The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
aLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

The sultan of Turkey is trying to
introduce the stove-pipe hat.
The Chicago police are drilled in
infantry tactics twice week.
In illinois a Bartlett pear tree in
full bearing is more profitable than five
acres of corn.
Portions of Virginia City, Nebras-
ka, are settling from the slow caving of
the mines beneath.
Pneumatic tubes are being laid in
Paris for the transmission of dispatches
with the city, and they bid fair to en-
tirely supersade the telegraph wires.
French apothecaries have adopted
the sensible practice of adding asecond
label on bottles containing poison, set
ting forth the antidote to be taken and
how, in case of accident.
The editor of O popular magazine
in New York declares that 100000 wo-
men are constantly sending poetry to
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-Four men have confessed to the
murder of girl named Clausen, at Ell
than, England, in April, 1871, and ask
ed the favor of being hanged for the
crime. Yet all of them, it has been
proved, were distant from the scene of
the murder at the time of it's commits
sion. It looks like mean attempt to
shirk the responsibility of suicide.
"A retired sea Captain, who had
made the tour of continental Europe
and the Holy Land, was asked how he
was impressed by his visit to Jerusalem.
g Jerusalem" sal he, sis the meanest
place I ever visited! There is not
drop of liquor in the whole town fit to
drink.
Useful Sister Ito Ornamental Sis
ter, who has been bewailing the dull
ness of her existence the last hour
"BeIla, you're the most egotistical
creature ever met in my life!' Bella
(who always gets out everything with
joke" Well, Jane, if am egotistical,
at all events it's only about myself!'
A Chicago drug clerk, who has al
ready laid out several citizens cold and
stiff by his prescriptions, was heard to
remark the other morning that he be-
Heved he must light the gas hereafter
when filling night prescriptions, as he
could not go by the sense of smell so
well as he could before he had the ca
tarrh.
q Since the three wise men of Gotham
went to sea in a bowl, there has been
no marine undertaking quite so daring
as that of some San Francisco naviga-
tors, who propose going to Japan in a
little cookie shell of boat only 80 feet
long, 10 feet beam, and 13 feet depth of
hold. Their friends are trying to entice
them inland.
1t is said, in illustration of the
great velocity of the winds in Wyoming
territory, that gentleman in Cheyenne,
losing his hat in the street, rushed to
the telegraph Office and telegraphed 10
Denver, Col, requesting that his hat
might be stopped there, but was imme-
diately informed that it had just gone
by, going southwark.
When a Columbus, Ohio, minister
desires to awaken his audience and Sc
cure their individual attention, he yells
"keno p through fsh-horn. AS the
vibration of his tones die away there
frequently comes from the chancel the
echOing sound, Correct" Most of the
Senators and Representative attend
this pastors church.
"A company of perambulating Nor
mon missionaries, under Apostle Smith,
are making the tCur of Palestine. Dur
ing the days of Prophet Smith, a mis-
sion was sent out to exercise the curse
resting upon the Holy Land by prayer
offered up on the Mount of Olives.
Apostle Smith is now trying to find out
whether that prayer was a success or
not.
"A New York servant girl is an oc-
casional contributor of excellent verses
of the Independent. The Baptist Week
" referring to this gifted household
question the propriety of keeping one
with such talents bound down to kitchen
drugery, but the Independent admires
her choice and thinks the change from
life like this to that of literary Bohemi-
an would not be promotion, but the
reverse.
The suicide of Miss Lyon, of New
ark, New Jersey, few days since, was,
by q pistol-shot. It is asserted that
this is the only case thereabouts of
woman suicide the past quarter of cen
tury by shooting. Poison and drowning
are common methods of suicide by wo-
men, but hanging or shooting or throat
cutting hardly ever. This may be at
tributed to natural female timidity,
physically. It is very difficult to ana
lyze the motive; perhaps the natural
propensity in women to make a good
appearance may have something to do
with it. "The ruling passion strong in
death may cause them to avoid per
sonal Disagreement. May not the pas
sion of the sex to look charming even
make the woman suicide ambitious to
haeOrna O FEnretty cOrDSe?
SENTIMENT FOR THE FLAG.-An Eng
lish regiment in India had had its colors
taken away from it for some act of in
subordination. Every man had his ra-
tions and pay as usual, and no physical
punishment of any sort was added TO