The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-13

cepted the pastOrate Of Bridgeport,
Conn, church.
In North Carolina any person who
hunts with gun or dogs, OF Sunday, Is lia-
BILE to fine Of $50.
The Yale students who drew the best
college rooms made about one thousand
dollars by selling out
A BOGUS Rarey has been swindling
Louisville, in spite of the fact of Mr..
Rarey's death, two years ago.
81 MATCHES are now made with sodium
instead of phosphorus 1t ignites as easi-
ly, and Is free from offensive odors.
Il SINCE Lamartine's death 5000, 900 of his
{ photographs have been sold, and no fewer
than 500, 900 cheap statuettes.
/, A FRENCHMAN has purchased 5000
acres of swamp in Tennessee, and pro
} poses raising frogs for the Memphis
market
THE Coliseum in Boston, minus the Ju-
bilee, Gilmore and the anvils, can now be
visited at the moderate price of twenty
five cents per head.
ally destroyed to furnish the manufacturers
and other purposes
i A NEW JERSEY horse thief, convicted
of fifteen horse thefts, was lately sentenced
ten years apiece for them-tOtal, one hun
dred and fifty years.
A POOR shoemaker, named Donohue,
residing in East River street, Newark, has
fallen heir to the sum of 500, 900 in gold,
by the death of his brother.
i OF seventeen graduates of Dartmouth
College who died last year three were
over eighty years Of age, and five others
had passed the allotted period of human
life.
AT recent temperance celebration, q
little lad appeared in the procession bear
ing flag on which was inscribed the fol-
lowing: "Alfs right when daddy's
sober"
THE remains of George II. Steele. OF
Windsor, VT, which have been inferred
for twenty-threc years, were recently ex-
humed and found to be in a,thorough state
of preservation.
VISITORS to Niagara Falls are notified
that a new Treasury regulation imposes .
duty of forty five per cent, in gold, on all
fancy Articles purchased on the Canada side
and brought over the river.
Mr.. A. D. RICHARDSON, who has recent
ly been Through to the Pacific" says that
i III the OutOu
remunerative, it will make its six original
owners the richest men on the continent.
The United States contain an area of
over two billions Of acres, which, if
peOpled as densely as Massachusetts,, would
accommodate in the neighborhood of six
hundred million inhabitants
| A FATHER, mother and nine children,
| from Pennsylvania, recently passed
through Grand Rapids, Michigan, on their
way to Minnesota, the children being three
pairs of twins and one triplet.
| WATCHES were invented in Germany,
Nuremburg, in 1477. The Emperor
| Charles v. was the first man who owned
one, but it vas too large to carry in the
pocket. Pocket watches were invented
by a man named Hooke in 1858.
ALICE CARY, the poetess, reports an in
come of 81 ,1S0; Clara Louise Kellogg the
prinaa donna, $5,039; Maggie Mitchell, the
Cricket, 81 1888; Florence, the comedian,
$3,025; Barney Williams, the Irish actor,
| $3,195.
In the old burying ground at Kirk Gross
in Shetland, the curious in epitaphs may
read that the death of Donald Robert
son, to all appearance sincere Christian,
was caused by the stupidity of Lawrence
/ WuO SOtQ AAsAC AAAosSo1 VI
EPSON salts"
A NEW YORK letter says: "Mr. De-
groot is putting an immense bronze cast
ing of scenes in the life of Commodore
| Vanderbilt over the entrance to the Hud-
son River freight depot in St. Johns Park.
1t will cost $500, 900, and is the largest
casting in the world. The foundation
alone cost $4,000"
Il = av,sn
bought q wagon-load of boards about
thirty years ago, and falling to get the
price he asked, determined not to lose
money on them Accordingly they are
for sale in his yard, having never been re-
moved from the wagon, but wagon and
boards are mostly rotten wood
AN Assistant Assessor recently applied
to headquarters at Washington, relative to
the liability of butter and cheese manufac-
turers for taxes ON sales above 5,0O0. The
reply was that manufacturers of butter
and cheese, including factories and asso-
Citations, as commonly conducted, are la
BILE to tax of 81 upon every 81, 900 sale
above 5000 per annum.
THE mud of the hard paved streets Of
the city of London consists, according to
DIR. Letherby, the we'll known sanitary in
spector, of 81 per cent. of horse refuse, 30
per cent. of abraded stone, and 13 per
cent. of abraded iron-from horses hoofs
and wheel tires A chemist in Dublin has
obtained the same results from an exsmi-
nation of the mud in the streets of that
city.
In the Middle ages the fires in the houses
| were made in a cavity in the centre of the
floor, over which there generally was an
opening in the roof for the escape of the
smoke and when the fire was out, or the
family retired to rest, the place in which
| 1t was made was closed by q cover. In
those days a law was almost universally
established on the continent that fires
should be extinguished and families be all
at home at q certain hour in the evening
which was notified by the ringing of
bell, that in England WAS called the Cur
few.
THIRTEEN cases of small pox were re-
Gently discovered in tenement house on
Forsyth street, New York The sole
| origin of these cases was traced TO the
culpable recklessness of one Henry Reis,
who keeps q cake bakery in that street.
For thirteen days after he became infected
| with the disease, he continued at his busi-
ness-making and dealing out his cakes to
customers At last, when his face was
covered with sores, ne retired to bed
room adjoining his shop, between which
there was free communication OF air, and
his family continued the business.
| TOBACCO smokers are recommended to
place in the bowls of their pipes little
| powdered tannin, or a sponge saturated
with extract of tannin. 1t is asserted that
the smoke will thus be deprived of its
characteristic aroma and of all the vapor-
lied nicotine, which is the intoxating prin-
ciple. At first the smoke will be entirely
free from all taste and smell Of tobacco,
but rs the sponge becomes charged with
the nicotine the odOr will reappear. By
changing the sponge frequently, it is as
serted that the smoker may indulge in the
habit without injurious effect
i A HORRIBLE report comes rom Ger
many of so-called scientific experiment.
| A Berlin physician experimental on q
| Young woman who was supposed to be
dying of consumption, and actually sub
iected the wretched, helpless creature toa
hideous experiment which must have in
fiicted terrible torture on her at the very
time when she needed tenderness and
| sympathy to lessen the natural agonies Of
approaching dissolution. She died an hour
| afiernard; and The surgeon then was able
| TO satisfy himself by post-m0rtem exami-
nation Of the effect he had produced; and
| the case is reported as q matter of scien-
tific interest in the Prussian medical jour