The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

Rents are declining In Chicago.
Three thoussnd taverns supply r. %
ton with rum.
Gen. Butler is candidate for ue
ernor of Massachusetts
/ Rome, Ga, has just cast the first
stove made in that town.
Great dullness is now complained u
by the Wall street brokers'
Silk worms are now used in Califor-
mia as an article Of export.
Chief Justice Chase has gone TO the
Michigan Magnetic Springs.
The United States has S6S collegiate
institutions.
London Judy calls the PrIace of
Wales 'Half Sovereign
At Long Branch hotel thcy fin" .
cannon as a signal for dinner.
Street ears are being made In this
country for Bombay and Java.
In Connecticut they beat a drum to
summon people to sherifl'S sale
Large number of Poles are said te
emigrating TO America this year.
A country newspaper calls Captain
Halls expedition ''rhe Polar Picnic"
Bishop Simpson, Ames and James
are at Cape May.
A school Of petrified whales mss been
added to the educational facilities uf
California.
\ silk factory is about To start la
South San Francisco. IL has og,lere,l
fifteen bales of raw silk from China to
commence with.
In some parts of Colorado water
sells at two cents pint, which Shows
that they haven't dug their wells deep
enough To reach the quartz
y dog in Virginia carries letters a.
tween two places, IS miles apart. His
owner merely ties the letter 20 his ,-,l-
lar and tells him 10 go.
Piano making st present take-sfFre
third rank among the manufacturing
interests in the United States.
The German watering places, not
withdrawing the war, are said to an
ticipate this year prosperous season
Butter is now exported from Austria
liza to England, and it is said to arrive
in large quantities and in good order.
Alabama papers give report that
an early special session of the Legisla-
ture is probable, TO consider the finan-
cial condition of the State.
The health Of Bishop Simpson Is ~
pTecarious as to excite grave aVpre-
tensions on the part Of his friends.
There are 12i 80 citizens cf Teuo-
touic birth in New York, and 201, ,g0
Irishs
Fifty thousand gallons was tine daily
beer allowance at the New York
The number of homeopathic physi-
clans in the United States has in
creased from 100 in 1911 to 5000 now.
\ Ietter-writer in New York says
the profits Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
after paying S20O,OO0 = year rent, are
81 900 aday.
Boston sells 40,G00 bean-pOles year
to suburban agricUlturists, but most
Of them are not raised in the city
There is a house in Tolland county,
on the walls Of when
still remains paper which has bee:
there since l7S7, when the house WAS
built
FOTT George WashingtOns, six An
lrew Jacksons, five Henry Clays anil
two James X. POlks, all negroes, re-
side at present in the Louisiana peni-
ientiaTy.
The neck OF the Archbishop who
was shot i'll ISIS is still exhibited in
Notre Dame, the bullet still fixed in
he vertebra.
Mr.. Frederick Watts, the New Com
missioner of Agriculture, Is now Pre4i-
lent of the Pennsylvania Agricultural
Society, and he is said to be one of the
most scientific and intelligent agTicul-
urists in the country.
The table on which the Versatile
peace preliminsries were signed ha-
Jeen presented to Prince Bismarck ~
, souvenir, and stands in his wife's
-oom, Q snail silYer plate recordingits
Lord Broughams's letters, recently
reveal the fact that William
" always believed in the immineucc
If Russian invasion of Great Britain,
md half convinced bis Ministers of il.
Halls Journal Of Health says 'sThe
I'D and young delight in warmth; it j.
o them the great luxury. Half the
diseases ofhumanity would be SWEPT
rom existence if the human body
we're kept comfortably warm all the
ime.n