The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-04-22
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! Only 20 Fresels soldiers now -ur,i,
q Weter1oo. .szss.s-s = li.f = ftr .a...s..
y The beach crop WIN he almost tot,
FAILURE Nbout Atlanta, Georgia.
II 4 female swimmer is giving exhib
/ tions In BROOKLYN psss
fs Ladies fans are now made in til
! shape Of pistols or daggers.
Il A Western undertaken advertise
= pndergroupd oveFroqts." ,qfn
! Sick chinsuaeh ltf frisco slei bluie
alive By their loving relatives.
! NeW Yosk dsnSies are new accuse
of wearing monogram garters.
II "Specie payments" have been su,
4 pended by nearly all the retail store
and saloons in New York, that wer
4 giving out silver change week ago.
j The Sandwich Islanders, after hayiBi
7 Killed Captain Cook and eaten hi
i'b0y, aEs about erecting a monunlen
to the psen,ory Of the great navigator.
tf Afaaper recently left q Massachu
tsefts &gms-hOtsee- becatise she could no
lh9ve surI0in steak and green tea serv
sf at midnight. at.t ~; !.
! The late Bishop Simpson once said
Don't eat late snppefs. have fount
I that nine out of ten ministers who ca
! after preaching die carly
K A New York hotel rpcep1y staatlet
ms guests by putting mice pie in
the bill Of fare Investigation iprovet
thAt 0ince pie wae intendc.l. = -
ia Alearned professor has computed th.
I distance the human voice would reach
if it was as powerful IN proportion tC
! The size as that Of the grssshopper. He
1. '.ptates it at 100 miles. -.alsfa
~ Parch half pint Of rice until it i.
brpwn, then boil it as rice is usually
done. Eat slowly, and II will usually
step the most alarming cases II diar.
fhDo.f 5F<gI ~ { al Has Is ~
! a Western orator. speaking OF the
battle of Bull Run, eaid1: 4" The fetler
ais pss0fsst that the hard tack rat
tled 6BtkelF stoRlaci,s ike bears I'M q
sheet-isoa pafi.p tsss~ .E8ss Sc
X In Africa, If any one come, before 4
King without Iull-dress costume
that y, n straw hat aud ring IN the
nose Lbs bead goes into the waste has.
| ket bef0re he can wink twice.
Albany has n magnifieently dressed
engages little school girls in converse.
ltion on the street, and then cuts of
ttheir blonde tresse<. She claims to bt
a "kleptomaniac."
woman in Missouri hung hersel
because her husband went to California
| Next week u ad0zen more started, bu
their wives wouldn't hang worth 8
cent, and the poor disconsolate devil.
have all returned broken-hearte,l,
a poet who is ysemsturely bald, cx'
cuses 1t in this Ingenious and compli
mentary manner: Baldness,"' h'
says, AS only a proof Of politeness pal,
to the beautiful SEX. Is it not the dut,
of gentleman. always to uncover hi
head in the presence Of ladies ?"
Philadelphia has novel will case
1t appears that man aud his wife eaci
made a will in favor Of the other at TIN
same time, but, hy some blunder tn
man signed his wifc's viii, and the wifi
signed her husbands. Not until afte
| the death of the husband WAS tl,c mis-
4 take discovered. fsgf-rfFF 4 ffi
A citizen of Maine is prospecting il
/ Sourth Carolina for the lease of large
] tract Of marsh laud, and proposes t.
cultivate frogs, md send thcir hinC
legs to the Nofthern market. N1f1 .
j. In Waterville, Maine, the Saving
Bank has six hundred and fifty depos
itors, with about Sl37, 900 placed t.
their credit. Savings banks arc multi
plying all oyer the country.
Tobacco dealers desiring to TO bc "ul
to snuff." will understand that Com
missioner Delano has decided tina
snuff jars, once used, no matter how
completely the st; mps have been can
celed, cannot be used again.
! A Cincinnati paper insinuates tina
the officers of u ferry-bOat made no ef
fort to save u man who fell OyerbOsrt
! until they found out he had not pait
his fare. They made a desperate div
for him and the two cents, then.
j. A bearded girl has made her appear
ance at Glade Spring depot, Washing
ton county, Va. She h four years old
and has q molstache and wiiiskers, tin
hair upon the forehead extending I,
the eyebrows. The arms, shoulder
I and back, are covered with short, dow
my hair. sss-sy+ .sf
+ Statistics show that there are man,
more women than men of niarriagea
BILE aye in New York City, the sum to
tai being about 1322, 600; and il We maxi
a calculation for the entire State it vii
be found that there are about 500, 90
women for whom marriage is impossi
|, bic. ise haFrf
! 4 reunion of the Brown family re
Gently took place in Orwell, VT, AZ tn
sold homestead, now owned by Mr.
John Brown. Nine of twelve children
are still living, and seven were present
ifTley were seated at the supper-tabl
accorling 10 their ages, a. follows: (: rs
72a, 6s, IS, ~, SO, 80.
j t;eOrge Peabody's tomb was entere,
by burglars, On "Wednesday night, AM
the coffin robbed Of it, silver plate an
!. handles. The thieves were arrested
however, and the piunder secured.
; This IS truly a shocking crime, an
pre,,sires the mind for any thing in th
line of lawlessness. ~ - as, si.ss
Z Botiitlie King and the Crown Prime
!, of Prussia are Motel for their lcnuri
! otisilt.ss, 50 far a. matters of dress am
toilet are concerned. They say in Bei
lin that the Crown Prince almost veal
his uniforms threadbarc, and whe
& they will absolutely do for him no Ion
u ger, he gets his tailor la make out {
Them small uniform coats for his liit'
Princes.
/! In one Of the towns on the Sagiiia'
river. Michigan, a baud oi girl thieVs
, swas lately discovered, who were tho
n oughly organized and of,icere,l. nun
beriug some ten or more. The men
hers of this hand were all girl. of tl
, age of ten to fifteen years, and they b,
/. longed to some of the most respectao
"a familie, of tie place. Their depred;
Z tions We're mostly carried on anon
!, the dry-goots dealers. and seem |
have been altogether done i'm a will
4 daredevil, and wanton manner.
READING IN BED.-Rcading in be
: ! is not c,l-tom to he commended. ID
!. brain should not he exercised when II
\ rest OF the body is giving itself up
. repose. This rule applies especially,
: course, ;,t night, after the la5ors of d
day, and when the brain is in Il -ta
!. of wearipess. We apprebend that th
. Is the point Of Injunction not to read
4 bed. The mere recumbency of po-tui
e while reading is not calculated to injuI
a.