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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
Tombs of the English Kings.

Rev. Arthur p. Stanley, dean Of
Westminster, has been exploring the
last resting places of the kings OF Eng
land who were buried in the abbey. On
June 26th he read before the British
society of antiquaries paper on the
tombs of Richard ii. and Henry Ill
The bright beginning of Richards reign
and its miserable close have been the
subjects for moralizing by writers OF
both poetry and prose. Shakspeare's
opposite words, "Come let us sit upon
the ground and talk about the death of
kings" and Gray's well-known lines,
Fair laughs the morn and soft the
zephyrs blow" have their origin in the
same source. When and how Richard
died has long been a mooted point
among historians, il being generally
held that after his formal deposition in
1899, he was murdered while a prisoner
at Pomfret by Sir Piers Exton. Many
curious questions have been set at rest
by Dean Stanley's Investigations The
tombs, il may be mentioned, are above
ground and have open work sides, with
IA full length efligy on the top-stone.
In the tomb of Richard H., two sets
of bones, female and male, were found.
kAh 10 lllt htt VI AElAAuAb hNAANHs N''AN -
no dispute that they compose the skele-
ton of Anne of Bohemia, the queen of
Richard. The only doubt was whether
the male skeleton was that of Richard
III. The skull was found TO give cubic
capacity less than the standard of Eng
lish skulls, and this, taken together
with the measurements, agrees with the
well-known character of the king.
There were no marks of battle-aXe on
the skull, thus refuting the above mem
toned legend other antiquarian re-
show that in 400 Richard III.
from Pomfret 10 an abbey in
whence he removed 70
Scotland, and that many plots for his
restoration were set on foot during the
succeeding reign of Henry ", of the
house of Lancaster. As TO the tomb Of
Henry Ill, no searching investigation
was made, as no grave historic doubts
exist as to his fate. The efligy, among
the first of such castings, was found to
be almost perfect, and the coffin, COW
cred with a continuous piece of cloth Of
gold, is it turn covered with dust. The
,loth has lost its strength, so that a
small puff would blow away both dust
md silk
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
Transportation-An Interview with
President Grant.

dub.
Ex-representative Bennett came to see
the president and Secretary Richardson
on pet project which he has pushed
for years, namely, proposition to OBJ
tain government aid to enlarge and
deepen the Erie canal, and increase the
docks, etc., so as to pass vessels of 600
tons propelled by steam. A bill for
this purpose was introduced by Mr..
Bennett in the XLIst congress, and re-
ferred to the committee of commerce of
which he was a member. He represen-
ted to the president that it is useless
for the farmers oranges to fight the
railroads, and that the proper way for
them to do is to open water communi-
cation between the chain of lakes and
into the Hudson river. and that thus,
having established water transportation
for the grain and products of the west,
the farmers would be independent of
the railroads, and the latter would then
cease to be monopolists in the carrying
trade. He thought the farmers could
do this if they were to unite their in
fuence and direct it against congress.
The amount of aid which Mr.. Bennett
for his project is the snug lit
OAO SuLl VI RC.OOOsOOOs WhlOh "1hA9
the government to guarantee.
The president said to Mr.. Bennett
that the question of transportation was
a very important one, and one in which
he was deeply interested. He called
the latter's attention to the fact, how
ever, that a standing committee had
been organized by the senate to investi-
gate this very question, and that the
were now at work. The pres
ident hoped for good results from the
and thought the best course
would be decided upon by congress.
He was himself in favor of making and
water channels, and had re-
several projects IN his last
Mr.. Bennett made the ques-
ton of water channels a subject of two
or three hours conversation with the
of the treasury, and if he did
not succeed in talking the latter to death,
he did succeed in talking me almost
blind N Y Trib1fne
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
The Altitude at which Men Can Live


