The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-30
FACTS AND FAYCIES

you VIII soon have to appear before an
other and perhaps better Judge"
MUSHROOMS are delicious, but toad
stools are poisonous, yet IL is very diff.
cult to tell one from the other. An eE
fective plan. however, has been proposed
Eat the object, and if you die IL is a
toadstOol if you live it is a mushroom.
THE young bass with which James
river was seeded are pronounced n per
feet success. A Virginia paper says
"they grow faster and are better fish
than any ever caught in our waters, the
brook trout alone excepted"
AS TIRE dew falls noiselessly upon the
tender heritage, as the present passes ST
lently into the past, as the perfume of a
| kindly act rises heavenward unseen, so
the hired girl slips out the back way
nights with little tea and sugar for her
relatives.
SCIENTIFIC men differ as 10 whether
andeliOns or cowslips make Ihe best
"greens" to go with a boiled dinner.
The safest way is to go between them,
1 and take ice cream and strawberry short
cake.
Oh the Union Pacific railroad they
have such places as the Devils Gate, the
DEVILS Knee, the Devils Back, the
Devils Slide, the Devils Door, etc.
Give him Il few more points, and the
devil will soon own the whole road.
The new cook Ton receiving "shert"
notice TO leave, with hint that she has
given a false character)- -" An is il me
false character ye're alther casting in me
teeth As if I'd lie kringing me thruc
character wild me, to iOoae il in your
dirty service :"
HENRY" she said, YOU don't know
what a soothing influence you have on
me-" MY darling" he whispered
softly, while a glad light came into his
eres 'scan it he 50 '' Yes" she said,
"when you are around always feel like
going to Sleep
A POOR Frenchman, whose wife reused
him from his sleep with the cry: Get
up Baptistc, there is a robber in the
house" answered sensibly: "Don't mo-
lest him; let him explore the house
awhile and if ne should find anything of
value we will take il away from him"
ANintelligcnt foreigner passing through
the streets Of Philadelphia, took out his
note book at the end of a long walk and
made little memorandum to the effect
that "cighty-nine per centum ot the
population Of Philadelphia are members
of the powerful family of Roomstolet."
good many workers
Pve known in my time
Some builders OF houses,
Some builders Of rhyme;
And they that were proSpered
Were prospered, know,
BY the intent and meaning OF
d" Hoe your own row.
IL replying to a toast TO his health, on
a recent occasion, Lord Shalteshury told
the story of a man who said, when his
lordship was presented with donkey by
costermOngers in London: Somehow the
or other, / shall never again see donkey
without thinking of your lordshiP."
II there be such a thing rs the trans
migration of souls, don't you believe that
loafers are the forerunncrs of Ceniuses
Several of this species were sitting on the
p,,st-ofIice steps, in the subdued mood
neculiar to them, when one of them,
whose hands clasped his knees, on which
his face rested, lifted his head and said
weariedly, as if communing to himself:
cam ] doing wrong to think 50 much y
-DdRJuy NerS.
ADoNIs CATER his guests have de
parted BY .Jove, Maria, what hand
some woman Mrs. Jones is! She looks
better than ever!" Ills vile" Ahem !
Well, it may be my bad taste, but own
| have hitherto failed to detect the
beauty of Mrs. Jones. Now, Mr.. Jones
is GOOD looking COmc-hang IT, Maria,
Jones is n very good fellow but ! must
say I've never perceived his good looks,
etc.
A BROOKLYN girl having been visited
for some months by an exceedingly bash
ful gentleman brought on the wished-tor
climax Ivy the following ruse: lie made
an afternoon call, and, after few min
utcs waiting, she rushed into the parlOr
equipped for the street, and said hastily;
" am i'm Il great hurry-havc an engage
ment with a lady friend, and if you came
for the purpose of proposing marriage
YOU must be quick about it, Wedding
early in he fall
A WRITER in one of the magazines
SAYS: Nemesis is swiiter than sleutii-
hound no man can escape her lhlS
would seem To- indicate that Nemesis can
strike q pretty good gait We never
have had much experience wllh sieuIh-
bounds ourselves, but if they can get
and the fence any faster than an I'M
passioned bull-pup We are Wiling 10
ccI;mb q tree and look on. We regret
that the writer neglccts to state whelIe'
Nemesis can climb. II she can, however,
Il Looks rs if mans only safety was
going 10 be under the bed U0r"'c"
Bulletin.
LAWYERS are sometimes very par
ticular. The other day one Was walted
uron by young man, who began by
saving. &" bIy father died ana mace
will" Is it possible? never heard
of such thing" answered the lawyer;
- thought it happened every day,
.oid the Young man but If there u TO
be anv difficulty about IT, had bcttcr
rive you fee to attend &" the pnsI-
ness6 The zee was given, ana then lhe
LAWYER observed, " oh ] think j know
what you mean. You meant that your
father made a will and dicd-yeF' yes
that must be il.
GERMAN CRADLE soNG.
eroe,, beart.Iovcd babvl my darling art thou;
Close auick thy little blue eye-peeps nov"
All around quiet and still rs the night
Slrep. and PIl watch til thou Wak,'t 50
bright.
Angels from heaven, as lovely as thou,
Float round thy cradle and smile ON uee
now, .., -.
Later Ills true, yes thcy'll hover still near,
OnIy To dry from thine eye the sad tear
Inst now, my lambkin, is golden the dayi
Later. ah. later! twill not he SO gay
When sorrows at fl st thy cradle surround
Thon, darling baby. hoult not sleep 50
sound.
slecp. heart-loycd baby although comes the
night, .t,
! Nnthsr will sit near thy cradle 10 slghti
| Re il so early, or be it 80 late,
! Mother.love, darling, still watches my I'ie'
Deserted California Diggings.
The paImy days Of river mining,
writes a California correspondent, are
long past. Streams such g. the MoEe,,
jumne. Stanislau-, Puotumne, ana
Merced. lined twenty year ago for iprty
miles with the miners tent, and cabins
now flow onward to the sea unveXed ana
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