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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
Bringing Tears to.the Eyes

An occurrence has recently taken
place at Birmingham, England, which
was in no respect tragic, but which gave
ample material for bringing tears, in
any quantity, to the eyes of all who
participated in it. It was the Birming-
ham Onion Fair This Onion Fair is
held annually, on the eve of st. Michael.
This charter by which it is held was
granted by Edward III TO William de
Birmingham, a distinguished electro
platter of the middle ages, as far back
as 1851. So solemnly, AYERS the Lon
don Telegraph, which is both fooling
its readers and poking solemn fun at
the inhabitants of Birmingham. What
ever, nevertheless, may be the origin OF
the fair, it has been made a holiday in
the town from time immemorial. In
fact, the onions, which hang in in
Vulnerable clusters and thick rows, are
accompanied by sage, and in the poul-
terers' shops in the neighboring street
lie, ready trussed, the victims that Will
furnish the Michaelmas goose to
many household. At the opening OF
the fair the onions are seen in great
heaps rising from the pavement in the
evening they have mysteriously van
ished, and only pungent odor, hnger-
ing around the place, is left to tell of
the Fair of St Michael's, commonly
called the Onion Fair.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

-Four priests nave lett Japan TO
study the various religions of Europe.
Every letter of the alphabet excest
"g" is contained in the 21st Verse of the
7th chapter of Ezra.
In the Canadian Presbyterian
church there are % Pfesbyteries, 389
congregations, 308 ministers, and a
membership of about 0,000.
The Rock River Methodist Confer
ence, Illinois, has voted to forbid any
more Masonic ceremonies in laying
church cornerstone.
in the Pamunky tribe of Indians in
King William County, Virginia, every
persons over the age of fifteen years is
a member of the Baptist Church.
1t is stated as Neurological fact
that the milk of young COW is apt to
be foaming. Which is highly probable,
as the creature is naturally heiferves-
cent.
The Rev. John Tecumseh Jones, an
industrious, economical Indian of the
Ottawa tribe, died lately, and left his
whole estate, $4,000, to the Baptists in
the State of Kansas, for the education
of ministers.
Governor Leslie. OF Kentucky, has
had a class of twenty-tw young men in
a Baptist Sunday school for six years,
during which time sixteen have been
converted and become active members
of the church. -t
The Rev. G. William Camp, late
Secretary of the Episcopal Convention
of the Diocese of Florida. having re-
moved from that State, the Bishop has
appointed in his place the Rev. Riverius
Camp, d. D., of Monticello, Florida.
formerly of Connecticut.
joy in God is the happiest of all
ioys. There are other sweets, but this
is the virgin honey dropping from the
comb JOY in God is also a most ele-
waiting joy Those who Joy in wealth
grow avaricious; those who JOY in their
friends, too often lose nobility of spirit
but he who boasts in God, grows in God.
1t is a solid Joy, and he who joys in
God has good reason for rejoicing. He
has arguments which will justify his
joys at any time. He who reioices in
God shall never be confounded or
ashamed, world without end. It is an
abiding Joy. If l rejoice in the sun, it
sets, If in the earth, it shall be burned
up; if in myself, 1 shall die; but to tri-
umph in One who never fails. and never
changes but lasts forever-this is a last
ing Joy. In word, it is celestial joy.
1t flows like the river of God, which
rises at the foot of His throne, and
waters the celestial streets, while trees
on either side bear all manner of fruits.
Blessed is the man whose nature strikes
its roots deep into the banks of this
river-he shall bring forth his fruit in
its season, his leaf shall not wither and
whatsoever he doeth shall prosper ~
SpufgeOn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
An Imnressiue Snectacle.

