The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-08
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The average price of meat in Russia
is about Ave cents per pound. sss It
The King of Sweden intends to make
q journey round the world. ira yllss
Bismarck is tall, awkward, elderly
and old fogyish. y p 'a,2'A q 81. :
q The British Parliament has turned its
broad back upon Woman Suffrage.
4 New York does ope-eighth of the
whole soda water business of the Uni
ted States. ifcs iitf3 Es5ll. $40 -
Is Daniel Webster's carriage, presented
to him twenty years ago, was recently
sold at auctiOn for $50. '. =.
= A baroness has died I'm Paris, per-
feet miser, In whose hut were found q
million francs. sLg3 R'sais aoifsl 3. =
Bennington, VT, is importing color
ed girls from Virginia for house ser
wants. ttsfll slI -. - - Goa 81
n A recent philosopher thinks the
lions, when they didn't eat Daniel,
.practiced a good deal of self Daniel.
q Phe champion strawberry of the sea-
son was grown at Hartford, Conn. 1t
is nine inches round.
. There are some twelve thousand
American vessels, sail and steam, en-
gagged in the navigation of the north
ern lakes.
g The Cincinnati Presbytery has re-
solved that no dancing teacher shall be
admitted to its church membership.
A Putnam, Conn. clergyman recent
ly married q couple in the cars, with
out the knowledge of the other passen-
gers. .l.5s4- '
When the census taker asked an
Iowa woman the age of her oldest child
she informed him tina: he chad come
around about a month too soon.o
A young mulatto girl of great beauty
is now being traine for the American
stage by q retired actor, once a great
celebrity. She will make her debut as
Cleopatra
The Dayton School Boarsl remains i'm
session all night and to avoid domestic
disturbances the President furnishes
each member certificate showing
where he has BEEN.
A disgusted Jersey editor relieves
himself by singing: "It is sin to steal
q pin-A crime to cut a throat-But a
darned sight bigger to stop a niger
from putting in his vote"
The Eeumenical Council assemblies
in the Cathedral of st. Peter, at Rome.
1t is more lofty than St Paul's in Lon
don, the one being 464 feet, and the 9TH
er 404 feet high.
T Cooperation has so raised the condi-
ton Of the laborers of Birmingham,
England, that they have built and now
own 10000 more cottages than they
otherwise would.
Nobody here is green enough to be-
lieve that when the Prince Imperial
was asked why people always said
"Brave as sword, ,"but never "Brave
as a cannon" he replied, Because a
cannon always recoils when it is fired"
Brigham Young has issued notice
to tobacco chewers that If they choose
to chew i'm a manner disastrous to the
Tabernacle floors they will be promptly
elected by the gentlemanly sexton.
Jefferson Davis will not deliver an
address before the Mississippi agricul-
tural societies, nor is he engaged in
writing q novel or preparing memoirs
of his political career. He will not for
the present mingle in public affairs in
any way. fo l
The congregation aud the census
were increased simultaneously in .
Wisconsin church during service last
Sunday. Nobody but the young wO-
man knew anything about it until
meeting was out"
The laws of Indiana, backed up by a
decision of the Supreme Court, places
all who participate in the species of
gambling usually carried on at church
and charity fairs on the same footing as
other lottery gamblers. They are all
liable to heavy penalties-fines and
imprisonment.
In the Missouri bottoms, opposite
Cairo, Mr.. William Rodney raised a
crop of corn that will do to talk about.
On eight acres he produced one thou
sand and fifty bushels! This is equal
to one hundred and thirty-one and
one-quarter bushels to the acre! Talk
about the valleys of the Nile and the
Amazon; the Scioto and the Miami !
They are a barren waste compared with
our Missouri bottoms !-C1irO Bulletin.
A 'lovyer' i'm whom the Promethean
fire burns bright and effulgent, has
worked out the following elegant spe-
cimen of literature and rhyme: /.
"Oh! Sally It's my chief delite,
To gals upon your eyeSeS brite,
My luv for you, by gosh cirpasses
The luv fele for rum and 1asses.
A preacher not long since, discours-
ing to the boys i'm New Hampshire State
Reform School, upon the fact that the
good were respected, while the bad We're
Stunned, attempted to illustrate by
saying Now, boys, when walk on
the street, / speak to some and not to
others; what now makes the differ
ence ?' supposing of course, they would
say, Because some are good and some
bad;u but he was much astonished to
hear one little fellow sing out, "De-
cause some are rich, and some are
poor" e..1 .a,ro 30 5s e.osg
A good story was told US lately, of a
popular preacher In the town OF p,
in Pennsylvania, which we shall take
the liberty of producing. 1t appears
the Minister had been welded to most
worthy lady, whose first gift was a
dowry of ten thousand dollars, with the
promise of as much more upon the de-
cease of her invalid parent. Shortly
after her marriage, while occupying
the pulpit, he chanced to give out a
hynin, the fifth verse Of which COM
menced: