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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-07
VOL. XIX, NO. l6.
Sticklers for Etiquette.

These unappeasably exact folk who
must have their pound of social flesh,
and will not be put off with less than
their precise due, are, for the most part,
difflcnlt people to keep in good humor.
They know nothing of that easy-going,
slip-shod, good-nature which gives and
takes, and never keeps any debtor and
creditor account at all, which sends out
two invitations to their neighbor's one,
or forgets to retul his call within the
prescribed limits and then meets him
with beaming smile and iocund man
ner, as if he were not a sinner and
breaker of the law. That kind of thing
is abhorrent to them, as bad as cob
webs on the ceiling or material slippers
down at heel. What the sticklers for
etiquette like is everything to be done
with the incest precision, invitation for
invitation, and the complimentary card
left on the exact date on which il
should be left call returned for call
within the term prescribed according
to the degree of intimacy; and the
whole of the social life mapped out as
you would map out the plan Of an es-
perches assigned to A., and so many rods
Sometimes, however, these sticklers
for etiquette are kind people in their
way, people who will lend but not bor-
erous in bestowing, but not generous
neighbors with benefits, but they will
not carry away SO much as a flower in
free gift. Their house is open to you,
and you might, if you would, use it
in their absence, and make yourself at
home with a cup of afternoon tea and
lounge on the comfortable sofa but |
they would die of fatigue and inanition |
rather than do the same by you; and |
you may talk for ever, but you cannot |
beat it into their heads that there is no |
difference between you, and what they |
allow from you they may also commit |
for their own parts. Not a bit of it.
To the end they remain generous, hos
pitable, free-handed in what they grant |
and to the end, also, precise, stiff stick
lers for etiquette, and tiresomely pune
bilious in what they accept.
Sometimes they are just the contrary
10 this, and, while they will accept un-
kindness frankly enough,
will not allow the smallest infraction of
,he rhadamanthine rule of strictest eti-
luette to themselves. They would
lold it as an objectionable liberty if
heir dearest friend should enter their
house in their absence, though he or she
lad come twenty miles and more to see
hem. A servant who should offer a
,up of tea on her own accord, even to
heir sister, would receive her dimissal
before the night had come and a life
ong intimacy has been broken for all
ime for no greater offense than that of
,icking unbidden a bit of mignonette
'ut of bed which was choked with its
wn luxuriance. And some again are
t least just and logical, and neither
i've nor take, but demand the pound
( flesh with the most scrupulous ex-
ctness, and pay it Just as methodi-
ally
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THE PREVAILING DISEASE IN GREEN

THE PREVAILING DISEASE IN GREEN
LAND.-The climate of Greenland is
considered by the Danes as very heal
thy, and the natives seldom die in any
other disease than consumption, which
is very prevalent among the Esquimaux,
and is no doubt contracted through
their careless habits. The hut is SIM
pie building of stone (boarded upon
the inside), with layer of turf on the
outside, and long, low tunnel entrance,
about 10 or Is feet in length, opening
to the south. This hut is about IL feet
square and feet high, with two win
dows in the side, which are blocked up
with turf, during the winter, so as to
keep the cold out This room is gen.
orally supplied with a stove, in which
peat is burned, for they have no other
kind of fuel. There is always in these
huts 8 close, depressing atmosphere,
while outside, especially on foggy
day, the atmosphere is cold. These
people sit in the house, sewing, etc.,
with their heavy seal-skin clothing on,
and will run in and out of doors, make
visits and attend their dances, without
making any addition to their clothing
or reducing it when they return to their
homes. Then family of six or eight
sleep in this same room, on q platform
which serves as bed, lying very close
together and breathing the same air
over and over.
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GUANo Nor THE ExoREMENT OF SEA
BIRDs.-The lOng-received opinion that
guano is the deposits of myriads of sea-
birds, accumulating through long ages,
is rendered untenable by the recent in
vestigstions of DR.. Habel. After treat
ing the guano with an acid, MICROSCOPE
cal and chemical examination revealed
that the insoluble residue was composed
of fossil sponges and other marine ami
mails and plants precisely similar in
constitution to such as still exist in
those seas. The fact that the anchors
of ships in the neighborhood of the
guano islands often bring up guano
from the bottom of the ocean, is quite
in opposition TO the prevalent belief.
DR.. Habel therefore considers that the
deposits of guano must be the result of
the accumulation of fossil plants and
animals whose organic matter has been
transformed into nitrogenous substance,
the mineral portion remaining intact.
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The King Tof the Sandwich Islands.

