The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05
aLEANINas AND GOSSIP.


his mouth to call for help, and the hsh
giving q quick plunge, jumped down his
| throat, and there finally stuck. 1t was
only taken out, and by small pieces,
after he had been carried TO the hos
pital. He was so exhausted that he
died as soon as il was removed.
"A writer in the Nautical Gazette
soberly affirms that Noah's ark us now
in a good state of preservation, but
living under an eternal mantle OF snow,
hundreds of feet deep, at an altitude oil
n. 500 feet above the level of the sea.
Ever since the food dried up, the eli
mate of Armenia has been colder, and
snow always covers the top OF Ararat,
rendering it impossible Tor any OF
Noah's descendants to go mp ana uu"
the ark"
Down in Pennsylvania they have a.
ghosts convention every night. III Is
made up of the mangled spooks OF
those who have been killed on the rall-
roads, and they break forth all torn ana
bleeding, and pen gbRstly resolutions
of censure on the railroads, and con
duct themselves in business-llke man
ner generally till the cock crows, when
they peaceably disperse.
Mrs. Partington now says Yoa
shouldn't be so glutinous, Isaac, as
with an anxious expression she remarked
the strong, conclusive effort that young
gent was making TO bolt the last quarter
of a mince-pie-"y you shouldn't be so
glutinous, dear. You must be very
careful, or you will get something II
your elementary canal or sarcophagus
one of these days that will kill you'
Isaac"
In 1884 about fourteen bales of cot
ton were shipped from America TO Eng
land, of which eight bales we're seized
as improperly entered, on the ground
that so much cotton as this could not
have been produced III the United
States, and this was more than one hum
dred and fifty years after the first I'M
portation of cotton grown in the same
country. In 1741 the first sample OF
Georgia cotton was taken TO England.
The market in London for diamonds
continues in a very depressed state
owing to the abundance of the supply,
and, with the exception Of stones OF
very large sizes, and brilliants and
small rose diamonds Of the very finest
quality, the fall in value has been gene
raj, and in some descriptions, such as
rose-cut diamonds of mediocre 10 mid
ding quality, equal TO from 30 to 40
per cent
A correspondent says that the mon
arch of Ashantee secures a high degree
of military efficiency among his generals
by warming them that il they fail To
carry out his orders their heads will be
cut off As this promise is religiously
kept, it is an incentive 10 great celebrity
and vigor among the Ashantee brlga-
diers.
1t is said that glycerine mixed with
the water in steam engine boilers pre-
vents the deposition of lime-salts, and
consequently protects the boiler from IN
About one pound of glyce-
rine 60 every 300 or 400 pounds of coal
burnt is sufficient for this purpose.
There are about sixty manufacturers
of goat morocco in the United States,
about half of the number being in Phil-
adelphia. The capacity of their facto-
ries is sufficient 20 make about 1900 do
zen a day, and the average amount Of the
morocco business for 1872 was nearly
$40, ,OOO,O 900.
Professor r. G. Kedsie of the Mich
igan agricultural college has analyzed
the air of a greenhouse which had been
closed for twelve hours, and found IT
better than pure country air. This seems
to be a strong argument in favor OF
plants in sleeping rooms.
"A hint for the season-The juice Of
watermelons makes fine white vinegar;
carefully strain it, put it into jugs with
small glass bottles in their mouths, and
set them in the sun; thus, in time, II
will ripen through bitterness into a
clear, ne-favored, strong, white vine
gar.
The senate chamber in the capitol at
Washington is hereafter to be supplied
with fresh air by means of an airduct,
10 feet in diameter, through which
constant current is kept up by an inn
menso fan. The current will be kept
cool by sprays Of ice water.
"A conductor on the Chicago and
Alton railroad ordered n fellow 10 re-
move his arm from around his girls
waist, the other day, "because," said
he, 81 haven't n woman for each man
on the train TO hug, and the law forbids
unjust determinations.
The Codorus ore IS said TO be an cx-
cellent thing TO avert threatening
"chill" in blast furnace. Several car
loads of the ore thrown intothe furnace
will purge it completely, causing tho
Stag and ore to run freely.
The horticultural botanist Koch, af-
ter long and patient investigation, is in
clined to think that the cultivated apple
is n hybrid between several species OF
apple that do not now exist its native
land is as yet undetermined.
Don Piatt describes the British
house of Peers AZ "a body Of men eX-
ceedingly quiet and unpretending in
manner, not remarkably striking in
countenance, and so badly dressed that
il seemed an affectation."
A New York lawyer tried 10 clear
his gambler client, recently, by showing
that he used marked cards, and there
fore the offense was not within the
statute against "games of chance be-
ing, instead, "dead sure thing" The
dodge didn't work.
The population Of the United States
is now increasing at the rate of one mil
lion annually. The greater portion Of
this increase is in the west, where It
amounts TO six hundred thousand an
nually.
"A mothers love is a holy thing,
and is beautifully illustrated in the case
of the French woman who murdered
her husband that she might become
widow and thus procure the discharge
of her son from the army.
This is the height Of the preserving
We saw through the window
of q Wooster street house, Saturday,
man trying TO pull of
pair of boots, and heard him say quite
plainly: "Jam the jam stuff 10 iell."
Mayor Medill of Chicago declines
a seat in the Graphic balloon because,
though it will probably start on time,
it is liable TO land in eternity, and he
wants to land in Queenstown.
-" What shall give my boy 20 make
him honored and respected?' writes an
affectionate father. Education and
moral precepts we're once required to
accomplish this purpose, but a diamond
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