The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-02-03
STNDRIES.

MeteOrs were so scarce in 1870 as t,
he hardly worth quoting.
The free drinking of milk at al anti
dote to lead poisoning has been recon-
| mended by numerous scientific jour
nails.
Fincastle, Va, has real live ghos
on exhibition.
Brigham Young has fifty-six children
at Deseret Seminary.
Martin Farquhar Tupper has failed
in England as a reader of poetry.
Rev. Gilbert Haven, of Boston, re-
fused the editorship ofthe Independent
salary $4,000.
Nettie, the youngest daughter of the
late Gen. Sam. Houston, is spend
ing the winter at Louisville.
Gen. Prim left about five million dol
lars, but it is in real estate, not imnne-
diately convertible into each.
AT Titusville, Pa, Saturday, John
Gilpin raised a 10-pound dumb-bell p
$50 times without stopping.
Manzoni, the illustrious poet of Italy,
has reached his S7th year, and mental
ly he is as vigorous as ever.
Mr.. Beecher has finally given way
to earnest entreaty, and accepted the
$4,000 addition to his salary.
Miss Lane, beautiful and accom-
plished young lady teacher at Hopking-
ton, n. H., has been States-prisoned
for forgery.
Mrs. Clara Nash, of Columbia, New
Hampshire, after studying law with
her husband, has become Justice of
the Peace.
The Pope has been invited by an
Irish member of Parliament to come
and live on his estate in Ireland.
George Baird, of stitchell, England,
died lately, leaving an estate of sever
al millions, and the stamps for the in
ventory thereof cost over S67, 900.
Mr.. Richard Wallace, the heir of the
late Marquis of Hertford, has just given
about $40, 600 to the city Of Paris, TO
buy fuel for the POvr. He had previ-
Ously given 1000 10 the French am
bulance service.
A correspondent of the T6StCJW
PU0y says he cures chickens affected
with cholera by mixing coal-oil with
their feed or drink.
Several farmers i'm Florida are said
to have been quite successful in the
culture of bananas.
The mortal remains of an American
mosquito were recently presented at
the museum of a scientific association
in England, and the donation duly re-
porte d in the journals. ~
Sixty six per cent. of the population
of Chicago have no religious belief,
according to religious paper publish
ed there.
The Gentle population of Utah Is
opposed to making a State of that Ter
Iitory, fearing the election of Brigham
Young as Governor.
A Virginia correspondent says the
pure Berkshire or Essex are the only
hogs that stand the Southern sunbeams
and are free from mango.
Put finely powdered salt OH the can
die till it reaches the black part of the
wick. In this way mild, steady light
may be Kept through the night.
The result of ingenious scientific ex
pciiiutut SuOM tic tuifOhuiS HuhlDSl
of beats per secoLd for the wings of
each insect. The common fly, $50;
the drons, 240: the bee, 100; ths wasp,
10; the hawk-motb, %; the dragon
fly, 2s; and the cabbage butterfly,
which is inaudible, beats per second.
st. Patrick's Cathedral, New York,
when completed, will be the largest, |
most expensive and the finest building |
of the kind in this country. 1t occu-
pies an entire square on the east side |
of Fifth Avenue, and will cost over
81, 100000. Every thing in its con-
struction is paid for before it is used.
The cornerstone of the edifice was laid |
in August, 1858.
Professor Huxley is in favor of the
reading of the Bible in the English
common schools. He would have it
lone without any theological COM
ments, and judiciously as to selection ms
to be read. The ground of his advo-
cacy of the Bible is, that there must be
4 moral substratum to childA educa-
ion to make it valuable; and that
there is no other source from which
This can be obtained at all comparable
with the Billie.