The King tOf the sandwich ISLANDS.
Two weeks ago we had ball at the
palace of our king, Lunalilo l. He
is my friend. When he was still mere
ly crown prince loaned him once 50
only for day, as he said. When /
met him year afterward / reminded
him of the loan, but he told me to wait
till he should have become king, of
which the prospects were then very
slight. But now he is king, and I
have silently made him a present of
the S2-cheap friendship, considering
he is king. It was fine ball, which
he gave in honor of the English admi-
raj. and the king was the first who got
gloriously drunk next came the musi-
clans, then the guests, and finally my
self began to feel a little unsteady.
I saw q young English naval officer oc-
cupy the kingly throne, with Homo
lulu girl by his side, while the king and
and Queen Emma sat at his feet. Then
the king took drum and walked around
the floor beating the tattoo. Finally
the musicians began quarrelling and
fighting in regular John Bull style, so
that the admiral could not part them
and all this in the midst of the court
ball. But our king is said to have
amused himself exceedingly, particular
" as lots of drinkables remained for
him to consume himself, though an aw-
full quantity was drank. Whether he
did consume it all, don't know; but
it is said that he was not sober for two
weeks afterward, though he can stand
a vast amount! Otherwise the king
is a good fellow, and likes us Germans
particularly, probably because we
s' s'treated" 4" him SO often when he was
merely crown prince. He has even
learned some German songs, which he
sings passably; for instance, "When
the swallows homeward fly" and out of
the tavern I've just stepped tonight. -
-HOn0latLI letter.
n Rrozr-,, Con1an.a rnrrc thoA he
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The head cook of the London Carl.
ton club receives salary of $1,000
year. Like Worth, who meyer sews
himself, the cook merely superintends
and "tsstes things" before they are
served,
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Speaking of extravaganza

-"Speaking Of extravaganza in
dress" writes Capt Crosstree, "the
most extensively dressed man ever
saw was an African chief on the gold
coast. His wives had snnointed him
thoroughly with palm oil, and then
powdered him from head to foot with
gold-dust. You never saw in your life
a man got up so utterly regardless of
expense"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-07

Any man who raises hens In Boston
is an agriculturist. They take him into
the q Grange" right away, and that en-
ables the members to get eggs at half
price. Brooklyn Eagle.
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The irrepressib'

The irrepressible curiosity-hunter
has already made his appearance in the
Yellowstone park. The department of
the interior is informed that some of
the most handsome and symmetrical
craters in the entire region have been
made almost unsightly by the large
masses of pearly incrustations of silver
which have been knocked eff by memen-
to-hungry visitors.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-07

IRON IN PLANTs.-So far as investiga-
tions have shown, iron forms no essen
tial part of the plant or animal, yet
without it all growth and assimilation
cease. If seeds are placed on little
cotton wool in a solution containing all
that is essential to plant growth, with
the exception of iron, they will sprout
and grow until the iron contained in the
seed itself is exhausted the plant
then quickly bleaches and ceases to
grow. If little phosphate of iron,
which is almost totally insoluble, is
added to the solution, and occasionally
stirred up so that it may be kept in sus-
pension and thus come in contact with
the root, the plant quickly revives and
continues it's growth. Iron is an essen
tial constituent of chlorophyl, the green
coIoring matter of leaves. Although
found in all plants, and constituting an
essential part of their food, it has never
been thought necessary to supply it to
them artifcially, all soils being sup
posed to contain sufficient for their
wants. But no one can have failed to
observe the greater luxuriance of vege-
tation on the strong iron soils derived
from the old red sand stone than on
those granite soils which are compare
lively free from it.-JouT1aGL of Chem
istTU.
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The Mental Atmosphere.

