The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-22
SUNDRIES.

When o mans heart OSSlfeS, or turn:
to bone, he dies at once; but if it petri
fies, or in other words, turns to stone
he invariably lives too long for any
useful purpose. i.{,T.,o1s .,.i.,f.
Charles Dickens wrote only half o
his last story, The Mystery Of Edwin
brood" twill be published as far q
written and no one will be permitted
THE idea of a National Catholic
Church is making progress in Bohemia
The grand celebrations lately made in
honor of John Huss have added to The
popularity of the movement. .ii'li I".i Q
Frenchmen, Of suicidal turn: of mind
take to hanging as the most preferable
means Of self-destruction; then comes
drowning, theti suffocation by charcoal,
and hasty POISON - 8f Lifil -
There is a small vinyard in Paris near
the ancient arsenal garden which has
buds and leaves, blossoms and grapes
four days i'm advance of any other VIM
yard in the region. o.. -lu ~T,-s-t7
"A bronze automaton at Venice, re-
Gently knocked out curious travellers
brains with q hammer. The traveller
got his head between the hammer and
the bell just as the automatOn struck
the hour.
Mamma" said an intelligent little
girl, "what is the meaning of a book
being printed in 12mO?r " Why, my
dear,n replied the mother, ait means
the book viii be published in twelve
mOnths.n 0 ".- ''Lli-t i''''
1t is estimated that not less than
fourteen thousand actual iabOrers are
at work on the different railroads in
Alabama. OF this number the MAORI
ty are on the South and North and the
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroads.
The annual report of the Insane Asy-
lum at Tuscaloosa, Ala, states that OF
the inmates, eighteen were sent there
by whiskey, seventeen by religious ex-
element, and one by tobacco. i!-i
An acrobat at Davenport, England,
who was in the habit of allowing a
stone to be broken on his chest with a
hammer tried one stone too many.
The stone broke without being noticed,
and the second blow fell on his chest.
He was buried next day. -.... B..
The Countess VolsOmachi, who mar
ried. as her first husband, the celebra-
ted Bishop Heber, died recently in
England, in the eighty-first year of Eer
age. She was the youngest daughter OF
Dean .Shipley, of st. Asaph, and a
niece of Sir. William Jones, the Orien-
tai scholar. -,+f7 ei"'
Oconomowoc, about thirty miles from
Milwaukee, is called the fisherman's
paradise. 1t is situated between two
lakes, one emptying into the other
over a fall of nine or ten feet, and with
in a circuit of a dozen miles are about
twenty lakes, from one to three miles
i'm length.
In st. Paul, Minn., little girl while
drawing her baby brother about the
yard i'm wagon, accidentally upset it,
and the baby was slightly hurt. The
girl was so terrified that she dropped
down as if shot, and her parents found
her dead. I'D. ...i
A teacher, wishing to explain to a
little girl the manner in which lob
ster casts its shell, when it has out
grown it, said: "What do you do
when you have outgrown your clothes?
You throw them aside, don't you ?'
"Oh, no,n replied the little one, 1--WE
let out the tucks." ......,..........
In the case of Hill versus Ribbetts,
where the inheritance of the property
of the late Mr.. White, of Yorkshire,
amounting to GOO, 900, was claimed by
a daughter born in New York, the
claim was barred by proofs of valid
Scotch marriage of deceased previous to
his marriage in New York. .''H
A Californian was boasting in the
presence of the Boston excursion party
in San Francisco, the other day, of the
immense size of the seals in California
waters. "Ah," replied one of the par
ty, not to be outdone by the Californian
even i'm the matter of seals, "but you
should see the great seal of Massachu-
settsn -..r..
. Lawyers have ludicrous habit of
themselves with their eli
ents by speaking i'm the plural number.
u Gentlemen of the jury" said wes-
tern lawyer, "at the moment the po-
Iiceman says he saw us i'm the trap, /
will prove that we were locked up in
the station house in state of intoxica-
tion.n ,....
Miss Mulock says to parents that the
lime must come in every family when
it is the children's right to begin to
.hink and act for themselves, and the
parents duty to allow them to do it;
when it is the wisest gradually to slack
IN authority, to sink 81 command"
ntO 81 wish," and to grant large free
lom of opinion, and the expression of
L.
Dickens is said to have given, in Mr..
Wilkins Micawber, playful and ex-
portrait of his father, Mr..
John Dickens, an impecuniOus clerk i'm
.he Navy Pay Office, whose overdue
g notes" Charles collected and paid.
IF that is true, we would think less of
Dickens no true man make the world
merry by laughing at the foibles of his
ather.
Master Charlie, aged four years, was
not pleased ON being reproved by his
mother for some mischievous prank,
md showed his displeasure in his face,
when his mother remarked, "Why,
Charlie, am astOnished to see you
faces at your mother! Char
lie frightened up at once, and retOrted,
q Why, / meant to laugh; but, man.
ma, my face slipped"
"My son." said a gentleman the
)ther morning to a siX-year old urchin,
9 / wish you to 60 on an errand to your
house to-day" 1t is
impossible" was the reply, al belong
% the Highfyer and Tiger ball clubs,
md both play match to-day, the one
n the morning and the other in the
afternoon. Give me forty cents for a
)all." .a. .f.ra
Professor S., of Hartford, said the
,ther day that he felt uncomfortably
tiff and caught cold, perhaps
md he lay down on a lounge and re-
Iuested his friend w. to knead and rub
linn after the movement cure style.
W. gently beat him on the chest. ''How
hollow it sounds" said K, who was
ooking on. ".That's nothing" said
w.; wait till I get to his head"
A resident of Chelsea, VT, named
Andrews, has been arrested for alleged
.ruelty to q faithless lad for whom he
vas guardian. The boy ran away to
he village and Andrews after him.
)n their return, when beyond the ken
If the village, it is alleged that An
lrews took the boy out of the wagon,
litched him up beside the horse, and
hen drove him home, a distance of
bout four miles, giving him a crack
With his whip whenever he failed to
,eepup. o.
A resident of Liberia, who was lee
uring i'm this country says: "The use
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