The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-12-08
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

OSTRICH eggs are worth ten dollar
each at the Cape Of Good Hope, wher
they are hatched by an artificial process
THE best temperance lecture is a gOoC
salt mackerel. If the man that eats OnC
don't take water then he is a hopleles
case.
Mr.. KRUPP, the German iron and stee
manufacturer, has given to the Washing
ton museum large part of the article:
which made up his display at the cen
tennial exhibition.
NURSERY ELF.
Dear little feet. how you wander and wander
Little twin ttuants so feet
| Dear little head, how you ponder and ponder
| over the things that you meetl
| Dear little tongue how you chatter and chatter,
| Over your innocent j. Us!
Oh, but the house is alive with your clatter-
Shaking, indeed, with your noise
Can't you be quiet moment sweet rover7
is there no end to your fun
| soon the 'Old sand man. viii spr nkle you over
Then the days irolic Is done.
Come to my arms. for the ylight Is dying,
| Closer the dark shadows creep;
Come, like bird that IS weary Of dying;
| Come, let me sing you 10 sleep.
MAN is of so Obstinately contradictory
nature that he will not allow himself
| to be forced to his own advantage, yet
suffers constraints of all kinds which
| tend to his harm GOthc.
AN old lady from the rural districts
astOnished a clerk in one of the stores
few days ago by inquiring if he had any
"yaller developments, sich as they did
up letters in"
SPRIGG's wife woke him up at three
o'clock in the morning TO say that she
had decided, on the whole, to have a
dark green suit and green velvet bon
net this winter.
HAVE you poached eggs ?" inquired
a customer of colored restaurant keeper
in Mississippi. " Yes, sab all our eggs
is poached--leastways de chickens dat
laid um is" was the reply.
A CENTENNIAL critic being asked by
Graphic correspondent which he liked
best, the statoos or the picters, replied:
donno hardly, Zeb, but on the hull
praps / like the statoos best, cos you kin
90 all round the statoos, but you can't
see only one side o the picters."
OLE Bull can't understand why the
papers should interest themselves so per-
sistently with his family affairs. He has
not left his wife, and has gone to Europe,
and is quietly giving concerts in Boston.
They do say, however that his is a fear
full case of mother-in-law.
SOMEHOW or oruER.
Life has burden on every ones shoulder
None may escape from its troubl IS aud care;
Miss it in youth, and twill conc when were
And fit US as close as the garment
Sorrow comes into orr lives uninvitel
RObbing our hearts OF its treasure Of song;
Lovers grow coll and friendships slighted,
Yet, somehow or other, we worry along.
Everyday toll is an very-day blessing,
Thourh povertys cot age and crust we may
Weak Is Tue back on which burdens are pressing,
But stout is the neari that is strengthened by
prayer.
Somehow or other, the pathway grows brighter
Just when we mourn there was none to beiTiend
Hope in the heart makes the burden seem lighter,
And somehow or other, We get 10 the end.
WHILE the black bird shooting was
going on at the San Antonio (Texas)
fair the other day a lady deprecated very
much the cruelty Of shooting the birds
on the wing. She salt: : Why don't
they shoot little birds on the ground, so
they won't fall and hurt themselves"
The acute and quick witted Rev.
Lemuel Hayne, of Vermont, well known
years ago throughout England was once
,aucily accosted by an impudent trifler
With the question: Mr.. Hayne, how
I'D do you suppose the devil is7" You
must keep your own family record" was
he immediate response.
AN old negro man from Henrico coun-
y was approached yesterday on the street
lere by one of his race with the question
low he had voted at the recent presiden-
al election. " Well, ! tell you what
tis; amt voted yet, and / amt gwine
o vote till / see who is 'lected.-Rich-
aond Wing.
GEN. b. F. BUTLER made an official
yisit to the "soldiers' home" at TOgus
Springs, and received welcome at Ban
-Or on his way to the "home," and
Imong the decorations in that city was
me stretched acress the street with this
MOTTO: Welcome to Gen. Butler, the
hero OF five forks, and God knows how
many spoons"
A YOUNG lady reader writes us that
he is going TO n ball, and asks: What
hall / wear ?" Our fashion editor is
ut of town, and in her absence we shall
nswer this question by advising our fair
uestioner to wear clothes TO the ball.
he might also wear a sweet smile for
er partners and a flower in her hair. +.
Have some Of the top Of your frock
ut off and added TO the bottom.-Nor-
storm Herald.