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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10
A Good Game.

THERE is a simple but extremely enter
tanning play to which our young folks have
given the name of Rerbdrium, and which
has had remarkable effect within our OBJ
servation in stimulating the faculty of
language in many somewhat sluggish
brains. 1t is true, and will be seen present
| ly, that in this play words are associated
by means of their spelling merely, while
in speaking or writing we require them to
obey the association of ideas; but the great
point is gained when we have become
thoroughly familiar with the words them
selves, their looks, their sound, and their
meaning; and rerbarium is to the word
student what her6drIum is to the botanist.
A number of persons-the more the mer
rier-are provided with pencils and paper,
and word chosen as the uerbdrium, which
each writes at the head of his sheet. The
object of the game is to draw out the vast
number of words which lie folded up, as it
were, in the uerbdriuns, and this is accom-
plished, amid much excitement and amuse-
ment, in the following manner: Let us
suppose, for instance, that the word chosen
is Treason. One of the company is ap-
pointed time-keeper; and the signal being
given, each writes as rapidly as possible
all the words beginning with T which
can be spelled with the letters of the
uer6ariun,. At the end of two minutes the
sime-keeper calls "Time !" and the eager
pencils are obliged to stop. The
company then read, in order, the
words they have written. As each word
| is read, those who have not written it call
| out No." and those who have it cross it
out from their lists, and place opposite to
it a number of credits, equal to the num-
Der of defaulters. If three persons, for
| instance, fail to have the word Tea, the
rest take three credits. Two minutes are
then devoted to words beginning with r,
and 50 on, until the whole cer6arium is ex-
hausted, when each player counts the ag-
gregate number of his credits, and he who
has the largest number is declared the
winner. The possibilities of fun in this
game do not all appear from a dry descrip-
ton like the foregoing. The lamentations
of those who, in their jealous pursuit in
complicated anagrams, have overlooked
the simplest combination; the shouts of
laughter that attend the defeat of an at
tempt to impose triumphantly some word
that "isn't in it )" the appeals to the Die
tionary to settle the disputed question, and
hundred other lively Incidents of the
game, render it one of the most popular
with old and young that have ever been
| introduced into the parlor. Try uer6arium
in your family, and you will find it infalli-
bly, successful as a means of amusement,
while it is, as we have pointed out, highly
| usefill -Auerican R,xader
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10
NEARLY Drowned by . Water Dog.

THE following curious story is told by a
correspondent of Land and Water, Lon
don magazine:
"The following adventure may serve as
a warning to others: Last Saturday l took
my first bath of the season in the beautiful
and retired pool below the Weir at Odney,
near Cockham. This pool, like most OF
the pools ON the Thames, is known to be
dangerous when much water is coming
down, as the undercurrants are very
strong, flowing directly back beneath the
upper-aown current until they reach the
boarding, which is extensively undermined.
As the water was low, no danger was ap-
pretended on this score, even by q poor
swimmer out of practice like myself !
had with me a young retriever Of very
large breed, famous swimmer,
whom, unheeding, left upon the
bank united. While swimming on my
back, and splashing with my feet, friend
Rollo, thinking, doubtless, his master was
in bad way, hastened with all speed to-
wards me; having turned on my breast, /
was then swimming leisurely away to
about the middle of the pool, which is fif-
teen feet deep. When felt the dog close
upon me struck out hard, but could not
get away, his claws scratching my back,
and bObbing my nose under water repeat
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10
IAN GOING TO SEEK MY FOR
TUNE.
BY J. ". WATSON.

