The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Pensacola, Florida, has had TWO
crops of strawberries.
Two thousand women labor daily
in the harvest fields of Wisconsin.
Florida people are already eating
sweet potatoes of this years growth.
The population of st. Louis in
creased from Az ,974 in 1917, to b.
963:in 1870.
An Illinois farmer has one hun
dred acres set out with onions.
Baltimore is said to have church
accommodations for 10000 people.
New York last year educated $780,
784 children in the public schools, al
a cost of 81, ,733, ,69i.
A Troy editor speaks of anotLoh
as Sufficiently well posted to edit
handbill."
Peanuts are said to be cIassed
among the dessert at Wilmington
On. c. hotels.
Daniel Styles, of Prescott, WiscOn-
sin, aged l06, claims to be the oldest
freemason.
Willard's hotel, Washington, so
celebrated during the war, is TO be
removed and finer building erected.
The sugar v-oP-of Louisiana this
year is estimated at 104,SS1 hogs
heads, and her rice crop at 1921
barrels.
The Greek and Roman armies ate
but once day.
To healthy persons mineral water
is not wholesome.
Hartford claims to be the richest
| city of its size in the Union.
The " heat harvest in Kansas be-
gun on the 10th inst. The crop was
never better.
The books in the library belong
ing to the British Museum occupy
twelve miles of shelving.
Three elephants, ON an average,
come to this country each year. They
cost about $500 piece.
1t is estimated that the number of
cattle driven from Texas this season
will reach eight hundred thousand.
In the procession at San Francisco
celebrating the pOntificate of Plus
IN, General Rosecrans acted as Mar
shall.
According 70 one OF the New \ ork
papers there have been 2,6O0 cases
of sma all-pOx in that city since Janu-
airy.
Copperhead snakes are said TO
smell like fresh cucumberS, and
Western snake-hunters follow and
despatch them by the scent.
Miss Cordelia Jane Hodgeson, the
late English connection of Benjamin
Franklin. died at the age of IS at
Preston, England. the other day.
1t will take sixty years to restore
to France the forests ruthlessly vast
ed in the military operations of the
late war.
Brigham Young has recently had a
little steamer built in New York
and shipped West. She is to sail on
Salt Lake, and is called the Lady
of the Lake"
No less than three individual, in
different parts of the country have
recently shot themselves in showing
how Vallandigham killed himself.
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Late advices from Leheran say that
the famine in one district of Persia
has reached such state that starving
people have killed and eaten fifty
children.
y st. Louis iron company cOntem- |
plateserectinga blast furnace twenty
five feet in diameter and one hun
dred feet high. 1t will be the'largest !
in the United States.
The Rural .Ne'. Yorker recon- /,
mends applying ashes to grass lands !
by sowing broadcast the fall after |
the crop is of. The amount per
acre may be twenty-five to two hun !
dred bushels.
y correspondent of the London !
Times, writing from India, tells of 8 I
recent whirlwind that carried houses, |
trees and herbs high into the air, and |
dashing them to the ground a mile !
or so away, killed everything that
possessed life.
Charles Francis Adams will shortly
publish his Memoirs of John Quin-
cy Adams" which will i.Iclude the
statesman's diary from 1795 to 1913.
Lippincott has it in press.
No less than two hundred and
twenty-fodr life insurance companies
have been wound up in Great Bri-
tain within the last twenty-five years.
This is twice as many as now exist
there.
Several of the Mackerling fleet
have arrived at. Gloucester the past
week, averaging about 80 barrels
each. Prices rule very low, and the
business will not prove remunera-
tive.
Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van
Buren, have Eesn the only men in the
history of this country who have
been Governors of States, holders of
first class foreign missions, heads of
cabinets, Nice-Presidents, and Presi-
dents.
In his speech in san Francisco
Senator Cole expressed the opinion
| that the Treaty of Washington will
preclude the possibility of war be-
tween America and England for per-
haps a century TO come.
\ Story is going the round of the
| Northern press that an Alabama
planter, several years ago, becoming
satisfied that the vitality of the cot
ton plant was destroyed only by frost,
tried an experiment with a single
plant. The second year he picked
500 pounds from it; last it yielded
l,293 pounds of best cotton, and now
! it is twenty five feet high, and..prom-
ises to yield not less than three bales
of the staple. There is nothing in.
credible about this, any more than
there is about the true and veracious
history of Jack and the bean stalk.
There seems to be no end to won
ders in California. The latest is q
remarkable cave near Calaveras
wherein columns and pilasters, orna.
mented at their capitals with volutes
and modillions, at irregular interval
enlist the visitors attention: while
fine representations of tapestry, cor.
nice, and frescO work are engraved
and plainly visible on its wall. All
forms Imaginable hang suspended
presenting all the variegated colors
of the rainbow, and brilliantly spar.
kle fIom the pale light of a candle
like a thousand diamonds, while a
like proportion of stalagmites under
meath, with their sugar-cOated sur
faces, are constantly presented to
view. Here and there, it is added
/ nrn cnroInsSl,r nnilnd hrnisad and hrnL-.