The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-05-06
SUyDRIES.


n 4 girl killed herself by "jumpin
$ the rope" 800 times at Pittsburg,, rt
e Gently.
! In New York, houses that rented fo
I 81, 900 last year can now be had for s.,
: O0o.
: If your wife "kills you with laugh
= ing" what crime does she cause to b
perpetrated? Why, man's-laughtel
: Il feel" said an old lady, "that Pv
# got about through with this world.
l shan't enjoy much more trouble"
G DIR. Thomas c. Durant, the inspirin,
genius of the Pacific Railway, has Civ
e EN- $4,000 to the Albany Medical Col
e lege.
A Connecticut man has worn TN
same hat to church for forty years. /
I has been in style seven times durin.
that period.
: Thirty thousand natives are said I,
have perished from cholera i'm Zanzibar
during six weeks, last year.
) Mr.. Bonner paid Mr.. Greely $aO, so
, for his +" RecollectiOns, the same tina
he paid Mr.. Beecher for his NORWOOD
story, according to a recent correspon
, dent.
Madam de Stacl defined happiness {,
be u state of constant occupation upOi
: some derirable object, with a continue
sense of progress toward its attainment
The population of New York is esti
mated at a million, yet there are only
about 1900 real estate holders in the
city. This gives 9S5 out of every 1,OOt
persons occupying hired property.
An old maid went to one of the life
insurance agents at Columbia, Mo-, q
few days ago, and desired TO insure her
life. When she found that she would
have to tell her age before she could in
sure, she abruptly turned OH her heels
aud left the office.
Mr.. Hewlett writes To the London
Times that OH March 18th spot was
visible on the sun, indicating disrup-
ton Of the solar photOspherc to the
enormous extent of not less than IL, ,0O0-
900, 600 square miles, or eight times the
supertices of the terraqueous globe.
! DIR. Thayer, the circus man, who
busted up so regular last fall, and had
his monkeys and things sold by the
sheriff in Cincinnati, has organized an
other circus at Erie, and is on the war
path again. Those circus people don't
stay failed any more than newspaper
men.
| The bone of u deer has been found
| imbedded i'm the solid wood of large
poplar tree, near Bridgeton, Ind. In
/ converting the tree into logs the saw
came i'm contact with the bone. 1t was
16 feet from the base. The tree was
three feet i'm diameter, and supposed to
be 100 year old.
4 girl only four years of age, resid-
ing with her parents i'm Marion, Va,
has mustache and whiskers, the hair
upon the forehead extending to the eye
brows, and a very heavy head of hair,
exceeding black, extending below the
shoulders. The child is quite sprightly,
with full developed limbs and we'll
formed body.
a poor young man has been Kept
four years and half in the massachu-
sets State Prison for a crime of which
he had no knowledge, yet he was con-
victed upon what appeared to be the
clearest evidence. His innocence was
discovered by the confession of the real
culprit, who found his way to the same
prison for some other ofiense.
OF the causes of suicide, mental dis
order is the most active, one-third of
all cases that occur being tracable to it;
one-niHth to physical suffering; one
eighth to loss of property; One-tenth to
remOrse, shame, or fear of punishment;
one-eighth to family troubles; one
ninth to gambling and other vices, and |
a very small proportion to disappointed
love.
The bull fights at the Agricultural |
Hall in London, have been discontin- |
ued. The bulls were so very small in |
size and so exceedingly mild and inof
fensive i'm conduct, that the agility and |
address of the picadOrs and the mata- |
dnres were quite thrown away. The |
element of contest was wanting, and
the spectators, instead of getting zap
turously excited, only laughed.
An Indiana temperance orator says:
The drains paid for every year in In
diana amount to enough to erect /, AS
such buildings as the State University
Is in each county in the State. 1t would
cndow so such universities. 1t would
defray the expenses of the institution
for >, IA years. 1t would dcfray the
expenses of all the students now in at
tendance for 2i0 years"
\ paragraph is going the rounds
about q girl in Chester, VT, dying from
tight lacing. An editor commenting
ON the fact, says:
"TheSe cOrscts should DC done away
with, and if the girls can't live without
being squeezed, we suppose men can be
found who would sacrifice themselves.
As old aS We are, we would rather de-
vote three hours a day without cent
of pay, "a Il brevet corset, than see these
girls dying off in this manner. Office
hours almost any time"
\ Baltimore correspondent writes -
Thunder sours milk and kills oys-
tcrS. You may load a vessel to its ut
most capacity, start for market, and ,
Dne good round clap of thunder will
kill every oyster i'm the vessel immedi-
uely. Founding with an AK upon the
leck of u vessel when oysters are there
Oh or pounding upon the sides of ves-
,cl with a heavy weight, willki every
oyster that feels the JAR But thunder
retches them the first pop"
Rev. DIR. Talmage thus eulogizes ,
geese: They are worth more than an
,agle any day, have better morals, and [
pluck more nutriment out of the mud ,
Lhan eagles do out of the sun. Save for
Fourth of July Orations, eagles are of
but little worth-filthy, cruel, ugly at
he beak, fierce at the eye, loatbsOme
1t the claw. But give me flock of
geese, white-breasted, yellow-billed.
coming up ut nightfaIl with military
ramp, in single file led OH, till, near !
he barnyard, they take wing, and,
with deafening clang, the flying artil-
cry wheel to their bivouacs for the
night.
The present consumption of wood i'm ;;
he United States is enormous. One
hundred and fifty thousand acres of the
,cst timber is cut every year to supply
he demand for railway sleepers alone.
For railroad buildings, repairs, and cars,
he annual expenditure i'm wood IS $685.
10000. In single year the Iocumo-
ives i'm the United States eonsumeS $50.
D0, 900 worth of wood. There are, i'm
he whole country, more than 400, 100
artisans i'll wood; and if the value of
heir labor is 81 800 year each, the
wood industry of the country repre-
ents an amount Of nearly 500, ,O06, 900 ,
per annum.
The marketmen Of Boston have "a
Iad habit of putting old lIoreshocs and
,ther heavy articles inside of fowls 10 ]
make them weigh more. \ gentle Z
nan, in carving turkey lately at dim /