The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-28
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


Good manners are part Of good
morals Whately.
-HPm yard wide and al wool, 1iSthe
Kentucky way of describing high state
| of hilarity.
What with stooking-darners, knitting
and sewing machines, apple e-parers, wash
ers and wringers, woman as a necessity is
iading from the face Of the earth.
Mary had little lamp, sialo
Twas filed with kerosene;
Mary down the chimney blew,
| And vanished from the scene.
Did the lawyers of this country
ever stop to think that when Brigham
Young dies there will be the biggest con-
tested will case on recordP
Truth has her pleasure-grounds, her haunt
| OF ease
And easy contemplation--gay parterres
And lsbyrinthine walks her sunny glades
And shady groves, for recreation framed.
In their intercourse with the world
| people should not take words as 30 much
geniue coin or standard metal, but merely
as counters that people play with
Douglas Jerrold. as = a. ...r..
1T is said of Robert Hall, that when
| some amateur skeptic asked him about
the future of man, he roughly answered.
al don't know whether you have a soul,
DuJ KNOW nhNe. ----
HARD, horny hands, embrowned by
the sun and roughened by labor, are
more honorable than white ones that
never reached out to help fellow crea-
ture or added q dollar to the worlds
wealth " "
SPEAKING truth Is like writing fair,
and comes only by practice 1t is less
matter of will than of habit; and
l,o kt-frral vry,1,~l,
permits the practice and formation Of
such habit.-RuSkin.
-"Closing places where games Of
chance are played" is hardly tho effective
way TO put it. The majority might
escape under the plea that there's no
chance at all, for the outsider. There's
a nice technicality for a rising young
COW lawyer.
In Newark, the other day, q fashion
able mother said TO the family physician.
in the presence of her three giggling.
frivolous daughters Doctor, how can
we improve our girls % "By improving
the mothers," was the gruff reply.
o. hearts OF love! o, souls that turn
Like sunfowers, 10 the pure and best,
To you the truth is manifest ..
For they the mind of Christ discern
Who lean, like John, upon his breast.
An old veteran was relating his ex-
ploils to crowd of boys, and mentioned
being in five engagements. That's
nothing" broke in a sharp little fellow.
" My sister Agnes has been engaged
more'n eleven times. rf
BABY ARITHMETIC
Rosebud, dainty and fair to see,
Flower Of all the world TO me,
Come this way on your dancing feet
Say, how much do you love me, sweetS
Red little mouth drawn grayely down,
White brow wearing puzzled frown,
Wise little baby Rose is she,
Trying 10 measure her love for me.
az love you all, the day and the night,
All the dark and the sunshine bright,
All the candy in every store,
All the dollars, and more and more,
Over the tops Of the mountains high,
All the world, way np to the sky"
A BRIGHTON lady, riding on the cars
he other dav, was amused by the ques-
ion of little girl, who, hearing the
CONDUCTOR cry the stations, looked up
nto her mothers face and innocently
sked: "Say, mamma, do we get out at
he next holler P'-iS Louis Republican.
The following sonnet (says the Scots
laR) has been written by the Poet Lau-
cate for new work published by a
BOSTON firm, entitled Laurel Leaves"
here are three things that gil my heart with
sighs,
And steep my soul in laughter when view
air maiden forms moving like melodiesl- .
Dimples, rose lips and eyes Of any hue,
here are three things beneath the blessed
skies .
For which live-blnck eyes, and brown,
and blue;
hold them all most dear--but Ohi black eyesl
live and die, and only die for YOU.
# late such eyes looked at melville mused
At sunset underneath a shade wy plane
a old Bayonne, nigh the Southern Sea
From half-open lattice looked at me.
saw no more only those eyes confused
And dazzled 10 the heart with glorlOus pain
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