I am going to seek my fortune over the land and
Take my warm hand. Lille, and come along with
We want-not alone, but you-riches, health and
put the first before the last with little blush Of
shame:
Bat long before we've gone our route you'll nnd
That wealth viii lead both health and fame the
world. and me and you
I am gong to sock my fortune, out in the busy
To push among the rich and poor the humble and
To walk through dark and devious ways, DER rough
and dangerous ground,
With shackled feet, and blinded eyes, and hands
with letters bound.
An this to seek the phantom, wealth, that flies so
And leaves US when IT If,s the latch to open wide
deaths door.
am gOiRg g; Ito to seek my fOrsune-and mine your own
Nor sludder while You risk with me the perils Of
the
Full many thousands tempt the storm, and dangers
And many a ship goes down at sea- deep laden with
All this 70 seek the gttcring trash, through battle,
And find only clutch the toy to lose 1t with our
breath.
j am going to seek my fortune. We want both
But should we lose the nrst wen win bright, undy-
ing name.
For this we must have sleepless nights, and weary,
toing days
For this we must walk sterny on, nor once with
draw our gaze
From that dim star whose glimmering sheen we
scarce can call our own,
That fails when most we want its light, and leaves
us all alone.
amgoing to seek my fortune. Fame lasts, they say,
through time
And fame may be by virtue won, and SO it may by
crime;
BY offering to the lust of blood a hecatomb OF
lives
By making countless orphans weep, and countless
widowded wives
All This that we may win a name the world may
wish to save
name that cannot serve beyond the portals OF the
grave.
4 am going to seek my fortune, with both these
phanfoms flown;
And now, sweet Lille, we may seek for rosy health
alone.
For this We need peril risk, no death by land or
For Faith, and Love, and Hope will give the boon
to You and me.
And thus, without a seepless night, without sigh
or tear,
Without a wandering step we IL find glorious for
tune here.
-R1ckdrds Monthly for September.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Sober Meditation by Mark Twain.

liz Mark Twain's new volume of remi-
niscences of foreign travels he for once
abandons his persistent habit of making
fun of everything, and thus discourses of
the Egyptian Sphynx:
After years of waiting, it was before me
at last. The great face was so sad, so earn
est, so longing, SO patient. There was q
dignity not of earth in its mien, and in its
countenance a benignity such as never
anything human wore, 1t was stone, but
il seemed sentient. Ifever image Of stone
thought, it was thinking. 1t was looking
toward the verge Of the landscape,
yet looking at nothing-nothing but
distance and vacancy. 1t was looking
ever and beyond everything of the present,
and far into the past 1t was gazing out
over the ocean Of time-over lines of
century waves which, further and further
receding, closed nearer and nearer together,
and blended at last into one unbroken
tide, away toward the horizon of remote
antiquity.
1t was thinking of the wars of departed
ages; of the empires it had seen created
it had witnessed, whose progress it had
watched, whose annihilation it had noted /;
of the Joy and sorrow, the life and
death, the grandeur and decay, of five
thousand slow-revolving years. 1t was
the type of an attribute of man-cf a
faculty of his heart and brain. 1t was
Memory--Retrospect into
visible, tangible form. All who know
what pathos is in memories of days that
are accomplished and facts that have van
ished-albeit only trifling score of years
gone by-will have some appreciation of
the pathos that dwells in these grave eyes
that look so steadfastly back upon the
things they knew before history was born
before tradition had being-things that
were, and forms that moved, in a vague
area which even poetry and romance scarce
knew of-and passed one by one away,
aud left the stony dreamer solitary in the
midst of a strange new age and uncom
pretended scenes
The sphynx is grand in its loneliness; il
is imposing in its magnitude; it is impress
i've in the mystery that hangs over its
story And there is that in the over
shadowing majesty of this eternal figure
of stone, with its accusing memory of the
deeds of all ages, which reveals to one
something of what he shall feel when he
shall stand at last in the awful presence
of God
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10
Sayings by Josh Billings.

A sI.ANDER IL like hornet, if WI kant
kill it dead the fust bio, yu better not strike
at it,
Politeness il a shrewd way folks haz ov
flattering themselfs
make this distinkshun between eharak-
ter and neutrality-suspicious. il what
the world thinks ov us, charakter liz what
the world knops ov us.
What ridikilus fare it liz to be continu-
ally on the hunt for peace and quiet.
No man ever yet increased hiz reputa-
shun bi contradikting lies
Anxiety alwus steps on ITSELF
Silence, like darkness, IL GENERALLY
safe.
Thare IL only two things that kno ov
that man wont brag ov, one liz lieing,
and luther IL jealousy.
1t takes branes tew make a smart man.
but good luck often makes a famous one.
think most men had rather be charged
with malice than with making blunder.
Love cuts up all sorts ov monkey
shines, it makes q fool sober, and wize
man frisky.
don't believe in total depravity, every
man haz sumthing in him to show that
God made him.
/ suppose that one reazonwhi the "road
10 ruin IL DTOdu, IL lew dCCOIlouaN Vic
CRATE amount ov travel in that direkshun.
When a man il squsndering hiz estate
even those who are getting it, call him a
phool
Judge ov a han's virtew entirely bi hi7
phasions-it IL crate deal eazier tew be q
good dove than decent sarpent.
Thare are menny ways to find out how
brave and how honest man may be, bu,
thare amt no way to find out the extent
ov hiz vanity.
A lie IL like a cat, it never Gums to yu
in straight line.
Nature liz kind mother. She couldn't
well afford to make us perfect and SO she
made us blind to our failings.
Study the heart if yu want to learn hu.
man natur; there amt Lo human natur in
a mans head.
Beware ov the man with halfshut eyes
he amt dreaming.
Experience makes more timid men than
ii dus wize ones
One ov the safest and most successful
talents kno ov IL to be q good listener.
Thoze who becum Disguised and with
draw from the world, mustn't forgit one
thing, that the world will forgit them, a
long time before they will forgit the world
Wize men laff every good chance they
kan git. Lafing liz only weakness in
phools.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10
Christopher Colombo.

