The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

SUNBRIES.

with his wife and baby. ii Toll \
Mohammedans say that one hour of
justice is worth 20 years of prayer.
The latest New York extravaganza
Is to have diamonds set into ones
teeth. ~ n tF5
On the 1st of january last, the
French navy consisted of 402 vessels of
all descriptions. --.. ......
CALIFORNIA has now $50 miles of rail-
road, and confidently expects to build
at least 15O more this year .e f.
A good rule by which to get along in
this world is to get all you can, save all
you can, and give all you can.
Cotton seed oil, refined and bleached,
Is now the real basis of most Of the sal
ad oils, taking the place of olive oil.
iJewsharp is said to be a acorruption of
jaws-harp, the name suggested from its
being placed between the jaws when
played. I.. '. ii"l -''-..-
Senator Sprague has sent an agent
to Americas, Ga, with the view Of
making selection of site for cot
ton factory. '''-,
The other day 100000 confederate
bonds were put up for sale in New Or
leans, and brought 81 per bond, or S4OO
for the lot.
Many of the paper mills in Virginia
and North Carolina are using wood
from the Dismal Swamp in the manu-
facture of printing paper.
The Greeks are said to be the most
sensible people in the world, as they
wear one style of dress all the year
round, and the fashion never changes.
A new cotton gin has been tested in
st. Louis, and found to be most per-
feet thing. 1t dispenses with the hand
labor of picking cotton from the balls.
A country Journal says =" When
you see little boy sitting on the earth
picking slivers out of his heels, you
may know that the frost is out Of the
ground.n H..'s .E'., -i -.-. ST., ;
Mrs. Jennie June Croley rropounded
a most ominOus question to her sister:
Let every married woman ask herself
if she meant every word of love she
ever wrote to her husband" a-.- -
20 A man in Otsego county, New York,
stopped the funeral procession of his
daughter that he might send away a
colOred driver whom he discovered on
one of the carriages. o.. if,f,,....-
The Bride, O schooner of only twen-
ty-fOur tons, has cleared from GlOuces-
ter for Surinam, being the smallest YES
sci that ever UNDERSTOOD a long sea voy-
age from that port. -.... r.....-
Fears are expressed by some of the
warm personal friends of Chief Justice
Chase that his health is so rapidly
breaking down that he will not much
longer be able to sit ON the bench.
The projected China cable is to run
Uid the Sandwich Islands, Midway Is
lands, and Yokohama, to Shanghai; !;
and its length, including the allowance
of 20 per cent. for slack, will be 9,12l
miles. r. ,-.v ,.-r
The English Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
have commenced to publish a monthly
periodical, the object being to teach
the absolute duty of man toward the
lower animals '.
An English farmer lately placarded
the following announcement Ex-
tensive sale of live stock, comprising
not less than lao, 900 head, and an un-
limited right of pasturage.p All he
had was a few hives of bees.
Bayard Taylor says that the pioneer
in the West no longer lives i'm a log
hut, but imports ready made houses
from Chicago. Villas, greenhouses,
lawns, ETC., are now essential charac-
teristics of city week old.
An old butcher says if q girl wants
ing in the mems eyes it is when she
wears simple. muslin dress, with q
frill of lace around the neck and at the
wrists, and no ornaments but youth
and freshness. '-'is e ~ ..
DIR. Brales, of Freetown, has the
first Bible and psalm-book printed in
America. The Bible is ElliOt's Indian
Bible, printed in 1853, and the psalm
book was published i'm Cambridge, in
1910, and is called the Bay Psalm Book.
A large rat went into public square
In Memphis, where squirrels are culti-
waited, and was assailed by veteran
bushy tail who came near getting a
trouncing, until lis fellows rallied to
the rescue and drove the rat to ignoble
flight. r.. ... &c.. -.-,3'. ..
n Fully one-half of the inventive gen
Jus of the world belongs to the United
States. For 100 years France and En-
gland have each granted $4,000 patents;
within the last 40 years the United
States has granted more than 100000
and rejected sc, 1000. ..f..,,..
1t is said that the black orang, or
ehimpanze, on being taught to wear
clothes, becomes fond of. them. 1t
learns TO lie in q bed with its head ON
the pillow, and pulls the clothes over
itself like man. The red orang learns
to drink coffee and tea, and grows fond
of wine. ESD
The Ieep soundings made in connec-
ton with the laying of submarine ca
bles show the average depth of the At
lantic ocean to be 1900 feet. The
deepest part of the ocean is on the
American side, near the NewfOund-
land banks, where an immense basin
exists, whose depth is supposed to ex-
ceed the height of the Himalayan
range. t ~. 1'E3' 1Ii 1u .5-
For a great many years the Russians
have made use Of the expansive prop
critics of freezing water in quarrying
operations. In summer they drill ere
vices I'm the marble and fill them with
water. The cold of winter causes the
water to act as o wedge, and enormous
masses of marble are thus detached
with the smallest expense of manual
labor.
A woman i'm Franklin, KY, while re-
Gently carrying bucket of butter on
horseback, was savagely attacked by
an eagle measuring seven feet from tip
to tip. Making two or three passes, It
almost knocked her off the horse, and
tore her neck and breast i'm a frightful
manner; but she, dismOunting, dealt it
heavy blows with a club and finally
killed it.
Mrs. Mary Powell in her lecture on
the Indians, makes acurious statement
concerning children, who are fastened
to birch bark, and their limbs kept
confined until they are two years old.
have seen,n she says, Gas many as
two hundred of them together at one
time, and no noise came from their
lips. They are healthy and comforta-
BILE, and have no need to- cry. Their
arms Of course are not confined, only
their bodies and legs"
si Sleeping Together.
The T(r,ps of life cavc. More utIar.