The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-12-08
SUNDRIES.

SUNDRlES.
Acorn soup is delicacy in Cincin-
natl.
Lexington, Kentucky, is to have
street railway.
Atlanta is about to build $50, 900
Episcopal Church.
Wichita, Kansas, is growing with
real Western rapidity.
Wild pigeons are uncommonly
plenty In South Carolina.
Two new hotels are to be opened
on Fifth avenue.
About 400 German immigrants have
lately settled in Texas.
Victor Hugo Is again writing for
Paris newspapers.
The daily average of the Pennsyl-
vania oil regions is 1874 barrels.
Father Hyacinthe intends to preach
series of sermons in Paris.
Nevada claims the ability to supply
the entire world with salt.
A man at Vallejo, Cal, has in his
possession Bible printed in 1911.
Ohio has seven hundred thousand
head of cattle.
The Prince Of Lippe is the wealth.
lest ruler in Germany.
There are 80, 1891 colored people in
the State of Tennessee.
Every eat in Paris is to be taxed at
the rate of about dollar and a quarter
per annum.
The last Southern colOnists have
left Rio Janeiro in an American war
ship.
Three hundred dollars in gold coin
was used in guiding the bail on the
dome Of the California Capitol.
Tobacco is shown 10y official figures
to cost more than bread in Germany,
Holland, tho United States and Eng
land.
In sinking shaft for coal at Kan
sas City lately, "a vein of what is be-
lieved to be a pencil slate was discoy-
cred.
The value of direct importation of
| dry goods TO the Pacific coast is esti-
mated at more than 500, 900, 900 an
nualIy.
Prince Bismark's regular allowance
of brandy while travelling, according
to the GduiOis, is a bottle and half
per diem.
Florida hopes next year to be able
TO supply the entire country with
| bananas.
Eight thousand men are said to he
constantly employed in building OPP
| eratiOns in Chicago.
One hundred and twenty-one and
three ourths miles of sidewalk were
destroyed by the Chicago fire.
Warrington, Of the Boston yOuT-
nal, will have an article in the De-
cember atlantic on Buffers campaign
in Massachusetts. Ii is very likely
10 be racy paper.
One prairie fire in southern Kansas
was reckoned twelve miles in width,
and ran distance Of twenty-five
miles, destroying everything in the
way.
An enterprising Detroit man is TAX
ing orders for the delivery OF buck
wheat cakes TO families for break fast
The cakes are to be furnished cheaper
than they eau be manufactured at
home.
The Georgia Tapers insist that pre-
cious metals and gems in abundance
are hidden away among the noun
tains in the northern part Of that
State.
| The secret service records Of the
army Of the Potomac were destroyed
7 Tho q
had offered $50, 900 for them-59 vol
umes altogether-and negotiations
were going on.
A Floridian exhibited at the Angus
tn fair several banana trees, varieties
of ripe strawberries, and among other
things thirteen oranges that weigh
thirth-one pounds.
The revised edition OF the Bible in
Chinese, which has for some time been
preparing at Pekin, is now nearly
ready, and will soon be issued from
the American mission press, within
the walls of the capital.
TIE Galveston News states that the
shipment ofpressrved beef from Texas
il steadily increasing. IL is sent to
Liverpool, Hamburg and other ports
in Europe, as well as TO the North.
a Londoner has invented a street
lamp, with strips of looking-glass ar
ranged IN its roof, somewhat after the
manner Of a Venetian blind. II il
said to throw three times Is much
! light upon the street as the ordinary
lamp.
In Lincoln county, Nevada, there l.
a mountain OF salt, pure solid and
transparent. In early days, when the
Mormons had tn Iely solely on their
own resources, they used flakes from
this mountain for window panes, in
stead Of glass.
\ table just printed of the daily
wages paid in this country for me-
chaGical labor shows that for nearly
all kinds Ofhandicraft work, the aver
age rate OF wages Is higher in the New
England States than in the MiGdle,
the Western, or the Southern State.
| Secretary Delano rightly infers that
q man who defrauds his laGndgass or
clearinghouse keeper Is not to be
trusted with the lingering OF Govern
ment vouchers; and accordingly orders
have been issued that clerks in the In
ternal Revenue Bureau must nav
their board and washing on demand or
quit the public service. a.
The Qnonasgs Indians of New
York still live as distinct tribe, on
reservation Of twelve thousand acres,
in beautiful valley near Syracuse.
This tribe never had more than five
hundred members, and 1t is now
nearly four hundred strong. The In
dlans are considerably advanced ir
morals and civilization, and support
! two fiourishipp churches