The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-06-08
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
FORTUNE does not change men
only unmasks them.

I
only unmasks them.
BRIGHAM YOUNG says: (" Ny mar
riage with Ann Eliza was foolish thing.
1t was thing that l allowed her parents
to persuade me into. did it for her
good"
THE newly elected president of the
| Cincinnati school board said, al would
have preferred that this honor had fell
on some other member" and they gave
him grammar.
ONE can not De too careful this
weather. A swell exchanged his heavy
winter cane for light bamboo, and the
consequence was a severe cold that laid
him up for week.
THE first time man is interviewed he
tells you family that he doesn't see what
his opinion is worth ; ana then he smiles
as if he had put on too much mustard -
N. y. Herald
SAY nothing respecting yourself, either
good, bad or Indifferent; nothing good,
for that is vanity nothing bad. for that
isaffectation: nothing Indifferent, for that
IS silly.
THEY who, when about to marry, seek
their happiness in the mere gaining of
fortune and personal beauty, evince a
heartless disposition, and their folly is
often punished in their success.
SHERIFF HOLMES, who was shot
through the head at Trinity Texas, tho
11th ult., while attempting to arrest
Captain MCGEE, late of Indian territory,
died the Goth ult. MCGEE is at large.
SrRAws swim upon the surface. but
Il, ls~NN
strike every common eye, but solid ones
are only to be discovered by the most
accurate observers of the human head
and human heart.
MANY persons when they find them
selves in danger of shipwreck in the
voyage of life, throw their darling vices
overheard, as other mariners do, only to
fish them up again after the storm is
over.
THE last words in the new French die
tionary is "zieomanique," signifyiDg a
man with his facial muscles so organized
as to produce permanent grin. This is
regarded as a deformity, for a man may
smile and smile and be a william.
WHEN a woman drinks soda she hoists
the glass at an angle of eight degrees,
beuds over, holds in her dress, and as she
looks out of the corners of her eyes, SEEM
ing to be in an ecstacy of appreciation,
a little drop of soda runs down her chin
and goes like n peril plummet to the
floor.
GEN. GRANT is the first ex.president
to go to foreign parts since the days of
Frank Pierce. OF the nineteen presi-
dents, Washington, Madison, Jackson,
Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Lincoln
and johnson never crossed the ocean.
Those who visited foreign lands were
John Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Quincy
Adams, Van Buren, Fillmore, Pierce
and Buchanan.
IT is a great misfortune to have fret
full disposition. 1t takes the fragrance
out of ones life, and leaves only weeds
where a cheerful disposition would cause
flowers to bloom. The habit of fretting
is one that grows rapidly unless it be
sternly repressed and the best way to
overcome it is to try always to look on
the cheerful side of things.
DELIBERATELY workers are those that
accomplish the most work in a given
time, and are less tired at the end of the
day than many who have not accom-
plished half as much. The hurried
over, and even then it is seldom done in
the best manner, either as to neatness or
durability. It is the deliberate and
measured expenditure of strength which
invigorates the constitution and builds
up the health.
IT is rumored that Richard Grant
White can't spell. He himself says:
" have not the highest respect for spell
ing; / don't take it 20 heart. To be
sure, uniformity of practice in this re-
spect is desirable, but lack of strict con-
formity to the received orthOgraphy OF
the time is not a matter of such grave
importance that an occasional lapse from
it should fill any one with shame or be
made the occasion OF ridicule."
THEY Go ToGETHER.--A citizen en-
tered saloon and called for cigar. The
barkeeper handed out the box, and
cigar was selected, but the customer did
not appear to be very much pleased with
it. "Where's the beef?" he inquired.
" Corned beefp' the barkeeper repeated.
d" Why, what do you want with thatT,
"Well," was the response, "cOrned beef
and cabbage always 90 together. I've .
got the cabbage here" Indicating the
cigar and ought to have the beef to
match it"