The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-29
SUNDRIES.

Dickens left his library to his eldest
son.
Alexander HI. Stephens now weighs
but seventy-six pounds.
Milkmen are happy fellows. They
enjoy themselves st the watering-pla-
ces all the year round.
- A French barber's sign-board reads
as follows: "TO-morrOw the public
will be shaved gratuitously."
Why Is horse the most curious feed
er in the world? Because he eats when
ne hasn't bit in his mouth.
"Never listen to flatterers, my DEAR"
said mother to her daughter. "Why,
mamma, how should know that they
are fiatterers unless listen to them ?n
Mr.. Dickens left q fortune of S40O, 900,
which includes the value of the copy-
right of most of his books, which re-
mains with his family.
Dickens kept five Newfoundland dogs
and named them after characters in
his works. His favorite was called
Bumble.
A Vermont husband frustrated his
wife's elopement by locking up her silk
dress. She said she wouldn't be seen
eloping in shilling calico.
New York points to its police record
of 1000 arrests last week with pardon
able pride, and defies other cities to
equal it. p.
Detroit's last sensation is o man who
lay dead ten hours, was dressed for the
the grave, and only wakened by the
fall of his coffin, which the men were
bringing in. .. ..
A Long Branch belle, named Annie
Welsh, dresses eight times a day, and
dashes along the beach behind four diff
ferent teams during each twenty-four
hours. s.. I. .
Elihu Burritt proposes to publish a
book containing all the newspaper no.
tices of Dickens death, and all the
pulpit illusions thereto, from all coun-
tries. ......
A sovereign remedy for hydrophobia
is to immerse the head of the canine
under water for one half hour. He will
be little mad at first, but soon gets
over it.
The remains of young lady were
recently consigned to the grave in Troy
under the escort of eight female pail
bearers, who were uniformly dressed in
white dressa5 and wells.
DR.. Livingstone, the African explorer
is supposed to be at NijUi, two months
travel inland from ZANZIBAR, and no tid-
ings from him are looked firN under
seven or eight months.
A country poet, after looking about
over life, has come to the following
rhyming conclusion: .-,-
"Oh, wouldn't live forever,
Wouldn't if could; -. ..-
But needn't fret about it,
For couldn't If would"
A wealthy parishioner congratulated
a good pastor on the good air which he
breathed in his parish; to which the
latter replied: "Yes, the air would be
good enough, if l could live upon it."
Not a bad answer was that of a pre-
cOciOus boy in public school out West,
who was recently asked by his teacher
where Africa was located. He prompt
ly answered, "All over the United
States"
A New Orleans street-car driver, ar
rested for running over man, said he
felt q jar and went back to remove a
rock, as he supposed, from the track,
when he found the man who had been
lying there asleep. 1t woke him up.
A Lynchburg man, arrested as q va
grant, protested that he had regular
trade, and that was smoking glass for
total eclipses of the sun. He remarked
that as these occur so seldom it was not
to be wondered at that he seemed out
of employment a good deal.
A Pennsylvania minister was re-
Gently given donation party, at which
the gifts were six rolling pins, q pen
wiper, and two quarts of dried apples,
vintage of 1854. His flock all have
good appetites, and they discouraged
his next winters stock of provisions
severely.
A New York girl, who ran away with
her lover to New Haven, by steamer,
was surprised on landing to hear her
fathers voice, he having come on by
rail and flanked her. She ran under a
passenger train, which, starting up,
ed, and her father took hey home.
A wealthy old lady living in Brook
line, Mass, called i'm her neighbors one |
day lately, and told them to take every |
thing in the house. They went ener.
getically to work, and before any of her
friends knew it, there was not an ar
ticle of furniture left. A religious ma
mia did it, and now legal force is trying |
to get the furniture back again.
A machine has been invented by Mr.. |
G. w. Grader, of Memphis, called the
Linter," and by it the waste from the |
cotton gin known as "motes," and |
heretofore of no use except rs a fertiliz- |
er, undergoes a cleansing process, by |
which it is freed from its impurities and |
made into good ordinary cotton suit
able for batting or a coarse article of
goods. $50 "t
A lady in Bangor, Me-, few days
since, sent her Hibernian maid-ofall- |
work up stairs, with verbal instructions |
to take out and clean the windows. |
Shortly after, the lady made a tour of
inspection, and found that Bridget had
dug out every pane of glass and neatly |
piled them ON the floor.
A Chinaman at Stockton, CAL, with |
blackberries for sale, got by accident |
iutO the grounds of the insane aavIrIr,