The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-12

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Ether will remove grease spots from
silk. -.,.i 81.
There were l4S cases of suicide i'm the
Prusslan army last year.
Forty-fotr thousand women are em-
! plOyed as outdoor labOrers In England.
| An Englishman ut Newcastle, has
found o toad that lived six months in
barrel of tar.
The Treasury Department Bureau of
Engineering aud Printing employs
nearly 1000 persons. rtf-
Between. three and four thousand
American boys are studying in Eu-
ppean schools and colleges.
It Is said that trichn:e have been dis
covered In the flesh of deer shot In
their native wilds In Oregon.
Nearly 1,iO0 volumes were added to
the Boston Public Library during the
months Of March, April and May.
The following sentence of only 81
letters contains all the letters I'm the al
phabet -" John quickly extemporized
five tow bags.p 1o Fi-i 1'5'.. o
The people Of Canada congratulate
themselves that they have got rid of
/ the "silver nuisance" They return
gladly to paper money.
During the recent very hot spell of
weather In New York, young man
drank six glasses of Ice water ON bet
and Immediately expired.
A California paper says a box of
cherries has been shipped to New York,
the majority of which measures three
and q half inches I'm circumference.
A boy in Allegheny, Pa, lost his
speech on the Fourth Of July by the
explosion Of fire-cracker, which had
been accidentally thrown into his
mouth.
Since Queen Victoria took her place
on the English throne, thirty-three
years ago, every throne I'm Europe,
from the least unto the greatest, has
changed occupants.
A Texas couple eloped on horseback,
accompanied by Clergyman. They
were pursued by the brides father, and
the minister performed the marriage
ceremony at full gallOp.
Miss Lucy Forest, an American girl,
has been graduated I'm medicine at the
College de France, which give her the
right to practice Us q physician i'm any
part of the French dOminions.
A little girl who had been studying,
at safe distance, the warlike ways of
the soldier-crab, remarked to her moth
er :-"I hope God did not hurt Hisself
when He was making him.
Garnier, the French savant, says
1,af In u.t III.
have taste for opium, but pigs and
horses "dissipate" with the drug, and
languish when deprived Of their regu-
lar " constitutional"
An eagle was lately shot near Au-
burn, N. Y, which measured twelve
feet from tip to tip of his outspread
wings. When discovered he was
pearched on a fence intently watching
asmall boy picking Strawberries.
A beautiful Weterfall, 225 feet of
sheer descent, fsuttracting attention on
the head waters or the San Diego river,
Cal. It b known as Transit falls, and
the neighboring scenery Is said almost
to equal the Yosemite.
A marble quarry has lately been
opened near WAlianlsport. Pa, which
affords fine grained stone as black as
ebony, land capable of taking a very
high polish. It is said that this quarry
is the only one Of the kind known to
exist. -.f us
| Laurence Sterne, who never aspired
1 to the reputation Of O special morality,
once wrote :-"I should never drink /
cannot afford 1t; 1t costs me three days
i a. L. n. t..
bering, and the third In repehting."
"A lady in New York lately died from
consumption produced by cold which
she caught by crossing to and from the
/ different hotels Mt Saratoga I'm the even
ing, I'm thin satin slippers and low
necked evening dress, and nothing
over her shoulders.
The Vicksburg Herald says that the
genuine cotton worm lad made Its ap-
pearance twelve miles from that place.
1t was shown several branches Of cot
ton, upon which "there were at least
a thousand worms, active and feeding
as If for life."
/ A difficulty occurred between Mr.. s.
Reudelhuber, of Port Gibson, Miss,
land Mr.. John Bird, ferryman, of DIR.
I Sprott's ferry, In which the latter was
/ struck by the former and knocked
down and injured, so that he died
shortly afterwards.-Whisky.
| The report that the Hancock Club,
of New Orleans, was to be disOrgan.
lied on account of financial necessi.
ties is officially denied over the sigma
ture of the president of the club, Capt
J. Pinckney Smith, who states that the
its necessities in the way Of funds.
| In Florida, cranes, pelicans, herons
and other water fowls, are numerous
The plumage of the heron Is very beau
|. tiful, and much sought after. That o
the white heron sells at 81 to 50, while
the pink heron, which is much NOR
rare, commands IS to so.
One of the biggest reptile stories ye
is that Of an alligator near Midway, $
: c., which planter has used I'm harnes
u to do his blowing. The animal weighs
luS50 pounds, and is said to be perfect,
u docile and thoroughly broken if' t
his work. This allegation Is somewa
astounding, to say the least.
The census just taken i'm Hungary
t shows the population OF that countr.
to amount to Is, 429, 23S souls. or thes
2 1906, ,947 are males and 7, 7322, 26l females
The census taken In 1857, gave pOpu
D ln<koupf 13, 3,76S, ,5l3 souls, so that tn
: tpopuIation of Hungary has increase
D fsihce that time by 1,666, ,725 souls.
= An enterprising phrenologist one
wrote polite note to the late Charlie
Dickens skiing permission TO make o
| examination OF his crnnium. Nj
Dickens replied -" Dear Sir: At thl
time require the use of my skull, br
as soon as 1t shall be at leisure / wi
willingly place it at your disposal"
There is a girl by the name of HIATT
. Brown in the County Infirmary
!, lShelby county, O., so It is said, WI
" has living reptile in her stomac
], which makes itself perfectly ut hon
2 i'm its snug quarters, sometimes veI
J. turing 80 far as the throat and protru'
!, ing its head, to the great discomfort
q the poor child n
= More people are killed by lightnir
4 than is commonly supposd. AccOr,
= ing to some recently published stati
|. tics, more than 0,000 people have bet
! smitten by the electric fluid within u
past 80 years, Of whom 2, ,252 were killt
N outright. The fiery bolts, howeve
;: seem to make q distinction on accoul
n of sex for of the $50 killed within u
c last ten years, only 2i3 were female
The Prince William (Va.) Aduoca
n says that 400 acres Of land near Brist'
J, Station, owned by Mr.. HoOe, of FaI