The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-07-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


Docs are the greatest ways we have.
An extraordinary locality-the locality
where the Dead Sea.
ANTHONY TRoLLoPs, the novelist is
said to be worth $250,000.
IT is hard to live without wife-and
no gentle heart to get mp cold mornings to
build Gre
aHtREs youf hldhey, dolt, and now
tell NE why your rascally master wrote IS
letters about that contemplate sum-
"Tm sure 1 can't say, but if you'll excuse
me, sir: I sort e reckon 'swsa because II
diui.'t feteh it."
AN Indianapolis lawyer has received
the following: "SR-can l get q devors,
& how soon on the grounds that cannot
support my wife have one child, boy
am willing to take care of the boy. ans.
imeAdily & state what it will cost. If it
cost $40 cant pay that much. Direct to
box 2a0 Burlington VT"
Ar Rast indian ssffespdndent Of New
York paper notes tie intense hostile feel
ing of the natives of that country to the
English rule, and says that sixty, days
without the ptotection Of British troops
would not leave a eingle European survi-
vor in the peninsula.
A SHOCKING case of restitution has re-
Gently been discovered on Staten Island.
A German, named Jacob Ultrich, with his
family, consisting of wife and SIX chill
| dren, became located in Q cellar in Clifton
how. One child had died of starvation,
end twc CHIEFS WEES in dangerous Con-
dition
A YOUNG man who could not dance at
tended an excursion party to Glymont,
below Washington, on the Potomac, and
because his sweetheart could dance, and
would, leaving him to his own poor
amusement, he hung himself upon . tree,
but Nab ca to*r. Then be tried the
river, but, having been watched, he was
saved again.
A NEW alloy, forming beautiful white
metal, very hard and capable OF taking
brilliant polish, is obtained by melting TO-
gether about seventy parts OF copper,
twenty of nickel, five and half of zinc
and four and half of cadmium. This
alloy has been recently made in Paris for
the manufacture of spoons and forks,
which resemble articles of silver.
A BOY 10 years of age resently reeeiv-
ed, at NarsaN, fifty lashes, fof having
shouted on the public promenade In the
Polish language: Long live free Poland
Long live Lsngicwiozi" After being
f1ogged, the poor little fellow was sent to
a HoHse of Refuge in Moscow, where he
will be enrolled as private in the army
as soon as he is II years old.
THE Boston Post remarks that there is
not only time for everything, but there
| is the best time, for instance: The best
time to court woman is when she is
young and pretty; the best time to ask
favor is Just after person has been to
dinner; the best time to swap horses is
before you cross Q stream the best time
to DO q Good deeH is right away the best
time to pay your debts and addresses
is when you make them; the best
time to have anything to do with an UNI
brella is when it rains providing you can
find your own; the pest time to correct
an evil is when you End it ott
An American gentlen1si,, who declihes
giving his name, has sent to prominent
persons in the late war some magnificent
presents: President Grant receives q ell
yer coffee set of thirty-six pieces and some
dressed leopard skins. General Sherman
receives an egg boiler and holder. For
ex Secretary Seward there are an inkstand
and pen holder most ineeniously contriv-
ed, besides q call-bell, and Mrs. Lincoln's
portion is heavy card basket All the
articles are of solid silver, without any
dearth of metal, and of the most beauti-
full finish and workmanship. The Presi-
dent and General Sherman have rsceiSed
their portions, and some idea may be form
ed of their value from the fact that the
duty on the Presidents lot was $748, and
on General Sherr1an's $1S4
A CORRESPONDENT ofthe San Francisco
Bulletin gives long and interesting &C.
count of the lepers' settlement on PENN
sula of the island of Molokai The place
is very difficult of access, and when q
leper has once been conducted thither he
never returns. The settlement was e.
tablished q little more than three years
ago, and during that time $40 lepers have
been cared for, ofwhom "a have died. The
2S6 remaining cases are persons ranging
in age from SIX to eighty years, and the
term of their affection varies from less
than one year to fifteen years. The hus-
bands and wives of those stricken with
leprosy frequently live with them, and
often for long time without contracting
the disease. The sick are generally quite
cheerful, for, although they are aware
that their cases are hopeless, leprosy is .
painless disease, and all their senses BE-
come 90 benumbed that they lose the feel
ing of self-loething, which one would sup
pose they must have In their horrible con-
dition- The correspondent describes the
scene in the hospital for the worst cases
with almost nauseating particularly, but
1t II only necessary to imagine the most
losthsome condition Of the human body
to understand what their condition il
Once, the lepers gave trapd ball, which,
q here described, was . most ghastly
mcckery ct pleasure.