Since Boston was fated to burn, I
think any one may blamelessly regret
that he was not by to see it, if he had
the MISFORTUNE to be absent during the
red thirsty hours of its loss. As a
spectacle, it must have been one of the
most impressive that human eyes ever
beheld, and those who looked upon it
are truly to be envied. That steady and
resistless destruction of the finest bust
ness architecture on the continent by
flames that melted piles of solid granite
like sand, and consumed the prosperity
of long years of successful commerce,
lacked the dramatic poignancy of most
great confagrations. Comparatively
few homes were burned; there was little
of the agony of attempts to save things
dear by use and association, or of the
sacrifice of what nothing could buy
again; but as those millions of money
were licked up by the fire and vanished
forever in the crimson glare and dusky
flame, all the more potent must have
been the lesson of human effort par
alyzed, and of human industry and
achievement absolutely annulled.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
To Keep Steel from Rusting

A correspondent confidently recon-
mends equal parts of carbolic acid and
olive oil, smeared over the surface of
the instruments, as an unfailing preven-
ture of rust in any climate He states
that it is plan much used by medical
officers in the navy, and is is found to
preserve the burnish and brightness of
the steel, however moist and warm the
atmosphere may be. Our correspond
dent adds that it will also be found ad-
vantageous TO have the fitting of instru-
ment cases made only of brass and pol
ished wood, rs the glue with which the
velvet usually employed is fastened on
is apt to absorb moisture and remain
damp for considerable time.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
The Hour Of Death.

Death, ina natural way, comes TO more
petsons in the neighborhood of five
o'clock in the morning than at any
other of the twenty-four the fewest
about the hour of one in the afternoon.
In the early morning the world is still,
the atmosphere heavy with the damps of
the night, and the body bebilitated,
often. with the long fast from supper
time, with nothing to rouse the spirits
or the circulation. At about one o'clock
in the afternoon the air is most gener-
ally fully dried by the sun, has more
life, more oxygen in it. hence it is more
purifying, more invigorating, while the
bright daylight itself has an elevating,
vitalizing tendency. These facts should
be borne in mind by those who are
nurses to the sick; for by extra atten-
tions of various kinds the critical hour
might pass, and, if so, the patient is
more liable to live over for another
twenty-foHr hours. It is said by OBJ
servant physicians that each seventh
year of life is critical which means
that every seventh year is liable to be
fatal but that if passed over with inn
proved health it gives reasonably GER
tain lease of another seven years for
example, the most of those who become
consumptive do so about the age of
twenty one,-a year sooner or later,
but twenty-one is the largest average
when the disease becomes decided
About forty-two, the six-times-seven, is
by far the most critical time of life in
women. If that is passed healthfully
they have a good chance Of seeing
three-scere 1t will perhaps be found
that larger number of persons die
within a year or two including sixty
three than at any other specified time
between forty-nine and seventy. These
things suggest that increased attention
should be given to the health at these
critical periods.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
Eli Perkins on Insurance.

