The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-08-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.

A BROTHER of "Old John Brown"
died recently at Reedsburgh, Wis, aged
| seventy. If John Browns soul is still
marching on" that of his brother will
have to move lively to overtake it.
A SUDDEN draught of hot air passed
through a cotton field and peach orchard
in western Texas a few days ago, scorch-
ing and killing every green thing il
touched for a space of one hundred yards
| long.
SELLERS of iquorsin Oregon are not re-
quired, under a new law, to be licensed;
but every drinker must pay $5 a year for
| a license, and whoever sells to an unli-
censed person may be imprisoned. The
names of procurers of licenses are TO be
published every six months.
A MINISTER going to visit one of his
sick parishioners, asked him how he
rested during the night. oh, won
drously i'll, sir" ne replied, " for mine
eyes have not come together these three
nights" "What is the reason OF that ?"
said the other. "Alas sir" said he,
because my nose was betwixt them"
WHAT are you driving at nowadays,
Pat 2" Faith, said Pat, " I'm hard at
work" "That's good, Pat, what arc
you doimg9" Well, I'm laboring to
increase the public interest in me-"
How is that, me boy?" "Well, ye
see, Mike, Pm just getting in debt
wherever l can all about the town."
A HoLLIDAYsBURG man recently OBJ
tanned q divorce and declared "Once
more stand erect, and assume the god
like attitude of free dom and a single
man." Then he went home, got into
bed, and in an hour woke up with bad
case of cholera morbus, yelling: "Quick,
Maria! Quick Get a mustard plaster
or I'm goner."
A CHICAGO young mans wife enter
tanned him with selections from Wagner,
after which he expressed himself as
resigned to 90 to bed, where he slept
very soundly. Toward midnight cats
assembled in the back yard and yowled
frightfully. The sleeper did not get up
and throw bOotjacks at them, but turned
on one elbow and whispered in his dreams,
Sing it once more, Elvira; sing it once
more"
FROM 1900 to 1870 the population OF
England increased from ten to twenty
eight millions, and that Of the United
States from FIVE to thirty-eight millions,
and it is moderately estimated that among
civilized nations the population now
doubles in each period of fifty-four years.
The advances made in hygienic science,
and the comparative mildness of modern
warfare are mainly responsible for this
rapid increase, frightful in view Of future
consequences. 1t is q subject of not
little anxiety among provident English
men to-day, hew the fiity-six millions OF
mouths which, in a short half century,
will be craving for food within the narrow
borders of that country, can be satisfactO-
IL III : . ovIr,oh 70 kraan mil
anthropist perplexedly awake O. nights,
to reflect on the difficulty of feeding the
dense population of the earth couple Of
thousand years hence.
THERE is boy hero now at the Hot
Springs in A Arkansas. He lived in Attain
ia, Ga, and was taken out of the streets
there, squalid and starving, and suffering
from an hereditary and incurable disease
transmitted to him by vicious parents.
He was obliged to suffer the amputation
of one of his feet; but, as soon as no
recovered, he sienifed his determination
to depend on charity no longer Having
received $10as capital by borrowing from
the agent of the Benevolent Home, he
soon made money with which TO pay this
back and put a snug $50 in bank. Then
disease overlook him again his remain
ing foot went like the first one; his
money was soon spent, and he was
reduced to deaths door. AS soon as he
recovered, he went bravely to work, and
repaid all his benefactors. Now he has
gone to the Hot Springs for his health
with some money in his pocket and an
unconquerable will never to submit or
yield even to circumstances.
EACH man is created sOciable being,
and we find him today (without stop
ping to inquire into the why and where
fore of said creation) an atom of a vast
social system. As such he has his duties
and responsibilities. They are multipleX
and varied, and upon the manner in
which he discharges them depend his
own happiness, the happiness of those
closely related to him, and, To some eX-
tent, the peace and comfort Of sOciety in
general. In this wonderful social com
pact, it would seem that one individual
is of little significance. IT would like
wise seem that one pipe or reed or key
of the grand organs which make melody
in our churches from week TO week
might he spared, without the loss being
felt, and vet their disarraUgement would
have the most serious effect upon the
desired harmonies. II is thus in tho
life of men. A single person can create
social discOrd. whether he has an adj
mitted influence or not; but there are
very few men who do not posses n direct
influence to some degree, and while this
is the case there is no use of attempting
to escape responsibility to avoid our
moral obligations our duties TO our Eel
lew-man.