The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-10
aLEAN1Nas AND GOSSIP.
-The word humbuR, sars De Quine

L TGRdIO
as the most Trustworthy At one time
there was war between Germany and
Austria, and constantly the widest and
most incredible stories concerning the
victory or defeat of the German arms
would be spread, entirely without truth.
They we're all traced to Hamburg, so,
whenever anything marvellous was an
nounced, men would say, 90 that is a
Hamburg" and anallya "humbug."
The AthenRum administers the fol-
lowing sharp rap to Mr.. Joaquin Miller
In its last number eve have been I'M
fortunate enough to incur the displeas-
ure of Mr.. Jaoquin Miller. Our re-
viewer, having said that his new-book
was a dull romance, Mr.. Miller, who
thinks otherwise, writes to US that he
wishes, 6 to tell him to his teeth that he
is a liar, a coward and a cur Mr..
Miller states that he has written with
out consultation with his publisher. We
think that gentleman of the high'repu-
tation of his publisher, will be shocked
when he hears how sadly wanting Mr..
Miller is in the Courtesies of life and the
advantages of education"
"A recent writer on the Mormons
and their system, who lived long time
In Utah, says " Mormonism is even a
greater humbug as an industrial system
than as a religion, there is less pro-
duction to the number of workers,
though, take it as one may, it is the
champion humbug of modern times. 1t
began on a stolen romance iraudulently
palmed off as a bible. It's prophet was
a fiddling sot; his successor is socially
a bOor, and as a financier or manager,
the wOrst-overrated man Of his age and
Its ! retenses of industry, morality, and
sOberlety, are even more fraudulent and
unfOunded than its claims as a religion. j"
The honor of having erected the
largest and grandest Masonic structure
in the world belongs to Philadelphia.
The building has been five years in
course of construction, and will be dedi-
Gated the present month. It's aggregate
cost is 81, AIS, 900 including 1856, 1893
paid for the ground. The temple has
four fronts, and tower rising $50 feet
above the ground. This tower is the
great Masonic landmark" of the city,
and can be seen miles away. The Phila-
delphians, and especially the Masonic
portion of them, may point with pride
to this grand structure as the most
elaborate building of the kind in the
world.
Complain as little as thou canst of
the wrongs done thee for ordinarily he
that complainant, sinneth; because
self-lOve ever makes us believe injuries
to be greater than they are. But, above
all things, complain not to snch persons
as are prone to malice and to think i'll
If it be exped ient to make complaint to
any, either to redress thy injury, or to
quit thy mind, let it be done to the
peaceable, and to such as truly love
God for otherwise, instead of easing
thy heart, they will provoke it to greater
disquiet, and instead of pulling out
the thorn that pricketh thee, they
will fasten it deeper into thy foot.-De
Sales.
According to an official return Just
published, during the first half of the
current year 5,1S6 horses, mules or
donkeys have been eaten in Paris that
is to say, 1888, $40 kilogrammes (about
two pounds each) of meat exclusively of
heart, liver, brains, tongue, etc, which
are eaten in the same way as those of
oxen. During the first six months of
1870 (befOre the war; 1892 such ami
mails were slaughtered in the French
capital, and only 1913 in the correspond
ing period of 1867 The same increase
of consumption has, it is stated, taken
place in the provinces.
1T may give some readers an idea of
what a little economy in saving paper
material will amount to when they hear
that the sales of waste paper from the
various public deparements in England
amount to something like $50, 900 year,
About half this waste is confidential
paper, income tax returns, ETC., all of
which is sold direct to paper-makers,
who reduce it tOpulp and remanufacture
1t. About " per cent. of the waste
paper sold Is reduced to pulp. For
some kinds from Ell to eos a ton is
obtained, for mill waste G10 a ton.
An exchange says: Nevadians
assert that they were better off before
the Central Pacific passed through their
state. Seven years ago it cost forty-five
dollars stage fare from Austin, Nevada,
to Sacramento now it cost fOrty-five
dollars and twenty-five cents on the
railroad. Seven years ago it cost six
cents per pound to freight powder from
Sacramento to Austin now it costs six
to seven cents per pound, and on all
bulky goods, oils, ETC., nearly as much,
The exactiOns of the railroad are so
severe that popular uprising is threa-
tened"
"A Glasgow firm is making a couple
of monster umbrellas that altogether
eclipse the famous specimens that Paul
Pry loves to sport upon the stage. They
are 80 feet in circumference and sutfi-
cient to afford protection to about %
made for trading firm in Africa that
intends to present them to two polyga-
nous negro chiefs for family umbrellas.
The Sierra Madre (Col.) tunnel,
upon which considerable work has
already been done, will be twelve miles
long, and its great depth, at James's
peak, will be 5000 feet The objects oil
this stupendous work are to afford g
means of working the discovered mines
rapidly and cheaply, to discover and
open new veins, and to afford a track
for railway.
Arizona was made jubilant, few
days since, by the setting of the first
telegraph pole, which, being speedily
linked to others, will unite this out-of
the-way country into close communica-
ton with civilization. The ceremony
was performed at Fort Whifae, Mrs.
Gen1 Cook breaking the ground, and
Mrs. Genl Dana the christening bottle
of wine.
Lord Timothy Dexter, who sent 6
cargo of warming-pans to the West In
dies, has an imitatOr in the British adj
miralty, which recently sent out cargo
of rice from Portsmouth to its COLONY OF
the coast of Africa, which is besieged by
the Ashantees, only to find when it was
too late that rice was the only article OF
JOOd which abounds in that country.
"A Rhode Island blacksmith has sue
ceeded in changing the gait of pacing
horse to that of a trotter, by simply fast
enlng an extra pair of shoes heavier thar
usual to the fore-foot whenever he wants
the horse to trot, and taking Thorn off a
all other times. The sudden change O.
weight ON his fore-feet forces the horse t.
change his gait.
A Kansas man dropped a little not,
to a neighbours wife, inviting her Il
meet him under the pale silver moon