L didn't use to believe much in lnsIIr-
ance; once had my life insured for
four years. and never got any benefit
from it. Then threw up the policy.
waited patiently every day to get that
$4,000. began to think it was interfer-
ing with the Lord's plan-this insurance
to prevent death--so destroyed the
wicked papers. After examining all the
policies / came to the conclusion that
honesty was the best policy for me-
That didn't cost much, then I felt more
like holding sweet converse with my
tailor and shoemaker. 1t wasn't three
days after forced up my policy before I
had my pocket picked, then I fell out
of third-story window on to a picket
fence. The fence was insured, and of
course, it wasn't hurt This discour-
aged me. I tore up my honesty policy,
scolded Mrs. Perkins, and got my life
insured again. Since then I've had ex-
cellent health and an increased appetite.
I've gained fourteen pounds. Now go
for life insurance. [ insure everything;
wife, mother-in-law, horses, chamber
maid, and coach dog.
Mr.. Smith, my next door neighbor,
don't believe in insurance. He has no
chambermaid fell off the roef where she
was hanging clothes : down, down six
stories into a coal hole. Result: killed,
killed dead No policy.
Yesterday my horse ran away. He
wanted to kick every thing to pieces.
Smith screamed, but says L, It's all
right, Smith. Horse is insured, let i'm
kick Sos the wagon and myself too"
He kicked Result Smith got kicked
clear over the wheels into crockery
store. No policy. Horse came in all
right and I didn't have even my placid
shirt bosom ruffied. Insure in the Mu-
tual. Don't wait. Delays are danger
Gus. Now I walk up and down the sta
BILE by kicking horses boldly and fear
lessly. They can't hurt me ; I'm in
sured.
Yesterday two men, hitched tandem,
ran off with horse who was driving a
dog cart. They collided with lumber
horse and One-horse market woman,
smashing q conductor drawn by street
car and twenty-four passengers loaded
down with horses holding to the straps.
Every street car and dog cart not in
sured were instantly killed. The axle
tree of the uninsured men was broken,
while an insured man received only
slight scratch on his dashboard, and
grazed Que of his wheels. Insured.
Many other accidents proved to me
the power of insurance to prevent death
or damage to character.
4 smallpox was violently attacked by
a woman, and the whole family, broke
out; crying. Didn't insure.
A man had difficulty with his wife,
and in moment of rage tore up her
policy. She fingered along five days,
and then died-dyed her hair. Have
you policy? Do not hesitate, but in
sure at once in the Log Cabin Mutual.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
BY HoRsLEY BROS. & FIGUERs.

! But, under more favorable atmospher-
! ical conditions, the perseverance of Lord
Rosse was crowned with partial success.
A portion of the great nebula was re-
| solved into stars, and Lord Rosse writes,
in 1916: t'I may safely say there can be
/ little if any doubt as to the responsible
! ity of the nebula; all about the trape-
zium is mass of stars, the rest of the
nebula also abounding with stars, and
exhibiting the characteristics of resolva-
bility strongly marked"
Mr.. Higgins subjected this nebula
to careful examination with the spectre
scope, and found unmistakable proof of
the presence of gaseous matter. Thus,
though part of it may be resolved into
stars, an immense mass still exists in
the form of luminous gas; and thus
also complete accordance Will be es-
tablished between the results of the tel
escope and spectroscope. The immense
distance of this nebula and It's immense
size are beyond the power of human
comprehension. It is estimated that its
light is sixty thousand years in reaching
us, and that its size surpasses that of all
other nebul@ collected in one mighty
group.
Every constellation has a language of
its own, and Orion is the embodiment
of majesty, nobility, and imperial pow
er. "Conquering and to conquer is
written on his glittering stars, and from
out of their vast depth shines the wis
dom of ages. From the time of the
Chaldean shepherds until the present
day these stars have been objects of un-
wearying interest and delight. For
thousands of years have astronomers
watched their progress, and added, with
the revolving ages, stores of astrenomi-
cal lore, and new discoveries, each more
brilliant than the last. The result of
their research is our glad inheritance
But it is left for future discovers to give
a full solution of the mystery. of the
marvellous cloud glowing in misty light
in the midst of the shining group, and
investing with a strange prophetic
meaning the sacred and familiar ques-
tion, "Canst thou loose the bands of
OriOn9"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
Cologne Water.

