The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous.
THE biggest bore in Nevada is 4, 50E
feet long.
A FASHIONABLE virtue for the winter
is economy.
OUT of 1913 Quakers in Kansas, only
324 use tobacco.
OBERLN COLLEGE co. has cataloguei
1850 students this year-and more com
ing.
! SHREVEPORT, La, consigns 120 orphan
| children to the charitable care of the
State.
THE expenses of New Haven for 1871
will be less than any other city of the
size in the country.
FIFTEEN hundred thousand head Of
cattle have been driven from Texas into
Kansas this season.
OF the 10, 40 arrests in Boston last
year, 1904 were for drunkenness, and
only one for burglary.
PIXIES PEAK may be seen any of these
/ bright days from Los Animas, Col.
though distant $50 miles.
THE Sacramento linton says fully
twice as many emigrants are coming to
California this year as last.
| A FRENCHMAN has invented a boot
with wheels, which, he says, will enable
the wearer to go considerably faster than
horse.
ONLY forty-nine of one hundred and
five youths who were recently examined
r i - H.
were qualified.
A MAN at Dallas, Tex, succeeded in
getting a whole apple into his mouth,
but it had to be cut to pieces before it
could be got out.
THERE are more than 500 cases on the
United States Supreme Court docket
enough to occupy the attention of the
court until next June.
THE Grand Master of the Masonic
order of Kansas has decided that Mas
ter Mason who keeps dram-shop should
be suspended or expelled.
CONDUCTORS on several of the West
ern railroads are now supplied with sill
yer, and make change with all the ecLat
of old-time bank cashiers.
RUssIA's Khivan expedition is said to
have cost the Government, at the low
est estimate, e50O, 900. The figures are
copied from English journals.
THERE are six savings banks in Low
ell. Their aggregate deposits amount
to ten millions of dollars, of which at
least three-quarters are owned by the
operatives.
STOKES is now at Sing Sing, in his
striped suit. It is stated he will be en-
ployed as clerk in the cigar mandatory
of the prison, and not be compelled to
do hard work.
OHIos tobacco crop this year is stated
at 80, 900 hogsheads. A reviler of the
weed says that it will probably find its
way into a million of hogs heads all
over the country.
A New YORK chemist claims to be
able to reduce boot-legs to beefsteaks.
This sort of thing has been in success
full operation at the average boarding
house for many years.
Mrs. PERU, of Delta, Iowa, postponed
her daughters wedding four times in
got such a day the bridegroom had con-
Guided not to marry.
A WESTERN editor met a well-edu-
Gated farmer recently, and informed him
that he would like to have something
from his pen. The farmer sent him a
pig and charged him 1915 for it.
A COMPANY has been formed in En-
gland, with a capital of G20,000 to be
raised in 400, 600 shares of Is. each, for
the purpose of having a historical pic
ture of the Tichborne trial painted.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Curtis, of
Bridgeport, CT, who recently celebrated
their golden wedding, lad all their
children and grandchildren present. No
death has occurred in the family for half
a century.
The New York correspondent of the
Minneapolis Tribune says that the Lor-
lizards method of advertising their
chewing tobacco, by putting money in
the packages, has not proved effective !;
that the firm expended $65, 900 in all,
and one of the proprietors acknowledged
to the correspondent that the same
amount expended in legitimate news
paper advertising would have paid far
better.