The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-05-26
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.

| INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
Queen Victoria is said to be worth
| SI0OOO,0C1. She ought to be able TO
afford trousseaux and marriage por-
tons to her bridal daughters.
| Hope s. Co., the celebrated bankers
of Amsterdam, are said to be worth
not less than forty millions of dollars,
most of which has been made in the
last ten years. hHi
The Hindoo Ny thology contains no
, less than three hundred and thirty
millions of deities! Think of this ap-
palling fact, We missionary collectors,
, and ye supporters of Christian mis-
. sions. 4saf
The Chinese have coal mines which
they have worked for hundreds OF
years. They prepare the coal for use
by grinding or pounding it to pow
der, and mixing it with clay. Some
times the powder is soaking with
water, and laid around the Ere.
A number of soda lakes have been
discovered recently twelve miles
, south of Denver. The grounds COM
, prise sixty acres, and the water and
soil together nearly 331s per cent. OF
sulphate of soda, forming the base OF
carbonate and bicarbonate of soda.
i The vivacity of the American
character was happily illustrated by
the late DR.. Ray, ofthe Chicago Post,
who, during his life, is said to have
made and lost five fortunes. Five,
however, in Chicago, is understood
to be a little under the average.
Rhode Island is smart little State,
being the only one in the Union
which has as yet responded to re-
quest of Congress that all the States
should send to the Capitol statues of
their most distinguished citizens.
The statues of Roger Williams and
General Breen have been contributed
by Rhode Island.
Tennessee has 6,7O4 333 acres of
improved land, and 13,S74,SlS of un-
improved land. The oat yield in this
State last year was 100000 bushels,
and the average yield per acre was
sixteen and one-seventh bushels per
acre. The potato crop is put down
at 1,0e),OCO bushels, or an average
yield of fifty bushels per acre.
Some idea of the enormous and
rapid growth of the West may be
gathered from the fact that Willie, in
Leavenworth, Kansas, there was not
house, not even a single human be-
ing, seventeen years ago, there are
now 25,C00 inhabitants. Besides,
there are q schools, so churches, 2
jaiis, and hotels, factories and fOun-
dries in abundance.
Mr.. Richard Wallace, son and heir
of the Marquis of Herttord, during
the late siege of Paris, at an expense
/ of 100000, established an ambulance
corps, paid $I0,C 10 for the behoof of
the hospital at his own expense, and
established i'm his own house another
hospital for thirty patients. He has
in six months done more for charity
than his father and grandfather did
in sixty years. ' .Fa .fa1E
A singular instance of lead-poison-
ing is related by an Iowa newspaper.
A gentleman of Davenport had been
in the habit of carrying ,Thalebone
cane with covered lead-head. Some
weeks since the cover wore off, and
the use of the cane was still contin-
ued. Not long after, the gentleman
discovered that his arm was becom-
ing partially paralyzed. The diff
Guilty increased; but at length an
article Oh lead-poisoning attracted
his attention, and he bi gan to think
that possibly his own ailment was
the result of the contact of the lead
headed cane and his hand. He dis
continued its use, and his arm imne-
diately began to recover its accus-
toned vigOr. f-...s.
Mr.. William &. Prime, one of he
proprietors of the Journal of Com
merce, and one of the most agreeable
writers of the day, as well as a very
travelled man, recently delivered
lecture, in which, speaking of the To-
cation of the Church of the Sepulchre,
at Jerusalem, says that, while exam.
iniDg that location last spring, he
discovered a portion of an ancient
Hebrew wall, " hich he described as
remaining some three hundred feet
east of the Church of the Sepulchre.
Should this prove to be portion of
the long sought second wall, it sets at
rest one great point of typographical
discussion, and decides the fact that
the Church of the Sepulchre is loca-
ted on land which was outside of the
ancient city walls. ...-- .....
Some two years ago Healy painted
a portrait of the Pope for Archbishop
Spalding, of Baltimore. II being inn
possible to obtain a private sitting,
the picture was painted from photo
graphs and from occasional views
obtained in public. Cardinel Anto-
nelli fnally saw it, and liked il so
much that he asked to send it 10 the
Vatican, and thus Mr.. Healy has OBJ
tanned a private sitting for the last
picture that will oe taken of the Pope, |
who, If he survive until the 18th May
next, will be seventy-eight years of
age. The great interest, however
that attaches to Plus lX,, is in the
fact that if lie lives until The 16;h of |
June next-only three months-he
will have occupied the papal chair
longer than any pope since st. Peter
himself. There have been two OIL
three instances where pope has
almost reached the twenty-ffth year,
but not one who has fully entered