The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

n gentleman the other evening OBJ
ected to playing cards with lady be-
cause he said she had such q winning
way about her.
The deepest sea-sOundings ever taken
showed a depth of four miles and three
quarters, double the hight of the Andes.
A bachelor is politely described as a
man who has neglected his opportunity
of making some poor woman miserable.
The minister who divides his dis
courses into too many heads will find it
difficult to procure attentive ears for all
of them.
Ohio legislates that q bushel of BIZ
luminous coal weighs eighty pounds,
and makes it penal offense to sell coal
except by weight.
Josh. Billings says: "Thepe are lots
of folks i'm this world who, rather than
not find fault, wouldn't hesitate to tell
an angle-worm that his tail was alto
gether tew long for his body"
1t is said that i'm London "a child f.
born every five minutes" 1t must be
n little unpleasant for the child to have
the process repeated so often.
Some young men are little partial
to blue-eyed maiden; others like black
eyed lasses; but the mOn-eyed girls
have the most suitOrs.
No man has any right to manage his
affairs in such a way that his sudden
death would bring burdens and losses
on other people.
A writer describing the exodus from
Eden, says: "The devil drove woman
mt t.NfD Da h.,f H.
Paradise out of woman
"Pa," said lad to his father, "I
have often read of people poor but hon.
est; why don't they sometimes say rich
but hOnest?" "Tut, tut, my son, no
body would believe them," answered
| the father.
"If help that man who applies 10
me, l shall get no thanks for it." VEN
likely not. And if you do good in order
to get thanks for it, what are you moro
than the Scribes and Pharisees?
| In 1910 Memphis had no existence.
In 1920 she was credited with q popula-
ton of 1854; in 1880, 5,64S; i'm IS40, n
721; i'm 1850, 81 ,157; in 1880, S,092;
and in 1870, 1851. In Shelby county,
outside of Memphis, there are 81, AIS
natives white and black of the United
States, and only 1858 foreigners. The
natives, it will be seen, are almost ten
| to one.
That was profound philosopher who
| compared advertising to q growing
crop. He says: "The farmer plants
his seed, and while he is sleeping the
corn is growing. So it is with adver-
tising. While you are sleeping or eat
| ing, your advertisement is being read
| by thousands of persons who never saw
you or heard of your business, nor new
er would, had it not been for your ad-
vertisement.
The standards of beauty i'm woman
vary with those of taste. Socrates cali
ed beauty short-liyed tyranny; Plato,
| privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a
silent cheat; Theocritus, delightful
prejudice; Carneades, solitary king
dom; and Aristotle affirmed that it was
better than all the letters of recommen-
datiOn in the world.
Few are aware how very profitable
| sugar-cuiture in the South is when in
telligently and energetically pursued.
1t is far better to be a sugar than q
cOtton-planter. We see an account In
a New Orleans paper of a crop last year
which yielded 757 hOgsheads from 300
acres of land. As there is little more
labor i'm this than ON a eorn-crop, the
profit is easily figured, and can be seen
| to be enormous.