The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Srx hundred and five horses were eaten
in Paris in June. ..,
ABOUT 5000 railway passengers pass
through Indianapolis every twenty-ioui
hours
THERE is farm in Hardwick, Mass, on
which there are fifty miles of stone wall
Mr. PEABODY has given $14O, 600 to pro
mote science and useful knowledge In Es-
sex county, Mass.
THERE was set of jewelry valued at
$500 in a bouquet recently thrown to .
New York danseuse.
LOCAL observers place the number OF
visitors to the Hoosac tunnel, during the
past three months, at $4,000.
On the Austrian pension list are S3S
Generals, 403 Colonels, All Lieutenant
Colonels, and I, ,410 Majors.
A YOUNG woman has been admitted to
the course of medical studies in the Medi-
cal College at Salem, Oregon.
THE production of corn and wheat IN
the United States in 1868 was about $780,
600, 900 bushels, or % bushels per head.
A NEWARK hackman hung his canvas
ed-bag on a lamp-post, and on his return
from dinner found it full of letters.
THE value of boots and shoes manufac-
tured in Massachusetts the present year
will amount probably to over $95,OO0,O0O
THE little town of Bennington, VT,
with population of 5000, does heavier
manufacturing business than any other
town or city in the State.
BANTING, the anti-obesity philosopher,
after five years of experiment, finds sugar
to be more productive of fat than any
other element of food.
IT is estimated that the cotton crop OF
Arkansas for 1869 will net 100000 bales,
worth 3O,OOOO00 The corn crop will be
the largest ever made in the State.
THE Rev. DR.. Spaulding, who is 76
wears of age, is the Oldest living missionary
of the American Board. He has been en-
gagged in his holy work in Ceylon since
1919.
AJoURNAL at Dieppe complains of the
number of children of from twelve to four
teen wears who are to be met in the streets
of that city in a state of intoxication.
A CALCULATION has been made by late
accurate philologist, that there are $4,000
words in common use in England which
do not appear in any dictionary OF the
language.
A FARMER having plowed the land
about his apple-trees for the first time this
spring was surprised by second blossom
ing about two weeks after the first bloom
had disappeared.
MRS JOHN s. JONES carried fire in an
old fashioned foot-stove, from Durham to
Strafford, N. H., sixty three years ago, and
from that day to this that fire has never
been permitted to go out. 81
ONE of the members of the American
Association for the advancement of Science
fayors the abolition of months, and wants
the days of the year numerically designat-
ed up to 1855.
THE bromide of ammonium is recon-
mended by DR.. Glib, of London, to those
who suffer from an excess of fat. He says,
when taken in small doses for length of
time, it will diminish the weight OF the
body with greater certainty than any
other known article. s......
THE various labor organizations in the
United States claim a total membership OF
16S,OOO The Knights of ST. Crispin lead,
with $4,000 members the miners have 3d.
600, the iron moulders, 1900, and the
bricklayers $4,000.
DIR. SrRoNGsBURG, a Jew, who, seven
or eight years ago, lived a penniless adven.
turer in a London garrett is now called
the Prussian Railroad King. He is worth
at least $4,000, 900 thalers, and owns nearly
one half of the railroads in the Kingdom.
A GENTLEMAN who advertised for clerk
says that he payed attention to only four
out of sixty replies, because the remainder
exhibited bad spelling, bad writing, TOO
much independence, disposition to write
too long letter, or a taste for writing II
on fancy paper and using fancy envelope
and monogram.
ANEW knitting machine has been per-
fected in Hamilton, Ont, that knits 324,-
600 stitches of ribbed work, colored or
plain, per minute. 1t has been patented
in the United States and Canada 1t is es-
timated that one machine will turn out 800
shirts per day.
A GENTLEMAN in Litchfield, Conn.,, hav-
ing reached his hundredth birthday, his
friends determined to give him reception
in the church. Arrangements having been
made, as the old gentleman entered the
church with his two brothers, each over
20, the entire audience rose and sang "Old
Hundred" a1F
A POSTAL treaty has been concluded be-
tween the United States and British Hon
duras, to take effect on October 1st. Let
tiers weighing half ounce or under Will
require twelve-cent stamp; newspapers,
without regard to weight, a atwo-cent stamp;
| and books, patterns, or samples, SIX cent
stamp for every four ounces.
THE fishing vessels of New England
appear to be very successful On board q
Gloucester (Mass.) vessel, recently, 23,OOO
pounds of fish were spoiled for want OF
sufficient salt; and schooner recently ar
rived in port, after thirty days fishlng,
with 81, 1000 pounds of halibut and 81 900
pounds of cod fish. Every member OF the
crew received $40 as his share OF the
profits of the trip. tf..i-
A MUNICH professor estimates the
amount of beer annually manufactured In
Europe to be equal to $500, 100000 pints,
or more than enough, he says, to hoat the
whole Prussian navy. The average
amount drunk by each individual, In 1868,
was, in Bavaria, 234 pints; in England,
f9S =; in Belgium 14O in Austria, 81; in
France, 35; in Prussia, 80 in Russia and
| Spain, ~.
As AN illustration of the prevalence of
| insanity on the Pacific coast a correspond
ent states that on the I'd ult. no less than
four men were sent to lunatic asylum,
and adds: Californians live continuously
| in a perfect whirl of feverish excitement,
enduring an amount of wear and tear OF
body and brains not equaled in wall
street, itself. There are few old Californi-
ans to be found who have not been rich
and poor again at least half dozen times,
and most of them are poor now. -
YALE has had among its alumni four
signers of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, one Vice President, forty four
United States Senators, and fifty eight
Presidents of Colleges. Princeton has
had two signers of the Declaration of In
dependence, twenty eight members OF the
Continental Congress, one President, two
Vice Presidents, forty-eight Senators,
twelve Judges of the Supreme Court, six
teen Foreign Ministers, twenty-eight Gov
ernors, five Bishops, and thirty-six Presi-
dents of Colleges. 80
THE first conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church was held at Philadel-
phia, in June, 1773, ten ministers only
being present, one of whom was Francis
Asbury, of precious and sainted memory.
The membership was 1,160. In 1913, forty
years later, there were several conferences,
67Sministers, with membership Of214, ,O0O.
In 1863 there were nearly 100 conferences,
nine venerable Bishops, about 10000 pre-
siding elders, circuit and local preachers,
and /, 500, 900 members. The first Metho-
dist sermon was preached in New York, a
little over a century ago, to q congregation
Of five persons auaF-ilfi
THE following statement shows the
number of Postoffices IN operation in the
States and Territories of the United States
hovx q.