The following is from Mark Twain's "New
Pilgrims Progress" The party amused
themselves and nearly drove the guide
crazy, at Genoa, by pretending utter stu
pidity and indifference to any wonders he
had to show. After this style:
"The guides in Genoa are delighted to
secure an American party, because Ameri-
cans so much wonder, and deal so much in
sentiment and emotion, before any relic OF
Columbus. Our guide there fidgeted about
as if he had swallowed q spring mattress.
He was full of animation-ful of impa-
thence. He said:
"Come wis me, genteelmen come
show you re letter writing by Christopher
Colombo write it himself write it wis
his own hand l-comep
"He took us to the municipal palace.
After much impressive fumbling Of keys
and opening of locks, the stained and aged
document was spread before us. The
guides eyes sparkled. He danced about
rs and touched the parchment with his
finger: :.
not so? See handwriting Christopher
Colombo write it himselfr
"We looked ndifferent-unconcern
The doctor examined the document very
deliberately, during painful pause. Then
he said, without any show of interest:
"Ah-Ferguson-what-what did you
say was the name of the party who wrote
thisY
Christopher Colombo! re great Chris.
topher Colombor
"Another deliberate examination.
"'Ah-did he write it himself, or-or
hows' .,r-,
"'He write it HIMSELF Christopher
Colombo he's own handwriting, write
by himselfr
"Then the doctor laid the document
down, and said:
"Why have seen boys in America,
only IA years old, that could write better
than that 49,.
"' But zis is re great Christo-'
al don't care who it isl It's the worst
writing l ever saw. Now, you must moi
think you can impose on us because we
are strangers. We are no fools, by good
deal. If you have got any specimens ol
penmanship of real merit, trot them out
-and if you haven't drive onP
I'VE drove on. The guide was consid
erably shaken up, but he made one more
venture. He had something which he
thought would overcome us. He said:
"Ah, genteelmen, you come wis me
show you beautiful, o, magnificent bust
Christopher Colombol splendid, grand
magnificent o5
"He brought us before the beautiful
bust-for it soas beautiful-and sprang
back and struck an attitude:
"tAh. look, genteelmenl- beautiful,
grand-bust Christopher Colombo beau.
tiful bust, beautiful PEDESTAL?
The doctor put up his eye-glass-pro-
cured for such occasions:
"'Ah, what did you say this gentleman
name was? bHr .li5 N iTs9 sl-
"tChristopher Colombo !-ze great
Christopher ColomboP
Christopher Colombo-the great
Christopher Colombo. Well, what did ne
doY
"sDiscover America discover Ameri-
ca. Oh, ze devil!
"Discover America. No-that state
ment will hardly wash. We are just from
America ourselves. We heard nothing
about 1T. Christopher Colombo-pleasant
name-is-is he dead 2
Oh, corpo di Baccho!-300 years!
"What did he die Off
al do not knowi-I cannot tellF
90 Small pox, thinkr
al do not know, genteeimen!-I do
not know wAat he die Off
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10
A Full.Size Flying.Machine.

