The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-05-27
SUNDRIES.

Every town in the country has cam
didate for the next Presidency.
| Iowa forces its female conyicts to
break stones just like men. Such is one
of the attributes of the other sex.
Bishop Simpson thinks it Better to
eat early and dilate, than to eat late
and die early.
A Boston paper says that there are
very few railroads in New England
whose receipts are not now from 100 TO
500 per cent. in excess of the original
estimates.
If all the land bills now before Con-
gress should pass, it would plumber the
country of one hundred millions of
acres.
What is the difference between a
failing star and fog? One Is missed
in heaven, and the other is mist on
earth.
A lady who was injured by the fall
ing seats at circus in Oregon City,
Oregon, has recovered three thousand
dollars damages from the company. r
An astronomer predicts the coming
OF comet this year, OF such brilliancy
that night will be turned into day, and
gas companies will be ruined.
A beautiful camels's hair shawl, for
some time past on exhibition ut a well
known store i'm New York, was sold a
few days ago for five thousand dollars
to o gentleman from Wisconsin.
A Cincinnati druggist declares that
there are no less than thousand arse
mic eaters in that city and immediate
vicinity, mostly young women, who
take the drug for the complexion.
A good pious man in Main plugged
his maple trees ON Saturday, to prevent
the sap from running on Sunday, and
lamented because he could not prevent
the trees growing on that day.
M. Ernest Renan, i'm recently pub
llshed article, expresses the opinion
that there are but two questions totally
mysterious, the origin of the human
conscience, and the supreme end of the
1t was said of very handsome wo-
man, whose feet were immense "She
IS very pretty, but she upsets complete
ly the ordinary system of measurment,
by proving that two feet make a yard"
In Queen Victoria's crown there are
1868 brilliant diamonds, ], 1,273 rose dia-
mOnds, and 147 table diamonds, large
ruby, IL sapphires, IL emeralds, small
rubies and 277 pearls.
The French have discovered that the
white of an egg given i'm sweetened
water Is a sure cure for Group. The
remedy Is to be repeated till cure is
effected.
The Central City Register insists that
Colorado is the most favored spot i'm
the United States, at the present time,
for Iaboring men; that every one who
desires it can there find work ut fair
wages.
The pneumatic car made another
trial trip in New Orleans a few nights
ago, which was nuch more satisfactO-
ry than the previous ones. 1t ran
about two miles to the entire satisfac-
ton of all interested.
South Eastern Kansas now promises
the largest and best wheat-crop since
1862. A larger breadth has been sown
than in any former year.
A Wisconsin farmer wants a divorce
on the ground that his wife can't split
half the amount of wood she boasted
she could before their marriage.
Tie Recolutioa is angry with the
Episcopal marriage service for "cling-
ing TO the word 'obey,n as applied to
the female party of the second part.
How about the cpistles of Saint Paul? i?
Are they, too, "at loggerheads with
time"'
Although the Southern planters are
offering so month for hands, vet
the negroes all flock to the towns.
where they live in a state of beggary.
The editor of the Indiana Student
admonishes contributor i'm this STYLE:
Now, sir, next time when you un-
dertake to answer a production, do so
in some logical manner; don't snatch
up your pen and go rip-snorting along
in style that shows you to be an un.
Questionable assn