The probability of the existence of a
mental atmosphere is a question which
is attracting considerable attention, and
which will in time probably throw much
light on the nature and action of men
tai phenomena. We all know that any
mental action results directly in molecu-
lar change; it is perfoI med at the ex-
pense of certain constituents of the
nervous system, notably phosphorous
# transmits definite wave of motion,
at rate which has been accurately
measured, to the distal extremity of the
appropriate nerves; how much further,
we do not know. Many instances also
illustrate the high quality of mental
force. It can produce the most impor-
tant changes, even liberation or gan
CREME, in the remOtest parts of the
body, and aid with equal power in pro-
cesses of restoration and growth. That
the superficies of the body does not
bound its activity numerous facts de-
monstrate. To pass by the less remarka-
BILE and more familiar ones, there is the
most positive evidence that those gifted
with "second sight," as it was once
called, do possess an underlined power of
knowledge which transcends the senses.
The presence of danger is often felt be-
fore any warning reaches us through
the senses. Men who live lives of peril
know this perfectly well, and are the
last TO underrate such feeling. Another
form of this external mental power is
that by which a strong emotion or a
fixed attention on an object will excite
a similar emotion or the picture of
similar object in another person without
any communication. A certain natural
analogy and a special training is re-
luired to bring this about. The French !
. magician Houdin has established |
,uch mental relation with his son, 30 |
hat the latter, though blindfold, would |
It once name an object shown to his
ather, though the width of a large
DOM intervened. Undoubtedly, as emo
iopal influences are clearly epidemic
md contagious, there is nothing incredi-
)le in the belief that ideas should also
'ossess equal powers beyond the super
icies of the body or the limits of ex-
,ression. Medical Reporter.
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The LOAD A WOMAN CARRIES. "A man
In the strength of his years would fall
out of the ranks if he were obliged to
carry the enormous weight of clothing a
woman carries who walks by his side
keeping perfect step. That she finally
breaks down is a fact, but that she
keeps her place long is another fact,
marvellous and significant. How
many thicknesses of cloth do you think
your girls wear about their waists o.
asked teacher of me-" "Half dozen,
perhaps" I answered "they and you
and do not show grain of common
sense about this matter of dress" "Six-
teen," said she with emphasis" six
teen, at the least calculation, bands
fastened more or less tightly according
to the inclination of the wearer" Does
any one believe these girls breathe easi-
ly under so many Hgatures? Add to
this the difficulty of walking with yards
of cloth folding about the ankles, if
they do not trail, and the constant
anxiety lest the hat should tumble from
its perch of hair, and you have an ag-
gregate of something which is a weari
ness to the flesh, if much study is not.
And yet, with all these odds against
them, we learn. by reports and actual
that our young ladies in
these mixed schools stand as high in
their grades as the gentlemen. But
day of reckoning will surely come.
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A Thunder Storm in Nebraska.

The following vivid description of an
electrical thunder storm in Nebraska is
from the pen of the Rev. Alexander
Clark, editor of the Methodist Recor-
der One of the peculiar grandeurs of
Nebraska is witnessed in its electrical
phenomena. On the first evening after
our arrival at lincoln, just before twi-
light, it was our privilege to behold the
magnificent play of the lightnings. In
timberless regions, like this, the atmos-
phere is sulrcharged with electricity.
Especially after sultry day, as Thurs
day, September Is, the conditions are
favorable for the blaze and culver of
the lightning. To the west and south,
trimming the vast prairies, the dark
clouds lay in convolvulating folds
against the sky. The winds had lulled
and silence pervaded the expanse, save
as the distant rumbling of thunder was
heard, like attracting and answering
volleys of artillery. The whole frma-
ment, in the direction of the storm,
flashed in fire, flame challenging flame,
from the zenith all around to the earth
The glances of the lightning SCARED the
face of the heavens at every angle, as if
mighty swords were swung by invisible
arms. Vertical lines of zigzagging fire;
wide, level, billowy waves of flame, cir
cling like seatides out to the horizon /;
and centers of radiating light,
Ill combined to make a picture, the |
ike of which, for magnifcence and awe,
We have seldom seen. No obtruding |
nils obscured the view no interpOsiHg |
orests diverted or divided the intensity;
10 descending showers relieved the
'hade, or dimished the agitation and
his display of the celestial forces and
ylories was, for the space of half an
lour, grand and impressive beyond ex-
,ression. At length the gathering
,ower of the air retreated to the far
outheast, the last lingering thunder
ound died into midnight silence, and
he quiet stars appeared. Other lands
ad the benefit of the rain, while ours
ad enjoyed the splendor of the pre-
aratiOn.
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W, G, Sheppard,
SURGEON DENTIST,
COLUMBIA, TENN.

