The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-11
SUNDRIES.

Paris ate 6SS horses last year.
The Emperor of Austria teaches bis
own children.
Eight theatres i'm London are man.
aged by ladies. s
Colorado has as many daily papers as
New Hampshire.
A little boy at Fort Laramie has
caught 500 worth of furs this winter.
The proprietress Of a drinking saloon
in Philadelphia, weighs six hundred
pounds.
According to a recent decision board
ing house people who serve hash are
obliged to take out license as manufac-
turerS.
A music seller was lately overpow-
cred by fastideous young lady, who
wanted to purchase "Mr. Hoods song
of gentleman's underyarment."
Eeigteen ladies are announced as
public lecturers this year. The number
who give private lectures Is not estima.
ted.
Queen Victoria has been not only
prolific but a provident woman. 1t is
stated that she has saved from her SAL
ary and perquisites Sl0,OO0,0OO. There
is widow worth going for.
Ont i'm Alabama down troddeu son
of Afrjca's burning soil, for q wager,
tried to drink quart of whiskey. He
succeeded, and his funeral took place
on Saturday.
The speed of an electric spark travel
ing over $ copper wire, has been escer.
tanned WhealstOne to be two hundred
and lightweight thousand miles i'm a
second.
A Georgia editor hearing of General
Sherman as the looming man." ex-
presses a feruent hope that he Is not
coming that way again.
A fire originated i'm Savannah last
week from the contents of kettle be-
coming infiamed, i'm which an article
of axle grease was being compounded.
A negro having it i'm charge was adj
vised to throw sand upon it, which he
was doing, with a prospect of success,
but another negro coming i'm recon-
mended drowning the fire with water,
and the result of this advice was the
burning substance flew all over the
room, setting it ON fire, and destroying
the premises.
In the willamette Valley, Oregon, on
the 10Th of December, tie flowers were
out, and the bees gathering honey;
strawberry vines and clover were i'm
bloom. This, in forty-six degrees of
north latitude. Some of the Oregon
country newspapers say that some of
the pears and figs second crOp,) had
fully ripened. A few ripe Strawberries
were i'm the market at Los Angeles, i'm
the southern part of California, OIL the
18th of November.
Probably the cheapest carriage of
mail matter i'm the United States Is that
between Rock Island and Newport, r.
/. The contract for carrying the mails
is let to the lowest bidder, and there be-
ing considerable rivalry at the time of
letting, the bids were accordingly low,
the successful party agreeing to perform
the duties for one cent per year"
The lowest terms ever before known on
the same route were four dollars.
A gentleman visited Atlanta one year
ago, bought a plug of tobacco from an
Irish clerk, and handed him what he
considered the proper change. Yester-
day he walked into tie same store for
the first time since the purchase of the
tobacco, and was handed the amount
he imagined he had paid for it. The
Irishman informed him that after he
had left the store, he found the two
bills of the same amount sticking to-
gether had been given to him by the
gentleman in question, and he took
this, the first opportunity, of refund
ing the amount Overpaid.-AHdnto IN
tedigenccr.
Before the recent excitements i'm Pa
ris. says correspondent, the American
colony there, especially recent impor-
tatiOns, have shown the usual avidity
for court presentation. The serious
question i'm these affairs il the decoleftc
feature for ladies past their youth, and
of lean habit. The court rule requires
bare neck and shoulders, but for those
of Pharoh's lean kline, and have no
pearls or diamonds to cover the bone
and shriveled flesh, the rule h exceed
ingly vexatious. So say the laslie~.
About two hundred swejes are now
en- route to the Water Valley, I'm Mis-
SISsIppt, to ROfsc F1outotHDH aIh
some industrial enterprises of Mr.. Ber-
gIund, one of their own countrymen,
who advances every cent Of the cost of
the journey Of these people from. the
icy north of Sweden to the center of
Mississippi. During February and
March Of this year 800 or SO persons
will be sent by the same gentleman,
under the same terms, to Mississippi.
THE most primitive postOfIice in the
world is to be found on the southern
extremity of America. For some years
past small barrel has been fastened
by an iron chain to the OutermOst rock
of the mountains Overhanking the
Straits of Magellan, Opposite Terra del
Fuego. 1t is opened by every ship
which passes through the Straits, Ell
ther to place letters In ii or to take let
tiers from it. The postOffice, therefore,
takes care of itself, it is confided to the
protection of seafarers, and there is no
example of any breach Of this trust
having occurred. Each ship under
takes the voluntary transmission Of the
contents of the barrel, if their destina>