AT meeting of the Aerial Navigation
Company, held on Friday, July "a, in San
Francisco, it was voted to raise the neces-
sary funds to construct an improved Avitor
of large size. The opinion of the engineers
of the company was unanimous as to sue
cess 80 far, and the feasibility and success
of the projected flying ship. 1t will be
about one hundred and fifty feet in length,
twenty to forty feet diameter OF the gas
ometer, with propelling blades on each side
of the center, describing radius of about
sixteen feet. The propellers are shaped
like steamships, with two blades, each,
very light. They will be driven by q
steam engine of five horsepower, weigh
ing, with boiler connections and water,
four hundred and thirty pounds. The
planes on each side for floating the
machine, will be about twenty feet wide
at the center of the machine, and
made in sections, SO they can be de-
pressed or elevated at pleasure with the
rudder, or tail The framework will be
made by Kimball & Co., the carriage-mak-
ers; the gasometer will be made in sec.
tions, so that in the event of accident to
one section the remainder will be sufficient
for all practical purposes; indeed, it is
claimed that the ship can fly through the
air with such speed that the sustaining
power of the planes alone will be sufh
cient to maintain the Avitor in mid-air
The gasometer will be made, probably, ol
thin muslin or silk, saturated with gutta.
percha. 1t is to carry four persons, and
will be ready for trial in ninety days. The
result of this experiment will be looked
for with great interest all over the country
San Francisco Bulletin.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10
POETRY.
GONG AND COMING.


N uDWAnD A. JMKk
Goue-ths great round Sun,
Dragging the captive Day
Over behind the ffowning bill,
Over beyond the bay
Dying:
Comine-the dusly Night,
Silently stealing In,
Gloomily draping the son, WAITE couch
Where the golden-haired Day had been
Lying.
Going-the bright, blithe Spring:
Blossomsi how fast ye fall,
Shooting out OF your starry sky
Into the darkness all
BiindlyiN
Coming-the mellow days:
Crimson and yellow leaves;
Lsnguishing purple and amber fruits
kissing the bearded sheaves
Kindlyl
Goine-our early friends;
Voices we loved are dumb.
Footsteps grow dim In the morning oe"'
Fainter the echoes come
Ringing:
Coming to Join our march
Gray-haired veterans strike their tents
For the far-of purple west
Singingi
Goine-thie old. old life;
Beautiful world farewelli
Forest and meadow river and htlli
Ring We q loving kDeu
Ger usi
Coming nobler me
Coming-a better lkrd;
Co uing-the long, long. nightlese day;
Coming-the grand, grand
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10

IT has been computed that in the United
States no less than seven pounds of coffee
are annually consumed for each person ;
while in England the average for each per
son is one pound and one-eighth: In Eng
land tea is largely used as breakfast bev-
erage; and, moreover, adulteration is even
more extensively practiced than in this
country, although it is distressingiy COM
mon among us. In the "old country" bar
ley, beans, and peas, and sundry other
counterfeits, are sold as coffee; and it is
said thai more than half of what is re-
tailed rs ground coffee never grew ON q
coffee plant
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10

THE owners of the Baden gaming estab-
lishments spend great sans in advertising
their hells, by having inserted in the
papers wonderful accounts of how large
sums are won. One can hardly take up q
German paper without reading how this
duke or that baron has broke the bank by
his lucky gains
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10

The members of the Japanese colony
in Eldorado county, California, are in high
spirits over their prospective good fortune.
The mulberry trees which were three
years old when brought from Japan, are
growing rapidly, and the seed-nuts of the
tea plant are coming up finely. Herr
Schnell, the leader Of the colony, says
there is no doubt of the adaptability of
the foot hill lands of California to the cul-
tivation of tea as compared with Japan.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10

The amount realized from the sale of
tickets after paying expenses, at grand
fancy ball at White Sulphur Springs, Va,
on the nth of August, has been appro-
priated to aid in the education of orphans
of deceased Confederate soldiers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10

The present numerical strength of
the Baptist Church in the United States,
according to the Year Book, is 1871, 1888,
being an increase over last year of 1909.
These figures, it is said, would be materially
increased if the returns from the several
States were not 30 imperfect.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-10

Measles Hkelyr
"'Msy be-may bel do not know-l
think he die Of somethings'
Parents iving''
"Imposseebler
"Ah-which is the bust and which is
the pedestalY
"'Santa Maria !-zis re bust l-zis re ped
estall
"Ah, I see, see-happy combination
very happy combination, indeed Is
this the first time this gentleman was ever
on a bust S'n
Evening star., 1869-04-10
OuR sEcueITIEs AnRoAp.-The Lond

