The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-11-03
FACTS AND FAKCIEs.

| TIE Lee monument fund now amounts
to $4,000.
WHEN is blow from a lady welcome?
When she strikes you agreeabIy.
| The chief japanese exhibitor at the
centennial is called " Fiitee Dolce" be-
cause that is his response to every ques-
tion put to him.
WHY do the butterflies watt their
wings pa twenty-five verse poem, by
Esmeralda us respectfully declined,
with the ineormation that they have TO
do it or walk.
| BAYARD TAYLOR saws the cross-pur-
pose arguments of the evolutionists and
| their opponents oppress him very much
as if one should ask, Do you like peach
es or a mansard roof" and another
should answer, prefer railroad stock"
THE Graphic says: George William
Curtis says ga ship on the ocean isonly
a chip with Il thought in it, Then
| chip in the wood-house is only ship
without thought in it, This is curious
AN old minister once said to a young
| preacher who was complaining OF
small congregation. I" It's as large a con
| gregation, perhaps, as you will want TO
account for at the day Of judgment"
"THERE is nothing dispels the dreams
of yonth and skaters the ambitious
hopes of the noble boy like having
young lady remark in his hearing that he
would make, with study, a good hat
rack"
ADELINA PATTI is B0t-fn good health.
Some say that her throat il affected,
Others that her lungs are threatened; at
all events, her physicians have forbidden
her to brave the rigors Of the Russian
winter the coming season.
A LITTLE girl having been instructed
that the angels were clothed in white,
surprised her parents by the remark,
after recent shower, followed by fleecy
clouds, that the angels were hanging out
their clothes to dry.
THE Rev. Mr.. Talmage remarks as
impressive fact that Peter, though suf-
fering to many trials, was a very cheerful
man. 1t should be remembered, ho~ev-
er, that Peters wi'e's mother lay sick Of
a fever.-NOragich Bulletin.
A MOTHER, trying to get her little
daughter of three years to sleep, one
night, said, Anna, why don't you try
to go to sleep?" " I'm trying" she re-
piled " But you haven shut your eyes
yet" Well, can't help it ; um comes
THE indicative mood, present tense of
the verb to 20, should now be rendered
thus: go to Philadelphia; you so to
Philadelphia he goes to Philadelphia:
we go to Philadelphia; you 60 to Phila-
delphia they all go to Philadelphia
Buffalo Courier.
Mrs SITTING BULL got possession OF
a fashion magazine the other day and
was so delighted with the latest modes
that she cut out all the colored plates
and pasted them on various parts of her
body. She says they are heap nice"
and she wants Ee~ husband to subscribe
for year TO enable her to wear tie latest
styles every month.
"TALK about givin' in to a mans
temper" exclaimed Mrs. Tearhair, with
her arms akimso; that's all nonsense!
WHY. when my samuel and me was
married. he had such Il temper, but look
at him now! Why, he's that angelic
that | do declare / don't believe it'd be
safe to trust him with a pair of wings"
AN editor is described as a man who
is liable to grammatical blundsrs, typo
graphical errors, and lapse of memory,
and has twenty-five thousand people
watching him tripping man Of sorrow
and acquainted with grief, poorly paid
poorly estimated, yet envied by some Of
the great men he has made.-Ne'o Or
leans Bulletin.
BUTTER is very high just now, and
Spilkin's landlady remarked to that gen
tleman, with emphasis, this morning, as
he was preparing piece ofbrea9 Mr.;
Spilkins, that air is Goshins butter, ana
Will make you sick if you spread 1t too
thick. Il cost forty cents pound
SniIkins saws that many Is the time she
has snatchcd him from the tomb by her
csroCuIne,s.--,S AHtoaj0 Ueruid.