The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20

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omces.
HAMS CHRIsTIAN ANDERsEN never was
married.
THE Central Park at New York il
called the Suicides Paradise.
A CLERGYMAN has recovered 81, 900 for
an injury on an English railway.
DURING the last three years 1900
horses have perished by fire in New York.
TwKNTY-EIGHT young Chinese have
arrived in Marseilles to study theology.
THE Princess Metternich recently paid
a dress makers bill of $4,000 for one
season in Paris
THERE has not been days interruption
in the operation of the ocean telegraph
since July "a, 1850
MACMILLAN, the London publisher, has
presented 135 volumes of his publications
to the Harvard College library.
CALIFORNIA consumes fifty per cent. Of
its own wines, the Atlantic State twenty
five and Europe the remainder.
A CHINESE giant, eight and ne-halffeet
high, arrived at New York few days
since. He is properly named Chang-Hi.
GEORGE HUDSON, the ex-railway king of
AOAANOhAr AA1o ONSh RsCcCneCu With 6f,tlV
by his friends to keep him from starving.
THE Protestant churches in this coun-
try raise annually, for foreign missions,
81, ,726, 900, and sustain 4S1 missionaries and
895 native assistants.
DURING the period between 1915 and
1853, ffty-four years, six and half mil
lion people left Great Britain to seek
homes in other climes
THE Hartford Times states that Per
sons troubled with corns can find relief by
calling on Mr.. Seiger. Colts band will
be present and furnish good music"
AN orthodox Congregational Church in
Massachusetts, has subscribed 1,700 for
singing and 81 800 for preaching The
value placed upon each Is about equal
THE largest artesian well in the world
is that of Passy, near Paris, being two
feet in diameter and discharging 5000 900
gallons of water in twenty-four hours.
THE "Great Canadian Traveller" is q
Oxteby by name, who has conducted six
teen years, and travelled $4,000 miles.
DIR. KoHN, Breslau oculist, finds 81
per cent. of the night compositors he has
examined near sighted, and that the light
of oil lamps is more detrimental than that
of gas.
THERE are sixteen portraits of Mary
Queen of Scots in the British national
gallery in London, each of them unlike
all the others in every detail of feature
and complexion.
THE late Henry Keep left to his wife
and daughter 81, 2,0O0, 900 worth of stock of
the Northwestern Railroad, with instruc-
tions not to sell it, as it would pay better
than any investment
THE total amount of the gifts presented
to the Pope, on the occasion of the ff-
teenth anniversary of his entering the
priesthood, is estimated at 20,000OO0
francs.
THE Knoxville Wing says it is es-
tkmated that the blackberry crop of Ten
nessee, if properly harvested, would make
160, 900 barrels of wine, worth about $S,-
100000.
YANKEE RoBINsoN's Circus Troupe
drove into Brookville, Pa, on q recent
Sunday, and put up at the hotels engaged
for them. On Monday they were arrested
and fined for breaking the Sabbath by
travelling on that day.
In tine reign of Edward /, the price of
Bible, fairly written, was $37. The hire
of laboring man was three-half pence q
day. To purchase a copy of the Bible
would, therefore, take 1890 days earnings
of such q man, or about thirte en- years,
toll
A CONSERVATIVE old human miracle of
Danville, VT, in his eighty fifth year, who
never rode in a stage or car, or attended q
circus or lecture in his life, and never got
drunk, recently walked to Hanover, N. H.,
a distance of 125 miles.
DAVID MELVILLE, of Newport, r. l. Is
said to have been the first person to intro
duce gas light into this country. In the
year 1912 he lighted his residence in New
port, factory in Pawtucket, and Beaver
Tail Lighthouse, Narragansett Bay.
DURING the sixteen years of the exist
ence of the New York Newsboys' Lodg-
ing House, lodging has been furnished 66.-
451 different Obys; restored to friends,
1923; furnished with homes, $500; and
furnished 42S,S46 lodgings and 2S3,931
meals.
THE annual report of the Augusta (Ga.)
cotton factory shows the following figures
as the result of a years operations: Total
earnings, $149, 1853 IS; total expenses, 49,
O46.3 net profits on the years opera
tions $12O, ,7175S, on a working capital Of
$500, 900.
THE amount of business transacted in
the postoffice in New York may be judged
by the fact that two windows are open for
the sale of stamps in sums less than one
dollar. The receipts at each OF these win
dows average 81 900 per day. The daily
consumption of stamps at the Office must
be in all about $50, 1000
REv TUoNAsS RURyEII and his wife
formerly of Northampton, Mass, who
have been missionaries in India for the
last twenty-one years, recently returned
home to Northampton. They were 133
days in going to India when they first
went out, and but thirty y-eight in return
ing, so great has been the improvement In
travelling within the last two decades.
Two New York ladies stopped their car
rage on crossing. One went into store
and the other remained in the carriage,
Two gentlemen wishing to cross the street
ordered the coachman to move on. The
lady in the carriage told him not to stir.
On this one of the gentlemen opened the
coach h-door, and with his boots and spurs
stepped through the carriage. He was
followed by his companion, to the extreme
discomposure of the lady within as well as
the lady without. To complete the jest q
party of sailors coming up, and relishing
the joke, scrambled through the carriage.
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