The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
VARIETIES.

VARIETIES.
Gum arabic is among the exports of
Texas.
-Bismarck's son is engaged TO an
American girl.
Tho horse-cars of Edinburgh arc
lighted with gas.
Kansas exports buffalo beef direct
ly to England.
The American residents there are
said to be the life of Paris.
You can buy American apples for
SO bushel in Australia.
A young lady of Terre Haute, aged
13, is six feet one inch in height.
"A ANational Convention of commercial
travellers is to be held in Cincinnati in
July, 1873.
Delaware produced, during the
season of 1872, 3,49l, ,050 baskets OF
peaches, exclusive of the quantity used
for private consumption.
! An American, who was plain Mr.
! James Foley when he lived in COnnecti-
| cut, is Signor Jammi Foil now that ho
is basso in Munich.
Good nature is that benevolent and
amiable temper of mind which disposes
us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the
| happiness of others.
Brick, marble and corrugated iron
| are the only materials selected in eight
| applications for rebuilding now in the
inspectors Office in Boston.
The laying of the pneumatic tube
in Washington which is to transmit par
cells between the Capitol and the Gov
ernment printing office, is progressing
slowly.
Several of the famous French au-
thors are great in age as well as in in
tellectual achievement. Guizot is 50,
Thiers 70, Girardin n, Victo Hugo 20,
and Legouve 60.
go ST. Paul and Duluth are quarrclling
over temperatures. At last account
the former was chattering out defiance
with the mercury twenty-five degrees
below zero in the sun.
Concerning the money Value of
Wives" Hearth and Home suys that,
Altogether too many men speak of
the money supplied to their wives as
money qiUen to them. Now, the fact il
that there are no women who more
truly work for their living than do all
worthy wives and mothers.
From the Custom House returns of
the Chinese Empire for the year 1871,
it appears that the total value of ex-
ports amounted to $95, 900, 900, of
which the value of silk exported WIS
S33, 900, 600, of tea S53, 900, 600, and all
other exports $9,000,000. During the
same time $60,000,0 900 worth of opium
was imported.
There is an elasticity in the human
mind capable of bearing much but
which will not show itself until n GER
tain weight be put upon it It's powers
may be compared to vehicles whose
springs are so contrived that they get
on smoothly enough when loaded, but
jolt confoundedly when they have no
thing TO bear.
The sharpest. so far, this month, is
the Troy girl who makes her unsus-
pecting father the daily bearer of
sweet missives TO clerk in his Office
who has been forbidden 20 visit his en-
ployers house. She pins the letter in
the old mans cloak, and when he reaches
the Office and throws off the garment,
clerk gets it, and responds by the same
carrier.
Gold is found in no less than thir-
teen States of the Union, namely, in
Vermont, Maryland, Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Tennessee, Kansas, Nebraska,
Nevada, Oregon and California. Dur
ing the last twenty-four years, Califor-
mia has produced the immense amount
of S643, l21 ; ,449 in value of the precious
metal
The Boston Transcript says an
H1olian harp, nearly half n mile in
length, may be considered of marvellous
size, yet such n one can be seen and
heard on Craigie's Bridge at any time
when there is n brisk breeze, the half
dozen telegraph wires which are ele-
waited above the rail forming the strings
of this monster musical instrument.
Missouri and Kansas are engaged
in war of fruits. In the fall of 1871
Missourians carried off the chief prize
at the Kansas State Fair, and since then
the rivalry has been active and sharp.
The apple-growers are especially inter
osted in the contest, which was arc used
BIZ the attention attracted TO the splen-
did specimens that Kansas sent for ex-
hibition to other States.
Several young men mt Bradfords-
vile, KY, undertook to cut down some
trees, and agreed TO take their pay in
the coons they could catch, tho owner
assuring them that the trees were full
of cocls. They toiled faithfully but
caughl nothing, and abandoned the
business in disgust. Thu owner Of tho
trees was not at all disgusted, but took
a great deal of interest in cutting them
up for fre-wood and Eauling them
home.
The Savannah Repu6tic0n, in an
article on the frequency of gin-houso
burning, offers advice "The planter
will find his greatest safeguard in max
ing il TO the interest of his hands to aid
in the protection of the crop. Stow
the negroes bale mt the bottom, and IL
will net as an amulet in warding or
danger from the bales OF the land
owner. Keep your axles free, and keep
on good terms with every freedman
within five miles, and you can then hold
you cotton for a rise in prices"
The Pacific Railroad thinks il caII
defy the SHOWS this winter, even il they
are as severe as those of last. Over tha
mountains it has raised its track for ona
hundred miles from two to seven feet,
so that the winds will keep il clear:
snOw-sheds over the track have been
built for an aggregate distance of fifteen
miles, and monster snow-plows of
weight Of thirty-five tons are building
to open the blockades that may, ia
spite of all the rest, come from long
and severe storms.
A singular case was recently decid-
ed in Washington county, Vt. A citizea
in q certain town built zigzag ra1
fence, and his neighbor claimed that a
trespassed on his farm because it was
not a straight fence and didn't follow
the boundary. A fight resulted and
then an arrest. The Court decided, aH
a question of law, the right TO extend
the fence over the line, SO far as was
necessary in its construction, and that
the defendant uIaawfully resisted ita
erection to that extent. The jury
therefore, found damages,