The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-24
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

BARNUM's 1900 rhinoceros is dead.
SENATOR SUMNER is entirely restored
to health.
NEW JERSEY has Chinese population
of twelve.
MoNoGRAMs on note-paper have gone
completely out of fashion.
Work has been commenced on the
Vanderbilt University, in Nashville.
AN open winter is predicted in the
Northwest, because corn-husks are thin.
THE Elizabethan rufus are assuming
proportions more ponderous and awe
inspiring than ever.
No LESS than ego, 1875, 900 is to be
spent in canals and irrigation works in
the peninsula of Hindostan
A CONVICT in Maine lately cut his way
through the solid masonry of the jail
with piece of hoop-skirt iron.
DURING the present century there has
been expended in England and Wales
for dwelling houses IS, 900, 100000.
LUCY, the famous trotting mare, has
been withdrawn from the track, and
will be used for breeding hereafter.
THE labor of fifty penitentiary convicts
in Michigan has been leased for five
years at sixty-fve cents per day for each
man.
BENJAMIN GRIswoLD, who recently
died in Cambridge, Vt, at the age of 81
years, had read his Bible through 165
times.
The american Family Bible Publish
ing Co., Chicago and Cincinnati sell first-class
books, employ frst-class agents, and give
frst-class terms. Book agents, make a note
of this.
A CLEVELAND boy crawled under a
lounge to avoid a thrashing, went to
sleep and 200 persons searched four
hours to find him.
BEN BUTLER was stabbed and killed
at Chapel Hill, Texas, the other day,
by Maj. Cain. Both were colored, and
Butler was Baptist preacher.
THE Albany argus says that the
funded and bonded Indebtedness of New
York, including that of the cities, towns
and villages, is 1926, 984, O81. "a, or IL 1-6
per cent. of the assessed valuation of the
State.
LEATHER made from the skin of the
white whale is now a regular article of
manufacture at some of the villages in
Canada. 1t is both fine and durable,
and shoe thongs made of it are said
never to break.
AMONG the phenomena of the fresh
man class at Trinity College is Penn
sylvania infant, II years old, who meas
ures six feet seven inches in height, and
weighs 135 pounds. The students talk
of using him for an observatory.
THE following are the members of the
firm of Jay Cooke & Co.: Jay Cooke,
aged 81 William g. Moorhead, So
Henry D. Cooke, 40; H. G. Fahnestock,
43 George G. Thomas, 40; Pitt Cooke,
40; Jay Cooke, Jr., IS; j. A. Gsrt-
land, %.
KU-KLUx KHAN Cor klang) is neither
Chinese, African, or Welsh, but the I'M
mistakabIe language of the old army
musket, consisting of three distinct
syllables. This weapon, half-cocked,
says "Ku," press the hammer again and
it Z" Klux ;" take aim, fire" Klang"
THERE is a good little boy in ST. AL
bans who did it with his Ratchet in the
following manner He requested his
big brother to put his toe upon the
chair that he might cut it off. His big
brother laughingly complied with the re-
quest, when the remarkable little rascal
deliberately chopped it off. He will
evidently die young.
THE largest piece of iron casting made
west of the Alleghanies is now in course
of construction at st. Louis. It is an
immense iron bed-plate, IS feet long, 9
feet wide and 7! inches thick, weighing
about $4,000 pounds. 1t is made for
the Platten Greek Plate Glass Com
pany, and it will be used as the bed
upon which the molten glass will be
rolled out into smooth plates.
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Con
vention has rejected, by vote of % to
SO, the proposition to insert a clause
into the declaration of rights prohibiting
determinations of any class of persons
in places of amusement, hotels, etc.
This clause embodied the principle of
the Sumner Civil Rights bill, and was
defeated, it is understood, only through
the informally of the manner of intro
ductiOn