The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-12
INTERESTING ITEMS.

Aztec relics hav recently been dug
up in California.
| Street costumes recently sent ovel
from Paris are made short enough te
clear the ground.
Forty-eight million one hundred and
si1ty-eight thousand collars and cuff,
are annually made in Troy, N. Y.
The Goodyear hard rubber patent ex.
pired May 9th, 1872. The Goodyear
soft rubber patent expired some time
ago.
There is said to be So. .OOO, 900 invest
ed in silk manufactures in this country,
and the productions of these manufac-
lures sell at $50, 100000.
The first seventeen weeks of this wear
the New England manufacturers shipped
to places outside of New England ASS,
926 cases of boots and shoes.
In the State Library at Albany, New
York, are the very papers that were
found in the boot of Major Andre. and
which led to his conviction as a spy.
A rubber company has been formed
in New Britain, Conn, for the manufac.
ture of all articles of merchandise made
by combination of rubber with wood,
metals or any other hard substance.
England manages to get along with
killing one passenger in l, 256, 29O on her
railroads; France, one in 1855, ,555 !;
Belgium, one in S,861, ,8O4; Baden, one
in II, 514,977; Prussia, one in 81, ,4l1,-
4SS.
Walnut stumps have become an arti-
Gle of merchandise, and many of them
are very valuable. The curly grain of
the roots is used for veneering, and
some stumps are worth $3.50, after being
properly worked into shape.
The Greek Nation have a well-organ-
lied public-school system, where their
children are taught the rudiments of
the English Seminary. They are now
ready to give ten thousand dollars for
the erection of a Baptist Seminary,
when the teachers are provided for it.
A reporter in the New York Times
has made lively sketch of the people
who board in Brooklyn, and of the
boarding houses and their keepers. His
statistics represent that 100000 people
who board in that city pay an average
of seven dollars week, making a total
of 81, l2O, 900 weekly, or $58, ,240, 900
year.
The quantity of meat consumed in
the British Islands in 1871 was one mill
lion four hundred and forty y-seven thou
sand one hundred and eighty-one tons,
of which one million two hundred and
and sixty-six thousand four hundred and
seventy-eight tons were supplied by
home-bred animals, eighty-one thou
sand five hundred and seventy-eight by
imported animals, and ninety-nine thou
sand one hundred and twenty-five tons
consisted of imported provisions from
Australia. This was an excess over
1870 of upwards of eighty thousand tons.
Almost half the increase consisted Of
imported provisions, one-third was the
result of improved home productions,
and one sixth was from imported ami
mails.
What Washington knew about farm
ing was worth knowing. In 1887 he had
five hundred and eighty acress in grass;
sowed six hundred bushels of oats;
seven hundred acres with wheat, and as
much more in barley, potatoes, beans,
peas, etc, and one hundred and fifty
with turnips. His stock consisted of
ono hundred and forty horses, one hun
drcd and twelve cows, two hundred and
thirty-si1 working oxen, hoifers, and
steers, and five hundred sheep. He
constantly employed two hundred and
fifty hands, and kept twenty-four plows
going during the whole year, when the
earth and the state of the weather would
permit. In 1880 he slaughtered one
hundred and fifty hogs for the use of
his own family, and provisions for his
negroes.