The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-10-15
FACTS AND NGURES Z

TEN million slate pencils are used up IN
the United States every year. .'1so ia =
THE Baptist contributions 10 missions
last year were e962, ,479.5z sTsnfi'.5 "a
THERE are now upward Of sixty thou
sand Germans in Parisz-.a,c,,..j -" ~
THERE are two hundrediand fifty syIa-
gogues in the United States. sso' .ls.s l2s s.
@FRoM Maine to Texas is now super
seded by from Florida to Alaska"
Tue Prussian Court spends daily five
hundred dollars for charities; theIR0shn
Court twelve hundred rubles. .----
THE most promising young sculptor in
Paris is George Warren, the SON of Ameri-
can parents, but born n-France.--
A SOMEWHAT defective copy of the first
edition of Shakespeare Of 1888 fetched e33
at ,Puttick s. Simpsons auction sale in
London. -*''' .''f-9DI ISL
ADAMS ExrREss COMPANY eompeis all
agents and employees to put up their pho
t0graphs at the general Office, so that In
case any of them run, the detectives can
identity them. .--''A d hHii5 esm
The aegregst & membership of the va
rious branches Of tkes Order iof Odd Eel
lows in all parts of the world is, CONSIDER
ably over 100000. In Great Britain
alone there are over 100000 Odd Fellows.
EIaHT hundred millions one hundred
and eighteen thousand 9sletterssl passed
through the Pest Offices Of Great Brlt2in
and Ireland during the year 1S6SLan IN
crease Of nearly thirty five millions over
| 1867. -ra-itsi"ze boz ss. irlioiisIIo-esI
I AN English . coroner's jury lately re-
| turned a verdict of death from fatty
degeneration of the heart, accelerated by
the deceased having strangied hensif"
That scotld naturally aggrayateo such q
disease. i.siqmo-g 9di d.. i,94cfga1 ~
T. THERE is q remarkable, diver, named
Coad, at. Bodmim, in Cornwall, England,
who, during a recent swimming match,
remained under water three minutes and
ten seconds This exceeds anything ON
record. -, n.iFsr1e.-sfr ~ t-,t.;-<-
L.; A RICH man who lives near Rio Jan4ro
| is said to keep large anaconda or his
premises to Brighten off ladies and mis-
sionaries, who are constantly soliciting
donations for charitable and religious pur-
poses in that city. ,.,....-, -. -
-, The, gross receipts OF the places OF
| amusement in New York, for the month
| of August, were $206, 332 ;-of the. diHer-
ent lines Of railroads, $959, ,919 of the diff
ferent stage lines, SOS, 49, There were
l114,O59, 1893 cubic feet Of gas consumed in
| August. asSfii - 9bEm % ionuRo 70
\ TRE Rev. Mr.. Reed, of Maiden, Mass,
considered the expenditure of SO, 1000 on
/ his church edifice poor way TO dispose OF
money, and hoped "the Lord wotild lay
the whole thing fatr The; big lfale did
the business, and leftga wreck worth, for
kindling wood, about $500. -,4aao;5
THE Methodist Episcopal Church last
year erected 10 new places OF worship.
| One hundred and forty Of these were built
to take the place of old ones, the Other $40
are a net increase. The total amount of
money expended in building these church
| es was nearly 81, 900, 600. = li5'J 9fah
TIE Oldest clerk in the departments at
| Washington is John Barclay, chief clerk
of the office of Commissioner of Customs,
i who has been a clerk for sixty.five years
| Charles Vincent, of the Third AUDITORS
office, has been there ifty-eight yearsc
T. A FAMILY whichwas residing in Lynn,
/ Mass, at last accounts, has, during. the
past sixteen years, lived in sixteen differ
ent towns and cities, and has occupied
twenty-eight different houses. During
this moving period the wife has become
the mother of eleven children. ,,.,q.,.
A LONDON velocipedist was sent by
London yelocipede manufacturing COM
pany to Edinburgh, Scotland, in order to
attend an agricultural exhibition at the
latter place Edinburgh is more than four
hundred miles distant from London, and
the velocipedist made the trip IN about
five days '5-'ll saI 19onJ
THE business of Ames -is Sons the
great shovel manufacturers of North
Easton, Mass, having suffered from drunk
enness among some of the workmen, q
rule has been adopted to discharge every
! man found drunk, unless he will disclose
and testify in court where he obtained les his
liquor. 81. f.s---. - .-,..-..,
THE six great Continental Powers of
Europe have at the present time. mo- less
than five millions five hundred and eighty
thousand men under arms France has
ton / .O28, ,946, Southern Germany 200, ITO,
Austria and Hungary LOSS, 900, Pfussia
/, ,467, 900, and Italy r4S0 i460, soldiers;
| ALTHOUGH the Prussian government in
sists on all precautions which science has
discovered for the protection Tof miners,
293 men lost their lives in the collieries OF
that country in 1857. q The proportion was
2.4 for every 1000 men employed. In
England the rate per cent is higher OBJ
| per 1,000e. 5ai iGe,r7r..t .7gih9ns.-
| : THE lists of patents granted In, France
| contain some curious articles, among them
the following: A hat with decorated rim;
an umbrella hat; woman's hygienic and
! impermeable skirt, called g Ia Preyoyante;;'
stockings with garters attachedi me-
chanical mustard pot; application OF the
instinct of animals to the guidance OF
steam carriages on ordinary roads--what-
ever this last may mean. y8-fss
A DOMESTIC romance comes from New
York. Twenty-Five years ago q couple
were married, had one son, lived together
ten years, and then, after losing all their
property, procured a divorce. The wo-
man married again, and got fortune the
husband didn't, and remained poor. And
now that the woman has become a rich
widow, she has remarked her first hus-
band and they are going to Boston; for a
revised honeymoon ...s,.--f..--.-
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says: 1t Is
a great gift to be born rich in the eyes
and ears, Some men have carried. before
/ them an endless procession Of beauty.
! There are charms for them where others
| perceive barrenness. There IS a concert
in the air all the time for thosew cars
are tuned aright. Trees harp for them,
winds roll their tones musically, and birds
and insects fill mp the orchestra
| DELAWARE is small State and Is grow
ing smaller The Delawarel encroachcs
upon. it from ten to twenty feet every year,
and the sites of houses that ence stood IN
the midst of fields are now under water.
The lighthouse near Bowers Beach has
been removed three times and q small
| hotel on the same beach that once stood In
the midst of cultivated grounds, CON
/ siderable distance from the bay, with large
trees in front of it, has its walls now
washed by the waters. ~ ~
Tea SWindles. s'His'
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