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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

CURIosITIBs OF IAIPORTATIoNs. About
one-ffth of the imports of 1872, amount
ing in value to $677, IA, $40 in gold,
came in as free goods, being chiefly the
raw materials of foreign productions
entering into American manufactures.
More than one-half the imported val
ues was composed of sugar and molas-
ses, coffee, cotton, woolen and silk
goods, and of iron and steel manufac-
lures the second was wool and wool
ems iron and steel were third in the
list, and coffee next, of which we got
$40, ,0OO,0 900 worth. OF foreign fruits,
we consumed $50, 500, 900 worth, and
got nearly $40, 600, 900 worth of bread
stuffs and Sc, 900, 900 worth of crockery.
The foreign iewelry cost 81, $50, 900, and
the watches and watch materials 50, 500.
900. The nation also used 81 500, ,00O
worth of salt, and $4,000 bushels OF
potatoes were imported. The Ameri-
can hen, too, it appears, has, at times,
been standing around doing nothing,
for of eggs there were imported 5000,
600, and also a half-million pounds OF
bristles, showing that the American
hog is not equal to the emergency.
Nearly 81, ,000, 900 worth of humon hair
was worn on the American head and
last, but not least. 81, 900, 900 worth OF
sardines, and nearly third of million
of Said oil, attest the fondness of the
American palate for foreign luxuries. -
BOsfO7l Globe.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04
BY HORSLEY BROS. & FIGUERS.
THE LEGEND.


What build ys here9" The voice was soft and
Yet in all the noise Of toi was drowned;
And every Iaborer stayed his work to know
Whence came the thrilling sweetness Of the
sound.
Their souls, they know not why with awe SC
filed,
They were at first bereft of power to speak;
Then, with uncovered heads and tumult stilled,
Said pausing in the busy path they trod,
"we build temple to the Eternal God"
Why spake the voice again, your labor lose?
This God, whose breath the universe doth sway,
Who worlds on worlds doth in his service use,
Whose powers supreme both Heaven and he'll
No fragile earth-buit resting place demands,
God dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
In silence every listener bowed his head;
But soon their leader, chosen and beloved,
With humble boldness answered in their stead,
As if some power divine his spirit moved,
Not with our hands alone this house we rear,
Of substance frail, to crumble back to dust,
Our God-given treasures all we lavish here;
Cur love, seIf-denial. hope and trust,
The hearts best purpose, brightest holiest Thought
Through all this sacred structure are tnwrOught.
ats cornerstone repentance, faith sublime,
And hope that taketh hold within the veil,
Safe anchorage amid the shocks of time,
sure foundation that can never fail;
Whtts reared VIII patlent seil-IOfBeItlLB care
And every stone cemented with prayer.
High over all the work its spire shall rise,
Hope, pointing to its home above the skies;
Love, yearning every son of man to bless,
While journeying through this tangled wilder
ness.
Healing all wounds with balm of Jesus blood,
And leading wanderers to the Lamb of God.
He whom we trust, though faith be sometimes dim,
VIII help rear those sacred walls to him."
With hands outstretched, which seemed if deep
SCARED,
He speaks while PROSTATE at His feet they lie;
g If thus ye build, your work shall never die;
This house my benediction shall receive,
The triune presence here forever live.
No labor for my sake shall eer be lost
Where dwell the Father, Son and Holy Ghost"
This said, He passed in glory from their side;
They looked once MORE and knew the crucifed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