There has been a great deal of dis
cussion as to the altitude at which hui
man beings can exist, and Mr.. Glai
sher himself can tell us as much about
it as anybody. In July, 1872, he and
Mr.. CoxwelI assembled in a balloon to
the enormous elevation of $4,000 feet
Previous to the start, Mr.. Glaisher's
pulse stood at seventy-siX beats a min
ute Coxwell's at Eeventyfour. At II,
600 feet, the pulse of the former was at
eighty-four that OF the latter at one
hundred. At $4,000 feet, Glaisher's
hands and lips were quite blue, but
not his face. At 81, 900 feet, he heard
his heart beating, and his breathing be
came oppressed; at $4,000 he became
senseless; notwithstanding which the
aeronaut, in the interest of science, went
up another 5000 feet, till he could no
longer use his hands, and had to pull
the strings of the valve with his teeth.
Aeronauts who have to make no exer-
tiOns have, of course, a great advantage
over members of the Alpine club, and
those who trust their legs; even at 49,
900 feet these climbers feel very uncom-
Portable, more so in the Alps, it seems,
than elsewhere. At the monastery of
st. Bernard, 8, III feet high, the monks
become asthmatic, and are compelled
frequently to descend into the valley of
the Rhone for-anything but sc breath
of fresh air ;" and at the end of ten years
service are obliged to give up their
high living, and come down to the usu-
al level. At the same time, in South
America, there are towns, such as Poto-
81, placed as high as the top of Mont
Blanc, the inhabitants of which feel no
inconvenience. The highest inhabited
spot in the world is, however, the Budd-
hist cloister of Hanle, in Tibet, where
twenty-one persons live at an altitude
of 16, 500 feet. The brothers Seglagin-
tweit, when they explored the glaciers
of the hi -Gamin in the same country,
encamped at 1000 feet, the highest al
titude at which a European ever passed
the night. Even at the top of Mont
Blanc, Professor TyndaIl's guides found
it very unpleasant to do this, though
the professor himself did not confess to
feeling as bad as they The highest
mountain in the world is Mount Eve
rest (Himalaya), 29,0O3 feet, and the
condor has been seen '' winging the blue
air " 500 feet higher. The air, by the
by, is not "blue, or else, as De Saus-
sure pointed out, the distant noun
tains, which are covered with snow.
would appear blue also ;" its apparent
color being due to the reflection of
light. What light can do, and does, is
marvellous and not the least is its DOW
er of attraction to humanity Cham
ber'S Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
LINES TO THE PAINTED CUP.

Now, if thou art poet, tell me not
That these bright chalices were tinted thus
To hold the dew for fairies when they meet
On moonlight evenings in the hazel bowers,
And dance till they are thirsty. Call not up
The faded fancies of an elder world;
But leave the scarlet cups to spotted moths
OF June, and glistening flies, and humming-birds
To drink from, when on all these boundess lawns
The morning sun looks hot. Or let the wind
O'erturn in sport their ruddy brims and pour
A sudden shower upon the strawberry plant
To swell the reddening fruit that even now
BIeathes aslight fragrance from the sunny slope.
But thou ert of a gayer fancy. Well
Then let the gentle Nanitou of flowers
Lingering amid the bloomy wastes he loves,
Though all his swarthy wOrshipers are gone
Slender and small, his rounded cheek all brown
And ruddy with the sunshine let him come
On summer mornings, when the blossoms wake,
And part with little hands the spiky grass
And touching with his cherry lips, the edge
Of these bright beakers. drain the gathered dew
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
Innocence and Virtue.

