The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.


BUFFALO boasts of q seventeen-year
old bigamist.
A BRooKLYN dog fancier has made go,
600 in two years.
LOUISVILLE has a negro child with ten
fingers on each hand.
MoRMoNIsM, it is said, has thirteen thou
sand capable military men,
OK train that reached Knoxville,
Tenn, from Virginia, lately were AZ ba-
bies.
CHICAGO built two thousand five hun
dred houses during 1869, at cost Of $10,-
100000.
By the recent death in this country of
five misers, nearly three million dokns
viii be put afoat.
A CHEESE factory at Cheshire, Mass,
manufactured this year 102, ,2S1 pounds Of
cheese.
A LAWYER of Atlanta, Ga, received Q.
counter-pan as fee from q woman In
that city, in divorce suit.
MORE RATS floated down the Mississip-
pi river during 1859 than are remembered
in any previous year.
CINCINNATI has had q corn husking
match. In nine hours one Hess husked 148
bushels to his opponents 145.
A WOMAN in the northern part Of Maine,
who is the mother of twenty children, has
been granted a divorce on the ground that
she has no affinity for her husband
A NAN in Gloucester, few days since,
while smoking his pipe on the street, STUN
bled and fell. The pipe was broken of and
the stem driven into the roof of his mouth
an inch and quarter.
NEARLY three hundred Parisians took
the oath as candidates before the recent
special elections, merely to secure q gratu-
itous advertisement of their names and
business in the official journals.
A FATHER lately dropped his daughter
and an umbrella from Jersey City fer
ry-boat into the water. A ferryman res
cued the young lady, the old gentleman
conf1ning his attentions strictly to the UNI
brella.
A CHARMING girl of Boston is about es-
tablishing q female barber shop. Ten
sylphs are being put through tuitionary
course of lather for the opening. Asweet
shave will cost twenty-five cents, and
seraphic shampoo half dollar.
A LADY in Utica, N Y, carried to q
newspaper an account of her own suicide
by drowning, and, after the item was pub
lished, in flesh, blood and bones she ap-
peared at the editors sanctum and de-
manded contradiction.
A NEW HAVEN policeman got 30 sound
asleep upon door step, few nights ago,
that the chief, who happened along, could
not wake him up, but took his cap, bearing
% ,Iar o. @l, nh
it still awaits the call of the owner.
THE building statistics of St Paul
for the year 1859 for buildings and i'm
foot up 81, ,395, ,727, against ST.
O00,5 500 in 1868. OF this amount nearly
$500, 900 has been laid out in dwellings,
500, 900 in business blocks, and $500, 1000
On public buildings
In Hungary a landowner was lately at
lacked by one of his servants in q forest
and killed His right arm was then cut
of, and piece of paper, with the follow
ing words, placed upon it: Here hast
thou the hand with which thou hast
whipped me-" The murderer was ar
rested.
THE Maine Farmer makes the following
estimate of the crops of that State for the
past season: Hay, SOC, ,00O tons, (equal in
luality to 100000 tons produced in
1852 corn, 100000 bushels; potatoes,
400 900 bushels; wheat, 100000 bushels;
barley, 100000 bushels; oats 10000
bushels.
IT was in st. Johns church, Richmond,
in the Virginia Convention of '75, that
Patrick Henry delivered his celebrated
oration and uttered the immortal sentence,
Give me liberty or give me death" The
place is still pointed out where he stood.
The celebrated Virginia Convention Of
l778 that met to ratify the Federal Consti-
assembled in St Johns.
LORD PALMERsToN, eleven years ago,
the opinion that the Suez Canal
,cheme was the "greatest bubble ever
imposed upon the credulity and simplic-
ty of the country" Robert Stephenson,
he great engineer, who had conquered
he difficulties of the Kilsby tunnel and
built the Menai bridge, indorsed Palmer
,ton's opinion, stating that the canal was
physically impossible"
An Ohio clergyman, several years ago,
received bright new cent as a wedding
ee. The other day he met the BRIDE
room, who mentioned the circumstance,
md said my wife was q comparative
stranger to me at the time we were united
n wedlock had not learned her value,
md paid accordingly. find her jewel,
% here is an additional fee,' at the same
ime handing the astonished minister q
go gold piece.
PRINCE NAPOLEON recently sent his
.ldest son, Victor, seven years Of age, to
private school in the Rue Caumartin,
II
rhe principal asked the father how he
hould address the boy, as Monseig-
,eur" or "your Highness." "Cau him
imply Victor" said the Prince. "But
N the lists of honor for attention and
,oleon but when his companions give
md in no case whatever Monseigneur."
PINE wood Is Of great value in North
Carolina They have discovered new
way of making turpentine. They char
pine wood in q retort, and the production
rom q cord Of wood is said to be ten gal
ons of turpentine, worth "a; eighty gal
ons of oil, $2S; fifteen gallons Of black
varnish, $7.20; 100 gallons of wood acid,
b, and 40 bushels of charcoal, besides
considerable inflammable gas; but be-
,ides this, the product has market value
If $3.50; all of which Is obtained at 8
cost for wood and LABOR of $40.
THE manner in which De Lesseps won
his wife was q very singular one. he
had brought to ladies in France q great
number Of Jericho roses, and was dis
them at an evening party. He
topped before the young brunette who is
now Mrs De L., and said: at Is not in
nv power to make this rose bloom afresh
every one knows the legend Of Jericho
roses1, but express q desire in accepting
L, and swear that it shall be accomplish
ed" desire-whatevery you wish" mur-
INJURED the young girl "Well," said De
Lesseps, al wish yon TO be my wife"
And abe is.
TIE exports of tea from Shanghai and
japan during the period which elapsed
between June and October II, 1869,
to 3,S69, sci chests to the Attain
tic ports of the United States, and Al ,252,-
53S chests to Great Britain. During the
same period in 1858 the exports TO the
United States were 5,395,1n chests, and
to Great Britain SO, ,22S, ,233 chests. Of the
exports of tea from June 1, 1859, TO the
United States, 122, $50 chests were Of
black tea, 3,213,912 green, and 6SS.412
Japanese. 1t is also announced that 10
bales of raw silk had been shipped from
Yokohama to New York, by way of San
Francisco and the Pacific Railroad.
of the 1,095 mountains in the moon,
by Beer and Madler, thirty-nine
are higher than Mont Blanc, and six are
%, 900 feet high. The annular Tor circu-
lar) mountains are highest; Dorfel, near
the southern pole, measuring 26,691 feet,