The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-23

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\ Tom Thumb is the largest of party
of 20 living people.
/ A Trenton lady of high family lately
died of deliri,1n freHens.
/ Vanderbilt has Is children by his
first wife, II Of them daughters.
A son of Lord Brougham has swept
away his fortune and Is a bankrupt.
| A shark IL feet long was captured off
Atlantic wharf, Charleston, lately. .4.
An Ohio census-taker has found a
woman of "a owning nine children.
| Dan Rice. the Snowman, has given
Nashville 5000 towards house for
An Arkansas paper anxiously adver-
tlses for two compositors who can adju-
dicate grammar.
Comic singing is on the decline in.
England, and negro minstrelsy is said
to be losing its popularity.
Troy boasts of a woman sharpshoot-
who can hit the bulbs eye of q target
every shot, at distance of forty rods.
A Mr.. johnson has introduced a bill
into the Georgia Legislature making
dissatisfaction" cause for divorce.
1t is announced that, out of respect
to the Sabbath, the New Jersey camp
meeting adjourned ON Saturday night.
Blank forms of proposals are used by
Minnesota ladies when their young
men are slow in coming to the point.
A graveyard Inscription in Kenne-
bunk, Me-, reads thus: " Poor 10! his
head is level now, If 1t never was be-
| fore" rgsl @R fH h f
The war correspondent of the Pail
Mall Gazette calls England i'that coun-
try of first-rate frogs, and secondhand
sermon"
1t is stated that four Presidents of the
| United States never visited New Eng
land-Madison, Harrison, Taylor and
Buchanan. r',..,.. ....-s
A swimming match, open only to
one-legged contestants, was one of the
features of a recent soldiers picnic in
PENNSYLVANIA. ~ ,e.t NJ
! A boarding house in Boston adver-.
tises that "four Christian young men
are wanted, who neither chew, smoke,
spit, nor swear"
A cotemporary thinks it sad that
Memphis, with l., 900 dogs, has not en-
terprise enough to start wholesale
sausage facsory. s-aa.e.
Sophie Sparkle, of the New Yofk
Mail, says that the persons who spend
the most money at Saratoga, are the
old men with young wives.
A Troy hod-carrier has inherited
O,OO0. He was half way up q ladder
when he heard of it, and he Just let 20
of the hod and said he'd have to be ex-
cused. -aasiss..'l -srse -ss-lE ----
Mrs. Steel, sister of Hon. Roscoe
COnklin, has been appointed Inspect
ress of Customs at New York, by Col
lector Murphy, and is discliarging the
duties of her office. '4 e
1t is estimated that America, when
her productive power is fully developed
will be able to feed four times as many
persons as there are now on the face of
the earth. itiali 20
The German population of Paris ex-
ceeds that of any city in Germany, with
the exception of Berlin, Vienna and
Hamburg. 1t has q German popula-
ton of over two hundred thousand
souls.
Ten days before the first battle, Bis
marck's organ announced that all was
ready, and that tGerman territory would
be spared the direct Inconvenience and
burdens of war -OperatiOns
The population of. the Sandwich Is
lands is steadily diminishing, the deaths
for the last three years having been
8, 4S9 against 16, 6,02i births, or an aver
age annual excess of deaths over births
of ], ,155. a9ttt he..IG7G
A clergyman in New York, only a
few days since, explained that science
must stop por religion go on. The New
ark Advertiser suggests that he stop,
and allow some wiser teacher to occ,l-
py the pulpit.
In addition to the long list of scienti-
fic, medical and chemical periodicals,
London now has a Food Journal, de-
voted especially to the task of showing
what should be eaten, and i'm what
part of the world it is produced.
A wild cat attempted to take baby
out of its cradle in q cabin near Man
kato, Mimi, but little black-and-tan
Dig attacked the catamount and fought
it until the mother came i'm and drove
the wild beast out with a brand of fire.
Vaccination is not compulsory in
Russia, nor would it seem to be very
generally practiced voluntarily. The
result Is seen in the fact that 1880, 900
persons have died of smallpox in that
country during the last 20 years.
Ruskin, in one of his recent lectures,
says: Though England is deafened
with spinning-w wheels, her people have
no clothes; though she is black with
digging for fuel, they die of cold; and
though she has sold her soul for gain,
they die of hunger"
a country doctor is so penuriOus that
when he goes to make call i'm the
country he takes hen in his gig to eat
up the oats his horse scatters when eat
ing. The hen knows her business so
well that she gets right out and goes to
work without being told. ...,-
The report that young man at AL
leghany, Pa, lost his speech by the ex-
plosion of a fire-cracker on the Fourth,
bothered the eminent doctors. They
all went to writing about the different
organs o: speech that must have been
affected by the explosion; and row it
turns out that it was written speech
that he lost, which was i'm his pocket,
and took fire from the fire-eraeker.nr
Plato entertained some of his friends
at dinner, and had in the chamber
bed neatly and richly furnished. Dio-
genes came in, got upon the bed and
trampled it, saying, 81 trample upon
the pride of Plato" Plato mildly an
swered, But with greater pride"
Sydney Smith had a brother distin-
tinguished for his talents, but exceed
ingly sedate, having no element of wit
or humOr in his composition. Sydney
said that she and his brother contra
dicted the law of gravitation for his
brother had risen by his gravity, and
he had sunk by his levity."
A writer complains that the waiter
of the period has the decidedly unpleas-
art habit of treating his forehead, du-
ring the warm weather, as though it
were plate, and causing his napkin
to perform those services which are
generally entrusted to the confidence
of q pocket-handkerchief