OFTIcE-Flsming's new block, Garden sire t.
nearly opposite the Presbyterian church.
keep constantly on hand full stock Of tooth,
tablets, soaps and lotions for the mouth and gums
su recommended by the United States dental ssso-
ciAtion Call and see me.
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I'm Japan there are said to be trees
four hundred or five hundred years old,
which produce tea worth FIVE dollars
a pound. japanese writer's say that the
tea tree was introduced into their coun-
try from China nine hundred years ago.
The plant is utilized as hedge in the
lanes of the villages and around the
kitchen gardens.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-07

DIR. Brown-Sequard says that he
has seen fifteen cases where drawing on
the great toe has had serious effect
upon the brain.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-07

DIGNITY OF WoRK.-All work has a
humanitarian and honorable aspect
runs PARALLEL with the aims and uses of
providence shares the dignity of ma
lures processes and every true worker
is fellow to all the ranks, including the
deity himself If any man reclaims an
acre of land by irrigation, or of bog by
draining, and makes it green and bloom
ing, let him carry his head erect on his
shoulders, and see that his work is not
unworthy of him who, in meadow and
prairie, has wrought TO the same end.
This man with his hoe and spade is a
joint-creator of beauty and provender
for coming generations. Sumner Ellis.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-07

THE IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF THE
SKIN.-Looking at the complicated me-
chanism of our bodies from a popular
standpoint, we should say, perhaps,
that the brain is the most important
part of us but that would be a mis-
take not only the brain, but the stom-
ach and kidneys are less necessary to
life than our slEn. Reflect upon this
matter for a moment you can go with
ont food for several days and not suffer
serious injury; your liver may cease to
act for a week, and you can attend TO
your business as usual the brain may
be paralyzed for months, and life goes
on but if the functions of the skin are
suspended for two hours, death follows.
Take dog or cat, dip the animal into
melted paraffine or tallow, so that the
skin excretions and secretions are sus-
pended, and the animal will die almost
as quickly as if ten grains of strychnine
had been administered. The skin is a
most important auxiliary to the lungs
in the process of aeration of the blood,
and 80 intimate the connection, or so
similar and important are its functions,
that when death ensues from skin OBJ
structions, all the conditions resemble
those occasioned by cutting off air from
the lungs. More deaths from consump-
tion are caused primarily by skin OBJ
structions than from any original weak
ness or disease in the lungs. The lungs
are the first of the important organs to
be influenced by arrangements of the
skin, and they often become congested
or disorganized through secondary
oousaa - LsySyo0I of 0be1l1isfy1I
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-22

round his neck, and remained out for ten or
twelve hours, till dusk. Sometimes 1 fol-
lowed him from morning till evening seeing
which, and remembering my face as that
which stood daily by his masters bedside,
he wagged his tail at my approach, and con-
sented to walk at my heels. One night the
miser died, and on the morrow Jim did not
go out. He had missed his master the night
before, and guessed that they had put him
in the long black box that stood in the room
when the men came to carry away this
long black box, the dog went after them,
and cried. He followed the coffin to the
cemetery, where he and / were the only
spectators besides the curate, the sexton,
and the undertaker's men. When the
earth was thrown in, he looked at me plain
lively to know what it meant, and when the
burial was over, he wished to remain near
the open tomb, waiting till master should
rise. | took him home with me, but he
would not eat, and next morning at sunrise
he howled for his basket. 1t was no use
keeping him, so tied the basket round his
neck, and sent him out
That evening, foreseeing what would hap
pen, l went to the cemetery The dog ar
rived at nightfall, with his basket full of
pence, and | turned them all out upon the
grave. "Come home, Jim,'' I said, with
tears rising to my eyes; but he whined
mournfully, and tried to scratch up the
earth. Twice more he went out like this
all day, and brought back money for his
master; but on the third evening, finding
that the pence on the grave remained un-
touched, he suffered me, without resistance,
to take off his collar, and lay down at his
full length near the misers last sleeping
place.
The next morning he did not go on his
rounds, for he was dead CornhM Mag
azine, repu6HShed in Erery Saturday.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-22
How Plauts Purify the Air.

