The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-22
FACTS AND FANCIES.

IT is SAD 70 see a man who has waded
through gore to rescue his country from
the grasp of the tyTant, so subdued after
marriage that even the flies take advaL-
tage of him.
IN ten years the screw propeller has
entirely replaced the paddle in transat-
lantic navigation, the weight of marine
engines has diminished one-half, the
steam pressure has quadrupled, and the
consumption of coal has decreased two
! thirds.
ANCIENT Notwithstanding to
German analyst the composition of an
old bronze weapon, supposed to be about
| two thousand years old, has been ascer-
tained to be ninety parts copper and ten
parts tin, proving that tin was known to
the ancients.
THE baby was doubled up by the
cramps and yelling at the rate of mile 3
minute, as the father and mother stood
over the crib with the laudanum bottle
between them. No, Mariar," he SAID
gently but firmly, "you pour 1t out;
! that child's growing 80 much ike your
neither that can't trust myself"
JOHN STUART MILL worshipped bis
wife for her great mental powers, and ne
dSCTlDtu 10 neT WOluCIlul ENiiiho
of the best sections of his philosophical
works. The truth is that she told him,
in echo, his own thoughts that he had
previously told to her. His death was
hastened by his mourning for her.
WHITTIER sent this little verse to an
autograph collector in England
Thicker than water in one rill,
Through centuries Of story,
Our Saxon blood has flowed and stih
We share with you the good and III,
The shadow and the glory.
A SCIENTIFIC writer says every infau
cansay "nO'' several months before it can
say eyes" An old bachelor who has
been rejected seventeen times says this
habit of saying "no" before she can say
"ves" clings to the female infant until
after she becomes twenty seven years of
age.
HFR Won DER SEEDEN, once PrVssian
official, has received the first formal per-
mission for fire burial The bodies of
his two children are to be subjected TO
incremation and the ashes be sent to
their parents The question of crema-
ton is said to have made decided pro-
gress among the educated classes Of
Germany.
A WOMAN in Council Bluffs, Iowa, has
sold out her husband for Il brindle cow,
cali, and $40 TO boot. A former wife,
from whom he had been twice divorced,
coaxed him TO return to his allegiance,
and the second wife, actuated by spirit
of accommodation and agricultural enter
prise, consented to a separation Tor the
consideration named.
GEORGE ELIOT says that a young
mans eyes FIRST open to the world when
he is in love. This is not always so.
Usually it is when he has gone away
from home and had his wahing sent cut
for the frst time, and finds among it
when it is returned an old stocking with
two stripes about the top and long
enough to pull up around his neck.
THE metto for the week on little
girls Sunday-school card was, g Get thee
behind me, Satan" There were goose
berries in the garden, but she was fer
hidden to pluck them. Pluck them she
did. "Why didn't you" asked her
mother, "whcn yOu were tempted to
touch them, say, Get thee behind me,
Satan p" Il did" she said, earnestly,
''and he got behind me, and pushed me
into the bush"
THE time -honOred custom which Ger
man students have of swadding them
selves up until they are invulnerable TO
anything less than n shot from n Krupp
gun, and then trying to scratch each
others noses with sword points, is show
ing signs of falling into disrepute. At
Darmstadt, one of the sO-called duels
having taken place, the government of
he university expelled one of the COM
,atants suspended the other, together
With the seconds, and broke up the so
,iety of which the warriors were mem
IeTs.
IT is said Of the nice old maid that she
moved through the world in a stately,
tatuesque kind of way, making the des-
,air Of all the men who loved her-per-
laps the more because she was unattain-
bic and now when old she is the same,
With Just the difference between the lily
ghen it stands up in its first young
loom, and the lily when iC is dropping
o its fall-bctween wax, fresh, bloomy,
osy, and wax faded, yellow, and with
II the bloom rubbed off Young or old,
he il aiways of the same spiritual type,
irginal, untroubled by dreams, un-
ouched by the senses in any direction,
18th few, very few affections. A wo-
IAN whom the love Of man never
armed the caress Of a child never
lrilled the modest vessel, the protest
mt nun; in the world, but not of it;
assionless and pure--but statue, not