The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-14
SUNDRIES.

-lOW W Set d AOIlS well Ing Ii tloop.
-Louisville''girls slide down hills in tin
pans.
The late Gov Geary organized the
first Masonic lodge in California.
-Wachtel, the German tenor, writes
that he shall not come to America
again.
The petroleum uncle of a st. Louis
waiter-girl has left her the $300,000 he
couldn't take with him.
-Kanas wants 2, 900, 900 railroad ties,
this season, and is asking where the
timber is to come from.
A Keokuk 1a) lawyer was fined
$25 for publishing a severe criticism on
a judges charge to the jury.
The queen of England has ordered
a granite sarcophagus to be made for
the remains of Louis Napoleon.
Alexandria in Egypt is the most
thriving city of the East, and from a
population of 10000 in 1912 it has now
reached 100000.
Last week, 1881 worth of cham
pagne was imported and branded in
New York city.
There is no Jewish butcher at Water
loo. Ind, and several of the Hebrew
families there have their meat shipped
from Detroit.
Mayor Brown of St. Louis went to
the charitable ball, the other night, with
a $40 oyercoat on, but somebody else
wore it home.
Lieut.. Steerer of the United States
army is now engaged, with a corps of
o1n
tine. The land of Moab will be the
special labor of the spring months.
In discussing the bill prohibiting
lotteries and gift enterprises, which has
just passed the Ohio Legislature, the
members voted down most decisively
proposed amendment exempting church
es, newspapers and public libraries.
De Barry estimates that the number
of plants that live on matter already or
gained, and do not decompose carbonic
acid, is about equal to TINT of the green
or chlorophyll bearing plants which pos
sess the power of decOmposing carbOnic
acid.
George Brown of Hoosick Corners,
n. Y, owns the 'FOudekirk Bible"
which was brought from Holland by
member of the Oudekirk family who
came to America large, illustrated
folio, printed at the Hague, July 90,
1887, and consequently now 236 years
old.
Here is the creed of Rev. Mr.. Cor
bett, the minister who was interrupted
for his profanity at a recent meeting
of Methodist clergymen in New York:
Il say, preach depravity, preach hell
fire. hot damnation, scorching flames,
and the devil, until the world shall be
awakened"
A good many of the fortune tellers
in New York-and in other places, too,
for that matter-are little better than
PROGRESSES, and it would undoubtedly
be a good thing for the public morals
if the Legislature of that state should
pass the bill which has been proposed
making the trade illegal.
When Madame Recamier was get
ting very old, though she preserved her
beauty nearly till the end, she once SAID
to friend who cOmpllmented her on
the preservation of her charms: calais
you cannot deceive me. The chimney
sweeps don't turn their heads any more
in the streets.
Two more tourists, this time
Belgian and Swiss, have gone down to
the bottom of the crater of Vesuvius.
As in the case of the Englishman and
American who met the same fate, last
September, the guides warned them
aginst attempting to go into the crater,
but they went, and will never come
back. That is the third accident of the
lind within 10 years.
Husband and wife are at last upon
an equality, by legal enactment, in
California. In fact, the woman makes
rather the most out of the arrangement.
In addition to her ability to make con-
tracts, to sue and be sued, the law pro-
vldes that marriage metamorphoses
female minorin to adults, SO far as making
contracts is concerned, while the minor
youth of male persuasion who commits
matrimony isn't enfranchised at all.
Among those who attended the
funeral of Napoleon, was M. Paul de
Cassagnac, the celebrated fighting editor
of the Pays, who has slain Is men by
small-sword practice in duels, and who
was one of the most vigorous supporters,
by pen and sword. of the Bonapartist
regime. He is now suffering slightly
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over he has to undergo a duel with M.
Name, the fighting editor ofthe Gaulois,
also an expert swordsman and duelist.
Mr.. George Jacob Holyoake of Lon
don wants information about co-opera-
tive movements in America, in order
that he may write more intelllgently
history of cooperation in England. He
is an English radical of the radicalest
type. In his appeal for information he
remarks: 1t was said of David Hume
that his History of England would
have been as accurate as it was inimita-
bly, written, had he not been fat and
difficult to beset personally in motion;
and, in consequence, instead of getting
up to reach the volume at the
end of the sofa, he invented the fact he
wanted / am not fat and am as resili-
ent as an American so that if any book
or fact gets near me may he depended
ON to get at it.