1t has been said that Colgne water is
among perfumes what the diamond Is
among precious stones, for while all
other perfumes are subject to the tickle
changes OF fashion, one day the favOrite
of the fair sex, and the next discarded
for some new essence, it alone is always
countenanced. In the manifold uses to
which it is put, whether as toilet ac-
cessory, or in the chamber of the sick,
Cologne water since it's introduction,
has proved its superiority over all rivals.
Cologne, the capital of Rhenish, Prus-
sia, from which the famous water takes
its name, is also famous for containing
the church of st. Ursula, in which re-
pose the bones of the saint after whom
the church is named, and her 11,00O
virgins, who, according to the legend,
were slaughtered by the idolatrous
Huns Had Cologne water been dis
covered in the days of Homer, we
should doubtless have had a story of
how the blood of slaughtered virgins,
after sinking into the earth, gushed
forth again in a stream of perfumed
water. But the discovery of Cologne
water dates back as far as about the
year 1909, and at that day poetical men
dacity had lost much of its former pOr-
ularity. In that year there lived at
Cologne an Italian, named Johann Ma
ria Farina, who, according to the ar
chives of the city, traded in works of
art, silken wares and perfumes, and
prepared and sold Cologne water. This
latter becoming popular, and the de-
mand for it increasing, he gradually de-
voted himself entirely to its manufac-
ture. Copyrighted labels and the pro-
lection of the patent laws were unknown
in those days, and hosts of imitators
sprang up as the fame of Farina's per-
fume spread. The superiority of the
original article was, however, proved
over all competitors.
The secret of its composition has been
well preserved, and has never been COM
municated to any except those of the
inventors family, who have inherited
the business and carried it on. Johann
Maria Farina died in 1872, leaving his
business to his nephew, and the present
proprietor, who still carries on the man
ufacture Opposite the Zuelichs Place, >"
is a great-great-nephew of the original
inventor Other Farinas. similar in
name. but not related to Johann Maria,
have from time to time engaged in the
manufacture of Cologne water, and their
numerous decendents each claim to
possess the original receipt. To such a
height has the mutual jealousy between
these competitors arrived, that each
keeps regularly in his pay number of
hack drivers and guides, so that stran-
gers visiting the city may be taken to
their establishments, with the assurance
that that particular one is the original
distillery.
The popularity of Cologne water is
said to have remained local until the
French, during the Seven Years War,
took possession of Rhineland, and dis
covered the virtues of the new perfume.
Quickly carried to Paris, it became a
favorite, and from them spread all over
Europe, and is now to be found famil-
lar article equally among the settlers on
our western frontier, the sheep farmers
of Australia, or the dainty bellies of
every city in Christendom.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
Story of Poor Little Stephen Girard.

The man lives in Philadelphia who
when young and poor entered bank,
and says he " Please, sir, don't you
want boy?" And the stately person
age said, ''No, little boy, don't want
a little boy" The boy whose heart
was too full for utterance, chewing a
piece of licorice stick he had bought
with a cent stolen from his good and
pious aunt, with sobs plainly audible,
and with great globules of water rolling
down his cheeks, glided silently down
the marble steps of the bank. Bending
his noble form, the bank man lodged
behind door, for he thought the little
boy was going to shy stone at him.
But the boy picked up something and
stuck it in his poor ragged jacket.
"Come here, little boy" and the little
boy did come here; and the bank man
said, "Lo, what pickest thou up ?"
And he answered and replied, GA pin"
And the bank man said, "Little boy,
are you good ?" and he said he was.
And the bank man said, Glow do you
vote ?-excuse me, do you go to Sunday
school ?" and he said he did. Then
the bank man took down a pen made of
pure gold and flowing with pure ink,
and wrote on a piece of paper, est.
Peter" and asked the little boy what it
stood for, and he said, "Salt Peter"
Then the bank man said it meant
"Saint Peter" The little boy said
"Ohr'
Then the bank man took the lite boy
to his bosom, and the little boy said
"Ohr again, for he squeezed him.
Then the bank man took the little boy
into 1,artnarshin and oova him half the
profits and all the capital, and he mar
ried the bank mans daughter, and now
all he has is all his, and all his own,
too.
STORY OF ANOTHER GOOD LITTLE BOY.
Ny uncle told me this story, and I
spent six week picking up pins in front
of bank. 1 expected the bank man
would call me in and say, 'Little boy,
are you good ?" and was going to say
Yes" and when he asked me what
est. John stood for, 1 was going to
say "Salt John" But I guess the
bank man want anxious to have a part
ner, and [ guess the daughter was a
son, for one day says he to me, D." Lit
tie boy, what's that you're picking up?"
Says / awful meekly, Pins" Says he,
"Let's see EN- And he took 'em, and
I took off my cap, all ready to go in the
his daughter. But [ didn't get an invi-
to the bank, and if [ catch you hanging
on you!" Then I left, and the mean
old cuss kept the pins. Such is life as
I find it-lndrk Train.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