There is a wide difference between in
nocence and virtue. Innocence Is as
feeble as an infant, virtue is stalwart
like a giant. Innocence has never had
a battle virtue has had many a victory.
Innocence is embryonic; it is like a
fragile seed, easily torn and blown
away /; virtue is like the gnarled oak,
with the tempest in its limbs, but rooted
in the right, wrestling with the storms,
and still standing the stouter when they
have swept by. Innocence is e gift
virtue is an achievement. Ever since
Eden, virtue, in place of innocence, is
the destiny of man. 10 is easy TO re-
main innocent if no assaults are made
upon our passions. But il is quite inn
possible to acquire virtue without such
assaults. How, for instance, can n man
make an act of patience who is never
crossed? {? How can a man make an act
of trust except he be smitten with be-
reavement or disaster? How can a man
make an act of meelmess toward his
brother except he be provoked 10y gain
saying or of sweet humility toward
his God except he be plunged into those
notifications that stir the pride2 The
virtues only grow strong through exer-
else ana Dy hnlhBbllHll. WHICH 'lh'n-
tion of destroying Carthage was debated
in old Rome, Scipio Africanus counseled
against the measure for, "though she
was the implacable foe Of the Roman
commonwealth, her arms" he urged,
"would serve as a milestone TO Roman
valor." If poor man had the adjusting
of affairs, he would abolish and destroy
all temptations. But the wise Father
knows better, and leaves undistroyed
that which seems harmful, overruling
and welding it, on the other hand, TO
the good of his creatures. Far from
being despondent at temptations, the
Christian should hail them as his glori-
ous opportunity. He should shake off
the deadly sin of sloth and break
through their ranks as they beset the
he is clambering, realizing that
he shall grow stronger as he mounts.
He should, indeed, =" count IL all Joy
when he falls into divers temptations. ~
~ ~ EyggT in TylHeJlpD6CUf
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
How Bathing Injuries the Ear.

Among the causes of injury to the
ear must unfortunately be reckoned
bathing. Not that this healthful and
important pleasure need, therefore, be
in the least discouraged, but it should
be wisely regulated. Staying too long
in the water certainly tends TO produce
deafness as well as other evils; and it
is a practice against which young per-
sons of both sexes should be carefully
on their guard. But, independently of
this, swimming and floating are attended
with a certain danger from the difficulty
of preventing the entrance of water
into the ear in those positions. Now,
no cold fluid should ever enter the ear.
cold water is always more or less irrita-
ting and, if used for Swinging, rapid
ly produces extreme giddiness. In the
case of warm water it's entrance into the
ear is less Objectionable, but even this
is not free from disadvantage. Often
the water lodges in the ears and pro-
duces an uncomfortable sensation till it
is removed this should always be
taken as a sign of danger. That the
risk to hearing from unwise bathing is
not fancy, is proved by the fact, well
known to the lovers of dogs, that those
animals, if in the habit of jumping or
being thrown into the water, so that
their heads are covered, frequently be-
come deaf. A knowledge of the dam
ger is a sufficient guard. To be safe it
is only necessary to keep the water from
entering the ear. If this cannot be nc
complished otherwise, the head may
be covered. 1t should be added, how
ever, that wet hair, whether from bath
ing or washing, may be a cause of deaf
ness, if it be suffered to dry by itself.
Whenever wetted, the hair should be
wiped till it is fairly dry. Nor ought
the practice of moistening the hair with
water to make it curl pass without re-
monstrance. To leave wet hair about
the ears is to run great risk of injuring
them. In the washing of children, too,
care should be taken that all the little
folds of the outer ear are carefully and
gently dried with a soft towel.-POpu-
Iu9. CrSp4lnp NpDfbI7I
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
Satanic ShampooinR.

It is recorded, by the San Francisco
Figaro, that Alcibiades Botteler used TO
keep a barber-shop, and invented a
shampooing machine. So he fixed mp a
contriyance with kind of an iron stand,
from which two jointed arms with steel
claws protruded These claws we're COW
cred with chamois skin, and the arms
were moved in any direction by series
of arms and levers. Steam-power was
obtained from the factory next door.
Mr.. b. instructed the shop-boy how 10
start the machine, and seating himself
in the chair, he placed a claw on each
side of his head The boy must have
pulled the throttle-valve out about a
foot too far, for in about a minute the
steel claws clutched Botteler's head 30
that he thought his skull would crack,
and the shampooing machine began 10
rear, and plunge, and tear around the
room, and it lifted Alcibiades from his
chair with a jerk, and Drained one of
the bystanders with one leg, while IL
iammed through a looking-glass, and
scooped Botteler around among the Jugs
of hair-die, and beat him against the
ceiling, and soused him into the wash
basin, and raked him around among the
shaving-mugs and the razors, battered
his head against the wall, and all the
while the steel claws worked, and
scratched, and grabbed for better hold
on his head, until they shut off steam in
the factory, when Alcibiades Botteler
was found with his neck elongated at
least six inches.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
On Danburial Ground.