was then regarded, Justly imagine, as
the most perfect interpreter of Shakes.
peare's embodiment of fervid passion
and devotion in the daughter of Capu-
let that had ever appeared on the Lon
dod boards; her singular beauty ad-
mirably seconding her rare powers, and
turning the heads of half the fashiona-
bic young men of the day. She was
universally respected, was often admit
ted to the best society, and had several
times assisted at private theatricals.
1t so happened that she was then in
Dublin, and, for the time, without an
engagement. The proposal was, to
her and ask her, on her own terms, to
come to them and take the part of
Juliet. This was eagerly acceded to,
and letter dispatched accordingly.
The part of Romeo had been as
signed to a gentleman of fortune and
family, Mr.. Becher of Ballygibben,
county Cork .jetne enc re, as the
French say, for he was still on the
right side of forty, and excelling all his
companions in histrionic talent To
him, as soon as the invitation had been
given, came one of his intimate friends.
"Becher," said he, "take my advice
before it is too late. Throw up the
part of Romeo. 1 dare say some one
else can be found to take it."
"Back out of the part? And why,
pray? Do you think my acting is not
werthy to support Miss O'Neill's? ?"
You act only too well, my good fell
low, and identify yourself only too
perfectly with the characters you under
take. know Miss O'Neill well there
can't be better girl, but she's danger
Gus. She's perfectly bewitching in her
great role. It is notorious that no man
ever played Romeo to her Juliet with
out falling in love with her. Now I'd
be sorry to see you go to the stage for a
wife"
Marry an actress and at my age
Do you take me for a fool?"
Anything but that, Becher. I dO
take you for a whole-souled, splendid
fellow, with little touch of romance
about him, impressible by beauty, and
still more alive TO grace and talent,
and I really can't make mp my mind to
address even that glorious creature as
Mrs. Becher.'"
"Do talk sense, Tom. If I hadn't
agreed to play Romeo, I'd go and take
the part now, Just to convince you how
ridiculous You are"
"Well, all I hope is that the enchant-
ress will decline.
But she accepted. Becher played |
Romeo, shared the fate of his predeces- |
sors; was engaged within the month,
and married few weeks afterwards.
Ny father spent several DAYS with |
them at their country-seat. He was
charmed with Mrs. Becher. in whom, he |
said, he could not detect the slightest |
trace of the actress. And the marriage, !
my father told us, seemed to have been |
eminently fortunate, though up TO that |
time they had no children.
In the sequel they had several child
ren. Mr.. Becher, eight years later,
was created a baronet, lived thirty years
with his wife aud was succeeded in 1850, |
by their son, Sir Henry Wrixon Bech-
Or, the present baronet. Lady Becher
died only last winter, loved and
by friends and depend
ants; having survived her husband more
than twenty years. .-Robt. Dale OUeH,
IN AtLnntic
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04
Curious Facts About the Ghizeh Pyr-
amid.

The recently discovered cornerstone
of the great Ghizeh pyramid, the first
and largest Of the Egyptian pyramids.
was found by the discoverer, an English
clergyman, TO have the same remnrka-
BILE relations 10 geometry that had been
ascertained by the astronomer royal nj
Scotland and other mathematician, 30
exist in the pyramid as a whole and in
various of its parts. The cornerstone,
which had escaped, by being covered,
the general stripping Of the stone fac
ing of the pyramid, was found in stu,
10 measure multiples OF the pyramidal
cubit "a little more than % inches) on
all its lines, and the angle Of It's outer
slope TO express, with mathematical ac-
curacy, the ratio Of the diameter 90 the
perimeter of n circle. The pyramidnl
cubit is exactly 0.000, ,OO0,01 Of the
the shortest ridus of the earth, and the
ofht Of the restored pyramid, 222 cu-
ligs, the 0. 900, 900, 900, Of the distance
bitthe sun from the earth, according 10
the lately corrected value Of this dis
tance. Similarly the so-called sarco-
phagus inside the py ramid has been
found 10 be an accurate measure of con-
tents, based on the pyramidal cubit. A
relation TO the mean density Of the
earth is also found TO exist, and it is a
curious fact that the unit of measure
adopted by the builders Of thepyramid,
supposed to be at least 5000 years old,
and TO have been erected 10y a race inte-
rior to the historical Egyptians, posses
ses a geometrical accuracy which does
not exist in the French one, which, as is
known, is not, what its designers in
tended il TO be, in exact decimel rela-
ton with the meridian, owing 70 errors
in the arc. Whoever the builders Of
the Ghizeh pyramid, astronomy must
have been far advanced among them T.
enable them 20 calculate the distance Of
the sun at the amended figure 10 which
il has been reduced only within the last
three or four years.
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Fecundity of Fishes.

