The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

pounds. I have been here fifteen wears.
have paid S1S month, and have made
800, 900, and intend to make a 800. 600
more. / have a farm of ten acres on
Long Island, support husband like a
gentleman and family in luxury, and
l give them fast horses and carriages
with which to enjoy themselves. I have
stood the most intense cold in winter
without fire, and the greatest heat in
summer, and have never taken cold or
been overheated."
This is Mr.. Beecher's opinion of
croquet eve think it is amusing to
women, agreeable to men, and fascina-
ting to ministers. For all persons who
need gentle exercise, it is even better
than billiards; indeed it is a kind of
field billiards, or billiards "gone to
grass" Anybody who is too pious to
play croquet ought to be done up in
starched linen, put in a bag, and hung
up like a suit of Sunday clothes, and
not let out till meeting time"
"A respectable London paper says !;
"People talk much of peculation in the
United States, but our firm conviction
Is that the loss IN England due to sine
cures, sham service, and to general
waste, amount to far more than ten
times the sacrifice which the vicious
civil service system of America entails"
Those "blasted Hinglishmen never
viii own up to a fair and square beat.
chronological view of social rank,
Who is that venerable party the two
Miss Bottibols are talking to? ?" 81
believe his name is Sir Rigby Digby ?"
Er-Baronet, of course not knights?"
"Baronet, think. But why of course ?"
Well-er-the shape of his Uranium
induces me to believe-er-thatt the dis
tinction is more likely to have been in
herited than acquired !"
Texas papers haven't a very high
opinion of Mexican prowess. The Gal
weston News, on hearing that Gen. Esco-
bedo was approaching the border, re-
marked: "Should this malicious fool
venture to cross his ragmuffins into
our territory, he might discover the
difference between a white man and
lop-eared Indian mongrel."
DR.. Mary Walker says she wears a
modest dress, and cannot see why a
woman is not privileged to wear clothes
of the material of hers as well as of
muslin, ETC., and while gentlemen will
carry their excellent wives and daugh-
tiers to see women in tights, they are
shocked at seeing a woman with her
limbs entirely covered.
The Athenmum says of Hiram Pow
er's g Greek Slave" that it "was so
bad, that the applause which attended
its appearance may be taken to prove
the public ignorance of sculpture. "
But who cares what the press of
played-Out monarchy says about the
glorious creations of a freedom son of
our great republic?
Mr.. Carroll of Kentucky being Sc
riously i'll, he sent for a couple of min
listers. While the latter were admins
tering spiritual consolation Mrs. Carroll
remarked, with much vehemence, that
g it was all pack of foolery that all
the CAROLS had died and gone to hell,
and she saw no use in dividing the
family"
The present duchess of Leeds was
formerly one of the bellies of Baltimore.
As she is now a widow and immensely
rich, 1T is recommended that some
aspiring American youth should go over
to England and WOO and win her back
to her native country. AS she is only
96, she is no doubt still susceptible.
An Ohio county clerk refused to
issue a marriage license because the
man was only four feet high, while the
woman was six. He knew something
about domestic life with the proper
tons reserved, and couldn't assist fell
bowman to buy into a lottery when the
odds were so fearfully against him.
Concerning Wise's balloon project
the Scientific American saws "To us
the probabilities of his success appear
70 ho 1fkA1a I,,LkD,- 4hor, 4l,-O &c
Tidual who, in an open boat, without
sail or oars, should attempt to hoat
across the Atlantic upon the surface of
the gulf stream"
"A party of American officers are
about 90 visit Europe with a view of in
speeding the military arsenals of Eng
land, Austria, Prussia, Russia and
France. and obtaining particulars of
the most resent improvements in ord
nance and warlike stores.
Miss Carpenter, the English philan-
thrOpist, whose sympathies are enlisted
In prison reform, visited Sing Sing, last
week. She thinks our prisons are over
crowded, and favors the ticket-of-leave
system, giving a conditional pardon to
those who have been in the longest.
-Dio Lewis convulsed Utica audi
ence, last week, by some advice to mar
NED men. He was talking about the
eye. To the unfortunate benedicts he
said: "Gaze into your wife's eye
closely, and you will see yourself look
ing exceedingly small.
"A story is told of a German Jew,
who was eating a pOrk-chop in n thun-
der-stOrm. On hearing an unusually
loud clap, he laid down his knife and
fork, and observed "Vell, did any
poty efer hear such fuss apout fiddle
pid O bork !"
-Khiva is described as a tumble
down city, with two wretched walls in
closing an inner and an outer town, with
a population variously estimated at be-
tween 1000 and 10000 souls, some II
mosques, and about a score of schools.
"A boy sixteen years old, son of a
Troy ieweler, has played keno so in
dustriously that he has been obliged to
leave home and go to sea for the benefit
of his health. Another awful example
of Over-wOrk.
Under the new military law of
Italy, Victor Emmanuel will soon have
a regular army of 5000 men of all
arms, and a reserve militia of $50, 900,
of which it is expected 100000 will be
euectlVe.
"A western editors statement, owe
are living at this moment under absolute
despotism," is attributed by his contem-
poraries to the fact that he has Just
been married.
Mrs. Bella A. Lockwood is the first
woman lawyer to appear in the courts of
Washington. She commended against
male lawyers in an eiectment case, the
other day.
"A Lawrence, Me, girl was going to
sue a false-hearted lover fer breach of
promise, but she agreed to compromise
the matter for SCI and a new switch.
If a Persian turn Christian his head
is chopped off if they catch him. All
sorts of wickedness are cured in Persia
by the shah's little Ratchet.
A Roaring Branch (Pa.) woman has
peeled 200 cords of bark, this summer.
Women who can peel 200 cords of bark
in one season are getting mighty scarce.
An exchange suggests a new use for
corner lOafers, which is to stand in the
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