The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISVEIDANLUtO HIND.
Wyoming Territory has but seven
hundred women.
Young girls are employed as lamp
lighters in Buffalo.
The Roman Catholic churches in this
country mum Der 1869.
Agassiz says that the moons rays are
gradually losing their heat.
Two books from the pen of Msr. Nc
Farland-Richardson are soon to be pub.
lished.
Pere Hyacinthe answered five hum
dred applications for autographs in
this country.
DR.. Berge thinks that five hundred
New York babies die every year from
the use of swill milk.
1t is a remarkable fact that all the
Southern lunatic asylums are full to
overlooking.
To increase the length of a colts
name, keep the roots clean, and fire.
quentlp comb and plat it.
A Connecticut man is so punctual in
his habits that he always carries his
coat-tail pocket, so as to be ahead OF
| time.
Several copies of the Cardiff giant
are said to be in the course of construc-
ton from the gypsum quarries of Fort
Dodge, Iowa.
The Ames shovel works, at North
Easton, Mass, is said to be the largest
in the world. The average yearly pro-
dnst, is 1,2000,000.
A Yankee bridegroom lost his cour-
age as the hour approached, and swal-
lowed dose of laudanum that would
have proved fatal but for stomach
pump.
A woman has just died in Scotch col
oDy village that for fifty years has
passed for man. She had two wives
with one of whom, she lived for y
years.
Petitions are being circulated for sig
natures everywhere throughout Grea
Britain, implOring Parliament to en-
act law for the inspection of con
vents.
\ little girl who was looking up int
1.-the sky one evening, said to her moth
er, "If the under side of heaven is SO
splendid here, should like to look at
the upper side"
AT marriage ceremony, at Wester.
ly, Rhode Island lately, the bridegroom
became impatient during the extended
prayer, and interrupted the clergyman
with, - " Elder, amt that 'beout
'nough?"
Cincinnati claims to he the largest
tobacco market in the United States
The receipts for last year, were A, SIS
hogsheads value of tobacco sold, ST.
600, 600; increase over previous year,
$500, 200.
We are warned, by recent writer,
against the use of Opaque envelopes,
which are green OH the inside, and white
on the outer, as analysis proves that the
green is produced by an arsenite OF
copper.
A young man in Lewiston, Me-, re-
Gently applied for divorce, because his
wife would steal cloth from theSRail in
which she was at work. Sea&e was
rewarded with three hundred and sixty
dollars worth of stolen cloth.
In recent lecture, Professor Gold
win Smith, said: "During the TWEEN
ty years l was connected with Oxford
| University, l never received from an
Oxford student, any discourtesy what
ever, by word or deed"
The California Peat Company, or
ganized for the purpose of buying and
selling peat land, and other land neces-
sary for said business, the digging, man.
ufacturing, and selling peat, ETC., has
been Incorporated.
A man has been brought before a
magistrate, i'm London, for refusing to
contribute to the support of his grand
father. No law was found to compel
him to do so, though a grandfather Is
liable for the support of his grandchild-
rem.
The losses by fire i'm the United States
during the year 1S69-including only
those fires i'm which the loss at each
was twenty thousand dollars, and up
wards-amOunt to $40, 6S4 900, against
S34, 575, 900 in 1868. The total losses in
the lost fourteen years, amount to 81
3S3, 800, 900.
Tie popular and "hygenic" Rus
sian baths are supplied with fresh Gro.
ton water only once a week, all over
flow and refuse from the bathing tanks
being collected and pumped up and used
repeatedly. The Board of Health are
investigating the matter.
DR.. S. G. Howe says: 1T is easy tC
teach the blind; hard to teach edeaf
Blindness obrtructs mental and moral
development very slightly; deafness
very gravely. Blindness is the greater
misfortune TO the poor; deafness to the
rich.
"The science folks may talk about
Genesis as much as they like, and show
there's things in it that amt up to the
mark; but there's one thing set down
there that, in my opinion, is gOspe
truth; and that is that man who
makes his way in this world, whether
it is in farming, or any other sort o
business, has got to sweat forit.'
A letter written entirely in Chinest
characters, and directed to Chinamar
in Pond Dake City, Utah, has been re
} ceived at the Dead Letter Office, Wash
|, ington, As there is no clerk in the De
parrment who can read Chinese charac
, tiers, the letter cannot be returned to tn,
the writer. In view of the rapid addi
t ion of Cinnamon to our population
the Post Master-General will shortl,
ask for an appropriation to appoint ;
3 Chinese clerk. Every other known
language is read in the Dead Lette
Office. .
The L. 5. Economist insists tina
Notwithstanding all reports to TIL