A broken-hearted young thing writes
to a weekly paper as follows "About
three years ago / became acquainted
with young gentleman; and although
he never paid me any particular atten-
tion, he would often accompany me to
and from church, etc. But lately I no.
ticed great change in him. He avoids
me as much as possible, and starts if /
address him. Can he have ceased to
love me? for know he did, though he
never said so. If I thought he had, it
would break my heart" Perhaps we
ought not to interfere in this matter
but, as we know exactly what should be
done with the young man, we feel as if
we ought to speak out. Do not attempt
to reason with him, or cajole him, or
pacify him. The next time he calls take
a monkey-wrench, fasten it securely
upon his nose, lead him off to the dining
room, and ask him in firm voice what
he means. If he won't answer, twist the
wrench three or four times, and butt his
head up against the stove or the mantel-
piece until his gloom is dispelled. If he
saws he has ceased to love you, let your
fingers daily with his ringlets lovingly
for few minutes, and then suddenly lift
out a couple of handfuls, and have an
Irishman at hand to come i'll and sit on
him awhile, and knock out his teeth,
and jump up and down on him, and be
sociabIe. Then let him go, and COM
mence your arrangements to rope in a
fresh man. You cannot afford to waste
your young life upon such a wretch as
this; and where heart will not throb to
heart, or soul respond to soul, the best
thing to do is to torture the nose at once.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
BY HORSLEY BROS. & FIGUERS
THE NEED OF SACRLFICE.

Unto each man his handiwork, unto each his crown
The just fate gives;
Whose takes the worlds life on him, and his own
lays down,
He, dying so, lives.
Whose bears the whole heaviness of the yronged
worlds weight
And puts it by,
1t is well with him suffering though he face mans
fate;
How should he die?
Seeing death has part in him any more, no power
Upon his head;
lie las brought his eternity with a little hour,
And is not dead.
,SyrjDb1tyDe
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
THE LAST VOYAGE.

By ALICE CARY.
At shut Of day they sat and talked,
In their old house by the sea;
The weather-beaten Solomon,
And his good wife, AIarsalee.
g The sun looks like a Ship" he said,
That is nearly come to land;
That slanting beam, like plank pushed out
To take aboard some hand"
And when, at length, the gold-backed clouds
Crouched in the dark, from view,
lie said, 1t will be stormy night;
May the good ship weather thrOugh!"
AT last the old wife, MarsaIee,
Could win no answering word
The ship was gone, the plank hauled in,
And Solomon was aboard
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
Causes of Short Sight.

A recent paper by DIR. Liebreich
throws light upon the origin of this de-
feet. He demonstrates that the two
evils of permanent short sight and cur.
vature of the spine, both so much more
frequent among the educated than the
uneducated classes of society, are de-
velOped by the unnatural posture usu-
ally enforced in schools. During child
hood the eye possesses a great power OF
accommodating itself to distance, and if
in reading and writing the desks are so
arranged that the eye, instead of being
twelve to fifteen inches distant, is kept
at seven or eight inches from the book or
paper, the eye adapts itself to the near
object, and permanent short sight is the
result. Moreover, as the predispositiOn
to the disease is hereditary, short sight
is constantly on the increase in highly
civilized countries. The Dad posture
adopted at writing desks is also the chief
cause of lateral curvature of the spine.
In extreme cases, says DIR. L1ebrelch,
the cOpy-book is pushed forward, so that
its lower border is inclined at an angle
of forty-five degrees with the edge of
the table. The head is lowered and so
much twisted that the left eye is only a
few inches distant from the book the
left cheek almost touches the left hand,
or even leans upon it; The ribs of the
left side are pressed against the edge of
the desk, and the taller children slip
backward on the forms. so that only the
lower part of the thighs rest on the mar
row bench. In many schools the pupils
maintain this unnatural position for Sc
veral hours daily, until at last the mus
cles are overtired, and permanent dis
tortion of the spine is the inevitable re-
suit, To avoid these evils, desks should
be so constructed that when the pupil is
seated the shoulders should be even, the
spine straight, the head balanced on the
top of the spine, the elbows on a level
with each other, and only the hands and
part of the forearm resting on the desk.
In order to effect this, DR.. Liebreich re-
commends desk in which the angle is
twenty degrees, for writing, and which,
by turning up flap, gives an angle of
forty degrees, for supporting book for
reading. He strongly condemns the alb
surd unanatomical notion that straight
spines can be insured by making children
sit up straight without support for the
back, thus overwhelming the muscles
and producing the very effect desired to
be avoided. He also deprecated strongly
the unnatural plan of making girls lie
on an inclined board or on the floor, "a
foolish torture which misses its aim. "
A couch with an angle of forty-fve de-
grees, with curves adapted to the cur
Tatures of the spine, is one best adapted
to girls with threatened spinal distor-
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Once a careless man went to the
cellar and stuck the candle in what he
thought was keg of black sand. He
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

