The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

winter an elephant.
Is IT necessary to have wings to fly into
passion?
THERE are 3,377 pensioners on the rolls
Of the Navy Department.
LONDON hairdressers are not allowed to
talk to customers unless spoken to.
WEALTHY lawyer in London let his
wife starve to death on 81 so week.
A CHINESE school in San Francisco has
1870 pupils that learn very rapidly.
FIFTEEN hundred dogs were executed
last season under the Cleveland dog Crdi-
nance.
THE Michigan Central workshops at
Detroit has chimney 165 feet high, and
containing 1S5,000 bricks.
THERE are 139 pupils in the North
Carolina DeafIDumb and Blind Institute,
of whom 43 are blind, and 81 deaf and
dumb.
WHEN the bottom of the Great Eastern
was cleaned, fifty thousand gallons of
muscles and other accretions were remov-
ed from it.
THE Salt Lake Theatre, according to
the Desert Neacs, is the only place of
amusement that was ever dedicated by
prayer.
s. G. HAYES cast in a section of stove
pipe, forty years ago, the first compost
ton roller ever used in a New Haven
printing Office.
A STATISTICAL observer, on late Sun
day morning in London, found but 1852
worshippers in fourteen churches, whose
pastors received altogether e7,074 salary.
AT a recent medical lecture in Penn
sylvania Hospital, at Philadelphia, class
of thirty-nine ladies were present, with
40 male students.
A FoG-wHIsTLE at Cape Fourcher, N. s.,
said to be the most powerful in North
America, may be heard 10 miles in calm
weather, 5 to 8 in storms, 25 with the
wind, and to against the wind.
NJ. RAsPAII., the champion of the Paris
workmen, was in youth intended for the
Church, but changed his mind to the study
of medicine. He has spent ten years IN
prison and fifteen in exile.
A SUIT for divorce has lately been sue
cessful in the Bath courts, in which the
parties separated are seventy years old,
have lived together forty-seven years, and
are the parents of twenty -four children.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Massachusetts
PZoughnaan says: "Cover your strawberry
vines lightly, or you smother them. Pine
boughs are Just the thing for it; but oak
leaves, sea-weed, or coarse hay are good.
Remember long manure Is fatal to them. "
THE quantity of gold produced in Nova
Scotia from the date of the first discovery
of the precious metal to the end of 1868,
a period of eight years, amounts to 100000
ounces- The best year was 1867, when
the yield amounted to nearly 10000
ounces.
AS EVIDENCE that American ideas are
getting foothOld in Italy, correspondent
cites the fact that American rocking chairs
are now in high favor, though when first
introduced by American families, they
were looked upon by the natives as some
thing ridiculous.
ONE million, two hundred and eleven
thousand, one hundred and ninety three
pounds of sea-island cotton, valued at
81 ,O7O, ,736, were exported from the Gus
toms District of Charleston to foreign
countries during the year ending the 3Oth
of September, 1869.
BISHOP POTTER, o. Southern New York,
during the fifteen years of his episcopate,
has confirmed 41,O00 persons, admitted
400 to holy orders, and has travelled up
ward of 10000 miles. During this time
the diocese has contributed almost $5,000,-
600 for charitable and church purposes.
FRENCH statisticians assert that the
mortality among women asdecreased 1S11
per cent. since corsets went out of fashion,
but that brain diseases have increased
among them at the fearful rate of 72M per
cent since chignons and other pyramidical
ornaments came into vogue.
ELDER SMITH, at Salt Lake City, recent
ly married the widow and two daughters
of his brother, and reporter of the Tie
oraph inquired what relation the children
of the two daughters would bear to Smith.
Thereupon Smiths son thrashed the re-
porter, and his curiosity is supposed to be
satisfied.
SAN FRANCISCO invests in five of its
leading hotels, $4,750,0O0; they produce
an annual rental of about $45O,0OO; the
people on their pay-rolls number six hun
dred. The annual income of these hotels
exceeds S2,500, 600, and their permanent
population is about two thousand people.
MISS SALLY ROBINSON, of Stratham, N.
H., ninety four years old, Is reported 70
have been the strongest woman ever
known in that region. Her weight never
much exceeded one hundred and fifteen
pounds. In her prime she shouldered
barrels of cider with ease. She is still
vigorous, and reads without spectacles.
A SHORT time ago a close-6sted farmer
on the Sandy river, in Maine, died, after
devising 81 to his only son. The old
gentleman was duly buried in the vener-
able churchyard, which suffered q terrible
washing away by the late flood, and a
short time ago his body was found oppo-
site the sons place, having been brought
down the river a long distance When
the tender-hearted son was informed Oh
the fact, he made the touching remark !; I;
probably come back after that doilarI
THE New Orleans Commercial Bullet'n
saws that one-third of its present popuia-
ton would be ample to transact Its Dusl-
ness. ave may assume" it remarks
+" that about fifteen thousand OF the seven
tv thousand men are entirely idle, and NJ
teen thousand more are only nomihaiiy
EMPLOYED. Five thousand others are
| fully employed the year through, ano tne
remaining thirty-fve thousand 90 on an
average only about hals the LABOR ana
business that they could easily DO Ii they
could find full employment.
THE Cincinnati Commercial says that
the Red Stockings have, during the past
season, played in fiftyaeven match games
and three games with picked nines-sixty
in all-and have been victorious in every
instance. They have Travelled from Boston
to San Francisco, and have encountered
all the famous baseball clubs in the coun
try-East, West, North and Southland
now retire from the field with an un
broken record OF ,victories-a record up
] oxo,,rIa1 ~, tho history of the oamo