The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-03-23
FACTS AND FANCIES.
1t Was moi Love.

Ii Was Not Love.
The banquet DER the ballroom charm
Awhile seemed gone the lights had faded
Fhlr Anna tOek my prOffered arm
And In the hall we prOmeDaded.
But while-her hand within my own
| We whispered words Of softest meaning,
felt her shudder, heard her groan
And found her gently 'gainst me leaning.
What, dearest, thus thy bosom stirs 2''
asked. " las, doth loves soft malad--
y" Then she pressed my hand in hers,
And murmured, ooh, that lobster salai :"
ATHENS, Greece, with $4,000 people
has fifty periodicals.
A BOY read that ''the good die young"
and is now going to the bad for self-prO-
lection.
In Paris there are fifty butchers of
! horses who last year sold 9,27l horses,
asses and mules in joints and steaks.
A SPRINGFIELD (Mass.) minister
prayed for the lord 10 bless the Boston
and Albany road if it stopped running
! Sunday trains, and not otherwise.
PUNCH, apropos of the late wet
weather in London, offers the following
sentiment: "The empire on which the
sun never set-and (of late) very seldom
raisesp
THE Austrian army is gradually to
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for blue. Half of the infantry will re-
ceive blue tunics this year, and the rest
of the troops will receive them in 1878.
"MY son." said doting mother to her
eight-year-old, "what pleasure do you
seasonY' "Well, ] guess I'll stay away
from school" was the reply.
IN America il is not considered quite
right to make a will without charitable
bequest, but in England nobody expects
great landlord to leave a sixpence to
anybody but his own people, and rs a
rule he fuliills expectations.
If could have my way" cried the
aged Neal Dow at n Portland meeting,
the other night, 81 would make it hang
ing for the first ofense, for that's what
il has got TO come to-" Selling a glass
of cider was what he referred to.
THE poet who wanted to be a granger,
and wrote "beneath the tall tOmatO-tree
I'd swing the glittering hoe" was not 80
badly informed as he seemed. Mr.. Scott,
of Los Angeles, Cal, has tomatO-vine
twenty-five feet high.
IT has been discovered by eastern men
that it costs one hundred and twenty
five dollars per week to take care Of trot-
ting horse during the season. The horse
may 60 at 2:20, but the money goes at
2:19.
A FOREIGN critic says that no rival is
so serious as the sympathetic, vain mar
ried woman who has petted and Aattered
the bachelor and is bristling with anx-
iety to do the same kind office for the
benedict.
A CONNECTICUT girl who found her
self in unpleasant company after ac-
cepting an invitation to take a sleigh
ride with young man, dropped her
handkerchief on the road, and, when he
got out to pick it up, applied the whip
and drove home without him.
AN old lady received letter, and sup
posing it to be from one of her absent
sons, she called on a person to read it TO
her. He accordingly began TO read:
"Dear mother" then making a stop to
see what followed as the writing was
rather bad the old lady exclaimed:
ooh, that's my poor Jerry He always
suffered"
MACARONI comes in five sizes. The
best is very thin, should not be washed,
should be boiled in salt water or, what
is better, soup ctOck, frequently shaken,
cooked twenty minutes, drained, and
no We to every half pound two ounces OF
melted butter and four ounces OF grated
Parmesan cheese. Tomato sauce is
good addition.
JUDAH p. BENJAMIN, once confederate
minister of war, but q. G. enjoying the
largest commercial practice at the En-
glish bar, lately returned all his briefs
for the Guildhall sittings, accompanied
by checks for the fees he had received
with them, because all his time would be
taken up,by causes ut Westminster Hall,
and he did not think it right to retain
payment for business which he could not
attend.
TALK about America and England be-
ing christian nations, there is not
christian nation that would make room
for Christ if He should come. Not city
on the face of the earth would invite
Him TO come if it was put to popular
vote There is no room for Him. The
world doesn't want Him. Not only
that but haw many churches. there are
that would not have Him. Moody 10 the
BOStOHidH.
a CONTRIBUTOR TO a religious paper
SAYS: "NNhile we were singing the dox-
OlOgy ! counted sixteen persons putting
on their overcoats. j. should have been
better had ! been worshiping instead of
but il was almost involuntary,
and did not take more than ten seconds;
while those stout worshipers wrestled
with their garments, and, wriggliDg into
them, finally stood erect in time 10 come
)ut with the words, "by all in heavenW
Many kinds Of birds seem to have a
peculiar delight in the steam engine. IL
las often happened that larks have built
\ 4 1.
he switches of much-traveled railway.
IN engine houses the swallow is n fire.
luent guest. In a certain mill, where
loisy, three hundred horse power engine
works night and day, two pairs of swal-
Ows have built their nests for years. and
ear their young there regularly. A
ase of almost incredible trustfulness on
he part of swal Ows occurred in the
arly part Of last year, when pair of
hese birds built in a paddle box ola
anu regularly made the Journeys
rom Pesth TO Semlin.
DIME novels are full of meaning TO the
mpressible youth and maidenhood of
,hicago. When the impecunious young
nan of that place would marry above his
tatiOn, and has no place in what the
lOneyed ChicagOans call their society,
e enters to a conspiracy with two or
hree of his fellow-wretches to secure
omantic introduction TO the susceptible
reature upon whom he has fixed his
cart. His fellows, meeting Miss Green
acks on the street, address her Tudely,
,hen up steps the wOuld-be suitOr, softly
nocks them down--a performance
,hich they have previously agreed to
ubmit tO-and offers the protection of
is terrible arm TO the young woman
,r the rest of her walk. The whole
hing is so romantic that Miss Green
acks is Immediately captivated, and in
few weeks the happy pair are on their
,ay east to be married.
Cara 0f fhe Tppth