The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-04-26
FRESHEST CLEAN INGS.

A Wisconsin hen laid an egg Oh
which was the inscription "war with
England 1772."
An asylum for Presbyterian widows is
to be establishedin Philadelphia.
A Connecticutter has invented an ex-
plosive kernel of corn, for the destrUc-
ton Of crows. .--..
The school fund in Minnesota now
amounts to 2,554 ,076 IL, in amount
the fifth in the United States.
French heels have at last succumbed
to the or.cry against them, and have
gone from our gaze.
The Juno, the Quakeress and the
Emma, are the latest discovered
species of " ducks of bonnets."
Louis Napoleon is said to be enamor-
ed of q young English lady of rank
residing near Chiselhurst, and Eugenia
is proportionately jealous.
Clava Swain, a graduate of the
Woman's Medical College, of Phila-
delphia, is winning golden opinions
and enjoying a large practice in the
East Indies.
An Indiana woman has put 9,424
patches into two quilts, and her brute
of husband says the effect of her work
has been to transform her into a cross
patch. ..E
A Buffalo girl has taken advantage
Of leap year to such an inOrdinate ex.
tent that she is engaged to seventeen
men, aud has been sued for breach of
promise by nine more.
A milkman accounted for the weak
ness of his milk by saying that the
cows were caught in the rain.
We frequently hear of a " flight of
steps, but we have never yet been able
to discover where they ely" to.
The table. which was "set in a roar"
has bean caught and presented as an
ornament to the lions cage at the
Regent Park Garden.
A fond wife threw bottle of hair
reviver at her husbands head, at
which he said, 1--WE must part-the dye
is cast. z E-E.. r---
Which is the worst enemy of society
the family that keeps a parrot, or
the one whose son is learning to play
the bugle2sTTc r
A uniform tobacco tax Of twenty
cents per pound has been decided on by
the Committee Of Ways and Means.
Gembetta has just bought the estate
OF Cbarbonnieuy, Department of the
Gironde, for / 800, 600 francs cash.
Lake Michigan has for some time
past been about fifteen inches lower
than its usual level, in consequence, il is
supposed, of the long drought.
The statement generally published
throughout the country that there was
new dangerous fifty cent fractional
curreHey note In circulation is denied at
the Treasury Department.
A gentleman of Ellsworth, Me-,
made a bet with his wife that he could
undress, go to bed, get up, dress, and
then undress and go TO bed again while
she was preparing to go to bed. Pc
won his bet. .,Ef -
An experimenting resident of Provi-
dence has perfected a remedy for dis
eased livers., 1t restores that organ
to such complete health that when
the person owning it dies, the liver has
to be taken out aad knocked on the
head with something before it is fit to
be buried.
Trees have been found in Australia
taller than those IN California, though
not as large. One has been measured
four hundred and eighty feet high. The
wood closely resembles the red cedar,
and the bark is sometimes eighteen
inches thick.
A story is told of a youthful member
of the bar at st. Adams. who plunged
into the glowing exordium in PIE
senting his case; he declared that
"when we look back upon the I'M
trodden paths of the future, we behold
the footprints of an Almighty hand"
The journal of the Telegraph" an
nounces that the seemingly wild prob
lem of transmitting messages both
ways at the same time on q single wire,
has at last been solved. 1t does not
work to perfection, but its entire pos
sibility has been completely demonstra-
ted.
In the wire mill at Trenton, n. J.,
a few days ago, an employe fell into a
vat of boiling copperas. The whole of
his body was covered with the flaming
poison. He was conveyed to his home
and attended by physician, who pro-
nounced the case hopeless. The skin
of the ill-starred man was totally
peeled off, and he suffered eXcruciating
fortunes.
The controversy between the West
ern Union Telegraph Company and
the Signal Service Department has re-
suited in the recommendation by the
Committee of appropriation of the sum
of S235, 600 as compensation for trans
hitting weather dispatches, instead of
S160,0G0 as paid last yaar.
One hundred thousand dollars per
annum is the lowest estimate of the
gain OF the United States Treasury by
the redemption of torn and worn out
paper currency. This amount is so
much tax, however, upon the circula-
ting medium, and represents but half
the actual result, as fully one hundred
Thousand more of the currency is de-
stroyed.
A Pennsylvania engineer has in
vented a plan of laying rails which
provides for The laying of two narrow
gauge tracks side by side, with q space
between the inner rails equal 10 the
present ordinary gauge of four feet
eight inches. This furnishes three
gauges, all of which it is proposed to
use. The marrow gauge will be used
for freight at a SLOW rate OF speed,
while for passenger traffic the W ide
gauge will be employed.
The great pyramid of Egyt weighs
1890, 000, 600 tons, and according to
Herodo.us il took the labor of one
hundred thousand men twenty years
to build II. DIR. Lardner affirms that
four hundred and eighty tons OF coal,
with an engine and hosting machine,
would have raised every stone to its
position.
President Orton states that each dol
lar of the Western Union Telegraph
Compsny's receipts costs it seventy
cents,-that is on the general average
of its business,-while for the weather
dispatches transmitted for government
it only gets sixty cents on the dollar,
or ten per cent. less than the actual
cost OF ordinary business, althogh they
are transmitted at much more than
the average Of expense and ineon-