The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-21

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/ Russia is said to have 100000 mobiles
!, King William has a yeafy salary Q
i Elihu Burritt reads the Bible in .
different languages, -, -
4 The chills are prevalent in yicks
eNfg.e L Il 20 OIL FnsiS y -
i The population of Shreveport, La.
is 10000. .fof En1l- II 4 - srrd
The eldest son of President Tyler
/ an editor ut Memphis. a'uf 4 +
/ Clt-Throat Depot is the name Of ,
new town In California. hsss 1
The Official censue returns gives Bos
ton . populstion Of 2S,35S. lS
Its considered very vulgar for lsdie'
to use very strong perfumes in public
The women question-who is to se
the fashions, now that Eugenie is de
| throned? = = 'a9- fa@
Hennsylvania has produced q, ,0O0, ,00(
harrels Of petroleum in the past ter
years. - .'''''s's - = &
JGeorgia's rice crop this season is lar
ger and finer than it has been for sew
era years. -,, = - ''',''', :. - +
| Russia has manuscript Of tie hrst
copy o. the Koran, drawn up BY the
| y st. Anthony (Minn, saw mills have
| turned out 70, O,0OO, 600 feet of lumber this
season. E, sAs,.'47. -,
In New York city six music teachers
have been appointed for the public
schools at 81 800 each. - :
The population OF New Orleans, un-
der the new census, is 184, ,6S8, an In
crease of Is, 900 since 1850. - s
William Cullen Bryant is the richest
poet in the United States, his last years
Income being $50, 600. - :.
an exchange says that 10 deaths
have occurred in North Carolina, from
lightning, since the first Of June. ~
. Tucson, the capital of Arizona, with
. population of 200, has neither
school, church, nor minister. s =
An accurate estimate shows that
each Indian in the United States costs
the Government $3.50 annually. = r i
!. The reason there are so many NUT.
tOn-beaes in existence is because so
many children are perfect lambs.p n
{ Al farmer lin Pinewood, Hickman
county, Tenn, has been made a raving
maniae by the bite of a rattlesnake. Q
b Corrected census, returns of New
Hampshire show the population of the
State to be e3l7, ,976; net loss, S079 in 10
years. 81 rS,,sS j
Mrs. Partington says that since the
invention of the needle-gun, there is
no reason why women shouldn't fight
as well as men. - :.
ID A veteran housekeeper" writes that
the scarcity of good servants is largely
attributable to the scarcity of good mis-
treSses. - b.
A perfect petrified seal was exhumed
from mine near Wordsworth, Nevada,
at point 5000 above the level of the
Pacific. - -
The waves brought intelligence to
Boston Of the recent terrible storm at
sea, four days before it was heard of
from any other quarter. A', ~
Mr.. Collins, of Mystic, Mass, poked
a, tomato worm with a short stick, and
the worm turned and stung him with
fatal effect. i". oI /.
- A Maine woman was so much affect
ed by her husband clipping the other
day, that she got drunk and drowned a
litter of nine pigs. sI
A correspondent writes from Sedan
that the morning after the last battle,
when the bugles sounded, 600 riderless
horses galloped to rendezvous. =
Next year will be the thousandth am
uiversary of the English throne by AL
fred the Great, and the English are al
ready planning celebrstions of the
event. r-,
Miss Lydia Armstrong, Of Grant
county, Indiana, advertises for q huIs-
band. Money" she says, al is no OBJ
ject, but he must he healthy and will
ling to work. u"
Eighteen million suns are said to be-
long to our armament More than A.
0O0, 900 such -firmaments are visible,
and every increase of teleseopic power
add to the number. sds 20 - .. II
A Paris letter says that the manufac-
ture of American flags has now be-
come quite a speciality there. One
large firm is almost exclusively devot-
ed to the business. sec f ,V
The New York Express says that one
of the best ways of decreasing crime |
will be to destroy the belief so unfortu- |
nately prevalent that it is vulgar to |
work for q living. .B 81
e The total value of the oysters sold |
at wholesale in the New York |
Is estimated at $1,000, ,00O.-I
About 81, ,000, 900 worth is consumed in |
New York and neighboring cities, and |
the balance sent to the interior.
The Oriental believes that every evil |
that affiicts the human race had its ori-
gin in woman. Re make the periods |
Of publication twice as long after
the birth of a female child as after
that of a male, and he buys his bride of |
her father. 9 . -rsG ra
A telegram from Tours says: "There
IS considerable insubordination i'm the |
French army. The officers are appa- !
rently unable to prevent disorder and |
among the raw and undiscip-
lined soldiers. Several examples have |
been made" Sc. egsrfs tB
The population of Brooklyn, 4O6, ,O97,
shows it it to be the third city in the |
Union, while 30 years since it WAS the
seventh. The prOpOrtiOnate growth is
much more rapid than New York, and
Il may yet exceed that city in popula-
ton. -1-...i. eaf :. -. -
Natura1ists and biologists will be
pleased To learn that two enormous
of antediluvian animals have !
been discovered ON the bank of the riy- |
er Fray Bentos, in Chill. They are SO
large that it will be necessary to devise
some special means Of removing them.
A correspondent of the Musical STAN
lard calls attention to the, curious fact |
that very many of our greatest compo.
,ers are-or have been-childless. For
instance, Handel, Haydn, Beethoven,
COrrelli, Pergolesi, ROssini, and-in our /
own tiYie11 Auber, Wagner, and Schu-
mann. 81 T--s4 sG4.al - - loL
An American army officer, who
knows Won Moltke, says that there Is
no man in Europe who is so |
acquainted with the history |
efthe American war, and who is 50 i'm
diligently informed regarding the de-
lails of our plans, operations and CAM
palgDs. biqIe Ju5a IHya
=. CHAM has O cartoon in a late mum.
ber Of 4Charivari, rapropos of the search !
ty of arms in Paris. A young volun.
teer; with new equipments, is saying
10 France, with all the sadness of q
brave man who feels his own incom-
pleteness, 81 have no gum" France,
with fierceness and energy, points to o
Prussian soldier who is advancing with
gun in front, and cries to the volunteer,
|" Behold OneW