It is said that probably about 60, 900, -
600 or $4,000, 0O00 Goldfish are taken
from the sea annually around the shores
of Newfoundland. But even that guam
tity seems small when we consider that
the cod yields something like $500, 600
eggs each season, and that even 6,OOO,-
600 have been found in the roe OF a sim
gle cod Other fish, though not equal
ing the cod, are wonderfully productive.
A herring six or seven ounces in weight
is provided with about 10000 ova. Az
ter making all reasonable allowances
for the destruction of eggs and Of the
Young, IL has been calculated that in
three years a single pair of herrings
would produce 154, 900, 900. Butfon
said that if pair Of herrings were left
TO breed and multiply undisturbed for
a period of twenty years, they would
yield fish bulk equal 10 the globe ON
which we live. The cod far surPasses
the herring in fecundity. Were It not
that vast numbers of the eggs are de
stroyed, fish would so multiply as 10 MI
the waters completely.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04
The Effect of Light Upon the Com
plexion.

In latitudes not far apart the inhabi-
tants of the same country vary in COM
plexion in a measure perceptibly related
to the intensity of solar light. In Eu-
rope, three varieties of color in the skin
are distinctly marked-olive brown,
with black hair, beard, and eyes chest
nut, with tawny beard and BLUSH eyes
blond, with fair beard and sky-blue
eyes. White skins show more readily
alterations occasioned by light and
heat but, though less striking, facts of
variation in color are observable in
others. The Scytho-Arabic race has
but half its representative in Europe
and Central Asia, while the remainder
passes down the Indian ocean, continu-
ing to show the gradual raising of eli
mate by deepening brown complexions.
The Himalayan Hindoos are almost
white those of the Ocean, of Coroman-
del, Malabar, and Ceylon, are darker
than some negro tribes. The Arabs,
olive and almost fair in Armenia and
Syria, are deep brown in Yaman and
Muscat. The Egyptians, as we go
from the mouth of the Nile up. stream
toward its source, present an ascend
ing chromatic scale, from white to
black, and the same is true of the Tua-
riks on the southern side of the Atlas,
who are only light olive, while their
brethren in the interior of Africa are
black. The ancient monuments of
Egypt show us fact equally significant.
The men are always depicted of yellow
brown they live in the open air, while
the women, kept shut up, have pale
yellow complexion. Barrow asserts
that the Mantchoo Tartars have grown
winter during their abode in China,
Remusat, Pallas, and Gutzlaff speak of
the Chinese women as remarkable for n
European fairness. The Jewesses of
Cairo or Syria, always hidden under
wells in their houses, have a pallid col
or. In the yellow races Of Sumatra
sound and the Maldives, the women,
always covered up, are pale like wax.
We know, too, that the Esquimaux
bleach during their long winter. These
phenomana, no doubt, are the results
of several influences arising at once,
and light does not play the sole part in
them. Heat and other conditions of
the medium probably have a share in
these operations of color. Still, the pc
culiar and powerful effect of luminous
radiation as a part of them, is beyond
dispute Popular Science Monthly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04
Billings, Experience with 1.arsr.

