The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-02
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Der0nda.
THE LOST FoUSD" is the heading
Of an item in n New York paper. Who
ever heard of anybody losing "found!
Probably meant "foundry."
THE New York Sun is writing against
expensive funerals. 1t somehow never
did look right for a man to spend $4,000
burying the wife who codld never get
anything better than a delaine dress out
of him while living.
A PIoUs father entered a Virginia
City saloon with a horsewhip one night
last week aud found his son playing
euchre. He tanned the young mans
jacket and sent him home, and then sat
down and finished the game himself.
GENERAL EARLY, in a letter to the
Richmond Enquirer, suggests that tho
confederate soldiers in the southern
states form themselves into associations
for the purpose of collecting funds for
the monument to General Lee to be
erected at Richmond, Virginia.
COUNTEEFEIT gold coin, made of pla-
tlnum, plated heavily with genuine gold,
has of late been circulated in California.
1t is exceedingly deceptive, being of the
right weight, color and feeling. The pla-
tinum is worth half rs much as gold,
making these counterieits costly of pro-
duction.
JUDGE THEM GENTLY.
Then gently sean thy brother man,
| Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human.
| Who knows The heart, 'tis He alone
| Decidedly can try us;
He knows each chord, its various tone,
| Each spring its various bias
Then aU the balance let's be mute
! We never can adjust it;
| What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resist it.
Robert Burns.
"HOW had you the audacity, John"
said Scottish laird to his servant, "to
go and tell some people that was q mean
fellow and no gentleman" INA. ma,
sir" was the candid answer, "you'll no
catch me at the like o. that. ! have kept
my thoughts to myself"
ANNIE Dickinson rolled her eyes at
the right places, and took a long step, and
said in tragic voice: liza, ha, coward,
craven, we have met at last. Give me
back my child, vile monster, or by the
gods I'll have your hearts bl-ud and
give your worthless carcass to the dogs"
but yet the critics say she is not a great
actress.
FIVE hundred and six applications for
divorces were made last year in the courts
for the single county Of Cook, in which
is situated the city Of Chicago, in the
state of Illinois. Six closely printed
columns in one of the local papers Of the
city contain the names and other facts
interesting in that neigborhood of the
successiu iul applicants. And yet we are
ending missionaries abroad!
"Life, the seed-time Of our being,
Swifter than the shuttle flies;
But the good or evil flowing
From our conduct never dies.
All who live are daily sowing
Seeds in distant fields to fall;
And the harvest from them growing
We must gather after all.
Gather, when the light has faded
When life's heeting scenes are Ger
In some cline by sorrow shaded,
Or where sorrows known no more;
From the memory unfailing
OF our actions, great or small,
Perfect bliss, or weeping, wailng,
Erc13dSti,g after 0H"
THERE are few who do not remember
the childish wonder they once felt at
hearing the resonance produced 10y plac-
ing a sea.shell to the ear, an effect which
fancy has likcned to "the rOarof the sea"
This is caused by the hollow form of the
shell and its polished surface, enabling
il 10 receive and return the bcatings Of
All SOUNDS IhaI chahce 10 DC Vrchipiius
ln inc ar.
FEIGuTENED EIEpS.
/" Hush hush, :" said the little brown thrush,
To her mate on the nest in the elder-bush;
" Keep still! don't open y0ur bill!
There's n boy coming bird-Hesting over the
hill.
Let go your wings out, 50
rhoo nbont CO., + .ce,,,s ,l me
Tn, as frirbtened as e.rr /, bird can bet
Then still, with Pulyering hil.
They watched the boy out OF sight Ger the
hill.
All, then in the branches again,
Their glad song rang over vale ana glen.
On! on ~ i,l tlat Doy gIuin ,, Inow b;,,o
So" I' s,.'" ~ I''rs ~ tI'i,l, r,,,t ,, 50
II! ,c,,;I1 nose;Il,, st,aI tbosc r,,rs avav2
- ..,.,.I ,.,,, -.-.,,.,l,, - I,o
l"I;I Do2 ;.,ll'I ~ 80, 80 Ill
Pt.,; 80, ;,,,,+., ,io;J "n;t
uI'Iii,,' i'J hi.I, hat %,, o smiiJ NInIJno,s nf
1r,i,I! ,U dn I,s ,,iIi,re, ,lrc ali f1,cl-
,oat "ti III I'll nniIors and bIac neclcIotb
md nd tbos sEocon.sirccf naatron was imnos,
ng in furbelows and frils. And they
aid TO each other carnt." " "sharnt,"
8 ornt - "vou know" and "dou't YOU
lnow'' all day long.-N T. HaH
T,yo rrcrrrr4
An old farm, bou.o viii, n,c,dovs wide
And sweet with clover ON each side.
A briphteyed bow who looks from out
The door with woodbinc wrcathed about,
And wishes his one thought all day:
d" Oh II could but fly away
How How ham r,i'T UTIi banny INV harpy
How hapny would be!5
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Amid the city's constant din,
is thinking. thinking. all dav long,
"Oh, If could only trace once more
The feld-path TO the farm house door,