The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-31
GLEANTNGs AND GOSSIP

@AC disturbed cOnQ1tIO0 OF IMAM
clal matters touches not alone the inter-
ests OF brokers, bankers, and large
dealers. It is felt by the working men
and women throughout the community.
Some large firms and manufacturing es-
Establishments have been obliged to dis
charge their employees; and although it
is believed that the necessity for such
measures will not long exist. the loss of
q single days wages is often the cause
of suffering among those whose fami-
lies are ependent upon their daily earn
lngs. 1t is indeed wonderful how the
interests OF all classes in the community
are linked together. No one stands
alone IN a nation. What is injurious to
the nch man is harmful to the poor in
financial affairs, and the misfortunes of
the Iaoorlng classes react upon the
wealthy. Prosperity in country de-
ponds upon union of interests amcng
the people.
"A correspondent of the EBelgravia
magazine informs its readers that his
children have a trough full of tame
toads, each of which answers to its own
name by coming when called. The
children are very fond of them, and pet
them in a wonderful manner, carving
them about the garden, and holding
them up to any insect they may chance
to fancy, so that they may swallow it.
Upon one occasion one of the children
who had received an orange, was seen
with her own special toad seated on her
hand, partakinR with its mistress of the
orange IN alternate sucks and bites.
Inc toad seems to be more easily and
quickly tanned than most animals.
"A new article has been placed in
the Pennsylvania constitution in rela-
ton to suffrage, which provides that the
voter must have been citizen of the
United States at least one month. and
resident of the district two months, in
stead OF ten days, as heretofore; and
also that his taxes shall have been as
sessed at least two months, and paid
one month, before the election. Each
ballot is to be numbered, and the num-
Der placed opposite the voters name.
"A Sitks correspondent thus de-
scrlbes Alaska scenery "Take one big
mountain, covered with trees from the
base nearly to the summit, with an
underground of brush, bricrs and moss.
almost mpassable-multiply the one by
10000, and you have Alaska. There is
a terrible sameneFs. One singular fea-
ture of this mass of forest is the absence
OF birds; l have seen but one robin in
Sitka."
They tell queer story about the
doctors in a certain California town, who
were all away last summer, to attend a
medical convention. They were absent
about two months, and on their return
they found that all their patients had
recovered, the drug had closed,
the nurses had opened dancing schools,
the cemetery was cut up into building
lots, the undertakers had gone to max
ing tddles, and the hearse had been
painted and sold for a circus-wagon.
An invention has lately been ex-
hibited at Vienna for petrifying dead
people so completely that they are lust
like marble, and can be planned and
polished and wrought into any desira- |
bic form. This will enable people to |
carve their dead friends into mantel or
naments, or other souvenirs, or use
them for tombstones at their own
graves.
"A country school boys toothache |
generally begins at O'Clock, reaches
the highest altitude at S:45, when the |
pain is intense to an extraordinary de- |
gree; commences to subside at 9, and |
after that disappears with celebrity that /
must be very comfortable to the suf /
ferer. If, at night, that boy hasn't got /
four quarts of walnuts spread out to |
dry, up stairs, it is because there is no
place up stairs to do it.
This a pathetic appeal of a dis |
gusted Englishman we are going to /
war again TO soundly thrash the Asian /
tees, and probably put penny or two |
pence more on the income tax. Let me |
ask, then, why not arbitrate with these /
misguided niggers? Get Ouashe to |
Geneva, as we did Jonathan, ana ar /
bitrate."
One of the young ladies at the |
Elgin watch factory, il is said, is at 1
work upon patent watch which will |
have hands so made and adjusted as to /
seize the wearer by the coat collar every |
evening about 10 O'Clock and walk him 4
off home.
The sardine fisheries in France at |
present employ 20. 900 sailors and some /
5000 men, women and children on 1
land to prepare the fish for market. It |
seems that the catch is now diminishing
every year, and the almost complete |
failure of the fish may be anticipated at |
no remote period.
BOILED CUsTARD. One quart sweet /
milk, four eggs aud six tablespoonfuls |
of sugar must be beaten together. Let f..
the mixture thicken by setting the pail /
in a kettle of hot water on the stove. /
stirring it all the while. When cold .
add lemon extract.
Accuracy is desirable. But the In
diana editor who quoted a familiar /
camp meeting HYMN as follows:
Ten thousand thousand uOOOo,Oo0 are their
But an their joys are one d.
carried his love of accuracy to excess.
John Paul is convinced that "itis /
sound business Judgment to avoid the |
vicinity of any animal whose skin is so /
short that he can't drop his ears without |
raising his heels, the more so if he hap |
pens to be so particular lively that he /
can go through both motions at once"
An old lady recently visiting a |
prison, asked one of the attendants why |
the prisoners received such coarse food. !
He told her it was to keep their blood |
from becoming impure. When asked |
what thew wouId do if their blood was !
impure, he dryly responded, Break /
out"
Among the members of the WON /
ing legislature are BLACK Jack Bill" |
" Prairie joe" "Slim Sam Shaw" and |
4" Grizzley Graham" The speaker will /
also have to recognize the gentleman /
from Hen-foot claim" and the gentle /
NAV from Buffaloe-horn corners"
The immense door-pIates worn bv /
the ladies on their belts might be util- |
lied by engraving thereon the wearer's /
nam, age, residence, fortune or expec- !
tations. and stating whether heart free |
or engaged. It would save some gen
tlemen the trouble of making inquiries. |
-" Did You hit him rlumb In the |
centre?' asked a dying Omaha man of |
his son who had inst come in from a
desperate street fight. eyes" was the |
reply. "Then / die happy" and |
calm grin of pleasure froze upon his
face.
The most fashionable circles at pre- |
sent are the ElizahetEan ruffs, which are /