The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-18
SUNDRIES.

! lIa SUNDRIES.
4 Something .stunning-A slung-shot.
| Girls say that men are a covet.,Is
set. .
Safe place for a tempest-In tea
pot.
Gymnastic-Jumping at conclu-
sion.
Pig headed people have a palate for
pork.
High tied-A man swinging at the
gallows. \.r...... .-...
Cordial reception One given from a
wine glass. .\a r -
Not good sheet to sleep under-A
sheet of water. g-..
Heavy Misunderstanding pig iron
and lead. @ s.. .--
The fellow who split the difference is
a wood chopper.
The world is round-So are lively
young men at night. '
Underground business Getting at
the root of the thing. . i IN
The person who took things easy was
a quiet sort of thief
The most common end with shoe
maker-His waxed end.
A southern paper suggests clean nap
kins to saloon keepers in this way:
Napkins can't be made to ru,: week
without getting wearied," -....y
Some of the BostOnians say they are
usually gratified at receiving speci-
mems of New Hampshire granite, but
they would prefer not to have them
packed in butter.
Said an astronomer to bright-eyed
girl, when talking of rainbows: "Did
you ever see lunar bow miss ." "I
have seen beaux by by moonlight, sir,
If that's what you mean," was the shy
rejoinder. o.. iIi-' II 80 I-ai jug
OF the coming Fat Mems Conven-
ton at Lewiston, the Waterville ME.
Mail says: eff the convention will
weigh their brains against their bel
lies, they vii! find that extremes have
metz fl,He,ir - ..34af.. .....i
At the celebration of the LORDS Sup
per in Bradford, Mass, last Sabbath,
by Rev. Mr.. Kingsbury's church, the
silver goblets used by the church in
1880, one hundred and forty years ago, |
were made use of. .. -.--.
Rev. Matthew Hale Smith was set |
tied as pastor over a Methodist |
church at BrattlebOro, Vermont, when |
he was eighteen years old, and since |
that time has been Reformed Dutch, |
Baptist, and Episcopalian. .-....-
The Boston Transcript and Traveller |
newspapers have employed female
compOsitors since the famous strike of
1864. They receive mems wages, work
full hours, and average SIS per week
earnings.
Morgan, who was recently hanged
at Terra Haute, made the following
reasonable remark in his "valedictO-
ry::" "Well, 1 don't know that !
have much to say, except that / had
better be going" He went.
The present winter, like the last one,
has thus far belied all the cold weather
of goose-bone, beaver, musk
rat, bird-fiights, and other examiners.
The frigid predictions that circulated
so freely amOnth ago are seen no more.
The stock brokers Of New York have
in their employ corps of detectives to
protect them from members of the
swell mob, sneak thieves, pickpOckets
and others of the light-fingered gentry
who have been wont to hover about
the Stock Exchange. - .-.
Brick Pomeroy is ready to bet one
lundred thousand dollars worth of
printing material and machinery, paid
or and in operation, against ten thou
'and dollars in cash, that he will not
all or suspend the publication of any .
,ne of his four newspapers in 1870.
At a marriage lately cOnsummated
It Ottawa, Canada, 5000 were dona- [
ed to the poor. {
a little girl six years old was found
Trunk i'm the streets of Paterson, \ j., l
he other night.
Railroads i'm South Carolina have re-
luced their fare to immigrants to one . /.
ent mile.
Vermont has 523 physicians.
st. Petersburg has 1O,SOO cab drivers.
: There are only two bachelors i'm the 7
Sew York Legislature.
An English gentleman i'm Devon =
hire has conceived the idea of stock =
ng his park with live snakes, and ha,
egun to introduce the reptiles, to the
reat indignation and terror of his ?
Who have resolved to try :, i,
he American remedy of an Injunction
n him. -. q
a gentleman in Petersburg, Va, the a
ther day, for wager, ate one gallon n
fresh oysters, minus the shells and r
quor, at one sitting. - Il
An old lady at Windsor, England, /,
us saved from burning to death by her I
ct parrot, who, se5ing her i'm flames, I,
alled out to her sleeping son, "Harry, d
ct upw d
The Philadelphia Mercantile Libra "
= now contains over 5000 volumes. Il
,ast year 1, ,254 were added to it. The "
verage issue per day during the year a
as ISL. - si{H tEi o
At The Metropolitan cattle show, re- e,
ently held at London, England, the u
lperiority of American implements i'm u
shtness and beauty was unanimously u
limited. r y
Alexis st. Martin, whose side was n
rot away in 1872, in such manner N
J to expose the action of the digestive =,
'gans to the surgeons eye, is still "
i've and well in Cavendisl,, Vt. sf. i
York, Maine, was the first CITY b
in this country. Now it Is d
country village of 800 voters. Its a
,me was first Agamenticus, then %
e city of Georges or Georgiana. then Ii
ork. - ! -, "
No citizen of Japan can leave that ct
untry without giving bonds that lie d'
Ill return at the time specified. a
Out of 1872 Ohio divorce cases granted "
st year, the custody of the children I'm u, u,
sIIifs Mas nivan to tho ,,,1thcr IIl