The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
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the door to say " Mother, / am going
TO die, and when am no more, I wish
the doctor to cut me open and look at
my stomach" The maternal heart was
filed with awful forebodings and the
maternal voice asked what he meant.
"I wish it to be known" he answered,
that [ died of starvation" This was
enough. The small boy was triumph
ant, and retired to his little bed gorged
to repletiOn.
"A French writer, in estimating the
future of science, points out that in 80
or 100 years time the English language
will in all probability be spoken by
eight hundred and sixty millions of in
dividuals, while the German will be the
language of one hundred and twenty
millions, and the French of sixty-nine
millions only, and that In consequence
science is likely to seek English chan
nels of publication, scientific books hav-
ing at best limited sale, and necessarily
seeking the widest audience.
San Francisco is burdened with an
ice-ring Ice was formerly imported
from Alaska and Nevada at about one
cent and a half pound, but some fell
lows came in with patent apparatus for
freezing water by steam, and as they
proposed to sell the product at seven
dollars per ton, the ice importers re-
tired from the business. Then being
without competition, the steam fellows
ran the price up, so that with the Their
mometer at SO the people have to pay
the rascally ring 700 per cent profit.
Somebody has been looking the
theatrical profession in the mouth and
disclOses this much Edwin Booth is
80 years old, Maggie Mitchell 80, Lolita
%, L. p. Barrett 30, Frank Chanfrau
81, John E. Ownes 81, John Brougham
IS, Lester WallaclS 80, BoucieauIt IS,
Mrs. Chanfrau 80, Miss Nelson 80, Joe
Jefferson As, Agnes Ethel 81, Clara
Morris 80, Mrs. Bowers so, E. A. Soth-
ern 40, Janauschek 40, W. J. Florence 40.
The trout of lake Tahoe, Califor-
mia, is a cannibal of the most merciless
kind; it spares neither relative, age.
sex, nor condition of its own kind. Il is
as gluttinous, too, as an anaconda, and
like that reptile, frequently swallows its
prey whole. It may often be seen,
resting on the bottom of the lake in
shallow water, with the tale of a MUIR
dered relative projecting from its
mouth.
Mr.. William P Ragsdale, who has
been practicing law several years in
Honolulu, lately became aware that
he was victim of that scourge of the
Sandwich islands, leprosy, and volun-
tarily gave himself up to the sheriff to
be separated from his family and re-
moved to Malakai, the place provided
by the government for Iepers.
An old negro minister, in a sermon on
hell, pictured it as region of ice and
snow, where the damned frOze through
eternity. When privately asked his
purpose in representing Gehenna in this
way, he said: Il don't dare to tell
them people nothing else. Why, if ]
was to say that hell was warm, some OF
them old rheumatic niggers would be
wanting to start down the first frost. -
Altogether the most audacious OF
"put up jobs was one arranged by the
San Francisco grown-up hoodlums.
One insulted a rich young lady, and
the other promptly ran up and knocked
him down. He'saw her home, of course,
her father gave him $40 and place in
his store, and the trick was not discov.
cred till the father and girls spied the
two IN close consultation one day.
An exchange says that the dying
words ola Delaware woman were: Hen
ny, if you marry again, remember that
1t only takes a cupful of sugar to sweet
a quart of gooseberries. It is painful
to think of a human being departing
this life with such a whopper on he1
lips, when every lady knows that the
more sugar you put to a gooseberry
the sOurer it becomes.
The prizes at the San Francisco
baby show were awarded for the follow
ing distinctions Handsomest baby,
handsOmest twins, heaviest head of hair.
smallest feet and hands, latest dark.
eyed baby, latest blue-eyed baby,
smallest baby, handsomest mother,
youngest mother, oldest mother, best
dressed child, sweetest smiling child,
lOUdest bawler
"A new and important fact in silk.
culture has been developed by the ac.
climation society of France, namely
that silk of varied color can be produced
by feeding the silkworm on different
leaves. Worms fed on vine leaves pro.
duce silk of a magnificent red color,
while lettuce has been found to pro.
duce an emerald-green colored silk.
"A gentleman of culture. who is de.
voting his leisure hours tor reporting fol
the New York Herald, says that on Sun
day night, "while pious and respecta
BILE people were making their way
homeward the unregenerated Uor l1op.
eti were silently and secretly going t.
the prize-fght."
"A st. Louis lady lately sent one O.
her last years crowns to a starving anC
ragged pensiOner, but soon had it re
turned with the sad but heroic state
ment that it was too full behind for tn,
present syle, and wouldn't she take on
breadth and change the trimming
-Atownin Massachusetts is the proud
possessor of a cat that picks up pin
and puts them into a paper, wheneve
she finds one. After gettinga hundred
she exchanges them for meat at tn,
butchers. The beauty OF this tale il
It's undOubted, undeniable truth
BY the sinking of the Jennie How
ell in the Ohio river, last week, severa
passengers, among them some small
children, were drowned, but the morn
ing after the accident a little son o
Mrs King was found floating on a mat
tress IN the cabin, fast asleep.
Kate Field describes the duke O
Edlngburgh as having the appearance,
of bullying London swell, selfish
surely, ungenerous and mean, but will
the best of cooks, the best of servant
and the best of tailors. His complex
ion is very red.
The truly happiest family is no
that attached to Barnums show. I
consists of a poor widow with eigh
little girls at Thorntown, Ind. She in
herited S97 the other day, and rejoice
IN S15 silk dress, and each of the girl
has bright silk sash.
The fashion editors tell us tina
puf1s, paniers, and polonaises are sool
to be things of the past, and plail
skirts, innocent of founces and furbe
lows are to be all the rage. And tn
double scull belts and the big but
tons.
Gerald Massey's conundrum, 'Wh,
don't God kill the devil ?" isn't consid
cred half as hard as one propounded b
a constant reader of the newspapers
who asks Why the devil don't hav
everything his own way ?"
Iowa grasshoppers not only ca
Lima beans, but pull up the poles, an