The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-26
FACTS n FANCIES.

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manners and not by her dress.
Snuff dipping is q common practice
among the New England mill girls.
There is as much real nourishment in
one bushel OF beans as in five bushels oil
potatoes.
The best preserved part OF q house is
the door Jam, and the coolest part is the
frieze, although the corn.ice is pretty
near il.
A man who had been waiting a long
time for something TO turn up, stepped
on a barrel hoop, and it turned up with
celebrity.
The Saltwater Lum6ermdn says "a
merchant may get along without adver-
Using, aud a boy may slide down hill,
but both feats are wearing
Sorry / have no small change said
a gentleman 10 a beggar. 'All right,
yer honor was the reply, I'll give yo
credit. Where do ye liveT
It's always the big fellows that get to
the front in the crowd. Look at the
strawberry box for instence; the little
ones are always at the bottom.
Men and women receive in this world
much of what they deserve. 1t is like a
looking .glass-this big world. Grin and
smile TO it and ii will smile back; scowl
and it frowns.
When ShaGDk(e)spe(a)r(e) wrote
What's in a nameP' he was probably
thinking of the time when his own
wouldn't be spelled alike by any two
people in the world.
A sailor being on trial for stealing a
blue coat, his counsel argued that it was
q plain case of halIucination, as his eli
ent evidently supposed himself to be on
the deep blue SEIZE
A birds nest, containing four blue
eggs, was found at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
on q car of marble which came from
Massachusetts,. 1t wal built in q corner
of a platform car, and made the journey
without injury.
A man and wife in Upton, Indiana,
agreed to separate. Their property
was divided, piece by piece, until moth
ing was left but a baby and q COW. The
husband gave the wife her choice, and
she took the COW.
At the funeral, a few days since, Of
General James Simmons, OF Charleston,
South Carolina, there was borne in the
procession a flag under which his father
charged, under Washington, at Cowpens
and Eutaw Springs.
Do you know Rose Wood?-Albany
argus. Certainly, she is a sister to
! NJ, TINnon- Moan Vail IIrnaahSa
Neither Of them are very Poplar girls
we believe. -Register. That is, one
would not Pine for ~them-unless they
Spruce up.
Mamma, I don't think the people
who make dolls are very pious people,
said a little girl to her mother one day.
'Why not, my child 2 Because you can
never make them kneel. l always have
to lay my doll down on her stomach to
say her prayers
Russian princes are peculiar. Not
long ago Prince Yussupott, one of the
rich men of the country, was fined and
then sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment, on account of the upcleanly
condition of his palace, which poisoned
the atmosphere Of the whole neighbor-
hood.
MY darling wrote a husband to his
wife, Il snail not be home till very late
this morning. Do not wait up for me.
It's for thy dear sake 1 wrote by the
light OF the pale ehulgent moon as if it
were the bright, dazzling sunshine
She didn't wait she went and got q de-
tective and hunted him up.
Goldsmith Maid, the famous trotter,
was on the go, in the cars, for thirteen
| years, from one end of the country to the
other, travelling over a hundred thousand
miles, always taking her regular rest on
the cars as if in her box stall. She has
Melted to her owner over $75, 900, after
paying all her expenses and giving Budd
Doble one.half.
A man at Pawtucket, r. l., who tends
a railroad crossing, owns q dog worth
having. At the approach of a train the
dog will seize the red signal flag in his
teeth and, running out, vigorously shake
it TO warn any passer-by. The dog is
said to be as faithful in discharging this
duty as o man would be, and seems to
know at Just what time a train comes
along.
At the recent opening Of the supreme
court at Barnstable, Mass, there ap-
peared thirty females, none of them
more than twenty years of age, and yet
they were all plaintiffs in divorce cases.
The general plea was desertion for three
years, which has recently become by
law a good cause for divorces, and more
than doubles the number Of such suits
in Massachusetts,.
There was a singular incident in n
of the Hartford churches recently.
Wong Shing, in full Chinese dress--pig-
tail, cork shoes and mantilla-officiated
as deacon at the communion service in
the Asylum Hill Congregational church.
He was one of the first Chinese boys
who went TO New England to get an
education. At Monson, Mass, he was
converted, and when he returned to
China he became connected with q
Christian mission.
Through the illness of Lord Fever
sham OF England, the fire insurance poll.
cies on his castle, amounting to over
5000, 900, were allowed to expire. and q
few days afterward the ancestral home
was destroyed by a conf1agration. The
insurance company has announced that
it intends paying the full amount, being
convinced his lordship intended to re-
new had not sickness interviewed. No
such instance was ever known on this
side the Atlantic.
A mulatto is not O negro, according
to a decision recently rendered by Judge
Woerner, OF st. Louis, and the statute
of Missouri forbidding intermarriape of