The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-07-20
violets went grow in Ghicaro.

Seaweed dies on approaching Cincin
natl, and southern vegetation withers al
Somerset.
Russians, Poles, Servians and Rou'
manians have little eyes.
Lager is so lively that it comes in hops
whenever you call for it.
The British national penny bank an
nounces 100000 deposits.
The printing of one and two dollar
notes by the United States government
/ has ceased.
The sunfower fights nobly at Indian
apolis, and the pigweed strives by the
union depot.
The English Quakers have become re-
duced to about 1000 persons, from
$4,000 a century ago.
There are in this country nineteen
! libraries containing each $4,000 or more
! volumes.
/ Fig culture in Florida, which has been
/ so greatly neglected during the war, is
/ now attracting the attention of capital
lists.
/ A quart of peaches for every man, wo-
man and child in the country, is the esti-
mated crop from Delaware alone this
season.
The military authorities in Paris are
enumerating the horses and mules which
could, In case of need, be pressed into
their service.
4 twenty four pound turtle recently
captured near Norfolk, Conn, was strong
enough to move about from place TO place
while bearing on his back a man weigh
ing two hundred pounds.
1t has been discovered in Paris that
the little yellow marks on certain brands
of Havana cigars, which cause them To
be greatly priced by smokers, are created
by the sprinkling Of scid.
While Mr.. Adam Miller was plowing
his farm in Kinderhook, he brought TO
the surface a large turtle, which waS
alive, and had marked on its shell:
May 80, 1871, II. \. D."
Thirty years ago a Shebaygan Wis,
school teacher struck a boy on the head
with a ruler. One day recently the boy,
now a man of forty, met the teacher and
pounded him. The wheel Of time never
stops.
Among the curiosities of the Columbia,
Y. Y, college library are the old arm
chair in which Gov. De Witt Clinton
died and the armchair in which Benja-
/ min Franklin was wont to sit.
a young gentleman who veutured
west in the prevailing fashion of neck
wear, was Immediately utilized by the
thrifty grangers, who smeared his collar
with coal tar and set him up as grass
hopper trap.
Glass bottles were first made in En-
tland about 1868. The art of making
BOTTLES and drinking glasses was known
to the Romans eighteen hundred years
ago, as they have been found among the
ruins Of Pompeii.
To-day Berlin is covered with the
wrecks Of speculative credulity. Many
of the millionaries of few years ago are
in a state verging oD absolute poverty.
Over production and over speculation
have caused the crisis.
Tney tell us of a Kentucky schoolmas-
ter who had his wife for a pupil, and
found it necessary to- chastise her cue
day. Next day a notice appeared on
/ the door, saying: " School closed for
one week sChOOlmaster il i'll"
The little town of Salem, n. c., with
| two thousand inhabitants, has gathered
and sent to market during the past three
L
bIackberries, Tor which tho gathererB re-
ceived nearly half million dollars.
War helps great many trades. A
paper concern in Ohio has an order for
| $50 tons of paper for cartridges for Iur-
kew, and a Pennsylvania towns shipping
six hundred tons Of spelter to Europe "a
fast as it can be made, for cartridges.
The flower loving citizen, who has
sneDt all his leisure time this season in
Iaving out flower beds and fostering the
same, will have his reward this summer,
when his daughters beaux will carry off
his choicest varieties for button-hole
bouquets.
A farm laborer near Seilbac, in France,
while ploughing somewhat deeper than
usual, found his blow arrested by what
he thought a stump. 1t proved 10 be an
OK hide filled with gold pieces 1t the
reisn of Francis J., worth 100000 for
their weight alone, without reckoning
their special value as rare coins.
The German government Is preparing
the organization and equipment Of the
/ Land,turm, which comprises all able
bodied men from seventeen TO fifty years
of are not belonging to the Line, Re
serve, or Landwehr. The Landsturm
has not been summoned since 1918.
The full capacity of the salmon curing
factories in Oregon, on the Columbia
river, for one season, is 54,SlO,OOO cans.
This amount will not be reached this
summer. If Matching stations are not
established, this season, says the Oregon
Astorian, will be the last profitable one.
A prapd-niece of Lord Nelson is sueing
for the possession of certain valuable
Jewels given her by the emperor and
la
years residence i'm that country, and
entrusted by her TO the son Of vice
Admiral Sir William King Hall, r. N,
and pawned by him.
A Russian charges So to print one
hundred visiting cards. This is about
ten times as much as the American prin-
ters charge for similar job. But then
il takes the former ten times az long to
set I'D Russirn namt, and although the
card is two feet long ne is sometimes
Obliged to run few syllables of the jaw
breaker-on the other side.
When lovely woman stoOps TO folly in
Greece. she has the same inalienable
right TO perforate her betrayer that she
possesses in the United States. Miss
Canavassogion destroyed her destroyer,
a captain in the Greek army, shooting
him in the public street. She was
promptly acquitted and conducted home
in triumph by large and enthusiastic
crowd.
PARIsIAN omnibuses date back TO 1882,
when the Marquis Of Soutches and the
Duke de Boannes obtained concession
to run them. They took immensely at
first, but somehow lost popularity, and
passed out of existence until 1928, when
they reappeared with the new name--s
really happy thought--of omnibus. At
first there were one hundred, which was
deemed an enormous number, but it
soon increased. In 1856 there were 347;
in 1866, when the various companies
were consolidated, nearly 700.
LAST month a physician was sent for
in Rome TO visit patient. On going 20
the address indicated, he was told by a
lady at the door that the sick man was
not there, but at another house in diff
ferent street, whereupOB, proceeding TO
the second locality, his surprise became
great on learning that the patient was
waiting for him up on hill (San Pletro IN
Montorio) in quite another section OF
the citv. Finally, he found ont that a
practical Joke had been played at his
sxpense. and carried the matter into
cobrt. where the judge sentenced the
froliesome lady to pay for the three visits
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