The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-03
SUNDRIES.

~ cihN. AuC ScutieuluLl, dittt ~ COn-
siderable time recovered from the af
;, fection.-DR. ABERCRoMBfE.
SUNDRIES.
"What is whiskey bringing now ?''
Thousands of women to want and
/ wretchedness.
An Antioch (Cal. Chinaman, wish
ing to purchase eggs, call for "chieken
nuts"
One million panes of glass were ire
vocably smashed by the Philadelphia
hail storm.
Two-thirds of the expert pickpockets
in New York city are females under e
years of age.
Josh Billings says One of the ftIssi-
] estscenes l ever seed wuz ? old maids
waitin' on one sick widower.
General Longstreet participated in
the colored peoples Fifteenth Amend
ment celebration i'm New Orleans.
Jenny Lind Is so embarrassed i'm her
pecuniary affairs that she thinks Of
opening singing school i'm Paris.
What nuisance that word "if" is |;
it stands in the way like the danger sig-
ma, of railway, and stops every
where.
A tiger was recently shot ON the road
between MOol and Chandah, India,
which is supposed to have killed and
devoured Ia human victims.
A lizard, Ave and a half inches long,
was found, on post naortcm examina-
ton, in the heart of an OK which re-
Gently died at fremont Center, Long
Island.
A Mississippi paper says: ave are
fearful the frost, day before yesterday,
killed the acoTns. If so, the hogs will
have to go shaif-mast' next fall"
A man registered his name at De-
troit hotel, and added: "TIle man who
is the word and spirit of Christ" The
landlord made him pay in advance.
Everett graduated when he was IL;
Claiming when he was IS; Moses Stu
art when he was 49, Prescott when he
was IS; and Ralph Waldo Emerson
when he was Is.
A lady correspondents of the Idepei-
dent asserts authoritatively that Queen
Victoria is utterly opposed to female
suffrage, much to the disgust of strong
minded British matrons.
Troy young ladies carry little bottles
of cayenne in their pockets, and when
rude fellows of the laser sort, being
strangers, accost them on the streets,
make their eyes smart for it.
About IS grinders of organs were liz
censed at Boston, one day lately. They
were most Italians, and are accumula-
ting money to send home, to enable
their relatives to come and grind.
French doctors have classified a new
insanity -" Zoanthropes "--or those
married people whose love becomes
changed into hate by jealously or gem
eral repugnance, aud cannot get on.
Georgia is about to do a great busi-
nesss in dried blackberries. She has
orders to ship large quantities to Cali
fornia, where they find ready market
at high prices. North Carolina has
also heavy orders to the same effect.
A Western local appends the follow
ing to a marriage notice: "The dream
of bliss has become q reality, and rs
they stood there-hand i'm hand-im-
paradised, each in the others love-we
thought life and love could afford no
happier Eden-unless we might change
places"
New York, adopted resolution ap-
proving the Methodist form of marri-
age ceremony, which recognizes the |
proper relation existing between hus-
band and wife, by substituting for the |
word "obey" the words "you mutual
ly agree"
They also resOluted i'm condemnation
of the ownership by husband of his
wife as illustrated by the Mcfarland
case, and expressing sympathy with
Mrs. Mcfarland. All the speakers
found fault with the verdict, and said
if the jury were honest in it Mcfarland
should be sent to the insane asylum.
The Sorosisters adopted resolution of
admiration for Mr.. A. ID. Richardson.
Cards were i'm existence before the
time of Charles ", of France. The
figures on them are however, symbolic
of the four great French orders. Clubs
mean the trefoil or three-leayed clover,
and designate the husbandmen. Dia-
mOnds designate the merchants and
or square tiles having
been formerly used i'm calculations.
Spades the military order, being meant
to represent the heads of lances (spado
for sword).
Several correspondents recommend
the use of permanganate of potasad
for purifying water frCm the impuri-
ties derived from coal smoke.
Of the salt tC give the faint
est possible tinge to the water is re-
to be added, and as the
colOring property of this salt is very
great, little used in this way would
purify large quantity of water. Af-
ter standing twenty-four hours the
will all be pretipitated,
and the sudsing property of the wa
ter is not impaired.
Any person may analyze lozenges,
opaque candy, or sugar-plums, by SIM
ply dissolving in water. If the water
remains transparent the candy is pure,
but if milky or depOsiting sediment,
terra-alba or some equally harmful adj
has been used. The above
will not, however, be nee
essary to convince any one that con-
fectionery is largely adulterated, for it
is only necessary to go to large whole
salers and ask their prices, which they
will quote for both the pure and inn
pure articles The quantity of terra
alba eaten in confectionery is terrific.
The New York Telegram says: "Wil-
liam B. Astor is declared by those who
ought to know to represent SO, ,OOO, 900;
A. Il. Stewart, $4,000, 900; Cornelius
$50, 1000, 900; Daniel Drew,
s6, ,0O0, 600; George Law, S6,OOO,OO0;
August Belmont, 5000, 600: Samuel
n. Pike, S7,00O,000; James Fisk, Jr.,
50, oO0, 600; James Lennox, 5000, 600;
and two or three hundred others are
estimated from two to five
millions. 1t is stated that there are
TWO thousand persons in New York
who are worth, at the lowest calcula-
ion $500, 900 apiece"
|