The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

PHILADELPHIA has shipped 15,754, 40
gallons of petroleum during the present
year.
THE Baptists of Germany have in
creased to ninety-six churches and over IT.
600 members.
THE French Government has authorized
the French Cable Company to lay wire
from Brest to England.
UP to January 1, 1869, eight life insur-
ance companies in Hartford, Conn, had
issued 153, ,633 policies.
A Boston tooth-pick factory has the
monopoly Of the business, and sells 1000, :
900 or 5000, 900 per day.
THE model of the bust of the late James
T. Brady, ordered by the New York Law
Institute, is completed.
THE Russian Railroad Gazette saws that
Russia has already paid upward of 200,-
10000 rubles to American railroad con-
tractors.
A CLERGYMAN in Iowa City breaches
three times every Sunday, each time in u
different locality, and during the week cul-
tivates farm of 160 acres.
A SMALL garter-snake with two heads,
each exactly alike, and standing out the
same distance from the neck, was killed
near Nashville, few days ago.
THE robe worn by Princess Louisa, of
| Sweden, on the occasion of her marriage
to the Prince Royal of Denmark, was
made in Berlin, and cost $4,000.
THE father of deserted wife of Sioux
City has obtained a judgment against the
recreant husband for bed and board for the
last two years, amounting to 81 ,3S050.
In a recent seizure of a champagne
making establishment in New York, the
articles found ON hand were four barrels of
common white wine, one barrel of molas-
ses, and one barrel of vitriol.
A. T. SfBwART says his business never
was better than this year, and that he
never advertised so much before. He
gives his advertisements credit for keeping
his trade lively in dull times.
A MAN in Bridgeport, formerly a sol
dier, has walking cane composed of 463
pieces of leather, and made from a pair of
old boots owned and worn by President
Lincoln previous to his assassination.
THE first instance of the marriage of
Hindoo widow occurred in Bombay on the
22d of June, and was the occasion of much
public interest. 1t took place under the
auspices of the Hindoo Widows Marriage
Association.
In New York city, during last year, o.
272 poor, blind, insane and drunkards were
provided for at a cost to the municipality
of S1O2S each during the year In De-
cember, 1853, there remained nearly 1900
persons in the various city prisons, poor
houses, &c.
IT has been definitely ascertained that
the total loss by the Crimean struggle was
as follows: French army, 95,615; English
army, 22,1S2; Piedmontese, 2,194;
Turkish, $1,000; Russian, 630,OO0-total,
7S4,991.
DURING the year 1868 the number of
letters delivered in Great Britain and Ire
land was SOS, 900, or an average of 26
letters TO each person. There are a million
of depositors in the postOfiice savings
banks of the United Kingdom
Mr. JOHN BULLOCK, of Bristol, r. l.,
100 years old on the Cd day of last
June, never drank. a glass of alco-
holic liquor in his life, and
never has had any need of or
used spectaeles. The old gentlemen can
see to pick up pin or needle from the
floor as quick as any young person.
IT is little singular that the two links
Of railway necessary to make an absolute
connection between the most eastern
point of our Atlantic coast and the Pacific
Ocean, should be the short line between
San Francisco and Sacramento, and road
of about the same length in the State of
Maine.
THERE is q man living in Adams county,
Ill, named Wood, who claims to be 10S
years old. He recently walked to Quincy,
distance of eight miles, carrying under
his arm a clock to be repaired. He ap-
pears vigorous Us most men at 30, and IT
as old as claimed, is probably the Oldest
man in the country.
SOMETIME since Portland, Me-, man
had his pocket picked OF $500. Shortly
after, he received letter from the thief,
stating that he had started in business with
his stolen capital, and that he should pay
interest on it until he was able to return
the principal Two payments of interest
have already been made.
A LETTER to- a New York paper states that
there are now about 100000 contributing
members of the Order of Odd Fellows on
this continent, comprised in 800 lodges.
Total receipts of the order in two years,
nearly $5,05O,00O; aggregate amount ex-
pended i'm the same time for relief of the
distressed, burial of the dead, succo, -
the widow, and education of the orphan,
about $2,000,000
AT the iron furnace of Mr.. J. p. Burton,
at Massillon, n piece of limestone was re-
Gently found, in the center of which was
imbedded a round white mineral substance
resembling feldspar, about the size of
nickel, and in the center of this, set Ike
mosaic work, was, to appearance, sprig
a1r oh rarts.r.
grown, each leaf and the stem perfect and
distinct.
THE leading French journals are count
ing up the itinerary round the world as
follows: Paris to New York, IL days;
San Francisco, by rail, Z; Yokohama, by
steam, 21; Hong Kong, 6; Calcutta, -;
Bombay, g.; Cairo, IA; and go back to
Paris, s; total, so. And out of all this inn
mense line of route, there is only dis
lance of 40 miles, between Allatrabad
and Bombay, which is, pro tenn, not per-
formed by steam, either on land or water.
THEY get rid of their manageable
children by means of fairs in Roumania-
When the fair is opened, the fathers climb
to the top of their carriages and shout
with the whole power of their lungs, II
have daughter to marry Who wants a
wife ?" The call is answered by some
other parent who has son he is anxious
to pair off The two parents compare
notes, and if the marriage portion is salts
factory, the treaty is there and then con-
cluded.
THE Laconia, N. FL, Democrat saws
there is calf in Gilmanton, otherwise all
right, that has not sign of tail. While
O group of persons were looking at the
calf, the other day, and wondering how he
would manage in fly time, they were join
ed by city bred individual, graduate of
Dartmouth College. The learned gradu-
ate, after listening to the comments, in
quired how old the calf was, and being in
formed, innocently asked, do calves of
that age usually have tailss"
THE Icelanders have curious custom,
and a most effectual one, of preventing
horses from stray;ng. Two gentlemen, for
instance, are riding together without at
tendants. Wishing to alight for the pur-
pose OF visiting some objects at distance
from the road, they tie the tail of one
horse to the head of the other, and the
head of this to the tail of the former. In
this state it is utterly impossible that they
can move either backward or forward, one
pulling one way and the other the reverse;
and, therefore, if disposed to move at all,
it will be only in circle, and even then
there must be an agreement to have their
heads in the same direction.
AT the recent examination for women,
held by the University of Cambridge.
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