OUR SECURITIES ABRoAD.-The London
:Sfipriag Gazette, of the 10Th ult, remarks that
The "Ispid advance which has lately taken
place IN the value Of United States Govern
meat Bon ds Is q most important feature In the
money market, and one that will probably
iesd 20 considerable results. Already an enor-
NOUS amount OF these bonds Is held in Europe,
and the total is now being rapidly increased by
the heavy shipment of bonds made to this side
IN consequences of the high quotations now cur
rent here Before the late rise took place it was
estimated that about s70O,0O0.0OO OF American
Government Securities were held on this side,
and 1t 10 now affirmed that this is being further
added to n the rate of upward of slO,0OO 900 a
month Notwithstanding these heavy impor-
tations, however, the price keeps mp, and
heavy purchases continue to be made both in
the Lo ndon and Continental markets, but par
tIcuIarly in Frankfort"
The FIye-twenties which on January LIST
were quoted at 7i1, were quoted at So. on the
I'D of March, and The Ten forties had ad yanced
an the same time from 719 to 73x. The Gazette
ascribes This I'D vance to the passage OF the bill
IN regard to the public credit, which sets at rest
the question Of repudiation. II regards good
faith with creditors as a leading festure OF our
national policy, and declar 8 that the demand
for our securities will continue, particularly
as n the high rates az which they are sold here,
the inierps; on the in vestment will no. be 70.
garded as sufficiently remunerative. and so
there will be increased supplies of bonds for
the foreign market.
Evening star., 1869-04-10

Why can not the Congressional chaplain,
While praying for legislation in behalf of
Cuba put IN good word for this District
Why should thy. while going through the
docket Of private and public bills for sub.
lects Tor prayer, overlook the manifold wants
of Washington WY exhaust all their in.
'ercessory powers in behalf Of weIl-to.do
iropIcal planters, while the people of Wash.
ing'on are unable TO get authority from Con-
srees 10 build railroad, pave a street, or carry
out At their own expense any one of the i'm.
provement measures they have asked the r,sh,
10 make. 1t strikes that II ever there was
an oppressed people needing prayer for their
fri'ef II Is the community of this District,
Evening star., 1869-04-10

ltisa notable fact that OF the applicants for the
position OF Commis sioner of Patents-and their
name Is legion-nearly all, If not the whole
number, are Solicitors vf Patents, and it il
said that nearly every prominent patent inter-
est in the country Is represented by q candI-
date lt would Of course be folly to say that a
good officer cannot be selected from a list in
cluding 30 much ability rs this unquestiona ably
does, BIT tits clear that better one can in all
Prooaoiliy be found outside OF it. A thorough
knowledge OF the patent laws is certainly desi.
Taole IN the head of that important ONCE, bot
JUDICIAL acumen aud experience, and a mind
free from interest or bias are still more desira-
ble. familiarity with the technical laws
governing the position will soon folloH.
Evening star., 1869-04-10

"eare pleased 10 notice that a movement Is
On foot in New York to give a benefit at the
frpnoh theatre for the widow and children of
the late Humphrey Bland, formerly well
known IN this city. All the managers have
sIEnsd call, and the Mayor and a number of
prominent gentlemen have taken a lively in
re'est IN the sfiair. The proposed benefit has
also been made the occasion, by many notable
persons, for addressing eonsratulatory letters
10 Mrs. Bland
Evening star., 1869-04-10

~faEs, gradually waking To worr.u su@
frsge, now has psper called the woman,s 3
Journal.
" a Mr, Sannhers OF Marion, Perry county,
Risbsms. has employed q teacher for !. coIor.s
school on MS plsnfaflon.
~ln America, man was coutemporaneous
with The msstcdon and mexatherium IT,
evidence from Missouri and California is I'M !.
contests bic. .--- :. -
~Thess sre st present In operation I'm
Msryiand fexeIurive Of the City Of Bali, mor.t
I,ao0 sehcolr, cor Quoted by ,300 teae hers Civ,
Are Instruction 10 % 90 children.
Evening star., 1869-04-10

THB T TRouBLn In THE AUDITORS Oryto, A.
INV OkLEAHs-The Affairs IN the Auditor.s
once m New Orleans ere becoming more mnd .
died oaily The Seventh District Court order
I'D that the documents and books beIensinx to
the AUDITORS ONCE be put IN possession OF A
judicial sequestator, who was by the same or
der appointed Governor warmoth yestsr.
day notified said ssauestator that he wou Id ap
ply 10 the Supreme Court for q writ Of prohi.
oiuon from the exercise Of the powers confer.
red oy the Seventh District Court. Upon tn.
cacx OF the order Of the court the Governor
made q lengthy statement. and declined 20 de-
hvef the books and documents to the SEQ ues
Istor appointed by the eourt. Gov. warnaoth
nko IN TIE Supreme Court his petition for a
wrt o. pfonieinon against the sequestator In
tne meantime 10 business Is being done In the
Auditors sffice -