The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-04

70 1c9V.
The Earl of Mentmore Is to b o.fse
title of R0thschild, and he is to be y
to the English House of Lords.
A lady of SpillvilIe, Iowa, recently
gave birth to four precious Jumps Of
incipient mortality, 1.-TWO boys and
two girls. -
An Illinois paper is trying to raise
the wind by putting the Hon. Sidney
Breese at the head of its columns for
President. -~lssssa,-.- .,ss.-s1.sss-ss-s.-s,.s,
Won Moltke don't intend to remain q
widower. He has, it is said, induced
Miss Won Vincse-Albendorf to agree to
change her name.
Sir Culling Eardley, the bigamous
baronet, who enjoyed very widespread
newspaper infamy in this country and
England two or three years ago, has
been heard from again. He is in Paris,
under arrest for swindling.
There are not so many Presbyterian
churches in New York city by TWO as
there were twenty years ago. Some
further reduction by consolidation of
congregations, it is believed, would
add to the future growth and power
of the Church.
A farmers wife, in speaking of the
smartness of her son, a lad of six years
old, said: "He can read fiuently, repeat
the whole catechism, and weed onions
as well as his father" "Yes, mother"
added the young hopeful, "and yester-
day licked Ned Rawson, throwed the
cat i'm the well, and stole old Hickley's
gimlet."
At juvenile party in Lowell, one
little fellow, rejoicing in the splendor of
his new clothes, sidled up to another
with the triumphant remark, "You
amt dressed as well as am" WELL"
retorted the other, al can lick you,
anyhow (which is what is often
thought, but never so well expressed, at
parties of a larger growth.
The New England school marms are
relentlessly opposed to the election of
women as directors. With a board
composed of that element, they say, the
female educators would have no chance
of employment, for the preference
would always be given to pretty-faced,
long-haired persons of the pantaloon-
attic sex.
The Troy Times is responsible for the
statement that a couple were married
the other day at Plainfield, Otsego
county, partook of their wedding din
ner at Winfield, Herkimer county;
took tea in Bridgewater, Oneida county,
and were all the time under the same
roof. The house stands "across the
lines"
An Iowa paper hastens TO make this
correction: ave reported that Mr.. ID.
A. Dodd's wife had seven pairs of
twins and two odd children during ten
years of married life. We were wrong.
MIR. Dodd, just i'm our office, informs US
there are eight pairs of twins and three
odd ones, nineteen i'm all-ten girls and
nine boys--in fourteen years, aud they
are all living"
A benefactor of the human race has
invented, in London, a "digitarium,n-
a small dumb piano, upon which pupils
can learn the whole art and mystery of
piano and organ playing without max
ing any noise. Where is the benevolent
instrument maker who will confer a
boon upon America by introducing
here this nOblest of modern inventions?
The Government of Madagascar has
certainly taken time by the foreIock.
Gold ore having been found in that
island, it at once prohibited the search
for more, and we may be sure ordered
what was found to be thrown away.
The reason is, that 'ifgold is discovered
in remunerative quantities, there will
be such a rush of Europeans to the
country as will dispossess the native
Inhabitants a..s
At Mansfield, Ohio, the retail liquor
dealers have invented the following
mode of avoiding the penalty Of the
State Liquor law, which gives the wife
the right of action for damages against
the man who sells strong drink to her
husband. The wife valves her right to
action by signing the following card:
ITO -, L hereby authorize you 70 give
my husband whatever he wants to
drink, so long as he can stand up and
pay for it."
A devoted worshiper in a Rhode
Island church, having large interest
in patent medicine factory, lately of.
fered the pastor two hundred dollars "a
year for the privilege of having brief
notices" read from the pulpit every
Sunday-agreeiDg to offer none more
worldly" than some of these customa-
rily read in the sacred desk. The offer
had too much of the flavor of profane
business in it, and was declined.
A New Orleans man, "of a peculiarly
saturnine and unpleasant disposition
took his eighteen-mOnths-Old child.
and placing it at the door of u neigh Dor,
left with his wife for st. Louis. The
foundling was advertised by the report
ers, and the circumstances attracted the
attention of lady. An interest she
could not account for compelled her to
inquire into the matter, when she dis
covered that it was her own grandchild,
being her worthless son-in-law's third
fOun ling.
We infer from occasional remarks i'm
the Baltimore papers, that a prejudice
exists against the practice of "saltingr
snow on the car tracks. One of the
says: ",rhis salt slush is
ruinous to leather, and also to gum
shoes and boots, and damaging to
clothing. But this is the least of the
evil. The intensely cold, damp atmos-
phere engendered, penetrating to the
very marrow of the bones, is murderOus
to health, especially where there is
to lung and throat afiec-
.iOns.n
TIE Chicago Times says: "L.ast Sun
lay evening, Mr.. Jerry Monroe, pro-
prietor of the Crystal Palace saloon, ON
State street, performed some pistol
shooting most extraordinary. With a
Smith d Wesson seven-shoOter pistol,
1t distance of ten PAGES, he struck the
ice OF diamonds on card held between
he thumbaBd forefinger of Mr.. Frank
Nye, otherwise known as Dutch
Frank Afterward Monroe loaded
gun walking-cane, and at distancefo
ten pace fired at lemon resting on
Dutch Franks head. Seven shots
were fired, and seven lemons were
pierced through and through, without
hair. The feat is only the
more remarkable when it is taken into
the kind of gun made use
Df by the skillful marksman."