The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-10-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

BRIGHAM YOU'VE weighs two hundred
and forty pounds avoirdupois
IT is said that operate singers eat an
early breakfast on the day they are going
to sing. ..5
THE late Henry Keep left four million
dollars, which will be fine keepsake for
the heirs. ~
PROFESSOR JUDAH DANA, of Rutland,
VT, has copy of Virgil printed over
three hundred years ago.
THE first newspaper published in Vir-
ginia, weekly issue, in 1850, was $50 q
year subscription.
HARRY SCHMIDT, a newsboy on the
Kentucky Central Railroad, has fallen heir
to fortune in Germany of $13S,000.
IT costs eight hundred dollars year to
clothe the hand of the Empress Eugene
with appropriate gloves.
ATafeffnt wedding reception in Brook
lyn, therS bvas present a gentleman who
wore S25,090 solitaire diamond pin.
A FRENCH lady was detected, the other
day, in trying to smuggle through the New
York Custom House six poodles, slowed
in her pockets.
A STORY is told of belle at White
Sulphur Springs who, according to a VOW,
accepted the one hundredth man who pro-
posed to her. 'iSi
THE largest tannery in the world is at
Kane, Pa. 1t is not yet finished, but has
600 vats in operation, and consumes $4,000
tons of hemlock bark per year.
Rev. JAMES DURBoRow, an Episcopal
clergyman in Philadelphia, recently sol
oy,,nfza1 hia 1 0Olfh arria
during fourteen years pastorate.
SOME one has sent to Postmaster Gen.
eral Creswell $500 for the widow and
children of Secretary Rawlins, with the
request that his name shall not be men,
toned in connection with the matter.
THERE is letter in the Postoffice at
Richmond, postmarked Savannah, Ga, di-
rected as follows: 'iaTo Mr.. Porter, a
young man in Richmond, Va, whose first
name have forgotten" ..-
THE Brooklyn Mercantile library is
vigorous and flourishing institution. It
has on its list $4,000 books. The member
ship is about 1900. Thirteen thousand dol
lars are to be expended annually in the
purchase of new volumes.
A GLOOMY octogenarian was complain
ing to Auber Of the hard necessity of grow
ing old g Hard as it is, replied the vet
eran composer, it seems to me the only
means yet discovered of enjoying long
life" Ia
THE largest mandatory of gas fixtures
in the world is in Philadelphia They
have built the largest chandelier in the
world for the Philadelphia Academy of
MUSCLE feet in diameter, 25 feet long,
with ESQ burners. v st
A MARRIED couple in the Palatinate were
about to make journey by cars from
Germersheim to Durkheim, and missed the
train; the man began to abuse his wife
she returned his abuse with interest, which
him so much that he pulled
out a pocket pistol and shot his wife and
himself
THE Young Mems Christian Association
of this country. has membership of 80
600, having property to the value of $3,-
$4,000. Nearly $500 conversions are at |
tributable to their efforts There are T.
100000 of young men in our land, and |
only 100000 profess to be Christians.
THE full strength of.ou navy actually |
ON duty, in ships and guns, is stated to be |
as follows. North Atlantic squadron, 10 |
ships, So guns; South Atlantic, ships, 43 |
guns; European feet, 8 ships, 66 guns;
Pacific, II ships, n guns; Asiatic, ships, |
s. guns; on special duty, 8 ships, 36 guns.
This force could be trebled at short no
lice. .aoesf .,1 ~
JOHN CorFIN, of Chichester, N. H., re-
Gently seized by the tail a black snake
which had taken refuge under rock. |
Coffin held on at one end and the snake
1t the other, and the result was that the
snake parted, breaking open in the mid
ile. The two pieces, when put together,
measured six feet in length.
A FRENCH Canadian girl, aged nineteen
years, was killed a few days ago, at the
St. Alexandra Station, near Riviere du
Loup, in attempting to cross in front of
An engine Her mother demonstrated,
and said the train was too near, but the
father said, t" Go, you can do it, if you're |
smart" The girl was crushed beneath
the engine wheels Hf f'iaaea aoig
THE entire cost Of the Suez Canal, to
be opened next December, has been about
sS1, ,0O0, ,OOO But to include improve
ments, which will be applied as experience
nav suggest, we may safely set the sum at
eS5, 900, 900. It is estimated by some au-
.horities that the annual business of the
ANAL will amount to 10000, coo tons, and
hat its gross receipts win be $4,000, 900.
THE Hottentots living in Cape Colony,
South Africa, number in all 1896. Many
,f them are rising in the scale of educa-
ion, civilization and religion. In one of
heir towns, having a population of over
900, they have lately built Christian
,hapel which will accommodate about
100 hearers, and il is generally crowded
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