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

Wo1ld annile and !, the Wn1le,
Hspless victim Of loves guile?
Mol Let me, then, Of you be rid;
Prithee do as you are DID
THE WORLDS GREAT CONTROVERSY.
It's not our purpose at this time 10 speak
of the merits or defects of the Copernlcan
system; whether the Holy Office was right
in its decree that the earth does not move,
or Galileo in maintaining the opposite; nor
do we design to reopen the feud, now long
laid al, rest between the advocates Of tran
substantiation and consubstantiatlon. 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 ..side by common consent.
"Ritualism" commands much attention in
theselatter days, but after all, its mysteries
are confined to but very limited number
of people, the remainder Of mankind con-
tented to laugh at its vagaries. Volumes
have been written on Antinomianism, and
"justifcation.by works" but these questions
have lost their interest for the present gen
Grafton. The controversy between nomin-
alism 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 a mighty difference be-
tween sstweedledum and tweedledee." Now
we rarely hear of those terrible battles save
in the pages of the vesacious. Gulliver.
The literary world has haf' no end of con-
troyersies; some Of them not whit less
hot than their theological compeers. There
is the standing topic, EEawho 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 d
Mercury. The question ssWho wrote Til
Bias p" although not a question to the re-
mainder of the world, will neverfnd solu-
ton. that will satisfy the Spanish quibblers:: :
The volumes written on the authorship OF
Juln,,iius are beyond computation. But why
multiply instances, all of which prove what
no. one denies, that doctors will differ.
They could be multiplied indefinitely. Still
all 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 unlver-
sal suffrage, others about the right OF wo-
men to vote; a few Frenchmen want free
nress. a. few others want return ot their
old Bourbon masters. And speaking OF
Bourbon; reminds us that downeast they
are making war on whiskey, and still fur,
ther in the direction of the rising SUM-
they are making war on Turkey. Spain
wants her rights Italy complains OF he1
wrongs, Bavaria wants beer, Gladstone
household suffrage, and Bright everything
for everybody, The Fenians want ireland
and j ohm Bull is after the Fenians. The
whole world. is disturbed about something
or somebody, but different interests agitate
different 81 sections. There is however, one
exception to all 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.
bet1rss.1 tallow candles in the ice-bound regions
ofthe North, or eating lotus and bark on the
marshy banks Of the Nile; whether among
the beauties of the West promenading on
the boulevard les .ltahens, or the celestial
houris, standing III tiny shoes, and slipping
bohea from the smallest of china,-all stand
still. and with Gears erect listen, when
we come to announce our subject.
Yes, the worlds great controversy just
now, par ercezzence, is-"chignons." Not
whether they are pretty or becoming-ot
course not;-for that is not legitimate
matter for discussion. The. question is
narreoiu,fds ,e !, sdownsto Decentralization wheth-
er or not 1T is true that-but we do not
like to say. things impolite.
s:Ghigaons, (waterfallsJ, are worn every.
where: They are very beautiful, and il
only large enough, and at perfect right
angie i: the occiput, extremely becoming
: If the head is small, and the chignon large
tie contrast is very striking, and CORES.
pondingly pleasing, The hair used for
this purpose, it seems, is obtained in large
measure from Russian peasants, known to
be the most tidy people on the globe; a
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
Lindemann made a discovery. [Oh! how
hewI catch. it He published paper
III the Archives Of Official Pharmacy and
Public Hygiene Of St. Petersburg, in which
he announces to an innocent anc unsuspect.
ing world, that - but We prefer to let
him speak for himself. He says:
seThat he has closely investigated mi.
cr@oopic parasitic animalcule, named Greg.
arine,-that is, infusoria which make their
appearance in herds or broods. These ami
mails are protozca, and belong to the very
lowest phase Of the development Of the ami
NAL organism. They exist only as parasites:
but are thus found in almost all parts of the
animal and human systenl-even in the
blood. With the latter they circulate
throughout the body, and, nourished by the
blood itself, increase so much in dimensions
that they can no longer follow their inclina-
ton to ascend into the inner minute tubes
of the hair, but finally are obliged to remain
stationary in the body, or indeed in some
part of the hair itself. Here the Gregarine
increase with such rapidity that they soon