The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1873-12-26

aLEANrNas AND GOSSIP.

"A bungling New York doctor killed
child, the other day, by dropping a
piece of nitrate Of silver down his
throat.
The Green Bay and Minnesota
railway, which is now 210 miles long
and has cost 5000, 900, is completed to
Winona, Wis.
A somnambulist at Elkhart, Ind,
lately climbed to the top OF hundred
foot chimney and came down safely,
while fast asleep.
One of the London comic papers rs
cruel enough TO say: "The ex-prinee
| imperial is raising n mustache. HIS
friends use a field glass"
"A Missouri clIrgyman's fees for mar
rying fourteen couples amounted 10 fifty
pounds of dried apples and due bill
for eighteen bushels of buckwheat.
May heaven cherish and keep you
from yours truly, John Smith, was the
somewhat ambiguous closing OF a love
letter recently received by young lady.
William 7. Tams of London spends
his time hunting for centenarians. He
has Just heard Of a lady who was born
in 1853, but she died thirty years ago.
Sergeant Bates, ass, of Saybrook,
| ILL.,, the fellow who carried the stars
and stripes through England, fayors tho
complete overthrow OF the Spanish
fends of Cuba.
A New Madrid county (Mo) jury
recently awarded William Nelson 3d.
900 for the loss of his leg while coup
ling cars on the st. Louis and Iron
mountain railroad.
Really, Mrs Glen, the Indiana la
ly, thinks she never will hear the last OF
that little murder she committed, sew
eral years ago. She is now about to
have her fourth trial.
Three Japanese noblemen have
started bank in London. They are
said TO speak a good article of English
and know how TO put money where it
will do them the most good.
AT the laying Of tho cornerstone OF
the new capitol of Iowa, the other day,
no speeches were made except n few
remarks by a workman who got his
finger pinched, and they were brief and
to the point.
AT her birthday ball, recently, n
Moscow beauty requested the band TO
play a short favorite air, and then went
to the balcony and shot herself dead,
because her betrothed had got very
drunk and was cutting up badly.
In Troy, bunch Of shingles fell
from a wagon on the ferryboat and
struck fairly on the head OF n colored
woman, who exclaimed "Y' oughterer
b. shame to muss a culled woman's har
dat way. j wish dc shingles fell ovah-
board p
Upon the "outer wall Of female
college at Akron, Ohio, the other morn
ing. was discovered, conspicuously dis
played, the sign Domestic Sewing
Machines" Some of those specimens
of total depravity known as college stu
dents did il.
james +. Joy, the Michigan rail-
road king, has got n big railroad bridge
across the Detroit river, in his brain.
The capital represented 10y the railroads
centering at Detroit amounts TO 81 ,OOO,-
900, he says, and the Detroit river now
without bridge is simply u nuisance.
The Muscatine county uA.) gran
gers have formed a company-ca capital
stock, $50, 900 to engage in manufac-
turing and traffic generally, aud have
already opened a slaughter establish
ment. Their example will soon be fol-
lowed in many other Iowa countless
The Louisville (Ky) board OF
trade, which was born five months ago,
to the sound of the Lutte and the ring
of champagne glasses, now regrets Its
inability to see how the $4,000 expen-
ses Of the next year is going 10 be met
with the $50 at present in the treasury.
Toward the close Of the presidency
of Louis Napoleon. when the future of
France looked very dark, the Compile
de Chambord was urged 10 come for
ward and press his claims 10 the throne.
His Characteristic reply was No;
the wrecks come 10 the shore, the shore
does not go to the wrecks"
The experiment Of sending beef
from Texas TO New York in refrigerator
cars seems to be succeeding. One train
of 10 cars, each having n load OF 10
tons, has just arrived at New York
from Dennison, Texas, where there is
one establishment capable OF killing,
dressing and shipping 800 beeves daily.
The company propose to run three
trains per week to New York.
We have seen n stick of wood weigh
ing scarcely four ounces fall from n
boys arm, and striking on his toes rem
der him incapable of further action for
hours afterward, while the same boy
has slipped with pair OF skates, and
striking on the back Of his head with
sufficient force TO split that article open,
has not only reached his feet unaided,
but has given the boy who laughed at
him one Of the most astonishing whal-
ings he ever received.
"A wooden ship is more exposed TO
fire than an iron one but, on the other
hand, wooden hull would not be ripped
from a quarter to half her length bya
colliding bow. We cannot disguise the
conviction that, had the Vile de Havre
been built Of wood--provided always
that her compartments were properly
closed-she would be atop Of the ocean,
to-day. The Loch Earn was also an
iron structure, but her injury was in
the bow, where she was stronger than
elsewhere and then, too, she may have
been made of better materials than the
Vile de Havre. The French court can
hardly fail TO clear up somo of the
mystery, and shed light 20 a certain ex-
tent on the comparative merits Of wood
en- and iron hulls.