The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-02
THE WORLDS GREAT CONTROVERSY.

system whether the Holy Office was right
in its decree that the earth does not move,
or Calico in maintaining the opposite nor
do we design to reopen the feud, now long
laid at rest between the advocates of tran
substantiation and consubstantiatioa We
speak not of the Arian or the Socinian
heresies. The disputes about apostolical
succession also, if not settled, may be con-
sidered as laid aside by common consent.
"Ritualism" commands much attention in
these. latter days, but after all, its mysteries
: are confined to but a very limited number
ofspeople, the remainder Of mankind con
tented to laugh at its yagaries Volumes
have been written on Antinon,ianism, and
a.justifc cation by works, but these questions
have lost their interest for the present gen
Grafton. The controversy between nomin-
alism III and realism ran high in the days Of
our forefathers, the Big-endians and Little
endians had it hot and heavy; and to their
thinking there was mighty difference be-
tween tweedledum and tweedledee.,' Now
we rarely hear Of those terrible battles save
in the pages Of the veracious CULVER.
The literary world has had no end of con
: sstroversies ); some of them not whit less:
hot than their theological compeers.: There
is the standing topic, t::;;who wrote Homer ?''
Then there was the mighty quarrels among
all the learned Thebans Of the early part
of this century about the winged heels Of
!: Mercury: The question it:ttWho wrote Gil
Bias Z" although not.a question to the re-
mainder Of the world, will never find solu-
lion that viii satisfy the Spanish; quibblers.
The volumes written on the authorship of
.Junins are beyond computation But why
multiply instances, all Of which prove what
no one denies, that doctors will q. differ.
They could be multip lied indefinitely. Still
AL these! controversies are limited in their
application. Even the questions Of the
(: Northwest passage and an open Polar Sea.
homeopathic practice and water cure,
mesmerism and :phrenology have all seen
their day, and are rapidly returning to the
sea of. oblivion.
!, Some people are exercised about univer:
sal suffrage, Others about the right Of wo-
men to vote few Frenchmen want free
press, a few others want j return of their
old Bourbon masters: And speaking of
Bourbon, reminds us that downeast they
/ are making war on whiskey, and still fur
cher IN the direction Of the rising sun,
they are making war on Turkey. Spain
wants her rights, Italy complains Of her
wrongs; Bavaria wants beer, Gladstone
household sufr> ge, and Bright everything
for everybody. The Fenians want Ireland
and John Bull is after the Fenians The
whole world is disturbed about something
or somebody, but different interests agitate
different sections. There lis however, one
exception to afl this One question there is.
creating the greatest interest everywhere.
One touch, of fashion makes the whole
world akin. One subject there is, in the
consideration of which we secure the at
tention Of all the vast congregation of hu-
man readers. Whether they dine on blub-
bers, tallow candles in the bound regions
of the NORTH, or eating lotus and bark On the
marshy banks Of the Nile whether among
the beauties of the West promenading on
the Bouleva44z des ltdliiens,. .or the celestial
hours, standing in tiny shoes, and slipping
bohea from the: smallest Of china,-all stand
still, and with Gears erect y listen, when
we come to announce our subject.
Yes, the worlds great controversy lust
now, par excellence, is schignons.' Not
whether they are pretty or becoming Of
course moi, for that is not legitimate
matter for discussion. The question is
narrowed down to the consideration wheth-
er or not, ii is true that but we do not
ike to;say things mpolfte ~ - I
e;lM;gnoges, lwaterfaAs) !, are worn ayery-
where: !. ;!MheY are Rery .beaauutiful, and if
only large enough, and at a perfect right
angle TO! The ieacciput, extremely BECOMING.
# the heads{s small, and the chignlon large.
the: contrast IS: very striking, and CORES
Pondinggly pleasing K. The hair used for
this purpose; it seems is obtained In: q large
measure from Russian peasants, known to
be the most tidy people on the globe q
great deal Of it also is from the heads of
dead persons; but that is no matter. Now
all was very well, and the pretty creatures
were admiring themselves with supreme!
satisfaction in their mirrors, contemplating:
their capital excrescences, -- when, in an
evil hour, German savan (those fellows are
always impertinently meddlesome), Prof:
Llndemann made a discovery. [Oh! how
he viii catch it'll He published a paper
in the Archives Of Official Pharmacy and
Public Hygiene Of st. Petersburg, in which
he announces tUans innocent and unsuspect-
ing. world; that vs. but We prefer to let
him speak for hinself: esays
'szts4hat he has close1 lily !esstigated nj mi
croscepic parasitic animalcule, named Greg
aslne, inffnscria which make their
appearance in herds or brood ds.ss These ami. i.
mails are protozoa and, .belong:to the svery
lowest phase Of: the Development of: the ami
NAL organism. They exist only as parasites,
but are thus found in almost all par parts of ,the
animal and human system 81 athe
blood. With the latter they circulate
throughout the body, and, noulrished byl tie
blood itself, increase so much in dimensions
that they can no longer follow. their inclina-
ton to ascend into the inner minute tuhes
Of the hair, but finally are obliged to remain
stationary in the body, or indeed ii some 5,1, Z
part of the hair itself. Here the Gregarine
increase with such rapidity that they soon
form whole colonies, choke and obstr1ct Che
biood-yesseis; and are thus the cause Of q
long list of diseases, such as. 3hiydr,oppssy
asthma, the so-called Bright's disease, etc.
etc. They make their appearance In tie
most striking manner in the human hair !;
bpt hair, filed With these, Gregariine can be
distinguished from healthy hair only BY the
I magnify fying. .glasa, Or blythe keenest' eve.
sight and then only little dark. brown brown
knobs, which are mostly found near the ex.
frSs1r1iiffnc Hf fhn ;rs ~ asa II