The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-03-04
SUNDRIES.

sugar in 1869. 5s 1856
| japanese milestones all tell the dis
tance to Yeddo. 9
Navada produced treasure to the
amount of Sl3, ,S15, 0OO last year.
The United States Courts hold that
it requires 9, ,240 pounds to make ton.
Treasure to the amount of s., 155, 900
was mined at White Pine, Nevada, in
1859.
The clergymen of Dover and Fox
croft, Me-, are about to begin u seriss
of temperance lectures soon.
A colored gentleman in Selma, Al
ALBANIA, advertises as having lost a
toothbrush.
Three white men and five negroes
form the Board of Alderman of Viii
mington, n. c.
The real estate speculator, Nathan
Matthews, returns the largest income
in Boston-S730,OOO.
A man in Toronto blew off his nose
by unintentionally placing a cartridge
in his pipe. .-
The oldest man in Ohio is John Fol
gate, of Jefferson, Wayne county. He
was born in March. 1855, and is there's
fore nearly los years old.
Two buttons were clandestineIy clip
ped from Prince Arthur's oyercOat, by
some worshipper of royalty, while the
prince was the guest of the Brooklyn
Club. ...--......
The Massachusetts Legislature COM
lot, N
publish its oratorical displays in full.
A lady and gentleman rode upon
horseback to a church i'm Kansas City,
No., on a rece.t Sabbath, and We're
married in the saddle just before the
services began. ....
A young married lady, the wife of
John Nj. Neiber, of Newark, y. j., has
become the heiress to a fortune of $780,
600, left her by her uncle, Mr.. Reisse,
who was recently murdered by high
wayman i'm Bremen.
"A brisk business in Traupnann
knives" is being done by the cutters of
Sheffield. 1t will be recoilected that
Traupmann was recently glIillotined in
France for the murder of five per-
sons. .i
An Indiana man offered SO for the
privilege of acting as haDgnan at Il re-
cent execution. He owed the man q
! opportunity of dropping the unpleasant
subject. @
San Francisco Cinnamon are getting
civilized to such an extent that they
won't stand still and let boys pull their
back hair more than an hour without
reasoning with the boys with the toe OF
boot. ...... 81 ..--.
A Congressman from Alabam1 near
| ly became the subject of a CongressioIl-
al funeral the other day. He "tried to
punch the gas-light out, tut found
somebody had stolen the wick"
In Dallas county, Mo-, thirty miles
from Buffalo, there is remarkable
spring, known as "Sweet Spring." II
! is noted for its depth, and for the count
less myriads of fish that collect in it
! from the river during the severe winter
weather. When not rendered impure
by freshets, fish can be distinctly seen
i'm it to depth of forty feet.
Trajanopolis, the capital of the Ro-
man province of Thracia, has lust been
discoved about four miles from Dyn,
near Enos. This town had 2OO, 900 in
habitants ut the time of the Romans
but its site is now desert, owing tc
! the miasmatic emenatiOns of the river
Hebruss. Among the ruins are the
remains of huge aeropolis.
A wrought iron chimney 1876 feet high
and six feet seven inches i'm diameter
has just been erected in Pittsburg. An
other is to he put up 275 feet high. The
| first was rivited together in horizon
tai position, and then lifted to the per-
pendicular by crane. The other will
be made upright. The plates will be
riveted by means of scaffOlding rum
ming up inside.
A modern writer gives the following
pressed by the female eyes, "The glare,
the sneer, the invitation, the defiance,
the denial, the consent, the glance of
love, the fash of rage, the sparkling OF
hope, the languishment of sOftness, the
squint of suspicion, the fire of jealousy,
and the iuster of pleasure"
Here is the last sensation story from
Paris: GA musician at a club house
lately bought a bottle of champagne,
and sitting down to the piano he played
the gayest music, and drank his wine
until but single glass remained; into
this he poured vial of prussic acid,
drank it off, and began solemn fune-
raj march which only ended with his
DEATH" -,r-
The largest pig in England, if not i'm
the world, is now the property of Mr..
Lloyd, of Bredon, Worcestershire, who
purchased it of a neighbOr, when two
months old, for less than five dollars.
The wonderful animal Is now twenty
two months old, and measures nine
and one-half feet from the end of the
nose to the tip of the tail, five feet
around the body, and stands four feet
high.
The annexed fish story is Maryland
production A man fishing in river
i'm that State found that his hook was
attached to something, and pulling it
up with some difficulty, discovered at
the end of the line a jug holding about
half gallon. Not wishing to lose bis
only hook, he demolished the jug, and
to his great astonishment found that
the hook had been swallowed hy u
monster catfish exactly tie Size and
shape of the jug.
The University of Edinburgh has
made arrangements to enable ladies
who wish to do so to study medicine,
but in u separate class from men. Five
lady students have presented them
selves. In London there is Female
Medical Society, under the Presidency
of the Earl Of Sbaftesbury, which es-
tablished a Medical College for women
five years aga, and eighty-two ladies
have during that period avaiIed them
selves of its facilities; most of them
have since started in business, and are
succeeding admirably.
A French paper mentions tie follow
lug custom which prevails at Stuttgart,
the capital of Wurtemburg. On the
afternoon of New Years day "a sort of
fair, or exchange fur visiting cards, i,
held in public place. llthe servants
of good houses mee.- there, and one
among them, mounting or bench
or table, calls out the addresses, AT
each name a cloud of cards fslls into il
basket placed for the parpose, and the
representative 0f the person for whom
these cards are intended can pocket his
cass.iAgent. Each follows in his turn,
and IN few minutes hundreds of cards
have reached their destination without
fatigue to any 0Be.
An Illinois undertaken sent the fol-
l0wing entertaining note to sick man:
f" Dear Sir-Having positive proof that
you are rapidly approaching deaths
gate, i have therefore thought it not
imprudent to call your attention to the
enol0sed advertisement of my abun-
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