The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-19
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

line of six steamers from New Or
leans to Rio Janeiro, each to carry
$500 tons of freight and make the pas
sage in twenty-five days.
Authority shows, according TO an
alysis, the dried onion contains from
twenty-five to thirty per cent. Of glu-
ten and ranks in this respect with the
nutritious pea and the grains.
The monument TO Gen. Robert II.
Lee, now in process of construction in
Virginia, will be surmounted with a
reclining figure Of the general
"Like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
-Esquimaux bay, on the Atlantic
coast of Labrador, has been utterly de-
populated by scourge, in many Of it's
phases similar TO Asiatic cholera.
Twelve missionaries have fallen victims
to it.
Facts are cruel things, think Mrs.
Campbell and Mrs. Chambers of Geor-
gia, who were going 10 France 30 claim
an estate of theirs worth Sl2, 900, 900,
but pow find that there is no such estate
in France.
The Washington papers are warmly
commenting Senator Sprague's habit OF
settling half a million on each of his
children at its birth. So do we. The
custom is a beautiful one, and no fam
lily should be without it.
1t is announced that one Of Mr..
Dickens sons, not the eldest, having
shown himself n remarkably effective
reader in semi-private performances and
charitable entertainments, is about TO
read in public on his own account.
This is the way the Brooklyn Az
| gus sums up the present excited con-
dition of the country:
"Ring out wild bells Tho time IN past
| For eating humble pic.
Ring ont, wild bells Tho die is cast
Our Fish is going TO fry
The following clipped from an en-
change may be branded as q white lye
"To make soda water-Dissolve a quar-
ter of pound Of common soda in a gal
lon of water afterward bottle for use.
This is cheaper than that sold at shops,
and different in flavor"
Rutherford thinks that the present
may be termed the renaissance period
in the history Of physiology in England.
A new system of physiological instruc-
ton is spreading rapidly over the coun-
try, while Huxley has done much 10
make physiology palatable TO theyoung.
Fears of the failure of the quinine
supply may soon be laid aside, and the
future is not utterly dark for victims of
the "sbakes." Vast plantations Of the
cinchona plant are now growing in India,
and the Dutch government has given
orders for planting two million trees in
Java.
A critic in one of the London week
lies speaks rather favorably of new
piece at the Court theatre, but adds
that dramatic realism hardly requires
that n manager should fill the house
with the smell OF onions for the sake Of
giving a vivid representation Of work
ing-man's dinner"
1t seems that the Norwegian fisher
man take telescope ont with them TO
sea, and this they use TO look down into
the water for fish ere they cast their
nets. Will not one of our opticians
contrive something of the kind forriver-
anglers, and save them those many
hours of waiting-fishing, as they too
often are, without a fish within hail?
In the ninth book Of his "ParisiRns,"
which he intended TO publish anony-
mously, Bulwer sets tho following little
trap to catch the critics "There In
somewhere in Lord Lytton's writings
writings so numerous that / may be
pardoned If cannot remember where
a critical definition of the difference be-
tween dramatic and narrative art Of
story"
"A newspaper man OF London pro-
poses TO establish daily 10 be issued
about 9 o'clock in the forenoon, which
shall be made up from tbe news Of all
the other morning dailies tho city, but
the publishers think they will block tho
scheme by getting a bill through parlia-
ment giving them n copyright on all
their news for forty-eight hours after
its publication.
We learn by a recent letter from
China, that the Great Northern tele-
graph company have erected n line To
WOosuDg, and have opened telegraph.
station there from which messages OF
twenty words will be sent 10 Shanghai
for one dollar. This seems n small mat
ter, but il is the beginning of great
and the first step toward
the introduction .of the telegraph
throughout China.
The st. Louis livestock dealers
celebrated on Friday the opening at
acres in extent, containing an exchange
building, n large hotel, and all necessa-
nv buildings for the accommodation Of
the animals, the largest of which is tho
" hotel de hog" 1922 by 100 feet in size,
with a capacity of 10, 900 swine and TO-
900 bushels Of corn. The grounds are
with all the cCnveniencies O. OF
town, such as gas, water-works, res
etc.
M. Strakosch and M. Merelli, the
most influential theatrical managers in
Europe, have, il is reported, entered in
10 an important partnership. At pres
ent they work together the opera-houso
Of st. Petersburg, Moscow, and the
Paris Italiens the San Barlo, Naples,
Is shortly TO be added TO their list, and
others will follow. They propose 10
absorb the principal opera-houses Of the
continent, in order, by coalition, 10 do
away with the exorbitant salaries now
demanded by 2'rimc-dor'ne.
Metallic gold can be almost invari-
ably distinguished by an experienced
eye, by its rich yellow color. Touch IL
with drop Of strong nitric acid and
notice whether any oxidation, etierves-
,ence, etd., takes place. IL no effect is
article may be considered
rs gold OH the outside. This test is, Of
course, ouly very partial one, as the
yilded sham jewelry may Withstand 1t.
To ascertain the fineness Of gold, that
s, how much real gold there may be in
1r on a gilded metal or alloy, the speci-
men must be analysed by a chemist.
Preparations for the skating season
Il Central park, New York, have already
and the large building ON
.he magin Of the lower lake, containing
stoves, dressing-rooms, restaurant,
etc., which is built up and removed
svery year, at n cost OF $4,000, is now be-
NO erected. The annual cost OF clearing
ne ice on all the lakes Of the park iH
lbout 500, 200. The largest number Of
7isitors to the park on any day, last
vinter, was 10000, Of whom it is be-
ieved at least 10000 resorted 10 the
axes and ponds.
Mr.. Alfred Russell Wallace COM
,lains that scientific men are too timid in
heir speculations sconcerningth the antiqui-
v of the human race, and especially OBJ
ects TO the fallacy of always preferring
ba lovaat eatimate in order TO be "On