The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-02

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Well kerp our pfOfrf pisccs:
| to the twain wiD gre my manly fvfcc.
And you your maiden graces."
But II, perver-e. yvn try to live alone,
| With none tn hold and chcsish
| Your el"nder form: bcfcrs you're fairly growl
| fCu certainly VIII perish.
| cor II, instead ron foRdly cling fast
| To Que who would protect you
Yon IT with oiherr. al the trees st last
win ecorufuIlJ reject rVu."
81 see I scer' raid the musiny Vine,
! THE weaker muft he Dourished;''
Then elasptd tho Oak with many grsccfu
And 80 they grew and nourirhed,
The Owners Of the SOil-The Cultiva
tors of The S0il.
| Prom the Nashville Enterprise.l
We.fnd in the Memphis Appeal lettel
from Col. VIM. j. Sykes, written from st
Louis, Missouri, in which occurs the fol
lowing sentences: when change take,
place in our agriculture, which it win Dc
in few years, West Tennessee viii pro
duce an abundance of cheap provisions
In the country around st. Louis the owners
| Of the soil are the cultivators of the soil
and this makes prosperous country. S,
it will be sooner or later in the South, ant
not till then, we shall be on the roat
| TO prosperity, for when man cultivate.
his own land he takes care to make il pro
duee as much as possible, and to this ent
he improves and fertilizes it, until it vii
! produce three times as much as our lame
now does Whenever the land owners be
! come labOrers then q country improves
| because every man is q creator of wealth
This is the reason why Northern countrie,
and cities improve more rapidly than thos,
farther South"
The secret of Northern and Western i'm
prevent ia here pointed out Educatct
industrious farmers, who cultivate their
own land, make country not only rich
but attractive and agreeable. This pro
duces fine state of society with schools
and churches The tendency unfortunate
ly. now, is to leave the country and go tC
| towns and cities. This can be remedieC
by improving the country and inducing the
land owners to remain ON their lands, and
assist in their cultivation. Physical labor
on farms gives strength to the body, and
vigor to the mind The greatest men thai
have ever lived, have been srrm laborers
and cultivators of the soil No man need
leave Tennessee to live we'll and prosper
| if he will only use the proper exertions
We commend the suggestions made by
Col. W. j. Sykes. in the St Louis letter, to
the attention OF our land owners, and il
they cannot cultivate their lands them
selves, let them sell to those who can, and
who are willing TO do SO, and then may We
look for more and increasing prosperity
II H. A..
by interest in the soil and its products. Let
| us have more oft
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
In time Of peace prrpare for war,
saith the departed sage OF Mount Ver-
non, AMI this admOnition appears to
have been treasured by Capt. J. V.
Meigs, at Washington City, who has
Invented new arm, which In the
opinion Of some Of our military scier-
fists, will superceie all our small shVOt-
ing weapons. The new weapon Is a
fifty-stot magazine musket, which can
bc emptied In twenty seconds, placing
every shot, when at short range, with
i'm space no larger than a man. Mill
tary and Naval men pronounce it u
success.
The civilized word acknowledges
with one voice the right of the lament
ell Morse to tho title of Inventor of the
Telegraph. ID Is a curious and note
worthy fact, however, that i'm an old
work published nearly eighty years
since an account is given of q dis
cevery i'm electricity 10y means of which
two persons could communicate with
each other through the medium OF
wires, by whatever difference they
might be separated. The ingenious
mechanic who cOutrived this process
went no further than to employ it for
the amusement OF his friends. 1t con-
tained, nevertheless, the germ of the
telegraph, which was destined to lie
dormant almost half n century before
a more jealous investigator brought it
to full development.
Some curious experiments have re-
Gently been made in France to ascertain
the effects of wine, brandy aud alb
s,nthe on fowls. The result was that
the they lost flesh rapidly, more espe-
cially those that drank ab.inthe. Two
months of ab.inthe drinking was found
sufficient to Kill the strongest cock or
III
brandy alone lasted, however, four
months and half, while the wine
bibbers survived ten months. 1t was
not only their health which was af-
frcted by alcohol; their personal ap-
pearance underwent an extraOrdini-
mary change. An immense develop
ment OF cocks crests took place. The
crests, IL Is stated, increased to four
times their Original size, and assumed
hue Of unusual bTightness-pIObabfy
on the same principal that the nOsts OF
confirmed drunkards become perma-
nentiy large and red.
The garden Of acclimatizatiOn In the
Bois de BOulogne Is creation Of the
city of Paris, and place where wild
animals of all climes are kept for the
am,l ement and instruction Of the
Psrisians. 1t had severely suffered
during the war; cages had been de-
stroyed or injuie,I, animals killed. II
serves the purpose also Of botanic
garden. Many rare trees and shrubs had
been destroyed by EOmbshells and by
the absence of the necessary care and
attention. All Is restored again, the
collection of animals and plants freshly
\ tUWhNus anu tthC EolchDfS VI obhhssss'
and of plsnts has bsen resumed, to-
gether with the experiments In &c.
cIimatization. Every Thursday and
sunday, concer.s are given to amust
the crowd, which are daily visiting q
place where amusmcut and instruction
are so pleasantly combined.
The Test remedy for ivy poisoning ID
said to be sweet spirits of nitre. Battle
the parts affected freely with this fluid
three or four times during the day, and
the next morning scarcely any trace o.
poison will be found. Ifthesblisters {
| broken, so as to allow the nitro to pen.
citrate the cuticle, q single application
will be sufficient. The splits OF nitr,
~ be pref ared by dissolving ON,
part Of nitrous ether In eight parts o
| common alcohol.
The following neat reply was mad,
| to q School Board Examiner wi o said
"What is the difference, little boys
now you have heard all about the mis-
sionaries and their good works froi,
your kind preeeptor = between ,
Christian and Cannibal ?" A boy o
ten, noted for his good appetite aud th'
consequent love for fun which also ac