The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-05
FACTS AND FANCIEs..

LAzINEss travels so slow th2t poverty
soon overtakes him.
THE ladies of Charleston, 8. O., have
given $500 toward the Leo mAusoleum.
IT is complained that the young men
who frequent. the parlOrs of the Pans
nobility are fat.
The car is the tallest sovereign OF
Europe. The Emperor William comes
next in height.
CHICAGO, ever fertile in novelties, has
a new name for the barkeeper. he Is
now known as the Cocktail architect.
MOREOVER, brethren, avoid the use Of
the nose as an organ of speech. for the
best authorities are agreed that it is in
tended to smell with.-Spurgeon.
JOHN Z. OWENS keeps on acting, he
says, "not that care for the money, but
because / lust want to see how much OF
the derned stuff 1 can scrape together"
THE largest feet known to history
must be those of the Maryland editor
who writes: "We black our boots with
100000 boxes Of domestic backing
year.
| SHUN the inquisitive, for thou wilt be
sure to find him leaky; open ears do not
keep conscientiouBly what has been in
| trusted 10 them, and a word once spoken
| flee never TO be recalled.
THE following epitsPh is from tomb
stone in Indiana
Under This sod our Babie Lies.
il neither Cries nor HolErs
1T LIVED Just twenty Days,
And cost us $40.
LOVE- has the tendency Of pressing to-
gether all the lights-all the rays emitted
from the beloved object by the burning
glass Of, fantasy-into one focus, and
making Of them one radiant sun without
any spots.
IT is beacuse gold is rare that gliding
has been invented, which, witheut hay-
ing its sOlidity, has all It's br1lIancy.
Thus, to replace the kindness we lack;
we have devised politeness, which has all
its appearance.
DEATH is the wish Of some, the reliof
of many, and the end ef all. II sets the
slave at liberty, carries the banished
man home, and places all men on the
SAME level, jnsomuch that life itself were
a punishment without 1t.
THE editor of a heBthen paper in Ben
gal saws. in an article WHICH will pass ior
n sort of review of the Scriptures: " liza
person studies the English language with
view to gain wisdom, there Is not
book more worthy of being read tSan the
Bible"
MK. BtcKLE states that human ma
ture has changed very little in the last
three thousand years, bat we do not re-
member any record of Roman senator
trying to account To his wife fer light
deposit of pearl powder on the left shoul.
der of his tOga on the ground that he had
been playing checkers in grist mill
THEart Of being happy liesin the power
of abstracting happiness from very com
mon things. If we yitch our expecta-
tions high, if we are arrogant IN our pre-
tensions, if we will not be happy except
when our selElove is gratifed, our pride
stimulated, our vanity fed, or heTce
excitement kindled, then we shall have
but little satisfaction out of this life.
A COLLEGE professor tells the follow
ing: During the aftet-dinner talk tho
rough specimen for whom was survey
ing remarked that mathematics had al
ways seemed very wonderful thing to
him Thinking to interest him some
what / began TO illustrate some OF the
wonders; among others, tried to show
him the way in which Neptune was dis
covered. After some twenty minutes oil
elaborate explanation ] was somewhat
taken aback to hear him say: 1es,
yes, it is very wonderful, very; but
| with a sigh there's another thing that's
alters troubled me, and that is, why you
have to carry one for every ten but IL
you don't 'twOnt come out right"