Plants gain their nourishment by the alb
sorption through their roots Of certain sub
stances from the soil, and by the decompo-
sition, through their green portions, of a
particular gas contained in the atmosphere
-carbonic-acd gas. They decompose this
gas into carbon, which they assimilate, and
oxygen which they reject Now, this phe-
nomenon, which is the vegetables mode of
respiration, can only be accomplished by the
assistance of solar light.
Charles Bonnet, of Geneva, who began
his career by experimenting on plants, and
left this attractive subject, to devote himself
to philosophy, in consequence of serious
affection CT his sight, was the first to detect
this joint work, about the middle of the
eighteenth century. He remarked that veg
etables grow vertically, and tend toward sun,
in whatever position the seed may have been
planted in the earth. He proved the gen
erality by the fact that, in dark places, plants
always turn toward the spot whence light
comes. He discovered, too, that plants i'm
mersed in waetr release bubbles of gas un-
der the influence of sunlight. In I'LL,
Priestly, in England, tried another expert
ment. He let candle burn in confined
space till the light went out, that is, until
the contained air grew unfit for combustion.
Then he placed the green parts of fresh
plant in the enclosure, and at the end of ten
days the air had become sufficiently purified
to permit the relighting of the candle. Thus
he proved that plants replace gas made i'm
pure by combustion with a combustible gas;
but he also observed that at certain times
the reverse phenomenon seems to result.
Ten years later the Dutch physician, Ingen-
housz, succeeded in explaining this apparent
contradiction. al had but just begun these
experiments" says that skilful naturalist,
when most interesting scene revealed it
self to my eyes: observed that not only do
plants have the power of clearing impure
air in six days or longer, as Priesty's ex-
periments seem to point out, but that they
discharge this important duty in few hours,
and in the most thorough way; that this sim
gular operation is not due at all to yegeta-
ton, but to the effect of sunlight; that it
does not begin until the sun has been some
time above the horizon; that it ceases entire
ly during the darkness of night; that plants
shaded by high buildings or by other plants
do not complete this function, that is, they
do not purify the air, but that, on the con-
trary, they exhale an Injurious atmosphere,
and really shed poison into the air about US;
that the production of pure air begins to
diminish with the decline of day. and ceases
entirely at sunset; that all plants corrupt the
surrounding air during the night, and that
not all portions of the plant take part in the
purifaction of the air, but only the leaves
and green branches. ."-Popuzar Science
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-22

THE Christian Journal remarks with
grim humor :" 1t has become a question
whether any man with less income than
$4,000 year can go to Heaven from New
York. 1t is presupposed, of course, in this
question, that church going is necessity
churches" the Journal doubles the above
estimate. 1t continues: "The system is
effectualIy shutting out the mass of the pop
ulation from public religious connection.
The small dealer, the skilled mechanic, far
more the ordinary workman or laborer, is ef-
fectuaIly barred out ofpew proprietorship in
any church of any pretensions."
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-22

QUIETIsG PIG-Charles the Fifth, while
on journey, fell in with a peasant upon
the road who was carrying a pig. The
noise made by the porker was very disa-
greeabe to the emperor, who asked the pea
SAINT if he had not learned the method OF
making a pig be quiet The rustic confess
ed that he had not, but that he should be
very glad to be acquainted with it.
Take the pig by the tail, said the emp
eror, and you will see that it will soon be
silent"
The peasant finding that the emperor
was right, thanked him, and added
You must have learned the trade much
longer than |, sir, for you understand it
very much better"