The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-05-12
SUNDRIES.


German story-writers are about to
flood the world with war novels.
There landed in Canada last year
66, 0l9 immigrants, of whom A, 600 af-
forward left for the United States.
A Michigan paper claims that a wo-
man in that State lately increased the
population by five-a straight flush of
girls.
The London and Southeastern Rail-
way, leading to Dover, last year carried
$500, 600 passengers without a single
accident.
One California grape-grower has a
vineyard valued at $3.50, 900. 1t yields
annually from $50, 600 to $50, 600 worth
of grapes.
Very friendly relations are growing
up between Germany and Japan.
The German army is this month to
make its triumphal entry into Berlin.
Mississippi complains of the depre-
datiOns of vast numbers of horse
thieves.
A great demand for farm laborers is
reported from the agricultural districts.
There is a man in New York now
who owns n 900 acre dairy farm in
California.
The gaslights of Denver, Colorado,
are reported to be visible at a village
fifty miles distant.
The Paris journals declare, in spite
Of lcfn ps0 To- f,.oy hot
Napoleon is now worth 10000 600.
A desk at which Benjamin Franklin
is said to have learned to write, was
sold at auction in Newport, r. T., the
other day for ten cents.
The New York Commercial express
es the opinion that humbug seems as
necessary to the human family as good
harvests.
One of the leading English journals
says no event of the first Importance
was ever so badly reported as the pres
ent civil war in France.
The colored members of the House
of Representative have all taken seats
near together, on the left of the Speak
er, aud the location is already known
as Africa"
A citizen of Reading, Pa, is said to
have mourned the death of thirty-six
of his children. He is now fifty-five
years old, has had three wives, and has
four children living.
They have found in California a
mammoth mushroom, three feet in cir
conference, and weighing five pounds
eight ounces.
Josh Billings uttered a great truth
when he said: =" He who by his biz
would rise, must either burst or adver-
tize."
1t is said that bleeding from wound
II man or beast, may be stopped by
mixture of wheat flour and common
salt, in equal parts, bound on cloth.
A Sedalia editor says that girl who
is now called beautiful blonde"
would, a few years ago, have been
termed a "tow-head."
The great strawberry fields of New
Jersey and Delaware promise an I'M
usually abundant yield, this season.
The profits On this crop have been SO
great-$2, 900 per acre having been re-
allied sometimes from O single acre
that a largely increased area is put
under cultivation each succeeding
year. Strawberries and peaches ripen
in Delaware about ten days earlier than
in New Jersey.
Mark Twain, in introducing friend
by letter to some residents of Califor-
MIA, asks them to do all they can to
entertain him, and suggests, among
other things, that they call out vigi-
lance committee and hang man or
two.
A young minister, whose reputation
for veracity was not very good, once
ventured to differ with an old doctor
of divinity as to the efficacy OF the use
of the rod. Why" said he, " the
only time my father ever whipped me
it was for telling the truth" "Well."
retorted the doctor, it cured you of it,
didn't it?"
"My DEAR" said Mrs. Brumble to
her daughter, "yOu must have some
thing warm around you in the car
rage" Miss B. mentioned the request
of her mother to her beau, and he i'm
mediately complied with it.
A scientific writer in an English pa
per, in abiding to the commonly ac-
cepted theory that forests of leafy trees
promote rainfall, states that there are
certain kinds of trees, especially among
the Pinus tribe, that exert desiccat-
ing influence upon the soil, drying up
marshes as the new growth advances,
Some young rascals were annoyir,
an old gentleman by snow balling u
house. He rushed out and caugh
youngster who was standing as
looking Oh, and thinking him to "
one of the offenders, began to admiil
lister fiogging. But, to his surprise
the harder he whipped, the harder the
boy laughed, until he stopped anu
sought an explanation. "Well," said
the boy, "Im laughing because you
are SO awfully sold. YOU'RE licking the
wrong boy"
One nf the lay speakers in Me.hn;
dist Conference down East, illustrated,I
his readiness to fraternize with the
Southern brethren, and his feelings
toward them, by the story of the two
men that would not speak to each 9TH
err; but one having been converted at
a camp meeting, on seeing his former
enemy approach, held out his hand,
saying: Vow dye do, Kemp? i
am humble enough to shake hands
with dogv'
dered them TO the owner at the price he
paid. MFR. Woodside says he will pay
so cents on the dollar tor stock in this
road.