I have finally cum 10 the conclusion
that lager beer as a beverage is not in
toxicating.
have been told so by German who
said he had drank it all night long, just
to try the experiment, and was Obliged
to go home entirely sober in the morn
ing. i have seen this man drink eigh-
teen glasses, and il he was drunk, he
was drunk in German, and nobody could
understand it. It is proper enough TO
state that this man kept lager beer
saloon, and could have no object in
stating what was not strictly thus.
believe him to the full extent Of my
ability. never drank but three glasses
OF lager in my life, and that made my
he'd ontwist as tho IL was hung on the
end OF a string, but was told that it
was owing to my bile bein out of place
and / guess that IL was so, for / never
| billed over wus than / did when / got
hum that mite. NY wife thot I was
| going to die, and / WIS afraid that I
| shouldn't, for 10 seemed a. tho every
thing had ever eaten in my life was
cummin' 70 the surface, and / believe
that if my wife hadn't pulled of my
boots just as she did, they would have
cum laundering too.
o how sick wuz Fourteen years
ago, and can taste IL now.
If any man shud tell me that lager
beer wuz not intoxicating, shud believe
him, but If he shud tell me that wuzn't
drunk that mite, Int that my stumick
was out of order, shud ask him 20
state over few words. Jest how man
felt and acted when he was set up.
II / warn't drunk that mite, had sum
ov the most natural simtums that a man
ever had and kept sober.
In the first place IL was about eighty
rods from where drank the lager beer
TO L Y house, and wuz Jest two hours
on the road, and had a hole busted thro
each one of my pantaloon neez, and
didn't have any hat, and tried 20 open
the door by the bell-pull and hiccupped
awfully and saw everything in the room
trying 10 get around on the back side Of
me, and sitting down on n chair, did
not wait long enough for 10 20 get ex-
actly under me when IL WIZ going
round. and I sat down little too sooL
and missed the chair about twelve in
ches, and couldn't get up soon enough
to take the next one that came along;
and that amt awl my wife sed 1 wuz
drunk as a beast, and, ~ sod before,
began TO spin up things freely.
II lager beer is not Intoxicating Il
used me most almighty mean, that /
know.
Still hardly think that lager beer is
Intoxicating, for / have been told 80
and am probably the only man living
who ever drank emmy, when his liver was
not plumb.
don't want 10 say ennything against
n harmless temperance beverage, but IL
ever drink emmy more, il will be with
mi hands tied behind me and my mouth
pTied open.
don'tthink lager beer is Intoxicating,
but if ] remember rite, think IL tastes
TO me like a glass of soap suds, that a
pickle lad been put 10 soak in.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04
An a1IioatOr is rather smart

An alligator is rather smart about
some things. He knows as much about
strategy as a major general of militia.
He will poise himself on alog, open his
his mouth wide by elevating his upper
jaw, and remain perfectly quiet. In a
short time his mouth will fill with
ymusketoes and flies, when down will
come his jaw, taking every musketo and
fly prisoner. He swallers them, licks
his chop, and elevates his jaw to catch
another floor full. This dish is regard
ed by the alligator as the most delicious
that the country affords.
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This story illustrates the strictnes

THIS story ILLUSTRATES Inc stflcJness
with which the Cunard line of steamers
is managed. The captain of one of their
New York ships, having lately married,
asked leave to take his wife with him
on one voyage. This was granted, but,
on going to take command when the
ship was ready for sea, he found one of
his brother captains on board. from
whom he learned that, though the COM
pany had no objection to his taking his
wife to America, they were not willing
to trust him with the ship, too.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04
A German mother who brougb

"A German mother who brought her
daughter over from the old country to
marry her to Louisville grocer, though
thegirl tearfully entreated permission to
horse guards, had the melancholy salts
faction of seeing the young woman go
into arsenic commissions, the other night.
But she is a determined woman, and
will at once set out for another daugh-
ter, for she hates that Louisville grocer
and is bound to be his mother-in-law if
it costs whole family of girls.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04
Two London swells recently had a

quarrel about bet, and, after a chal-
lenge had been given and accepted a
difficulty arose about the choice of
weapons. They referred it to Guy
Livingstone, the author, who decided
that they should meet in the middle of
Piccadilly with horse-whips and belabor
each other till one cried enough. This
plan was insisted on, and the combat
actually came off in that manner, result
ing in the speedy satisfaction of one
of the parties.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

