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

TIE ages Of the Freshmen at Yale range
from SO to To-
CHRYKNNs mas three church organiza-
tons and two church buildings.
A SON Of Theodore, Of Abyssinis, q
travelling with menagerie in England.
LAST year the American Bible Society
printed Loo, 900 copies ofthe Scriptures.
DrRrse January, Pennsylvania yielded
a daily average of 10, 0,192 barrels Of petro-
leum.
The first piano sent to Japan was re-
Gently shipped thither by New Haven
manufacturer. rt
IT il supposed that the annual losses by
cattle diseases in this country amount to
$50 0,000,000.
A BUDDHIST monastery In Thibet, 15,-
1T feet above the sea, is the highest
known human isbitation.
ONE New York car-driver is worth
$125, 1000. He lately sold Central Park
property that brought him $4,000.
A NEw HAVEN merchant has insured
his life for $1,000 for the benefit Of the
New Haven Orphan Asylum
YALE has graduated so College Presi
dents, 10 Cabinet Ministers, 40 Senators,
80 Governors, and more than 100 Judges.
OHE-rHIRD of the 10000 women and
girls who have to earn their own living
In New York, do not average over % q
week.
Nh BURIryGAME's credentials 10 the
French court were five feet long and COW
cred all over with fve-clawed dragons.
ASU,szERof of young women IN Massa-
chusetts manufacturing ESTABLISHMENT re-
Gently kept silent, on wager, Tor sixty
long minutes.
A CARGO of wheat from California,
which recently arrived at Boston and was
sold, returns net loss to the parties In
tere.ted of over $4,000.
NEW YoRK is more depsely populated
than any other city. In one portion 192,-
900 persons reside within square mile.
London cannot furnish a parallel.
HALF . mile in ESQ carried OFF a silver
cup for the fastest of nine 7elocipedists IN
Nashua, N. a., TIE other day, the victor
being Walter Hartman, nephew Of the
Governor.
Our of 109, 1875 passengers con-
viewed ON Massachusetts, railroads, In 1858,
twenty-five lost their lives. During the
same period 155 railroad employees were
killed.
on the east side of the highway leading
from Bucklsnd, Me-, to the Congrega-
tional Church in Sumner, every tree Is
rock maple, and on the west side every
tree Is beech
IT is a curious fact that although the
rain keeps thousands away from church
on Sunday, 1t does not deter single man
from attending to his business on week
days.
PROBABLY the oldest tree on record is
cypress at Semma, in Lombardy, that was
known to be standing when Julius Cesar
lived, !, 800 years ago. 1t is 1e6 Test hign
and 30 feet in circumference.
THE largest man on record in modern
times was Miles Darden, native OF Nortn
Carolina, born in 1898. he was seven feet
and six inche Ugh. At his death, in 1857,
he weighed little over one thousand
pounds.
Hone KoNe contains 135,o00 inhabi-
tants. of whom $4,000 are Europeans and
Americans. Its annual export and I'M
port trade is valued at $500, ,00O, 900. Inc
Chinese exclusively occupy a portion Vi
the city.
THE Maxwell House, erected IN Nasn-
vile, Tenn, on lot that was eoushs lor
$11, in 1880, is nearly completed a. . COS.
of 800, 900. 1t viii be one OF the largest
hotels in America. During the war IL was
used as 3 hospital.
IT seems that q veritable black diamond
vas found nv a Federal soldier back oi
AtIanta Ga IL is seven-eighths OF an
inch long. two and hslf inches In clr'
cumterence. weighs two ounces, and Is
worth several thousand dollars
THE number of newspapers In the
senshszn sssiss is ss follows; ys1es ysSfsnsss -
4S; Florida, %; Georgia, 96; North Car
olina, 65; South Carolina, 81; Kentucky
70; Mississippi IS; Tennessee, %.
"A lady in New Hampshire recently
determined to exchange for currency sill
yer dollar which she had carefully kept
for thirty-fiye years. fhe money changer
astounded her with the information that II
was counterfeit
I A BRAKEMAN in Eastern Pennsylvania.
who leaped from some ears that had be-
come unooupled, and which ran back in
to passenger train, causing the loss of
several lives, has been sen,snced to thir-
teen months hard labor fc- neglect of
duty.
LADIES of New Orleans consts,ct their
panniers of old newspapers; whih was
demonstrated the other day by ,oIite
youth, who endeavored to remove . tail
ing incumbrance from q lsdy's skirt ald
brought down the whole edifce.
CREAM PIE.-One pint of good swee
cream, one egg, one tablespoon even full
of hc1r, one pinch of salt, flavor with
lemcn and sweeten to taste Beat the egg
light, then add the -four and stir into the
cream The above is for one pie in q
baking dish, or what suits you better, and
bake like pumpkin or potato pie with
only an undercrust. Put the lemon on
the Gugsr
DURING the twelve months ending Oct.
1, 1867, 7S, ,451 crimes were committed in
New York OF these 7S were murders,
7,721 assaults, and the remainder rob.
berries and thefts. The police force nun
bers 2,200 men there are eight police JUS
tees, with II aldermen and 81 clerks to
assist them daily; one district attorney,
with 1S assistants; recorder, city judge,
and Judge of oyer and terminer Be
sides. there are SO officials of the Court
of General Sessions and officers Of Spe-
cial Session, besides coroners, and 40
jails, station houses, &c, which require
Al keepers. The expense of the city for
this rumber Of officials is S3,212, 800 per
annum, or over $500 q day.