The Placer herald., 1856-12-13
Varieties.


WEALTH OF THE MEXICAN CHURcu-A
very large proportion of the wealth of Mex
leo is in the church. 1t has been stated by
some writers that it possesses property and
funds to the amount of $4OO. 100000, and
that its annual income is not less than $l2
100000. This sum seems almost increda-
bic, considering the poverty of the less than
1000, 600 from whom it it drawn, but Baron
Humboldt believes the estimate to be rather
under, than over the actual figures, and that
other writers bear him out in the opinion.
PUNIsHMENTs OF FRENCH SoLDIERs.-The
French law punishes with excessive severity
any soldier who may commit a robbery,
however petty, in a house in which he is bill
eted The military tribunal lately tried a
soldier of the 6lst Regiment, named Ben
ard, for having taken pair of embroidered
slippers from public house in the depart
ment of the Yonne, to which he was assign
ed in the course of a march with a small de-
tachmens. The tribunal told the man that
he had rendered himself liable to ten years
hard labor in irons, but that taking an indul-
gent view of the case, he would only be SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment.
The SHADOW on THE PILLow-The fol-
lowing incident was communicated bv Sir
John NJ. NeiI:-"A Highland soldier had
his arm so severely wounded that it was
about to be amputated, when Miss Nightin-
gale requested the operation delayed as she
thought under careful nursing the arm
might be preserved. BY her unremitng care
this was accomplished, and the poor soldier,
on being asked what he felt towards his pre-
server said that the only mode that he had
of giving vent to his feelings was kissing
her shadow when it fell on his pillow, as she
passed through the ward on her nightly Wis
it."
There was new feature at the Agrcul
tural Fair held at Cleveland Ohio-a show
of fish raised artiicially. They were chiefly
brook trout from six months to two years
old and were in large tank with glass sides
supple with a running stream of ice water.
Drs. Garlich and Arckley, who furnished the
exhibition have quite fish raising" about
two miles from Clevelan In the pond are
thousands of fish, principally trout, all raised
by artificial means.
MONEY and times are the heaviest burdens
of life, and the unhappiness of all mortals are
those who have more of either than they
know how to use.
AMADoR COUNTY STATISTICS We learn
from the report of the Assessor of this coun-
ty that there are in it sixteen quartz mills IN
operation. the capital invested in which
amounts to one hundred and seventy-tive
thousand dollars There are also four hnn-
dred and sixty miles of canal and bitches,
constructed at an estimate cost of SIX hun
dred thousand dollars Most of these ditcn-
es. however, are dry during the summer sea-
son. About one hundred miles more OF
bitches will be completed, it is expected,
within the next year.
PAPER MILL-We learn from the report
of the County Surveyor of Marin county,
that large paper mill, to be driven by wa
ter power, intended to run two sets OF ma
chinerv, is in course of building about thir-
teen miles from San Rafael, on the west bank
of Daniels Creek 1t is owned by Messrs.
Taylor d. Post, and will cost, when COM
pleted, $4,000.
The different saw mills in Columbia, says
the Columbian. turn out not less than 100,
600 feet of lumber weekly, per annum. Not
withstandng the number Of mills in the VI
cinitv and the immense amount of lumber
Wnlcn lney ulscialSe, lieIe 10 aI liiO
time quite pressing demand for lumber for
fumng, building and for mining purposes.
44Smon Spoonbottom," writing to the Ma
rysville In9uirer, says Forest City is fast
Improving. Two or three new houses are
going up, and the young people are being
married off, and those who are not are talk
ing of it. Everything seems to go on con
nubially.
CANALS IN CALFoRNIA.--Ther are five
hundred and ninety miles for the conveyance
of water for mining purposes, in ri dorado
county: besides four hundred and fifty miles
of laterel branches The original cost OF
the work was 81, ,420,0O0
FRoM THE STAGE TO THE PULPIT.-W. H..
Fleming, actor, and late manager OF the Ma
tional Theatre, Boston, is studying divinity
IN New York This will make the fourth
actor we have known to step from the stage
to the pulpit. Does preaching pay better
than actiag!
WHY is a benevolent lady like all Others
of her sex9 Because one is kind woman
and the other womankina.