The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-05-26
ALL SORTS.

Charles Allard o. Missouri has 100
butfaloes on the Flathead reserva-
ton, the only live herd Of such mag
nilude in the world.
A room in the house OF l.. w. Pal
mer OF London is entirely papered
with about 10000 Cancelled postage
stamps.
West Virginia has two-headed
woman who has two voices entirely
different in tone. She talks bass on
one side and tenor on the other.
Sixteen American cities have over
200, 900 population. OF these Ceve-
land has the largest population of
foreign-born inhabitants; Washing
ton the smallest.
Alabama boasts OF a woman who
was struck by lightning seven years
ago, has never spoken since, and
whose eyes grow luridly brilliant at
the approach OF thunder storm.
Central Park, New York, contains
852 acres PngriX PARK, Dublin, L.
760 acres; Hyde Park, LoudOn, 400
aLres; Yellowstone National Park,
2,2S0O00 acres.
Barou Liebig, the German chemist,
says that as much -four a5 will lie on
the poiut Of table knife contains as
much nutritive constituents as eight
pints Of the best beer made.
In 1892 New York city paid for it's
school bill $4,000 90; for its anu Sc
ment1 bill, $70O)O00, aud for iL-
drink bill, $60,OOO,OOO.
President Waterbury of the de-
funct cOrdage combine ate his break
fast few mornings ago the poss-s-or
Of a fortune estimated at $4,000, ,00G
At night his millions were swept
away and he was pennies, 1t WAS
the most sudden reverse OF fortune,
perhaps, ever recorded in thi-
country.
The best examples of Cyclopean
buildings are at Baalbec. There are
sOnes ia the BaaIbeU walls 800 feel
above the level, several Of which are
80 feet long, 2f feet thick aud Is feet
broad, each stone weighing over
$500 tons, all cut, dressed aud
brought from distant quarries.
Wednesday night cyclone struck
Portage lake and the surrounding
copLtry, doing great damage. Al
S:l5 dark cloud swept up from the
ea-t, and the roar OF the approaching
storm could be heard fifteen minutes
| IL OF al, 20
fences and hou-es were blown down
aud sheets Of water were carried from
the lake over half mile. Fish
large and small, were found lex
morning fully one mile from Portsg,
lake,
There is no city in the United
States which might be called th'
, city OF churches with more appro
priateness than Washington. They
are not particularly large or impos
ing, these Washington churches, bat
: there are an imme So number o
them. AS matter .! fact, the capi
tai contains nearly 200 churches
! most Of these belonging to the Meth
Odist denomination, which claims
fifty-two. The Babtists come mex
with forty-tive, then the Episcopali
ans with twenty-siX, aud the Pres
byteriaus with twenty-One Tn
, Roman Catholics have thirteen, tn,
t Lutherana ten, the COngregationalist
four, the Hebrews and the Christian
/ two each and the Unitarians, tn
UniversaIists and the Swelenborg
, ians one each. Besides the+e ther
are half dozen nOn-sectarial
: b0dies.
! II have young man waiting OF
l me,' writes young lady to the New
: York World, land the other nigh
when he came TO see me my LITTLE
dog, Fido, flew at him aud tore hi
:. pants. My young man was yer.
l angry and said he would never com
, to see me again until | killed FidO.
z love FidO and | love the young man
, Which shall | llill?" The editor al
l vises her to spare both man and dog
D and GO to bed herself early some even
ing after blowing out the gas.
e Thirty years ago the settlers aTOuu,
4 Puget Sound We're lumbermen iron
| Maine ana tue provinces. Life wa
l hard, and there was not half dOze
: women in the country. A pionee
/ named Mercer, WHO had come from
e Massachusetts, knew that there wer
t plenty of spare girls in that State
s aud 50 he went back tn Boston, char
= tered a chip, advertised Tor girls, anr
e set forth the advantages OF Puge
4 Sound 30 strongly that he secures
e over sixty girls. The six mouth-
: voyage was made in safety, and whel