The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11
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N MentptlS l0tel has SOME trlllet
owls to catch mice. - afs-- ~
+ It is reported that the lakes of Con
necticut are drying up. .9ft1
Many men are worth nothing. an,
some are worth less. 81
! New York city receives 1905, 90
quarts of milk per day. ~
+ New Orieaps has just got in opera
tion her first cetton factory. .
The way to treat a man of doubtful
( creed is to take no note of him.
Cincinnati drinks more lager bee
than any other city in America.
Chrome printing is said to have bee,
praeticed in China 1000 years ago.
A New Hampshire man burned hi
woods up smoking coon i'm tree.
y Catholic priest, of Braunsburg
Prussia, pronOunces the Pope hereto
1t is said that the people of the Unit
ed States drink sd ,OO0, 900 in beer an
nually. .ofh
Any California man can carry a re,
vOlver, but it's death to find a slung.
shot on him. -i
The GOvernor-General of Canada
wants more salary, it only being S5O,-
600 per year DOW. p =.
Mr.. John Cotton was recently mar.
ried to Miss Christina Wooley-sug
gestive of satinet.
In Connecticut and New England
generally, that of 1870 has been the hot
test July for 81 years.
\ vein Of yellow ochre has been dis
covered near Usage City, Kansas, Of a
very pure quality.
The police of New York returned l31
lost children to their homes during the
month of September.
! Mr.. Darwin has book in press enti-
tied 1.-The Descent Of Man, and On Sc
lection in Relation to Sex" " tE
A Mississippi man has just pulled q
knife-blade out of his back that was
stuck there 80 years ago. s7
The New York Crystal Palace build
ing will be 900 feet long and $50 feet
wide, with central area of II acres.
1t is the opinion of the doctor that the
lawyer gets his living by plunder,
while the lawyer knows that the doctor
gets his by pillage.
1t Is said that manufacturing tobacco
raised in Southern Illinois is worth five
cents a pound more than that grown
anywhere else in the country.
australia has an import and export
trade of S375 ,WW, 900 annually, and last
year there were $1,000 first-class pas
sengcrs between England and Austria
Iia. ~
\ man was arrested in San Francis
co the other day, OH the charge of pour
ing coal-Oil on living rats, and then set
ting it on fire and burning them to
death.
An observer of human nature reports
that he has seen some people possessing
the popularity of three hands-a righf
hand, a left hand, and little behind
hand.
The American Scientific Association
has resolved to ask Government aid for
the establishment of an observatory on
one of the highest points on the Pacific
Railroad.
Lockwood & Co., the great Wall
street bankers, who failed about q year
ago, have anticipated and paid their
second settlement of the installment
due November 18th. s.a
Patience is exemplified in the man
who left his wagon while his horse
balked, sat on stump, and read the
war kilograms till the horse was hum
CRY enough to go home.
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for 1871, the publisher has received a
single order for 100, 600 copies-the lar
gest number ever sold at one time of
any work i'm this country.
y little girl, in Nevada, recently
stumpted her toe against what seemed
to be rock. She picked it up, when
it was discovered to be rich piece Of
gold quartz, and was worth $40.
Scientific men in Europe have dis
covered that the sun is getting rid of
some loose fragments, which are fast
approaching the earth. I'm about p
years time serious collision may be
looked for. ~. -"
An Last tennessee woman stopped
a railroad train by waving a red flag,
and wished to know of the enraged con-
ductOr if Sally Melvina Thompson was
the same was her sis
ter.
3 To make man drInkard, give him
a wife who will scold him every time
he comes home Erchdage. To make
a woman scOld, give her husband
who comes home drunk. ITO8,da's
... ....
MIR. George Ticknor relates that Tai
lcyrand said TO him in 1916, pointing to
a portrait of Alexander Hamilton, that
the three greatest men he had known
in his time were Napoleon, Charles
Fox, and Alexander Hamilton.