The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-10-27
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The poet Whittier was once a shoe
maker.
The greatest grain port i'm the world
was Chicago.
Tbs ongest railroad in the world is
the Pacific.
The fastest city in the world-elec-
tricity.
Bacchus has drowned more men
than Neptune.
A fox should not be on the jury at a
gOOses's trial.
The potato blight has almost ruin
ed the crop i'm Ireland.
A German paper estimates the can
nibal race at l, 81, 900
A nude experimentation and Eve
leaving Eden.
A good word for bad one is worth
much and cost little.
Expect nothing from him who pro-
misses great deal.
Grieving for misfortune is adding
gald to the wormwood.
The largest aqueduct i'm the world
is the Croton Aqueduet, New York.
Towers are measured by their shad-
ows, and great men by their culmina-
tors.
Life insurance companies in Eng
land are falling to pieces at a suspici-
Gus rate of speed.
The largest city park i'm the world
Is in Philadelphia 1t contains over
two thousand acres.
VIII should young ladies set a good
example? Because young men are so
apt to follow them.
Why is the letter G. like death?-It
makes ghosts of hosts, and is always
in the midst of slaughter.
The national debts of the different
countries of the world amount To
twenty-five thousand millions of dol
lars.
Can you tell me what smile is?'
asked a gentleman of little girl
Yes sir; it is the wee whisper of a
laugh
Young people i'm Bavaria are not
allowed to wed until they satisfy the
government that they are able to sup
port themselves.
The stealing of nearly a million
dollars by j. Ledyard Hodge doesn't
amount to much. 1t is only little
piece of Republican lie yard-do-
main.
If children have no appetites, don't
force them to eat. Exercise, regular
habits, plain nourishing food and
happy minds, are their best medi-
cine.
Curran was once asked by one of
his brother judges. "Do you see any
thing ridiculous i'm this wig"
Nothing but the head"
The Kingdom of Bavaria being now
absorbed in the German empire, all
the Bavarian ambassadors to foreign
States are to be recalled.
The intense heat on the Pacific
coast continues. 1t has prevailed
since the beginning of September. In
Arizona many sun-strokes are repor-
ted.
The New York Evening Post thinks
the rapid decline of the fame of the
first Napoleon in late Years is one of
the surestS proofs of the moral pro-
gress of mankind,
SIT is not what a man makes. but
what he saves, that makes rich"
There are few men OfOrdinary indus
try who do not, i'm the course of u life
of fifty, produce u fortune; but by
dint of waste, or shiftlessncss, of want
of economy i'm the management of his
operations, it all slips through his
fingers, and he is as poor at the end rs
at the beginning of his life.
a cOlored preacher at a Georgia
camp-mecting is said to have told his
hearers they could neverentcr heaven
with whiskey bottles in their peck sts,
and urged them to "bring 'em right
up to the pulpit" and he would "ofIer
'em sacrifice to de LOrd.n Ii was
done; but the preacher was found i'm
capable when the hour Ofevening SER
vice arrived.
The "digger Indians" of the Pacific
slopes have an unpleasant c,,stom of
burying young infants alive with the
bodies of their deadmOther. Recent
ly young squaw of one of their
bands died, leaving papoose about
four months old, and it is authenti-
call y asserted that the child 'alive and
kicking" was placed on the body of
its dead parent and they were hurie,l
together.
A four year old, living just outside
of New York, was saying the Lords
Prayer ut his mothers knee. After
he had finished she said to him: Now.
Sandy, ask God to make you Il good
boy" The child hesitatetl, grew
thoughtful, and, after q few minutes,
looked up and whispered-''It's no
use, mamma-He won't do it, | tell
you, I've asked him ever so many
times"