The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

born in that state on the 22d of Februar
has red, white and blue hair. There
only one way to explain this phenom'
non. The Ohio exchange lies.
The first original poem of the seaso
was received yesterday. We regret tba
great press Of matter prevented il
publication, but it did very nicely 70
the Office boy to wrap round his mine
pie.
WHEN a man detects a missing buttOi
after getting on clean shirt, no one il
, the house is aware of the fact. He take
off the shirt and puts on another, quiet
y smiling all the while. He never
never speaks to a soul. Oh, no!
WHEN a man empties the pockets o.
, his coat preparatory to laying il out fol
repairs, there's nothing that makes BIZ
conscience get Upon its hind legs quick
er than the sight of the letter his wife
gave him TO mail two months ago
a CouNTRYAIAN went to see his lad y
love, and wishing so be conversational, Ob
served, "The thermOmokrOn is twenty
degrees above scion this evening" "
"Yes," innOcently replied .hc maiden
"such birds do fly higher some seasons OF
the year than Others"
! WALL street brokers who advertise in
country papers and send out circulars
asserting that money in sums of $50 TO
| $1,000 invested by them in their way
leads to fortune. cautiously omit to state
who gets the fortune. 1t is not the man
! who furnishes the money.
SPRtGe1Ns recently had pair Of
pantaloons washed, and they shrunk 80
as to be too small, and he complained to
his wife about it. Said Mrs. Spriggins,
said she "Spos'in you take n bath,
Spriggins, and shrink yourself to proper
size for them. Then they'll fit you"
A GREAT event has occurred at Jeru-
salem. The Musselmans have permitted
the Christians, who dispute the posses
sion of the church of the Holy Sepulchre,
TO put up bells in it. Such a sound has
not been heard in the building since the
day whet the Sultan Saladin entered the
city in the twelfth century.
THE membership of trades unions in
New York city has fallen from $4,000
in 1873 to $4,000, and of the 10000
artisans, mechanics and labOrers in the
city about One-third are out of employ
ment. Wages in all Of the building
trades have come down TO 81 n day,
and those of laborers and 'longshOremen
to 81 a day.
NEGRO women in Jacksonville, Indi-
ana, sell babies for old rags. \ rag ped-
dler discovered one in sack OF old rags
which he had purchased. 10 WAS white,
and the negro woman said she was board
ing it for a white woman. Her story is
that the child crawled into the bag, and
she did not know it was there when she
sold it. The little waif was nearly smOth-
cred when found.
A BOY on his way to Sunday school
found seventy-fve cents. This good for.
time was held up to him as a reward for
being found in the path Of duty. He
was much struck with the idea until he
heard that another boy had found a dol
lar while he was setting up pins in ten
pin alley. And now he doesn't zee his
way in the future quite 30 clear.
THE Prince of Wales is mighty hunt
er. Nimrod is no where. Boxed up in
a bomb-proof tower, he actually killed
a tiger driven towards him by beaters
and all Albion rings with acclamations
Of praise and rejoicing. Unless he il
belied, however, he has hunted the
tiger when the beast got much the best
Of him.
"EcoNoMY, my dear, economy said
ne. "It's all right for you to have plants
and all that, but there is reason in all
things, and there isn't particle of sense
n paying fifty cents for flower pot
when there are a dozen empty cigar
Doxes about the house" and. taking the
asst Havana" from another box, he
handed her the box to put an Oleander
n, lighted his cigar, and went out.
A MODEL for wonderful ferry across
he British channel and the Atlantic has
1een tried in England. The structure
consists of three parallel tubes, far enough
part to allow paddles to work between
hem, the whole being linked together TO
orm a single vessel, covered by n deck,
IN which the inventor, Mr.. Edgarton,
proposes to carry railway trains and
housand head of cattle at a time. The
.hannel passage is to be made with these
erries in an hour and half; and cattle
re to be transported across the Atlantic
It the rate Of two pounds head.
THE Scientific American says OF The
Great Britain" one Of the first made
ron vessels, and one of the earliest to
,ly between New York and Liverpool,
hat she has recently arrived at Liver
,ool and completed her thirty-sixth
rip around the world. The "Great
Britain " was built at Bristol, England,
nd in July, 1845, made her maiden
oyage from Liverpool to New York in
ourtcen days. Since 1852, indePend-
ntly OF her employment in the Crimea
uring 1854 and 1850, she has sailed
yer one million nautical miles, and
1hen recently surveyed she was pro
Ounced one of the strongest vessels III
he mercantile marine.
SOMEBODY relates this little story for
he benefit of christian tradesmen
entleman wandering through the ba-
ars desired to buy an embroidered
andkerchief of n Turkish shopkeeper.
Ie asked the price. Scventy-fye
iasters." NO" said the gentleman,
ware that. it is usual among sll trader,
yhatever their creed, TO ask mt FIRST
1ore than the value; " that is too much;
will give you seventy" and as the
ealer seemed to assent he counted out
he money. But great was his surprise
yhen the heavy-bearded Osmanli,
ravely pushing back to him twenty
iasters, observed "T'his is more than
he lust price. 1t is always the custom
ere to bargain over thing down its
air value, and as fifty piasters is my
air price, those twenty belong to you"
SOME curious relics we're found in the
Id elm of Boston Common. A fiattened
,ullet was discovered imbedded in the
runk eighteen rings from the center,
nd beneath the tree was medal which
; described as follows: " 1t is of large
ize, of copper or bronze, and has me
allion head on one side, and OH the
ther figures of justice with scales snd
word, and Of religion with cross and
circular temple in the background,
nth date which seems to be 1904, or
IDCIIII. The diverse side Of the
medal bears the following inscription:
franc /. Par. ct Plac. Dux, which in
English would read Francis l., duke of
'arma and Placenza. There is also
cad of Francis /. On the reverse are
he words, 'Juguntur ut impereat,
,hich mean, They are joined that they
nay rule"
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