The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-06-16
ALL SORTS.

There are some people who still in
si-t that doctor charges SIS when
the baby is boy ana $40 when it is
girl.-Ai Gibson Globe.
II the railroads want the people to
rise up and call them blessed they
should reduce the fare to Chicago to
one cent mile.-Buttalo Times.
The Boston Herald is authority for
the statement that Secretary Gresh-
am Is mighty good poker player,
and declares that General Grant tooh
u great fancy to him on that account.
A Kansas girl was so wild with joy
at the idea OF being engaged" mat
she swallowed her engagement ring
the other day.
Some newspaper man started the
report that II BIookiieid, n. j., g!ri
kneads bread with her gloves on. An
exchange answers: 1--WE aisO need
bread with our shoes on, with our
pants on, and with our clothes on
We need it badly, too, and II our de-
| linuueuts do not soon pay up we Will
need II without any pants at all"
A large proportion of the 100 to
$40 letters day received 10y the
President are marked private and
'personal," and are found 10 be from
total stranger, who want some prl-
yAte advantage entirely personal to
themselves or their friends. These
eristles are always referred 10 the
departments. New York Press.
A French scientist says that an un-
failing test of death may be mace Oy
producing blister on the mana or
loot Of the corpse, using the candle
for that purpose. IL the blister, upon
being opened with a pin or o'her IN
strument, il found to contain nulu OIL
any kind, there is still LIE IN tue sup
posed corpse. On the other manu-
should it contain steam only, rest as
sured that the vital spark has h0wn'
A postage stamp, equal in value to
tw opence, hSllpenuy, Is pasted eacn
week in a little blank book which
avery servant girl in Germany Car
riss The stamp il the donation oil
her mistress, enforced by law. SHOULD
tha girl get sick the stamps are re-
daemable by the government, or sht
NAV keep them unredeemed until shs
= /. old, when the government pay
their face value.
The Irish have very peculiar way
OF cooking their potatoes. They neVe
bOil them. A large pot Is always OF
.. the fire, steady, slow fire, anu OF
! sverv occasion when the cOutent'
come to the very verge OF ooillng
o cold water is dashed IN, anu III
A operation il, in Irish phraseology
J. "backed." The process is continual
n IL repeated till the potatoes ar
cooked. You get by this means al
: admirable potato.
r Mira. Myra Bradwell, wife OF Judcg
" praLwell' of Chicago, was the mrs
9 youan i'm the United States TO appl!
6 For .dmissiOn to the bar. Since he
admission she has worked oy 1T
J. husbands side, and has been oil gtss
p Ss.istance to him ia his law practice
II Her son aud daugher were also a'
/; miti ed To the bar when they IeAcne
/ .uitable aVes, and soon stter"arI
> Inc daughter married lawyer,
= that every member OF the brad"e
,r family is actively practicing the pr
% tsssiOn.
IS A new enterprise Of some accoul
m ia loomiLg up. 1t IL the farming o
Is OF railroad damage suits InI
m wears ago the officers OF one OF .
IL hunk lines asked . firm oil laWye
THAT ann they would take to defer
se the road in all suits arising ITO
Is desth, scCidsnt aud destructi'