Mr.. Henderstart of Harper's Ferry,
Va, has nice mountain, suitable for
the propagation of rattlesnakes and pic
MICS, which he is anxious to trade off
far kicking shotgun, as his wife is
anxious to go west, where she can go
hunting on the prairies,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04
-"Got anv medicine" i" asked a b

-"Got any medicine?" asked a boy
entering a drug store the other day.
Eyes, lots of it. What do you want?'
inquired the clerk. "Oh, it don't make
any difference so its something lively.
Dad is fearful bad" "What ails him p
asked the clerk. Dunno" said the
boy sbut he's run down awful. He
Just sits around the stove all day and
mopes; he hasn't wallopped mother
since Christmas. 1 guess he's going to
die"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

Color is the type of love. Hence
it is especially connected with the bios
soming of the earth; and again with its
fruit; also, with the spring and fall of
the leaf, and with the morning and
evening of the day, in order to show the
waiting of love about the birth and
death of man.-R,hskfn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

An exchange says "When you
see bareheaded man following a COW
through the front gate, and filling the
air with garden implements and pro
family, you may know that his cabbag
plan& have been set ont.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

"A spiritual joke has been made. IL
is that Poe's bird musa have lad an at
tack of delirium tremens, because II
was rayin on bust.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

Business Here lies Jane Smith,
wife of Thomas Smith, stone-mason.
This monument was put up out of re-
spect for her memory and as a speci-
men of his workmanship. Tombs inthe
same style. $3.50"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

-Four immense focks of potato-bugs
on the wing passed through Paines-
vile, O., few days ago, flying directly
west.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

New Orleans is anticipating a speedy
establishment of new line of Liver
pool steamers, constructed on a much
larger scale than hitherto known to her
trade. They are to carry 10000 bales
of cotton and large quantity of grain
in bulk, in bins built expressly for that
purpose. 1t is also proposed that these
vessels shall take a southern route across
the Atlantic, and so avoid the extra
risks involved in the northern passage.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-04

RUssIA's WORLD ExPOsTTIoN.-An ex-
hibition more wonderful than that OF
Vienna, will be held in Russia about
the middle of August. The scene of
it's operations is the historic city of
Niinii-Novgoord, which is situated at
the confluence of the Colga and Okla,
in Central Asia. The ordinary popula-
ton of the city is about $4,000 inhabi-
tants, but during the fair that number
will be augmented by an addition of
800, 900 or 400, 900 visitors from all parts
of Europe and Asia. The fair is held
in an immense stone building, contain
ing 5000 shops in which the sales are
made. One hundred and forty-five mil
lion dollars worth of wares and goods
were brought to last years fair, and
out of that immense quantity $40, ,OOO,-
600 worth remainei unsold. All kinds
of goods and manufactures are sold at
this mammoth fair, and an opportunity
will be afforded for seeing collected to-
gether the people of all countries, and
the modes of traffic of every race in
Europe.
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-''Arrah, Pat, and why did marry
ye? Jist tell me that; for it's meself
that's had to maintain ye iver since the
blessed day that Father O'Flanigan STINT
me hum to yer house" "Swate jewel, +"
replied Pat, not relishing the charge,
see m the day V yonre iIa S widow wapng 3 '9 over
the cowld sod that kivers me-thin, by
st. Patrick, I'll see how you get along
without me, honey"
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LAWYERS.

A NJ HUGHES,
an ATTORNEY AT LAW
q t Columbia, Tennessee.
WI attend all courts to be holden for NIaury and
-dioining counties.
Ofhce, Whitth0rne Block feb94-7I
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What build ys here7" The voice was soft and
low,
Yet in all the noise Of tOi drowned;
And every laborer stayed his work to know
Whence came the thrilling sweetness Of the
sound.