The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-10
VOL. XV.---NO. 40.
SUNDRIES.

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having been married year without
any divorce.
English grocers use chromate of lead
to an almost fatal extent in the adulte-
ration of sugar.
Some one says the best way for man
to train up child in the way it should
go, is to travel that way occasionally
himself. -
"I have the best wife in the world
said long suffering husband; "she
always strikes me with the soft end OF
the broom" ft
An Iowan gave his wife $1,000 to keep
safe during bis absence. She got an
other fellow to help her, and they have
kept it SO safe the husband can't find
it, nor them either.
A York State girl of spirit couldn't
stand her fathers reprimanding her, so
she placed herself beyond his jurisdic-
ton with bed-bug poison.
ALouisiana lady tried to fill a lighted
kerosene lamp, the other evening, and
now mourns the loss of her two young
children.
The anatomist who has discovered q
new muscle in the human body has ta-
ken out a patent, and no one can use
the muscle without paying royalty.
A Western man obviated all neces-
| sity for divorce, by advising his wife
| to light the fire with kerosene. He
thinks q divorce would have been
cheaper, as the stove was blown up
and ruined.
| oI, I, so
wife as "leaving his bed and board, I"
and then applied to her for a loan of .
dollar and q half to pay for the adyer-
| tisement.
Two boarding school girls, about to
leave for their homes took poison to
avoid separation. Being resuscitated,
each accused the other of trying to de-
ceive, and they became bitter enemies.
Paper napkins for table use have just
been introduced into the restaurants of
Germany. They answer for every pur-
pose for one using. Three of them cost
less than cent.
In speaking Of raising corn on "!elay
lands" in Georgia, q correspondent of
the Southern CHitirdtor estimates the
average crop, including good and bad
years, at ten bushels an acre.
Two girls, named Bennett and Locke,
aged about 10, have formed partner
ship and purchased good farm in
Warren county, Indiana. One of them
attends to the house, and the other
"bosses" the farm. They are said to
getting along nicely.
One of the most singular patents ever
=. - Harff1rI n
device of elongated pad plates and
adjustable elastic bands, for securing
the features Of a deceased person in
their natural position"
At the vote on the new constitution
of Illinois, the ballots are to consist of
copies of the same, the voter cancelling
with ink or pencil clauses of which he
does not approve.
Ben. Bolt has been convicted Of muir
der In the second degree, at Cecil, Md,
and sent to the State prison for eighteen
years. This is not the one to whom the
conundrunn was propounded in the
| song.
A gentleman at Charles City, Iowa,
sent seventy-five cents to New York,
recently, for a method of writing
without pen or ink. He received the
following inscription, in large type, on
a card: "Write with pencil"
A Colorado paper asserts that q dog
| which fell down an unoecupied shaft,
distance ofseventy feet, and remained
there forty-three days, was taken out
last week alive, though nearly starved.
In a Connecticut town the other day,
rs pastor of a church was walking up
the aisle, a good brother came out of o
pew and accOsted the good man, to in
quire &C. if he didn't warnt some good
yeller butter"
1t is stated that Notwithstanding the
heat the climate of Brazil is so damp
that it is necessary to air ones wear
ing apparel every few days to protect
them from mildew. Boots left stand
ing i'm the warmest place in room for
three days will be covered with blue
mould. The houses, however, with all
this dampness, are uncomfortably hot,
but at the same time healthy.
A reverend gentleman in the.Alford
district, Scotland, who habitually exer-
cises kindness to birds and animals,
receives daily visit from robin red
breast. The other day the bird as usu-
al entered his apartment, hoped on to
book in which he WAS writing, and
seized hold of his pen, holding 1t till
writing had to be given up, and some
attention paid to the little visitor.
Here is sermon short enough to sat
isfy any one. The most busy mortal in
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read it. But to fathom its significance,
will require more time and profound
thought than fall to the lot Of many in
dividuals. The clergymen cost the
United States $12, 900, 900 annually; the
criminals, $4O,0OO,OOO; the lawyers,
$50, coo, 600; intoxicating beverage, to
satisfy and increase depraved arpetites
$500, ,0O0,OOO -
Patrick Henry left In his will the fol-
lowing important passage TT have
now disposed of all my property to my
family; there is one thing more wish
l could give them, and that is the Chris
tian religion. II they had that, and l
had not given them one shilling, they
would be rich; and if they had not that
and / had given all the world, they
would be poor"
THE FUTURE PRICE OF COTTON
The time bids on cotton for the next
October are about nineteen cents, show
ing q strong conviction on the part Of
| the spectators that cotton will rule for
the next crop. below twenty cents. The
day for close economy, therefore, has
come. The planter who goes on the
big figure, in the way of corn and meat
buying next year will make a short
| trip of it. So asserts the Rome Ga,
| Courier.
"Jake," said blooming young lady
at Versailles, Ind, to her lover, one
Sunday evening, "ifyou mean business
by coming here twice a week, want
to know it, and if you mean fun, I'd
like to know it, for Ive just had an of
\ fer from another feller, and shall take
take him up i'm two days il you don't
pop" Jake popped" instanter, and
the wedding day was set.
Recently, Captain Mason, Of Way
Key, Florida, was standing on the
porch of his hotel, when an elderly lady
came out of the building. The rain
had been falling, and consequently the
middle of the street was wet. Il
should like to get across the street with
out wetting my feet" said the lady.
"I can help you to cross" the Captain
responded. "Oh, dear! shall feel so
much obliged to yOu," the lady said !;
"my feet have not been wet in twenty
years.. "For heavens sake, madam" !"
said the Captain, "don't show them to
me-"
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