NEwToN's EcCENTRICITIEs. - Isaac
Newton, during the two years which he
spent in preparing and developing his
immortal work, only lived to calculate
and think, preserving no connection
with the ordinary affairs of life. 1t is
said that, frequently, on rising in the
morning, he would sit down by his bed
side, arrested by some new conception,
and would remain for hours together
engaged in tracing it out, without dres-
sing himself. If he did get on his
clothes before the mood came on, he
would ignore the necessity of eating. A
waggish friend called one day, and.
finding him absorbed in thought, sat
down and ate the dinner which a ser
want brought. When Newton came to
himself, he arose, lifted the cover and
quietly remarked 81 had forgotten
that had dined." To one who asked
him by what means he had arrived at his
discoveries, he replied "By always
thinking unto them" Here was the
secret of his success.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

Hooks street fun was irrepressible.
We read of his walking up TO a POM
pous person in the Strand, and saying TO
him, / beg your pardon, sir, but may l
ask Are you anybody particular but
he did not wait for the answer Of the
magnihco.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

New Jersey people don't say "liar"
right out, but remark: "Sir, you re-
mind me of my iamented brother, who
could pervert truth with the greatest
ease"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
williams g. fowler,
Wholesale and Retail
DRUGGISTS.

A full supply Of Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass,
Wines and Liquors, Tobacco and Cigars, ETC., con-
stantly on hand; also Garden Seeds.
Prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours
Of day and night. feI7-7
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

So many clergymen were noticed
at the Saratoga races, that, according to
Miss Grudy," it was proposed to have
prayers between the races.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

There are two reasons why people
at watering places never mind their own
business. One is that they have no
business, the other that they have no
mind.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

The married ladies of a western
city have formed a "Come-home-hus-
band club, it is about four feet long,
and has a brush ON the end of it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

"A gay spiritualist may be called a
happy medium.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

Once a careless man went to the
cellar and stuck the candle in what he
thought was keg of black sand. He
sat near it drinking wine until the can
die burned low; nearer and nearer it
got to the black sand nearer and near
er, until at last the blaze reached the
black sand, and as it was nothing but
black sand, nothing happened.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
LAW EERS.

A n, HUGHES,
"a. ATTORNEY AT LAW
Columbia Tennessee
VIII attend all courts to be holden Tor Manrv and
adjoining counties.
Once, WhitthOrne Block. faboAg1
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

The morning after my arrival at the
&C Red Dragon" found myself in bed,
strapped down. The people of the inn
told me that I had been mad the night
before, and had fought battle royal
with every article of furniture in the
room. I knew better, of course; but
I kept nv own counsel. I could have
told them that I had conquered not
only De Tremens himself, but also his
oyrf,1I 10
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

NHARLES CLEAR,
" ATTORNEY AT LAW,
,-,..--., Columbia, Tennessee.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15

The st. Louis Globe says that
Madonna Parepa-Rosa's singing, this
year, will be confined to single song,
"Sleep, baby, sleep"