see my hearts n,st hitter strife--
lis hou alone cnnst know the load of sin
Which this my aching breast doth hold within
Shorten the pains Of death, shake on my fear,
Give INC the courage OF Il trusting child.
Father Of Love, fnin would zee Thee nenr
In pity judge each thought and act dcfled-
Mercy, cry dear Lord, Thy will 10 done.
Save me, pTay, through Jesus Christ Thy Son.
\ CRIMINAL on his way to the galIows,
recently, remarked: "If had received
one-half of the kindness, earlier in life,
which have received here, would not
have been here"
"Go OUT, young man; she's not here"
said Pennsylvania preacher, the other
Sunday, in the midst of his sermon, 10 n
youth who he saw standing hesitatingly
in the doorway.
GERMAN lawyers claim that if Thomas
had survived his attempt at suicide he
could only have been lightly punished
under existing laws, though he caused
the death of I28 persons.
The most wretched being this season
is the man with an Ulster overcoat. He
had not counted on a mild winter, and
the | are thought OF how he is TO get the
wear out of that coat makes him burst
into another perspiration and look more
like a stage driver than ever.
PRAYER is the rustling of the wings
of the angels that arc on their way bring
ing us the boOns of heaven. Even as
cloud foreshadoweth rain, ~ prayer fore
shadoweth the blessing; even rs the
green blade is the beginning Of the har-
vest, 30 is prayer the prophecy of the
blessing that is about to come.-Splr-
gcon.
IL Germany there is popular hostility
to Americans because the latter are sup
posed to have favored France in the late
war, and because American travellers
make hotel living dear. The German
government and its newspapers, how
ever, try TO cultivate friendly relations
with us.
To all whom il may concern. A phil
osopher says | never yet heard man
or woman much abused that ! was not
inclined to think the better of them, and
transfer any suspicion or dislike to the
person who appeared 10 take a dellght
in pointing out the defects Of fellow
creature.
MORNING LAND
So near the goal, 50 near
The portals open with q sound like s1ug
The path is lost in brightness that 50 long -
Wandered mid sha adovs! o., my SOUL be strong
And do not fear
DO you too feel the Voc.
TIE mist that blinds my eyc7, all cold and gray
Tho fog that settles round my troubled way
The clouds that settle? But they cannot stay
Eec up and watch them go
So near the goal stand
Oh weary heart thy task ti- well nigh dOnn'
] see far OF the golden setting sun;
The work well wrought that was 80 sad begun
Welcomed Oh, Morning Land.
The Baltimore dealers in terrapins
keep them in nearly air-tight chests,
packed layer upon layer, and deprive
them Of food They grow fat under this
treatment, although the fatnCss doubtless
is the result Of disease. They must each
measure seven inches across the under
hell before they are considered fit for the
able, and are then sold at $2l dozen.
ACCORDING TO a recent calculation,
Lowell, in Massachusetts, now manufHc-
lures forty miles of cloth per hour, and
fifty pairs of hose per minute The be
ginning of this enormous business dafs~
back to 1918, when the first attempt was
made i'm America TO manufacture cotton
bv machinery. In that year Major Jo-
siah Fletcher erected a wooden factory
in that place.
A LITTLE five-ycar-old was told by his
Grand mother that all such terms as " by
roIlv," "by lingo" "by thunder" etc,
we're only minced oaths, and but little
better than any other profanity. In
fact, she said, shc could tell a proiano
oath by the prefix "by." All such were
oaths. Well, then, grandmother!
said the little hopeful, i" there's a piB
oath in the newspapers, by telcgrhPh'
The old lady gave it up