The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-04-20
FACTS AND FANCIES.
The Great Hotel.

" Who bas not sighed TO find his Warmest welcome
at an inn p
The shades of night were falling fast,
AS 10 the clerk my traps passed
My name was booked and In a triee
This well-dres.ed youth called, once or twice, 92T
NV heart was sad, my heart grow dim,
AS surveyed the style" Of him,
Like silver-plated clarian Tung
That number from his ready tongue 927.
In lower rooms I saw the light
Above, the spectral stairway shone.
| And from my lips escaped grOan, 927.
| Try not the stairs" a " bell-boy " said,
| " The rooms are small, up overhead,
! They grumble who there abide -
| And sadly still my voice replied, @7.
Beware the roof and scuttle door.
| Be-where you've never been before -
This was the porteT's last good night.
My voice replied far up the height, 927.
At break of day as heavenward
The tramp of chaiubermaids was beard,
Upclimbing wondering who was there,
| a voice sighed on the morning air, y
| There, in the morning, cold and gray,
! He, clOse beneath the roof, did lay,
| And ue'er had been near 10 heaven
! As when he reached Nine twenty-seye
Rochester Herald
A FAITHFUL friend is the true image
of the Deity.-NdpoIeOn.
THERE have been fewer friends on
earth than kings.-CowIey.
LOVE is flame which burns in heaven
| and whose soft reflections radiate on us.
OUR most intimate friend is not to
whom we show the worst but the best Of
our nature.-HdiOfhOrHs
AFFECTION can withstand very severe
storms of rigor, but not long polar
frost of downright indifference. Love
will subsist on wonderful little hope, but
not altogether without it. Waller Scott.
IT is not perhaps much thought OF,
| but it is certainly a very important les
son, to learn how to enjoy ordinary life,
! to be able to relish your being without
! the transport of some passion or graft
fication Of some appetite.-Steele.
"How is it," said a gentleman to
Sheridan, "that your nap4e has not an
O attached to it2 Your family is Irish
and no doubt illustrious." "No family
had better right to o than our family"
said Sheridan, "for we owe everybody"
MANNERS are the shadows of virtues;
the mementary display of those qualities
which our fellow-creatuIes love and re-
spect. If we strive to become, then,
what we strive to appear, manners would
often be rendered useful guides to the
performance of our duties.-,Sidney
Smith.
"Now, then, state your case" said
Detroit lawyer the other day, as he put
the five dollar bill away in his vest pOck-
ct. "Well," began his client, suppose
the man living next door wants to put
barn right up against my line, coming
within two feet of my housep "He
can't do it, sir-can't do any such thing"
replied the lawyer. "But want to put
my barn right up against his line" re-
marked the client. "Oh-ah-yes,
see. Well, sir, go right ahead and pu
your barn there. All the law in the
case is on your side"
Two SCoTCH clergymen, one n mem
Der of the English church and the other
of the Scottish Episcopal church, have
taken the stand that the theater, if right
for their people, can not be wrong for
themselves. They attended a banquet
given in Edinburgh about the 1st of
March in honor of a theatrical manager,
and one of them made a pleasant re-
sponse to a toast TO the clergy. He
argued that if the theater had lost favor
in the eyes of good people, it was simply
because good people had deserted its
walls. The people woul1 have amuse-
ments of some sort, and it was for the
clergy, by their presence, to keep those
amusements pure. The argument may
surprise American preachers who have
fallen into the habit Of denOuncing the
tbeater, especially in their evening SER
mons to young people. One thing is
certain, if the clergymen would go TO
the theater occasionally their presence,
while it might not elevate the drama,
it would render their criticisms from the
pulpit more intelligent.
THEY Cor MARRIED. The Quebec
Chronicle publishes the following notice,
which only requires a statement of the
relationship with Adam and Eve TO
make it complete: "Married, on Thurs
day, the 1st of February, at Rathaspeck,
by the Rev. James Reed, rector of Wex-
ford, Henry Brown, Esq, Rathjarney,
Wexford, brother of the late
Captain Brown, and grandson of the late
Lieutenant Brown, II. n to Kate Sophia
(Sophy), youngest daughter of the late
Captain James Atkins. r. N, of Rose
Rock, Wexford, granddaughter of the
late Captain Joseph Gray, of James
town house, county Wexford, and great
of the late Major Crozier,
ind grand-niece of CIptain John and
Thomas Fray, of Wexfork and Wicklow
militia, and of Lieutenant Colonel Lof-
us Gray, rife brigade, and cousin of
he Rev. Micheal Lloyd Abjoin, of Bal
yblOOu ICCtoi J auu Va LING iiCidB NOuhbg
Limerick"
A FEW of the English writer's on scien-
ific topics have from time to time flung
idicule upon those who accept the the
ry that there is a connection between
he activity of the suns surface, as
hown in sunspots, and the weather of
his earth. The theory appears, how
yer to be gaining converts. DR.. w. w.
Iunter, director general of the statistics
India, has recently contributed new
rguments for its support. His re-
earches embraces the records Of sixty
)ur years at Madras. The cycle of in
rease and decrease Of sunspots is taken
eleven years. Within each of these
even-year periods the minimum of
iinfall, forty inches, occurs in the last,
rst and second years; the maximum,
fty-four incl e., in the fifth and sixth
ears. Within the whole period, the
We years of minimum sunspOts have had
n average of only thirty-seven inches
by eleven and a half inches
ian the average of the locality. Six
we're famiL es have taken place during
re sixty-four years, caused by the
rouths of the minimum years and di-
city following them the six drouths
lch occurring during the last, first or
coDd year of an elevon-year period.
hese researches must prove of great
llue, since they will enable the TecuT-
nee Of East Indian famines 70 be fore
en- and provided for.-N y Tribune.
A Spirited Adventure.