The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
General Notes.
HOLLAND has no debt.

GEORGIA proposes to infict tax o
S. upon pistols.
WORKING people compose one-half the
population of Paris.
In Georgia they make excellent coffee
from persimmon seeds.
THE pugilists Heenan and Sayers
both died of consumption.
THE hop crop is reported to be forty
per cent. less than last year.
Coz. r. B. RHETT, the duelist, has
retired from the New Orleans Picdyune.
ABOUT 100000 pounds of tea are
annually consumed in the United
| States.
THERE are 108 theological seminaries
in the United States, with 3, 351 students
| in attendance.
SOME one has estimated that it costs,
on an average, $40, 1000 apiece to convert
Jews to Christianity.
A. 7. STEWART, the dry goods king,
has returned home from Europe, much
improved in health.
The net duty on dogs in England dur
ing the last financial year amounted to
no less than 81, 510,008
THE public debt of Massachusetts,
according to the last report of the State
Auditor, was $27, 316, 2O4.
THE Texas cattle drive for the season
through Kansas will aggregate 100000
head, valued at $15 per steer.
THE National Founding Hospital at
Moscow, Russia, provides for ten thou
sand infants, at a cost of five millions a
year.
THE debt of New Zealand is 910, 0O0,-
600, or so per cent. greater in proper
ton to the population than that of En-
gland.
In Java young ladies in want of hus-
bands make known their wishes by
placing an empty fower-pot on the por-
tico roof.
A WESTERN woman complains that
since her husband joined the Patrons of
Husbandry, he has sown nothing but
wild oats.
CALIFORNIA will produce, this year,
IL, 900 gallons of wine, 1900, 600 pounds
of grapes for table use, and $4,000
pounds of raisins.
New ENGLAND educates u per cent,
New York 10 per cent, Pennsylvania II
per cent, and Virginia 9 per cent. of
their colored population:
THE manufacture of starch from po-
tatoes is the leading industry of some
localities in northern New York, Yer
mont and New Hampshire.
THE debt of the city of Paris now
amounts to $320,000,O involving an
annual expenditure for interest and
sinking fund of $18,000,00O.
The British Society of Arts offers
prizes of 50, 500 for improvements in
CRATES and an apparatus for cooking by
gas-with a view to lessening the use of
coal.
An Iowa preacher lately told his con-
gregation that "religion in the heart,
my friends, is like four aces in the deck;
without it no man can hold certain
hand"
OWING to its abundance, petroleum is
now one-half the price it was two years
ago, and its use has greatly increased,
both for illuminating and lubricating
purposes.
IT is reported that during late hur-
ricane at Tortugas, bar of iron weigh
ing one thousand eight hundred pounds
was carried two hundred yards over the
parapet of the fort.
IT is estimated that there are at least
10000 men out of employment in the
city of Pittsburgh. In no other place
have the monetary difficulties worked
more disastrous results.
HAWTHORNE, a recognized classic,
spent all his life in poverty, and his
greenest laurels were not gathered until
his grave had been dug. His wonderful
romances, all told, did not yield him
more than $40, 900 or $4,000.