The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-01
VOL. XV.---NO. As.
SUNDRIEs.


executing him, but were interrupted b,
Mr.. Earnest Dierker, who happened t.
pass just at that time and made then
release their prisoner.
A Chicago church has dozen pews
for deaf people, connected with the 50.
cred desk by rubber hose and eal
trumpets. <a
A darkey gives the following reasons
why the colored race is superior to the
white: "All men are made of clay,
and like the meerchaum pipe they are
more valuable when highly colored."
A writer, dwelling on the importance
of small things, says "that he always
takes notice even of q straw, especially
if there happens to be sherry cobbler
at one end Of it."
Recently, some one sent to a South
ern paper an extract from the song OF
Solomon as original, and the editor
published it as a fair specimen of the
pOetical illusions which are daily
thrown into our waste-basket."
An iowa paper having inserted an
item relating that woman Of that
State had helped her husband to raise
seventy acres of wheat, and noticing
the item copied by its exchanges under
an evident Interpretation of facts,
now explains that the way she helped
was to stand in the door and shake q
broom at him when he sat down to
rest, and terrifying him in other ways.
A Scottish clergyman, happening to
go into the churchyard while the bea-
die was employed necS deep in dig
ging q grave, thus accosted him !:
+" Well, Saunders, that's work you're
employed i'm well calculated to make
an old man like you thoughtful. /
wonder You don't repent Of your evil
waysw The old worthy, resting on
the head Of his spade, and taking q
pinch of snuff, replied: al thought,
sir, We ken'd that there was. nae re-
pentance in the grave"
A firm i'm York, England, several
years since, undertook to make q D.
inch telescope, something astronomy
has never accomplished. 1t is now
nearly completed. The tube, including
the new cap and eye end, is 80 feet,
and its diameter at the object end q
inches, and where largest, 81. The
object glass has clear aperture of %
inches nearly, aud its focal length is
25 feet. .i.
A wonderful discovery has been made
in Algeria. An artesian well lately
sunk at Ain Sela, to the depth of forty
four meters, threw up not only large
body of water, but an innumerable
quantity of small fish. which are des-
,Iibed rs being on an average half an
inch in length, and resembling whitehall
both in appearance and taste. From the
Tact of the sand extracted from these
wells being identical with that which
forms the head of the Nile, it is conjec-
,ured that an unde ground communica-
ion must exist between them.
There is a young lady of vast wealth,
in the vicinity of Union square
N this city, who employs her leisure
md pocket money buying cloth, mus
i'm, and calico by the wholesale, and
cutting it into garments. She takes
ler carriage, and goes into lanes and
Dy-ways, giving work to needy people;
md when finished and literally paid
or, she generally bestows the comfort
,ble garments on those poor men, and
heir wives and children, who fought
md bled" i'm the late war. None are
urned from her door without the help
hat maketh the heart glad. She is
aid to be highly accomplished, agree
sble, modest, and seeks happiness In
ioing good to all. She is devoted to
1er work and dear relative, and has
refused the hand of some of the leading
men of the nation.
OBEY.n-According to the New
York Express the Methodists therea-
)outs have expunged this word from
he marriage ceremony, which will
compel them to revise the Scriptures
md suppress such texts as the one i'm
he third chapter Of Genesis, where the
Lord says unto the woman: "Thy
husband shall rule over thee.u It IS
,ery "senseless and fit" that having
what st. Paul says about
women speaking i'm public worship, by
'llOwing them to preach, lin addition
o their curtain lectures, they should
wipe out such an inconvenient word as
obey" which gives "the tyrant
nan" the right to rule over his house
lold.
The fair sex of. Fsance have always
,een noted for their housekeeping
Not unfrequently, in rapidly making
nut your bill, in hotel for example,
rou will experience the evidence Of
double-entry," which you will smile
It, beg to have re-examined, and re-
eive corrected, with heart overflow
ng with apologies-the creatures sin
With such grace. A master, like all
who only believe in the
afety of their gold when lying upon it,
lOticed his "pile" getting smaller by
legrees. He marked some coins-they
too, but his servant had
hem. Calling her to account, she ad.
nitted she had helped herself, and to
how her "honesty," produced her ac-
,ount book, where each sum stolen was
luly entered and dated, the total sum
,eing 5000 francs.-Bdltin,ore Gazette.
According to the French statistician,
aking the mean of many accounts, a
nan 30 years of age has slept 6,000
lays, worked $500 days, walked 800
lays, amused himself 4, 600 days, was
,ating 1900 days, was sick 500 days,
tic. He ate 1900 pounds of bread,
g, 900 pounds of meat, 1900 pounds of
eggs and fish, and drank
900 gallons of liquid, namely, water,
,offee, tea, beer, wine, etc., altogether.
This would make respectable lake of
100 square feet surface and feet deep,
m which a asmallsteamboat could navi-
,ate. This estimate is, however, made
rom Frenchman for an American,
We have to modify it, by lessening the
lumber of days he devOtes to amuse-
nents, and, in place of this substi-
ute ] 200 days for quietly specializing
low to get more of the almighty dol
ar, Is, 900 days for travelling by steam
md horse power, and 200 days in wait
ng for means of transportation.
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