The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-06-16
BRIEF MENTION.

San Franchises great Park con.
tains 800 acres.
The salary of the Russian Car il
about $4,000 day.
Boston has opened her free public
baths.
The King of Spain is hard at work
learning Spanish.
tits proposed i'm jamaica to aboE
ish trials by jury.
New Orleans has her ice machines
i'm full operation. :
The best inheritance any one can
have, lie an honest employment.
Detroit has a colorcd base ball club
called the "Waving Lilies"
The Germans of New York are 60
ing to erect a $500, 600 theatcr.
The London AthcnGum mildly
tells Mario he has lived too long.
And every day makes the oflense
worse.
The Indians call locomotive a
Coughing Hoss."
= A. T. Stewart is credited with an
income of 81 So, 595 last year.
Over 100000 people, it is reported,
left Paris at the outbreak of the re-
cent troubles.
The population of London in
April 3 was 1921 ,S04.
Londoners say that one-third OF
the population of that city never saw
a grain field.
Josh Billings Lecture for next
summer is TO be "What know about
hotels"
All the Communist leaders but
two, i'm Paris, are said to have been
killed or executed.
A cOlOred men has been elected
Alderman of an interior town i'm In.
diana OH the Democratic ticket
Miss Nellie Noe, an Iowa sculp-
trcss, wants to rival Winnie Ream,
and lay hands on a Congrcssman's
bust. No, Noe.
Two Ohio girls filled lighted kero-
sene lamps last week. 1t was the
explosive kind, and both sleep in the
valley.
The King of Bavaria has had a gar
den laid out on the top ofthc palace at
Munich. In the centre of it is a lake,
upon which swans are seen swim
ming.
A few days ago 256,0W quarts of
Strawberries passed through Will
mington Delaware, on their way to
market. They weighed $50 tons.
On week days you buy your music
by the sheet; ON Sundays you can
have it by the choir for nothing.
Chinese cucumbers arc said to grow
five to eight feet i'm length, and from
six to nine inches i'm diameter.
June 18th, the anniversary of the
battle of Waterloo, is to be the day of
the triumphal entry of the Germans
into Berlin.
The fifty post offices of the United
States i'm l776 have increased TO over
twenty thousand.
1t is the general belief that the
troubles of France are far from being
ended yet.
A robin i'm Detroit has been taught
to whsle Yankee Doodle.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Thumb and Mr..
aud Mrs. Commodore Mutt are an
nounced i'm London.
A handsome cottage at New York
IL built upon rock, and has an iron
band which goes across the roof and
fastens the house securely to the |
rock.
The Boston Post thinks the Ken
lucky Republicans must be in a stew,
as at their recent convention they |
S. S. Fry, of Boyle county, |
for State Treasurer.
Visalia, California, claims to
have the biggest tree of the big
free" region, a tree with a trunk 40
feet 4 inches in diameter.
The New England fishermen are
complaining that on account of the
excessive catch this season, the prices
Of Goldfish and mackerel have not
been so low for many years.
Much interest is beginning to be
i'm the scientific world in
regard to the transit of Venus, which
takes place i'm 1874. Germany and
Russia are to unite i'm sending out
to observe the transit.
The King of Sweden has been near
" killed by dying his hair with a
hair restorer said to be made of veg
stable ingredients, but containing, as
most of these restorers do, powerful
mineral poison.
Near Gencoa, Illinois, an agricul-
alist is carrying on an extensive
farm, and expects to keep
1S,OOO hens of the choicest breeds.
The announcement is made by a
Spanish newspaper that General
Gckles, American Minister to Mad |
rid, is soon to be married to Span
ish lady.
Somebody has written a book en-
titled "What shall my son ber
Upon which some one replies, eff
the boy be "a bad as the book, the
chances are that he will be hanged"
Rochester boasts gold fish with
two tails-a sort of Maltese cross af-
fair, one being attached at right an
glcs. to the other.
Wisconsin farmers complain bit
terly Of the damage done to their
w..eat fields by millions of pigeons.
They make regular raids every morn
INK, and leave little ofthc sowh wheat
behind them when they retire.
The combined population of the
eight largest cities of the United
York, Philadelphia,
st. Louis, Chicago, Balti-
more, Boston and Cincinnati arc
less than the population ofthc city of
.ondon, a. announced by the recent
British census.
An Australian gentleman, cxamin-