The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-04-15
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In Wyoming the young ladies share
the expenses Of cOurting.
Paris has, according to the latest es-
timafe, !, 300, 900 Inhabitants.
1t is said that Francis Joseph is the
most profane monarch Of Europe
! A Boston druggist, who gave lauda-
mum instead of rhubarb, and killed his
man, has been fined $50.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has a
petition one hundred feet long against
horse racing. 49, -
The New York Masons are To erect
an asylum for aged Masons and or
phans, to cost S50O, 900.
The University of Vienna has decid-
ed to open its medical lectures and con-
fer medical diplomas on women.
In some French cities there are wine
shops for women only, and drunken-
ness among working women is said to
be ON the increase. *
The French Prince Imperial is said
to be clever with his pencil, and has
drawn a portrait of himself for his god
father, the Pope.
The city of Moscow has 399 public
schools, attended by $50 children of
both sexes, being one child for every
eighty-fiye inhabitants.
A Florida negro was two years ago
so terrified at the cars that he had to be
blindfolded TO get him aboard. Now
he is Senator and director of the rail-
road.
Frogs are easily pleased. A German
professor has discovered that if you
take out the brain, and then rub a wet
finger down the frogs back, the crea-
ture will croak with delight.
A squire in indianapolis married a
couple the other day, adapting the SER
vice to modern times by pronouncing
them man and wife "until separated
by law"
L A Frenchman in Bondsyille, Mass,
recently gave the hand of his daughter
in marriage in consideration of forty
dollars in money and one months ser
vice from her youthful suitor.
An Indianapolis grocer has been
married three times anddivorced twice
within year, and now has the same
wife be started with.
Several Chicago merchants have en-
gagged handsome young ladies to collect
their outstanding accounts. The plan
is said to work well, only the bachelors
rather like that kind of dunning.
Smoking clubs are becoming very
popular institutions in England. One
of the oldest clubs is called the Angels
Smoking Club, a curious combination
of names. Asmoking angel has as yet
not been conceived by the most imag-
NATIVE beings.
At late ball in Siberia, "a lady, the
wife Of Siberian merchant, wore dia-
monds valued at one hundred thou
sand dollars. A dress worn on the
same occasion is said to have cost
twenty thousand dollars.
Albany has magnificently dressed
young lady--a blonde, of course-whO
engages little school girls in CONVERSE
ton on the street, and then cuts of
their blonde tresses. She claims to be
q "kleptomaniac."
A woman i'm Missouri hung herself
because her husband went to California.
Next week dozen more started, but
their wives wouldn't hang worth a
cent, and the poor disconsolate devils
have all returned broken-hearted.
A poet who is prematurely bald, ex-
ciises it in this ingenious and compli-
mentary manner: Badness he
says, "is only a proof of politeness paid
to the beautiful sex. Is it not the duty
of gentleman always to uncover his
head in the presence of ladies ?"
Philadelphia has a novel will case.
1t appears that a man and his wife each
made q will in favor of the other at the
same time, but by some blunder the
man signed his wife's will, and the wife
signed her husbands. Not until after
the death of the husband was the mis-
take discovered.
Manfrini, famous Venetian, made
a great fortune by monopoly of tObac-
co. The following anecdote is told as
an instance of his magnificence in COM
mon affairs: Washing is bad i'm Venice,
for there Is no fresh water, except what
is brought from the main-land. Man.
frini had four thousand shirts; and used
10 send two thousand of them at a
time to he washed i'm Holland.