The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-06-29
PITH AND POINT.

THE New York beauties walk out
with their pet dogs attached to strings,
and foreigners wonder at the number of
blind ladies going about.
The man who lifts his hand against
a woman save in kindness" lives in San
Francisco. The woman edited a news
paper, and had the misfortune TO offend
tie man by some journalistic utterance.
A CHICAGO pork packer whose pew
rent was raised to $25, exclaimed
"Great Caesar, here's a nice state of
affairs-the gospel going up and pork
going down. What's to become of u.s."
IT makes a farmer mad as wet hen to
see a potato bug with a pick on its
shoulder crawling over his garden fence,
and when it pauses on the top rail to,ask
why in the name of Julius Caesar he
didn't plant it earlier, only a mortal
fear of the pick prevents him from or
dering it off the premises.
JOHN BULL, and the rest of the great
powers around the table, to the Gar
Your imperial majesty, what part of
the Turkey do you prefer ?" The Car:
" If you please, couple of sides, a pair
Of wings, a brace of legs, the neck, breast,
thighs and tail-piece will do, but no
sauce" Table in an uproar, especially
on the part of John Bull.
IT is estimated that at least 800. 900
pilgrims will visit Rome during the
jubilee of the fiftieth year of the episco-
pate of the pope. 1t is supposed that
each of those pilgrims will give TO the
pope at least SO, making a total of s.
100000. Add to this the amount that
will be sent by the churches, and the
sum may reach 500, ,000, 900.
THE lamblike manner in which the
Chicago and Cincinnati papers refer to
their city cotemporaries is being emu
lated in the far east. The Toxic Times
has been called names by the Japan
Mail, and retorts by publishing the fol-
lowing: Wanted-At the Office of the
Japan Mail copy of ROget's ThesauZus,
to enable that Journal to Diversity its
epithets."
THE opponents of the dummy engine
as a tractor on the street railway are
rejoicing over the fact that a girl has
been run over by dummy in Worcester,
Massachusetts,, and seriously injured.
There have been several persons killed
by cars drawn by horses only; yet ve
have not heard of any widespread de-
mand that cars shall therefore be drawn
only by men.
MEN's MINDs.---Passing through a viii
lage in the evening, you will note one
light streaming out from the kitchen
window, another shining forth from attic
and gable end, with still third beamiDg
from the parlor story; you will scarcsly
note n single home where every window
is lighted. And 50 it is with mems
minds---some in total darkness, others
shining only in certain directions, none
being luminous on all points.
He started out in the morning happy
boy. When at dusk he returned with
bloody clothing, a broken finger, a
sprained ankle and big cut in his lower
lip, his fond mother asked him in alarm
4" if he had been through n threshing
machine or had been the unfortunate
victim of a railroad smash-up." Meth
er, mother" replied the youth, and then
trium phantly, Never mind me, ma.
have only been playing base ball. Our
side, the Lilies waxed the No Names
beautifully; score, l3 to s." and then he
sunk into a confused heap on the parlor
revived little, lifted up his
head, muttered, " Jim, put that to first
and be thundering quick about it," then
gasped and expired"