A PHILADELPHIA manufacturer is
preparing plan for a column / 200 feet
high, to be constructed entirely of iron,
in open work, from the summit of
which the grounds of the Continental
Exposition are to be illuminated by the
means of a drummond light. If
adopted. it will be the loftiest mOnu-
ment in the world.
A MAN OUT WEST wants patent on
all invention calculated to prevent the
bungling method of executing criminals
that has now grown SO common. In
case the vertebrae of the condemned are
not scientifically dislocated at the first
fall the rope instantly lowers the vic
tim safely to the ground, lassoes the
Sheriff and his assistants, jerks them
fifty feet into the air and drops them on
the nearest picket fence. This device
is known as the Automatic Avenger. !"
New THEORY OF THE AURoRA-Th
English Mechanic publishes the views
of DR. Wolfert, German observer, on
the nature and origin of the aurora
borealis. which, it will be noticed, are
based on speculations which do not con-
meet the phenomena with magnetic or
electric source. DIR. Wolfert says "The
suns rays, falling on the earth, are
variously reflected, according as they
fall vertically or at angles more or less
obtuse. The earth being conceived as
large mirror, many of the Oblquely
incident rays will be reflected TO part
of the celestial vault ON the night side
of the earth" The zodiacal light he
ascribes to the irregular reflection of
sunlight from water, and similarly the
vast fields of ice in the polar regions,
he considers, may be regarded as an
imperfect mirror irregularly rejecting
the incident light. The rays which fall
most obliquely are the most abundantly
reflected and as the quantity of re-
fected light increases with the angle
of incidence, adds the author, we may
see how the reflected sunlight illumi-
mates in the highest degree the night
skies in the region nearest the pole /;
further, the great similarity of the in
cipient light of the aurora to moonlight
is thus explained, the latter being also
reflected. The rays falling on the ice
at an angle of forty degrees are, how
ever, dispersed as well as reflected. 1t
is commonly said that the point of
origin of the aurora is indicated by the
direction of the magnetic needle. Nor,
correctly, according to DIR. Wolfert, a
line. drawn from the sun at right
agles to the horizon and prolonged
would be the middle line of the phe-
nomena On this supposition an advance
of the contral part of the aurora to the
north is explained.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
LOVES DREAM.

Why do love my darling so?
Good faith, my heart, / hardly know,
I have such store Of reasons;
-IWould take me all a summer day
Nay, saying half that l could say
Would all the eircling seasons.
Because her eyes are softly brown,
Ny dove why quietly hath flown
To me as 10 her haven?
Because her hair is soft, and laid
Madonna-wise in simple braid,
And jetty as the raven?
Because her lips are sweet to touch,
Not chill, nor fiery overmuch,
But softly warm as roses;
Dear lips that chasten while they move
Lips that a man may dare TO love,
Till earthly lOve-time closes
Because her hand is soft and white.
OF touch so tender and SO light,
That where her tender finger
Doth fall or move, the man to whom
The guards of Eden whispered "Come =
Beneath its spell might Hnger?
Because her heart is woman-soft,
So true, so tender, that l oft
Do marvel that a treasure
SO rich- 90 rare to me should fal,
Whose soul desert, so small, so small,
fs-loving past all measure?
Because she has such store Of mosds,
SO archly smiles 50 staidiy broods,
So lovingly caresses;
So that my heart may never tire
OF monotone, or more desire
Than she, my love, possesses?
Ali me what know or what care Il
Or what hath love to do with " why?r
How simple is the season
love her-for she is my love,
And shall while stars shall shine above.
And season follow season