The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
GLEANINas AND GOSSIP.

co pany in which his wife's life was in
sured "Dear sir take my pen in
hand to let you know that am well,
but that nv dear wife, insured for So, 900
n your company, is no more. She died
to-day. Her policy is No.. I can
truly say that she was fond wife and
good mother. have the doctors certi-
fcate, so that there will De no trouble
about he policy. She was only sick a
short time, but suffered much. Doyo
give check in advance or must I wait
sixty days for the money! Yours, &C."
England is announce to be the
only civilized country in the world
which has not sent homegrown tobacco
to the Vienna exhibition. Varieties
are shown from Norway and Sweden,
as well as from the tropics and from all
intermediate territories. It is remarked
that the value varies throughout very
much according to the distance from
the equator, and thus while the unman-
ufactured leaf from HAVANA is valued
at almost 81 so, gold, a pound, that
from Holland is priced at no more than
about S25 hundred-weight.
A NEWSPAPER IN RHYME. The most
amusing and remarkable paper ever
printed was the Muse Historique, or
Rhyming Gazette of Jacques Loret,
which for 10 years from 1850 to 1865, was
issued weekly in Paris. It consisted of
$50 verses summarizing the weeks news
In rhyme, and treated of every class of
subject, grave ard gay. Loret computed
in 1868, the thirteenth year of hi enter
pr Sc, that he had written over 300, 900
verses, and found more than 700 differ
ent exOrdiums, for he ever twice began
his gazette with the same entree IN
matter. He n about the CT for his
own news, never failed to write good
verses upon it, and never had ANYBODY
to help him, and his prolonged and al
WAYS equal performance has been pro
nounced something unique in the history
of journalism.
"A man whose morning dram had
been too much for him, in saddling his
horse got the saddle wrong end fore
most. Just as he was about to mount,
neighbOr came up and called his atten-
ton TO the mistake. The horseman
Razed for moment at the intruder, as
if in deep thought, and then said
You let that saddle alone. How do
You know which way am goin o. And
he looked daggers at the officious neigh
Dor.
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solemn thing. They are not only shucked
with knife which was devised in the
form and spirit of murder, but spread
out naked to the eye in their voluptuofls-
ness, and, being gazed at, are in various
ways tortured, like the early martyrs,
on grid les, splits, stews, etc. Esculent,
succulent, inoffensive, delicate, they
have suffered as much persecution as
the VaudOis. never see an oyster but
feel for him, with fork.
John Beran had leg badly crushed
at Washington, last week, but, as he
would not consent to amputation, the
surgeons of the University hospital
sawed off the shattered ends of the
bones, drilled a small hole and inserted
an ivory peg in each, and then bound the
pegs together with silver wire. The leg
was then confined in a splint, and the
patient will doubtless have a useful
though shortened member of it. This
curious surgical experiment has never
been attempted before.
"A Sunday-schooI teacher was ex-
planning the omnipresence of the Deity
to his scholars, and ended by telling
them that He was everywhere. Where
upon a redheaded boy asked els He
in nv pocket ?" The tea her replied
that the question was rather profane
but he would answer Eyes, He was
everywhere" give got you there, " said
the boy, at ant got no pocket"
"A deaf and dumb woman who has
been visiting Danbury to solicit aid,
was annoyed by some boys at the low
end of Main street, and gave them
talking that they will remember to their
diving day. She said: "Hecter the
afflicted, will We? If 1 had you across
my knee for two minutes I'd make
you acquainted with astronomy"
"A Michigan butcher takes the bones
ont of his meat before selling it now.
He had dream the other night, in
which he found himself at the celestial
gate, but confronted by mountain of
bones, which an attendant spirit said
were what he had sold to customers,
and he must climb over them if he
would enter heaven.
The following tender missive was
picked up in the ladies' sitting-room at
a railroad depot "Dear Chas. do you
love me as much as you did at quarter
to twelve last night ? Say you do, dear
est, and it will give me spirit to go
down and tackle those cold beans left
over from yesterday"
The Union Pacific railroad sold
during the month of August %, S73 acres
of land at an average price of sc. 80,
amounting to S157, 1894. The sales aver
aged SO acres to each purchase. The
total sales to September LIST, are 779, 51S
acres at an average price of 81. is per
acre, amounting to SO, 46S, 4S9.
DIR. johnson being advised by his
physician to exercise on an empty stom-
ach, replied every we'll /; whose
empty stomach shall I exercise on?"
So when a Washington territory paper
heads an article, "Send us wives" we
want to know whose wives we shall send.
With demure glance into the hap
DIV face beaming upon her, Effie nestled !
closer to the charm that had decided /
her fate, thankful that Oup'd in blind |
freak had aimed at the heart of one she /!
could both love and respect.
-"Who dat hit me? Where's dat |
lantern" we're the ordinations of an /
astonished Elmira darkey after being |
thrown something like a hundred feet |
from q locomotive.
Alexander n. Stephens has con-
tributed $500 towards the building of /
Roman Catholic college in Georgia. |
Robert Toonbs is said to propose making /
a similar contribution.
Berlin papers report that the ply !
sicians of the Moabite barricks hospital |
have tried with the happiest results the /
experiment of saving cholera patients |
by TRANSMISSION of blood.
An Irishman having been told that !
the price of bread had been lowered, /
exclaimed, "This is the first time /
ever reioiced in the fall of my best
friend"
"A westerner speaking of the perfor
nance of his village choir, says that cit |
IL like driftwood in a stream it drags |
on the bars, but it don't amountsto
dam"
The story that a Leavenworth father
had offered $4,000 to any one who
would marry his cross-eyed daughter
brought about e'ght hundred strangers
into that town In one week.
An ignorant old lady was asked by
q minister visiting her if she had re-
Iigion. She replied: have slight
touches of it occasionally"
A .kror1 aolr+;or oF oarIoIio acid /