The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-30
SUNDRIEs.
Boston's population is 253 ,323.

Boston's population is 253 1923.
Montgomery's population is 1O,599
The taxable property in Little Roch
amounts to S4,735,959.
The number of Masons in Tennessee
is put at 16, $3.50.
Blanks for divorce are suggested fol
wedding presents in Chicago.
Napoleon went to Sedan, but un-
fortunatelyihe saw William.
Eight cents is the regular fee of q
regular" Chinese doctor.
A female highwayman has lately
been arrested i'm London.
The population of Mobile is 80, S57.
The total white population of Mobile
is Is, 902, against q, 497 in 1886, or de-
A London paper declares that England
could not get 10000 troops ready for for
eign service within month.
1t is said that it takes ten men nearly
a year, working steadily, to finish a
handsome camel's hair shawl.
Connecticut makes 10, us, 600, 600 pins
year. Notwithstanding which, she
is still piniDg away.
Mosquitoes have for the first time
appeared in England. AT WoO.wich
they are reported te be already a pest.
The largest farm i'm England consists
of 8, 900 acres. The live stock kept on
this farm is valued at So, 500.
Five women preachers are now firm
ly settled in rulpits in Universalist
churches in this country.
Nearly all the strikes in this country,
and the disturbances occasioned there
by, are led by persons Of foreign birth.
1t is estimated that over one hundre.
young ladies are at present studying
law in this country. Probably they
will become mOthers-in-laws one of
these days.
The important question as to which
side q gentleman on horseback ought
to take when riding with lady is vet
unsettled; therefore 1t Is safe to take
either side.
A California paper fears since $50
many Cinnamon are going to Sunday
school and picking up righteousness.
that not enough will be left to 60 round
among the white men,"
A COOP DEFINITIoN.-A little girl
in school gave as definition of "bear-
ing false witness against your neigh
Dor, that sit was when nobody did
anything, and somebody went and told
it.n -
A little four-year old boy sat alone
on the piazza, when o new physician
came to see his sick mother. The dc
tor naturally wished to make acquain-
tance, and said: How old are YOU my
son?'' I" am not old, / am new,h
said the boy.
In 1898 there were three miles of rail-
way in the United States, and now we
have As, $50 miles, and the increase cam
not be less than thirty miles per day.
Over thirty publishers, and S6, ,OOO, 900
capital, are employed in the publishing
of Sunday school literature in this
country.
When Rosecrans was falling back
from Chickamauga he called his staff
around him and asked for q pencil.
Every one of the staff felt in his pocket
but nary pencil did he find. The Gem
eral, flashing his eyes upon them with
much bitterness of tone, remarked: '.If
had asked for cork-screw every one
of you would have had one.n
A WARN1NG.-Steel hair pins have
come into use in " "fixing upo the large
quantity of artificial adornments for
the head now worn by ladies, and they
are now proving to be dangerous ar
ticle. A young lady of this county a
short time since fell and stuck one of |
these pins into her head, touching an
artery connecting with the brain. She
IS now lying dangerously ill from the |
effects Of the wound. ..f.-
Prof. Tyndall says that there are the |
strongest reasons for believing that |
death from lightning must be painless.
The nervous system requires q certain |
interval OF time to become conscious of |
pain. The time of an electric dis
charge is but small fraction of this in
terval; hence, as an apparatus of feel
ing, the nervous system is probably de-
;troyed before consciousness can set In.
Two San Francisco BARRIERS engaged
10 fight q duel agreed to part and walk
around block, and when they got in
sight Of each other, to blaze away.
When they turned the corner, out Of
sight, both started on q run I'm differ
ent directions, and one has sent from
Alaska for his winter clothes, and the
)ther has written to his wife from the
City Of Mexico, asking her tn send his
linen hat and palm-leafcOat.
Some startling statistics of inebriativn
n the United States have been complied
Attsc snfo III
nen, it is found that 122 never drink
pirits at all; 100 drink moderately, but
rot to intOxicatiOn; 80 are occasional
thinkers; p periodically, called "spree-
ng;" and 3 are habi.ual drunkarjs.
There Is confirmed inebriate in every
20 of drinking men. Counting off zoo
COO never taste alcoholics of any
sind; 30 taste wine occasionally: IL taste
lrdent spirits; Sc drink ale or beer con-
'tantly; IA drink ardent spirits periodi-
ally; and three are habitual inebriates.
In Chicago, in the case OF Sarah A.
,chumbly, of Arkansas, against Corbin
West and Others, which was a suit invol-
ring the title to quarter-section of land
n the West division, having frontage
If more than half of its west and north
ides on Central park, decision has been
ciiucItu ny OulcI 0uSLlce JaIQeSOn III
avor of the complainant. By this de-
;ision certain irregular legal proceedings
by which the land had been sold, are set
sside, and the property, which has now
become princely fortune in itself, is
'estored to the true owner.
Vernon papers give credence to the
rat story: Rats are making
'avage work among cattle in Marsh-
ield. Fri Spencer has had five cows
,adly eaten by rats while they were
led in the stable. They have gnawed
roles two inches deep, and mangled
hem shockingly.n
A woman over so years of age, went
nto one of the dental establishments in
Hartford, Conn.,, to have a set OF teeth
epaired, and gave, as reason for being
,articular about the work, that, though
he did not expect to live long, she de-
ircd to hayeher corpse look as we'll as
'ossible.