The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-07-23
FACTS AND FIGURES

Il kACIS AMI fItfUMGS
A GOAL BED one hundred feet through
has been found in Virginia
VIcToRIA's book is said to have nette1
her $12, 500, all of which she gave away.
PHOTOGRAPH fans are among the Late
Partisan novelties introduced in New
York.
THE London benevolent societies spen1
two million pounds . year on the -
poor.
A NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK has been e
tablished at Albany, N. Y, with Ersstus
Corning for President
ELEVEN graveysrds can be seen from
the top of the old chapel at Wesleyan
University, Middletown.
PORTLAND, Oregon, on the parallel of
Montreal and Quebec, was eating its own
potatoes the first week in June.
I SUGAR is largely Manufactured from
pumpkinf in Hungary, BY the same pro-
cess as the extraction of sugar from beets.
In May, the people of New York spent
$222, coo in goiug to theatres. $75i, 900 in,
riding on streetcsrs. and $97, coo iEspubI
ing in omnibuses. N perml:tacn
Wilkes Spirit of H. Hnsss eeiad F.rrT,7
the Allen -McCoole prize fight, neasers 70
Louis, was probably tie last of any = =
portance In this country.
A BABY eight weeks old srrived in 81.
Joseph, Mo-, the other day, from San.
Francisco, and is now announced as the
moet youthful continent-crossef of the
period.
BREcHxR breaches with q vase of choice
flowers on each end of the stand, and to
supply these, winter and summer, it takes
$500 yearly, which he thinks is good in
,vestment.
AT q recent examination of conscripts
at Hildesheim, Hanover, it was found that
young tailor had his heart, net on his
| left, but on his right side. The discovery
created great sensation.
A RUSSIAN paper says that the con-
sumption of alcoholic drinks in the en-
pire has increased since 1858, by 101 per
cent The number of persons who died
from drunkenness in Russia, last year, was
2,74S.
Captain Vim. B. Eaton, of Chelsea,
Mass, was bitten by spider a few days
ago, and the poison spread through his
system so rapidly that when medical aid
was called it was too late to save him. He
died in great agony.
A LEAvENwoRrH editor is in quest Of
special attractions for his paper. Hesays:
"Whst we want for this column is per-
sonalities, as mean as possible. Expenses
of libel suits to be betrayed by the writer
funeral expenses by US"
THE North German Confederation has
q fleet of 5057 merchant vessels, of which
1854 belong to Prussia. Tonnage, 1915
374 tons of 1000 Kilograms each. There
are among them 153 steamships, with an
aggregate horsepower of 21,162. OF
these steamships 80 belong to Prussia.
ONE of the most powerful labor organi-
cations in this country has been formed
by the journeymen fshoemskers Of Mas
sacbusetts, under the title of the Knights
of ST. Crispine The guild now comprises
about $1,000 members, 10000 of whom
are employed in the boot and shoe pro
ducing towns Of the Bay State.
A COOPERATIVE store was opened in
the Haymarket, London, about year
ago, and has been extraordinarily sue
cessfal. The sales in a twelve-month
amounted to upwards of 500, 600, the
whole original capital being only
$4,000, and the profits have amounted TO
over $31, 600.
AN ancient piece OF pottery was recent
ly found at Auburn, N. Y, of the kind
used by the Alleghsns, or Mexican In
dams, and confirms the theory that they
were driven out of the Northeast by the
Iroquois. A rude arch and Goals were
found under the pottery, which is sup.
posed to be about 450 years old.
THE Uniyersalist Convention of Maine
passed q resolution declaring "capital
punishment detrimental TO the best order
Of society, and to the teachings of Jesus"
20, harf n
custom" in Maine, the convention re-
garded "with deep grief and unqualified
disapprobation.n
York, a United States silver dollar Of
for $l45; q Martha Washington half-dime,
1872 for $s4; and q copper three-cent
piece, the size of the old can't coined in
1853, with the head of liberty surrounded
by thirteen stars, for $1S.
A CLERGYMAN was one day much an
moved by those who dropped in after the
service had commenced. invariably closing
the door after them. He bore the vexa-
tion with Job like patience, but at length,
being fairly exhausted from beat, he vocif-
Grated to an offender: " "Friend, do for
goodness sake, let the door be open. be-
lieve il I were preaching in bottle, you
would put the cork in.
A CURIOUS experiment was performed
in France, recent to ascertain whether
fish could live in great depths OF water.
The fish were placed in vessels of water
made to sustain 400 atmOspheres, under
which they lived and preserved their
bealth. 1t is, therefore, concluded that
fishes may penetrate to very great depths
in the ocean with impunity, as q pressure
of 400 atmospheres corresponds TO depth
of 13, 800 feet, or about two miles and
half
A LARGE room has been discovered at
Herculaneum which must have served for
a kitchen. In it was wooden clothes
press, entirely carbonized; also IA vases, q
candelabrum, and q lamp, all in bronze,
several vessels in glass and terra Gotta; q
small marble statue of a fswn, and two
broken tables, one in marble and the other
in slate. These excavations are carried on
by means of the grant of $4,000 by King
Victor Emanuel, made for that object
AT Elyedsu Hall, in England, an inn
mense purple-lesvel beach was lately re-
moved from one portion Of the grounds
to another 1t was nearly fifty feet high,
the diameter of the branches was fifty
eight feet, and the circumference OF the
stem, one foot from the ground, wss seven
feet eight inches. The undisturbed soil
and roots measured sixteen feet BY four
teen feet, the roots extending six feet be-
yond the mass of soil, the whole weight
being over twenty tons. A strong plat
form of timber was constructed under it;
il was then raised by means of screw-jacks,
placed upon rollers laid on planks, and
then drawn to its new site by means OF
large pulley blocks, being kept in an up
right position while tine operation was be-
! ing performed.
AN experiment has recently been made
! in Munich to ascertain il wheel of rail-
way car rolls regularly without sliding,
so that by recording the number OF re-
volutions and knowing the diameter, the
exact distance accomplished can be sc-
curately measured. Although the ex-
pertinent WAS tried on short distanccs
vet the difference between the rieascre-
ment by mathematical instruments ind
that obtained by recording the revolutions
of the wheel was found 10 be no moro
than 1-6S, ,0o0 of the whole. This would
indicate that there was absolutely no
sliding of the wheels. Il is proposed TO
employ this method as q control IN the
determination of degrees CT longitude, by
the side of astronomical observations and
measurements with the telegraph.
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