The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, is valued at $780,
5S5, ,910.
SACRAMENTO river sand is said to be
worth 80 per ton.
LEWISTON, Pa, has 30 inhabitants who
are more than 20 years old. One of these
is 1o4 years old.
ROME, by a new census, has 220,532 in
habitants; 1880 of them are priests,
monks, and nuns.
BLUE Gown, the winner of the Derby
In io6S, has won for his owner the hand
some sum of e17,562,
A ACINCINNArr gentleman has bought ten
thousand acres of land in Tennessee upon
which to establish a colony.
OK the 1st of July the Western Union
Telegraph Company had 104, ,534 miles of
wire and 103 miles of cable.
A STATISTICAL chap says the hands of
magazine readers in this country travel
$4,000 miles year in cutting the leaves
ONE of the most fashionable young Ia
dies at Nahant wears hat which cost
only ten cents, and which she trimmed
herself
QUITE a number of bears have been
trapped this season in the vicinity of Au-
rora, Maine. They have not been sc
troublesome for many years.
THEY say, in Berlin, that King William
is always under the influence of strong
doses of morphine when he appears on
parade, or on other public occasions.
THE champion horse tradist" resides
in Manchester, N. II. He has owned,
during the past five years, 5000 horses,
worth, on an average, $15 apiece.
ELIHU BURRITT, the learned blacksmith,
has established an emigrant agency at
Birmingham, England, where he has been
United States Consul for several years
past
WOMAN Suffrage Conventions are to be
held in Chicago on the 9th and 10th of
September, on the 10th AM eth in Cincin-
matt, and on the 9Th and TIN of October in
st. Louis
In July 33a, ,277 citizens of Boston, men
women and children, availed themselves of
the privileges and advantages afforded by
the various public bathing houses in that
city
A SPIDER in the Sheriff's office in St.
Louis has woven a web which is perfect
imitation of lace. 1t is eight inches in
length, and has attracted hosts of specta-
tors.
THE number of cows in France is more
than 5,000,000 In Paris the consumption
of milk is nearly 100000 quarts day.
Milk is sold at from ten to forty centimes
quart, according to the locality and the
quality.
A DRAMATIsT in Rutland, VT, has writ
ten a moral play, after the style of "One
Night in Ten Bar-rooms" 1t is a temper
ance drama in ten acts, eighteen scenes
and fifteen characters. 1t is the career of
four drunkards
THE noise produced by the Chinese rlu-
sicians is so harsh and barbarous that the
Common Council of San Francisco not
long since passed an ordinance for the sup
preston of Chinese orchestra bands.
THE total amount expended in the Dis
trict of Columbia, from the time the seat
of Government was located there, to June
30, 1868, for public works of every descrip-
ton, including buildings and works of art,
is So, ,390, ,S53OS.
WITHIN ten miles of Ithaca, N. Y,
there are over one hundred and fifty
waterfalls, nine of which are more than
one hundred feet high. These are situated
in thirty superb ravines in the midst Of
the grandest rock scenery.
A MINISTER who has been recruiting
among the Springs OF Saratoga writes
that the belle of the season wears dress
valued at the amount of his salary for two
years, and set of diamonds equal in value
to the cost of comfortable mission
church, with infant room attached, gas
fixtures and cabinet-orga includedl
AT recent sale of MIR Dillon's collec-
ton of autographs in London, George
Wochfpnrforfc 1affor 70 NQUanhom IN
which he deplores the condition of Ire
land, sold for $500; one from Bacon
brought sos; and one from Oliver Crom-
well, 1896; Queen Elizabeth's Instructions
concerning the Anjou marriage brought
$780,
In the English Churchman'S almanac,
the annual incomes of the twenty Arch
bishops and Bishops of the Church of Eng
land is given. The largest annuity, about
800, 900 in our currency, is received by
the Archbishop of Canterbury. Several
receive $4,000, and the smallest amount
is $22, 500.
ELECTRICITY on the railroads in France
is taking the place of human watchful-
ness. On many lines there are contriv-
ances where the passing of train is au-
tomatically announced to neighboring
stations. The cars pass over connecting
wires and the train records itself before
and behind, so that its progress and ap-
pearance are alike indicated
A COMPARATIVE statement of the NOR
tality of the cities of Boston, Cincinnati,
Chicago and st. Louis, from January l TO
July /, 1869, based upon official figures,
shows that every eighty-ninth person died
IN Boston; every one hundred and fourth
N N.no.nnafs. hnnlrod Qnd
eleventh in Chicago. and every one hundred
and tenth in st. Louis.
APARIs scorrespondentsayst the Bavarian
girls, whatever may be the reason, have
the finest hair in Europe. There is in the
town where the fair Austrian Empress
passed her childhood, the monument of a
girl who died of having too much Of it.
1t is stated in her epitaph that the nourish-
ment of her body was absorbed by the
capillary vessels, and that her hair In the
short space of ten months grew, on its be-
ing shaved, to the extraordinary length OF
three yards
A MAN living in Bouhey, France, recent
| ly fell, from oyer-indulgence in drink. ipto
state of lethargy so complete that he
was believed to be dead. The man was
laid out, and his friends came to pay their
farewell visit. One woman, however, re-
marking that one of his arms was hanging
down, took it up to replace it on the bed,
when, at the touch, the apparent corpse
suddenly opened its eyes and looked
around the room A doctor was at once
summoned, and the man recovered
THE Pittsburgh Commercial states that
an inventor, of that city, has constructed
| furnace in which a pan of water has been
so arranged that the water is decomposed,
and the oxygen elected into the fire render
ing combustion complete, and saving fifty
per cent. of the fuel Another exchange
claims that similar arrangement was in
vented in Europe a few years ago, but
failed to save fuel because it required as
much heat to decompose the water as was
gained by the use of the oxygen
WHETHER time goes rapidly quite de-
pends on the object in prospect. A young
lady on her way to church to get married
regards every moment as an hour; man
on his journey to be hung thinks an hour
concentrated into every moment. Thu
young chap who is waiting for an answer
to his proposal looks upon a week as an
age, while the man of 80 waiting for his
divorce papers believes every hour con-
tains full five hundred minutes. A hungry
man half an hour before dinner thinks II
will never come, and dyspeptic wishes
time stood whole day. So it goes or
don't go, according to the individual case
| in hand.
AN English paper states that out OF
twelve jurymen who decided upon the
merits of a case heard at the recent Meri-
onethshire assises, only four could speak
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