The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-25
SUNDRIES.

Connecticut granted isl divorces last
year.
Seven counties in Kansas work coal
mines. 5H
Vermont has a man with a bear
seven feet long. st-
Base ball has killed twenty-five per-
sons during the past season. H
Louisville has child only five
months old that can talk and walk.
The dregs of Petroleum oil are now
used in the making of spruce gum.
1t is estimated that $4,000 Jews are
serving in the German armies.
1t is said there is no church choir in
the world free from jealousy.
Alabama has q town of 800 people
where there is no lawyer, doctor, or
tailor.
The Mormons predict civil war be-
tween them and the United States
within year.
Paris ladies now wear the same style
of hat that was worn one hundred and
fiveyears ago.
One-half the children of England do
not go to school. Thirty per cent. of
the English army cannot read or write.
y New Orleans broker, awakening
from a nap the other day, found that
his tender child had used S12,OOO i'm
notes and drafts to make kite Of.
1t now appears that the ''bene-sweat-
ers" TO longer sell the fat from dead
horses to soap-boilers, because the
cheap butter-makers offer better prices
for it.
A queer temperance pledge was cir
culated in Russia. 1t bound the sign
er to abstain from brandy till brandy
should be better and tOlerably Cheap.
Barbecue is derived from the French
phrase dc Jdr6e queue, which means
from snOut to tail, and is equivalent to
"the whole hog"
A little boy hearing his father speak
about the war i'm progress in Europe,
said, Which had you rather belong
to, father, an engine company or bat
tle"'
A bridge at Denver, Cal, sports this
notice: al No vehicle drawn by more
than one animal Is allowed to cross
this bridge in opposite directions at the
same time
Beecher writes: tobacco is the one
best remedy for all stings of insects.
Wet it - that the juice shall start, and
place il on the place stung and in one
moment you are all right again.
A white man in one of the bar-rDoms
of Atlanta, the other day, offered to
pay for quart of whiskey if negro
present would drink il. The offer WAS
accepted, and the darkey is now a col
ored angel. -l
The German armies Use field tele-
graphs very extensively. They are of
three kinds-flying, provisional and
permanent. The first consists Of wires
surrounded with gutta percha, which
are payed out on level ground. The
second are wires of iron, used in hilly
and wooden districts, and affixed to
pegs on trees. The third are cOnstruc-
ted in the ordinary II amer by . de-
partment especially intrusted with the
duty.
The New York Herald made the fol-
lowing final eXhOrtation before Mr..
Greeley was voted upon: "Pious peo-
pie who intend to vote to-day for Hor-
ace Greeley should append to their
tickets the following, which we find in
q Western exchange: Horace Greeley
lately visited Western town where
swearing is punished by fine of twen-
ty-five cents for each offence. Some
one stole his umbrella and put litter
of kittens in his old hat, and, Ivy COM
promising the matter, the 500 he got
for his lecture just paid for his swearing
and four dollars over.' Horace, there
fore, is hardly fit man to send to Con-
gress, for if he Were to get in one of his
rampant moods he would swear the
dome off the Capitol. What Horace
dou,t know about swearing it would be
difficult matter to teIl.r I'D
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, who recently visited Mont Piai-
ser, where Peter the Great died, writes
at Is q little, low villa, consisting of
large hall with row of small cham
bers on either side. 1t stands ON ter>
race, close to the waters edge aud il
was while watching the bay with his
spy-giass from the terrace, that the
Gar saw q boat in trouble, and hasten
ing to the rescue, caught the cold that
cost him his life. He died in little
room opening out of the great hail.
Behind tall screen is the iron bed
stead in which he breathed his last;
the sheets and pillow lie upon it, and
his faded silk dressing-go is folded
on the foot. His slippers are on the
floor close by, and everything is pre-
served as 1t was the day after his
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