The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-01
VARIETIES.
-Leipsic i. at present the largest
in Carsnonvv

-Leipsic ia at present the largest
university in Germany.
The King of Saxony has in press a
translation OF ofShakespeare's "Hamlet. %
The Empress of Austria spends an .
nually fifty thousand forms for her
wardrobe.
The artificial manufacture of ice ia
becoming leading industry in the
Southern cities.
1t hss been lately discovered that
Phoenix Park, Dublin, covers an im-
mepse bed of coal.
Six thousand novels have been
published in France this year, up to
the lst of August.
The aggregate circulation of the
daily papers In Berlin is one hundred
and ffty-nine thousand.
"A child at Milwaukee Gisd of
fright while being photographed. She
evidently got tad impression.
The Austrian Government has pro-
hihited the sale of the German trarsla>
ton Of the Life of James Fisk"
The King of Belgium is SO averse
to horse back riding that he never at
tends reviews OF his troops.
"A bookseller has feen prosecuted
for offering for sale file Of HoodhuU
and CiGfin's Weekly in Berlin.
The present Gar of Russia is 81 in
temperate that his physicians say he
cannot live for many months.
The Pope is studying German. His
quarrel with Bismarck ard d ,i:inger
renders that language peculiarly inter-
esting to him. ...7-. -....
The King of Holland has been sued
for alimony by a woman who claims
that he married her before he was mar
ried to his present wife.
.-"Insnlts," says a lnodern philoso-
pher, "are Ike counterfeit money: we
cannot hinder their being offered, but
we are not compelled to take tbem.D
President Theirs new work will be
issued in November. The copyright
which he is to receive for it is the high.
est that has ever been paid to a French
author.
The following notice is posted con-
spicuously in a newspaper office out
West: "Shut the door; and, as soon
as sou bave done talkiog business,
serve yonr mouth the same way"
AS so many articles in everyday
use are manufactured of paper, it is ask
ed il paper beefsteak eau be invented
to take the place of the leather ones
common at boarding houses.
a new Kind of kindling wood for
kiDdling coal-fires is offered fer sale. 1t
is Oak-wOOk, chemically prepared,
NTH oil tho Al
Is claimed that a coal-tire can be kim
died with it In one half the time of any
other wood.
Hitherto the hCsk of rice, known
as rice chaff, has been consider as refuse
in the South. 1t has lately, however,
been discovered to be quite valuable i'm
protecting glasswa and other delicate
articles when packed for shipment, and
large demand has sprung up for it.
"A prudent Kentucky father, with
marriageable daughter, found it i'm
possible to keep the beaux from the
house, so he furnished her with a mu-
sic-boX which plays "HOme, Sweet
Home at ten O'Clock p. NJ, precisely.
The heaux are all gone and the house
closed up in five minutes after.
1t has long since been demonstrat-
ed that sea-water contains an apprecia-
able amount of silver, and q recent cal.
culation shows that, if equally distrib-
uted, there must be in the oceans of
the world some two million tons of
the precious metal, or more than has
ever been dug out of the earth. Silver
in the sea is only one of thousand H.
lustrations of the fact that solid SUBJ
6tancps NAV ho m ada in yiSihlo bx, obo,,,
ical processes, just as q silver half-doI.
lar may be dissolved In a very small
amount of nitric acid, the coin dissp-
peariDg, while the fluid is as clear aud
transparent as before.