The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

adays, one 20 study ana tne obner to caI-
ry the books.
-Shakspeare's "Seven Ages Of Man
Message, luggage, sausage, ramp
age, marriage, parent-age, and dot-age'
"A stock company is said to have
been formed at Griffin, Ga, for the
manufacture of coffee from persimmon
seeds.
One female clerk in the treasury
department can count 9, 900 notes in an
hour, and has connted 1900 in twenty
minutes.
George Law at forty-five worked as
a day-laborer on the docks of New York.
He is now worth about $40, 900, 900 law
full money.
Death is as near to the young ms
the old. Here is all the difference T;
death stands behind the young mans
back, and before the old mans face.
A YOUNG lady, in conversing with
gentleman, spoke OF having resided IN
st. Louis. "Was st. Louis your native
place ?" asked the gentleman. "Wen,
yes-part of the time, responded the
lady.
The sun is now working about ten
hours per day, but proposes gradual
reduction of time for the next five or six
weeks, in order to help the gas compa-
ny, and also the dealers in kerosene and
tallow candles.
"A happy misquotation by n young
lady, whose gentleman caller staid too
late, caused n speedy good-by. The
clock struck twelve, and she remarked
"Now is the witching hour OF night,
when people yawn."
"You needn't come on Saturday
night, or any other night, was the
soothing remark, written in delicate
| female characters on postal-card which
winged its way through the Leaven-
worth postofiice, the. other day.
Brigham Young's one hundred and
seventeen children have been learning
/ to sing Father, dear father, come
home" one singing solo, while tho
| other one hundred and sixteen join in
| the chorus, until each one has sucses-
sively given tug at their fathers do
mestic affections. The chorus tears
! Brigham's tender vitals TO flinders.
If many protesting christians should
speak out the things they really feel,
instead of the smooth prayers which
they do pray, they would say when
they go home at night, 30 Lord,
met n DOOI WAtNtI VI .N'AAAN NN-AttI
miserable. unwashed brat-and / gave
him sixpence, and have been sorry for
il ever since"
joaquin Miller, in his !" Life Among
the Modocs." saws "When i die
shall take this book in my hand, and
hold it up in the day of judgment" As
the book in question has been univer-
sally damned already on both sides OF
the ocean, Joaquin had better try to
part company with il on Judgment day
il he has any judgment himself
The little things which You may do
for those about you will fall back upon
your heart as the summer dews fall up
on the vineyards. What II II is nothing
more than kind word TO n school-boy
crying in the street IL dries his tears,
and the aching heart grows glad again.
Who knows what cloud Of darkness one
kind word may dispel.
A POET who writes with a metallic
luster in Texas paper, sings:
"Therc sat day in splendor,
maiden young and fair
with beautiful soft blue eyes,
And gold and silver hair.
Now, this fair young maiden
Had mission 10 perform
Upon this terrestrial globe
The maiden's emission was specie
payment we huOh ~ hg hNA A1AA
"gold and silver"
DIR. Dio Lewis now tells tour
girls" that il they want TO learn to walk
we'll they should "walk an hour n day,
with n weight-say n bag Of beans
npon their heads" A few days ago the
doctor advised ladies TO eat beans to
improve their complexion. We begin
to suspect that he belongs TO bean
"ring," and is trying TO bull the bean
market.
"A singular revival occurred at n
Quaker meeting in Richmond, Ind,
few nights since. The converts strip
ped themselves of all articles Of jewell
ry and devoted them 10 the Lord. Wo-
men parted with their wedding rings and
men with their watch-chains, until the
ladies appointed TO receive them had
about three hundred dollars worth OF
trinkets in their possession. One man,
a Knight Templar, added .his regalia
and sword to the treasures.
A Kentucky correspondent writes
" Gen. J. J. Roberts is tuuneling on tho
farm of j. Proctor, adjoining the Nam
moth Gave tract of land, for a hole in
the ground and he has thus far sue
ceeded in opening up passage-way TO
some very large and magnificent domes;
and from the vast quantity OF air that
rushes through the loose rock that has
fallen upon one side of the domes, and
which he is now engaged in removing,
that he soon expects 20 get into n large
cave. il not into the long route OF the
Mammoth Cave, which is known TO lie
in the vicinity. Should he succeed, II
will make things lively"
Poor Laura Keene, who used TO be
30 light and cheerful upon the stage,
was sadly changed before the final
dropping Of the dark curtain. She was
aware of her lost beauty, so
much SO that one Of her last requests
was that her funeral should be strictly
private. and that no notice Of her death
be sent 20 the newspapers until just
before her funeral, that her theatrical
friends especially might not know Of her
death until she had been buried. Lnu-
"a was married fifteen years ago 10
John Lutz, of New York, who left her
a widow after ten years Of happy we'd
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