The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-10-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A WOODEN wedding ! block
head.
Tnx ties that connect buSineai r.st with
the ptblic-AdSef-isse
DIHTnr-One who finds work for his
own teeth by taking out those of other
people.
A SUFFERER advises persons going over
the Union Pacific Railroad to take their
cold victusls with them.
II is proposed to Ses up grand fair in
CinSnnAh to exhibit the manufactures Of
the Mississippi Valley.
On his deathbed Distinguished humor-
ist requested that no one be invited to his
funeral: "Because," sighed the dying
wag, " it's civility can never repay"
PORTLAND scbool,h house caught fire
the other day, and as the boys watched it
one in another school. said, enthusiastically
and honestly, to bib companion, "Oh
Jchhy ! don't you wish it was our school
housef"
4 NEW BEDFORD juror, who left his
horse tied to . tree on going to court on .
recent Tuesday morning, suddenly recol.
lected the fact on the ne1t Thursday after
noon, and hastily applied to the Court for
permission to rs and LOOK after His wei
Ears.
stR Henry R0wLMSoN, the distin-
guished archaologist, maiptains that Baby.
Ion is the site Of the Garden Of Eden, and
that the Babylonion documents now ex-
tant give an exact geographieal descrip-
ton Of the scene Of "n,an's first disobe-
dience."
HsNat WtRp BEEcHRR invites Bonner
to come out and take an interest in his
farm. He says he has thirty-six acres of
land, which is too much for himself alone.
ave will carry it ON jointly" he tells
Bonner; 81 will lay out and superintend
the work, and you ahall pay the bills"
AFnKNcH duellist coming homo from
his last meeting gave two Nspoleons to the
.coachinan. MANY thanks, 1t Is pleas
ure to drive you out |" ;"I beg your par
don, it Is not for driving me, out that l
give you those two louis, 1t is for driving
me homo again"
,osen 4 Wfrs reminds the world that
this il the centenary Of the steam engine.
A patent was granted to Watt in April,
1869. 1t is also the centenary OF Hum
boldt, Cuvier, the first Brunei, Yelling
ton, Soult and Ney, and the hundredth
year since q patent was granted to the
spinning jenny. ,..-
DIR. TURNER, il, che OF the reports Of
the 1nebflate Asylum, speaks of three
children which were born to habitually
| inebriste parents, and were all three idiots.
Afterwards these parents reformed, and
lived temperately. several years, during
which period of temperance two more
children were born, and were active and
intelligent. Finally, the. parents again
fell into inebriety, and had two more chill
dren, both idiots
A NEW HAMPSHIRE farmer, who had
| an invariably good -natured wife, longed
to hear her scOld for . chahge, and was
advised that load of crotchety nrewood
would make her very desirably cross.
He tried it. When the pile was gone he
asked if he should get such another sup
ply. "Oh! yes" said she, "for that
crooked wood you brought before does lie
around the pot 30 nicely"
A CLEVER old dame, who resides q
short distance from New York city, was
recently astonished BY her husband, who
came in hurriedly with the remark: 81
have got present for your "A presen,
for me-" says she +; "what is it," "A
tooth brush" responded tie old gent
"What COED will that do me-you know
I have not got tooth in my headl" re
torted his spouse. "Just the thing" re
piled the venerable joker "thefe Amt 4
bristle in It'll"
/ TIE New Orleans Pieayune relate,
this book auction scene: Gentlemen,
cried An auctioneer at book auction, las
evening, IL offer you"-seanning the titl'
very closely Shakspeare'e WORKS ; how
much to start them" "Who are they
by :" inquired wsg in the crowd. "Il
tell ycu in q moment" was the reply, bu
before he could refer, shout of lsuehte
from the bystanders convinced him of hi
blunder.
A GERMAN chemist has discovered tha
if morphie, which is sometimes used effec
tuslly TO allay vomiting, be heated wit
|, hydro-chloric acid, it will become tn
. most powerful emetic known. The effec
, is produced by introducing small quan
,, tity under the skin, and sometimes b.
spilling it on the skin, but the v0mitin
, soon subsidies, and leaves no nausea. Tn
, discoverer calls the new agent ememol
+ phia.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London ydi
, graph thinks nobody knows how TO COO
E coffee but the natives Of Ceylon, and tell
3 us how they do it He says: "The
, take the quantity of coffee beans requiret
f roast them in an earthen chasty or saucer
l. shaped pot, pound them in . pestle an
+ mortar, or bruise then between tw
+ stones then pass through . sieve con
i posed of coarse muslin boiling water
= added, and the coffee Is made"
A BANKRUPT merchant, returning hon
: one night, said to his noble wife: N
! ! dear, am ruined everything We have
Z in the hands of the sheriff" After fe
moments of silence, the wife looked calml
: into his face and said: Twill Il
sheriff sell your" "Oh no." "Will Il
sheriff sell met" "Oh no." "Will
sell our our childrenf" Oh, no." The
3 3 do not say that we have lost everythin
All that is most valuable remains to US
manhood, womanhood, and childhoo
; We have lost but the results Of skill al
industry. We can make another fortun
!: if our hearts and hands are left u.s." Ca
u We wonder that, encouraged by such
noble wife, he is now on the road to 70
J. tune?
!. A CURIOUS discovery has recently be.
= made at Pompeii. In house in course
. excavation an oven was found, closed wi
!. an iron door, on opening which batch
eighty-one loaves, put in nearly eighte,
!. hundred years ago, and now somewh
y overdone, was discovered; and even Il
e large iron shovel with which they hi
4 been neatly laid in rows. The loaves We
but slightly overbaked by the lava hes
"a having been protected BY q quantity
4 ashes covering the door. There is !
bakers marks on the loaves; they are ci
,. cular, about nine inches in diamett
h rather flat, and indented (evidently wi
the bakers elbow in the center, and .
n slightly raised at the sides, and divided
n eight lines rsdisting from the center in
e eightAegments. They are now of de-
brown color, and hard, but very light.
~ the same shop were found 561 bronze a
. 53 silver coins. A mill, with . gre
= quantity of corn in excellent preservatio
= = has also been discovered.
IA
d A General Benefit
D. ILLUSTRATIVE of the love of some
y our citizens for titles, we have the folio