The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-09
sUyDRIES.

IleS III SeNersll counties III OnlO.
A deacon is being churched at Scran
ton, Pa, for saying "by thunder"
The wife of President Jaurez is hope
lessly i'll with cancer in the stomach
A Maine farmer gets up an hour be
fore daylight, so as to put IN % hours
day.
Grasshoppers are at their old tricks ol
stopping trains on the Union ana Ia
cific Railroad.
A Janapese potentate, IS years old,
has a promising family OF 33 sons and
As daughters.
The census returns indicate that
Maine has O populatiOn of about 5000
less than in 1860.
A French writer says there are but
four great social ideas, viz: Birth, mar
riage, Paris and death.
Not long ago somebody started news
paper called the Eye Of Mississippi.
That eye is now closed in death.
A region of salt 10 miles square,
? where it covers the ground like gravel,
has been found in New Mexico.
If you are invited to breakfast by
Queen Victoria, remember that five in
the afternoon is her hour.
Awriter says that it was shameful
for Napoleon to leave Eugenie and go
to Nancy, seeking another engage
ment.
A celebrated German physician says
that tobacco eXerts useful influence
on the human body and its functions" I"
A Virginia farmer says that he had
rather have keg of shingle nails than
all the scenery on the banks Of the PO-
tomac.
The Cape of Good Hope diamond
fields are no humbug. Probably GlO0,-
600 worth have been picked up by Eu-
ropeans alone.
Under the census to be taken April
|, 1872, the population of London is
expected to fall little, if any, short of
3, 80, 900.
The brilliant planet now visible in
the sky is Saturn. 1t arises about sun
set, and arrives on the meridian little
before midnight.
Mackerel fishing along the coast of
Maine is said to never have been better
than at present. Three hundred ves-
sells are engaged it.
A gentleman i'm New York advertises
to teach the popular study of filtration
in all its forms ane branches i'm six les
SONS, at 500 a lesson. E.EFF
An Irish girl having been sent to the
postoffice for the mail came back to in
quire whether it was Indian mail or
corn mail that was wanted. .
Worm lozenges sold i'm several Mas
sachusetts towns, have been analyZed
and found to contain strychnine, in a
quantity calculated to cause damage if
not death.
- A proposed wedding between Kan
sas damsel of 50 and a youth of IL was
objected to by the boys mother, who
declared "he was no match for that
old woman" %
The total eclipse of the sun, to occur
December -, is not forgotten even in
the excitement of the war. Scientific
parties are preparing in all parts of the
world to observe 1T. tt
Apple trees i'm Orrington, Me-, which
We're stripped by the serious tornado
of few weeks ago, have again bios
somed and commenced spring business
anew. Locust trees have also bios
sOmed. -
English shop girls who are employed
in grouping and arranging flowers, suf-
fer from headache and feverishness,
caused by the odor of the flowers, which |
they are obliged to inhale all the time. |
1t is said that hoop poles are used as
a circulating medium i'm Crawford CO., |
Indiana, passing as readily for store |
goods,n taxes, marriage licenses, Bit |
tiers, and all other kinds of truck, as
greenbacks.
Treves is the oldest town i'm Prussia. |
1t was captured by Julius Caesar before |
Christ was born, and made the capital
of Gaul. 1t was i'm French hands in the |
last century, but was given back to
Prussia i'm 1915.
A wildcat attempted to take baby |
out of its cradle in a cabin near Man. |
kato, Minn., but little black and tan |
dog attacked it and fought it until the
mother came i'm and drove the wild
beast out with a brand of fire.
The act of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture, prohibiting persons who have not
graduated with the degree of M. d., or
who have failed to take out county
license, from practicing medicine, is be-
ing enforced in that State.
The vessel i'm which DIR. Kane made
his famous voyage to the North Pole
now lies at Bowen's wharf, Newport.
She is owned by Captain Hopkins, of
that city, her name having been chang
ed to the United States.
The oldest living member of the Ma
sonic fraternity i'm this country, if not
in the world, is said to be David Styles,
of Prescott, Wis. He is i'm his 105th
year, and was made a Mason ON the
2lst of May, 1877, over 73 years ago.
Twenty-Five cents worth of alcoholic
beverages may totally unfit man for
business; 30 cents worth may place
his property at the disposal of a swind-
Ter, and 75 cents worth may cause him
to murder his wife, or his child or some
other human being.
Many people have observed the dis
agreeable odor eXhaled by water in
which flowers are kept in badly venti-
lated rooms; this condition may he
prevented altogether, or lessoned in a
great degree, by placing a few iron
nails in the water. This use of iron af-
fords a cheap means of preserving
drinking water.