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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

such kind of labor among the poorer
tribes devolves upon the squaws. Hence
the coast ladies are genteel, and can
give due attention to the business of
the toilet. They paint their cheeks,
and sometimes their chins, with rouge
extracted from the root of the camwood
tree, and chalk their necks in patterns,
so that little way off they appear to
be dressed in lace. They part their
hair down the middle, and ridge 1t over
frizzetteS of cloth to make it appear
abundant, and form it into fantastic
shapes. They place little rosettes of
artificial hair above their ears, and in
sert hair-pin of ebony or ivory deli
cately carved, and use for perfume the
scrapings of a fragrant bark. Round
their necks are strings of variously-col-
ored beads, while their legs are clothed
in enormous rings manufactured by
themselves from staircase rods, and of
such weight that some of the women
can scarcely walk, and if they fall into
the water, as sometimes happens, these
victims of fashion sink to rise no more.
The native gentleman is not less dan
dified he may be seen lying for hours
with his head in his wife's lap, being
coffee BIZ her experienced hands he
ties a string round his upper arm to
make it full and round he delights to
put on much cloth, and to hear it trail
ing behind him as he walks along the
street with mixture of the lounge and
swagger not unfamiliar to London eyes
above all, he re joices in an old umbrella
stick, which gives forth iingling sound
sweet to his ears, as the tinkling of
spurs to "gents who never ride
JVi1lzUOOd Redde.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

A recent letter from a gentleman on
board the United States steamer Juni-
alta, at st. Johns, Newfoundland. con-
tains this paragraph "On the Sd
instant large iceberg became stranded
at the mouth of the harbor, and the
captain wishing some of the officers to
go out with him and see it, I gladly
accepted the invitation, and as soon as
orr party was made up we started out
i'll the steam launch. AS we approached
the berg the air grew colder, and we
found it necessary to slip on our over
coats. We ran alongside of it and
measured it with our eye, which gave
us 35 feet high, 40 feet broad, and 400
feet long, and as that portion below the
surface bears the proportion of seven to
one, we can calculate the depth of thick
ness of the berg to be $50 feet, equal to
II 200, 600 cubic feet, or 296, 225 tons.
The berg was melting so rapidly that
water was flowing from it in every
direction, preventing us from approach
ing very close to it, so we decided to go
to smaller one and cut some ice for
our own consumption. We we're very
successful, as we brought on board in
the neighborhcod of half ton. About
five minutes after leaving the berg we
heard an explosion, and, looking around,
saw that one end of the berg had burst
off and filled an area of about 800 feet
in length of the width of the berg, so
we escaped an unpleasant dampness
Just i'll time"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05
Want of Vitality.

If a deficiency of vital energy is not disease in
itself it is condition which lays the system open
to the attacks of all conceivable maIadies. Night
and day we are surrounded more or less by delete
rious influences. No atmosphere is entirely pure,
no water utterly free from injurious particles
while in many localities both are positively I'M
wholesome What defence has the weak, ianguid
system in which the vital principle is deficient
dormant, against any OF the morbid influences
which produce epidemic and other diseases? None
whatever. There is no safety in artificial re-
enforcement. Ho letters stomach Bitters have,
beyond all question, vitalizing effect. If the
vous forces of the body have been reckIessIy ex-
pended in exhaustng physical or mental labor. or
dissipated in the indulgence of fast life, this
powerful vegetable tonic and corrective will re-
store them If the defective vitality is constitu
tonal evil it can be remedied t. q eat extent by
this wonderful invigorant. At a season of the
year when the seeds periodic feveTs, Ii is espe
cially desi able that the digestion should be per-
feet, the habit of body regular the liver active, the
blood pure and the nerves firm. These conditions
are the best protection against all disorders, and
they are conditions which the BttterS are better
adapted than any other medicinal agent 10 pro
mote and secure. See TO IL. however. that no imi-
tatiOn counterfeit Is substituted for the genuine
article, and let all who value health and have an
antipathy to poison beware of the local bitters
made from condemned drugs and vilely adultera-
ted alcohol, which have sprung up like un~hole-
some fungi all over the country.
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Beef and Brains.

There is a tradition, probably deri-
we'd from monkish times, that a stu
dent or learned man, who despises the
vain cares of eating and drinking. This
is a grave popular error. The very re-
verse comes nearer the truth. Scholars
and servants are not always aesthetic
feeders, but, unless prevented by sheer
poverty, they are usually right hearty
feeders, the principle being as true in
the study as elsewhere, that good work
requires good eating. A senior wran-
gler may not be able to stow away
quite so large plate of beef as a coal
HEAVIER, but he can dispose of a portion
big enough to terrify any one in the
habit of dining with Dio Lewis, which
I take to be the American for dining
with Duke Humphrey. By their
fruits We shall know them" In all the
literature born of American asceticism
we see thinness, a lack of color, pro-
duced by a lack of learning, beyond
what the rest of our literature shows,
inferior as even that may be when judged
by 4 European standard. Nor is the
matter mended when the writer or
speaker endeavors to supply this want
by display of sonorous and incohe-
rent bosh, which he and a portion of
his public have the faulty to take for
poetical sentiment and oratorical orna-
ment. But still more striking is the
vulgarity of our ascetic literature, from
the highest, in point of reputation and
pretension to the lowest. A large num-
Der of the old-world saints used to de-
rive in former times, nay, some of them
still derive at the present day, much of
their odor of sanctity from very posi-
tive dirt. The holy friar is pretty sure
to be also the dirty friar; his very name
seems to connote filth. In like manner
there is largely circulating ascetic or
semi-ascetic literature among us, per-
meated by that most offensive kind of
Philistinism, which though narrow an
ignorant, is, above all things, essential
Iy and hopelessly vulgar. That some
amount of consciousness is necessary in
art, all but very few of the most ezra
tic critics and artists are constrained,
however reluctantly in some cases, to
admit. A long and sad series of proof
points to a similar conclusion in htera-
ture, and shows that an attempt to re-
move the pure intellect entirely from
the regions of sense will end by degrad-
ing rather than elevating it.-GdLarV.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

Dr. }. walkers taIl1Ornla VIII
egar BitterS are q purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of CalifOr-
mia, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted thrrcirOm without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked. What is the cause Of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERS?" Our answer Is, that they remove
the cause Of disease, and the patient re.
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovation and myigOrator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has II medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERS in healing the
sick of every disease man Is heir to. They
are gentle Purgltive a wei. rs a Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
the Liver and NlSccral Organs, il Bilious
Diseases.
Til" properties ct DIR. Walkers
VINEGAR RITTERS are Aprrirnt Diaph"rctic,
Caraiuatiyc. Nutritious. Laxative. purrtic,
Sedaliye, GOUHlr;-Irritalt, SudoTThc, Ajtcra
tive, and Anti-bijuu,
-. u. MCDONALD * CO.
Dnlgs-I = and Gen Arts. san Francisco. California.
aHd cor OF Washington ana Charlton SIS. Y y.
Sold by all Druggists and ID HIcrs.
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Giant Powder.

Chemistry itself is at a loss to esti-
mate the power of nitro-glycerine, and
vet this new agent of death is 20 per
cent. stronger. That our readers may
be enabled to form faint conception
of the danger of such preparation, We
will give a brief description of the
process by which nitro-glycerine, giant
and Hercules powder are supposed to be
manufactured, and of the extreme eau
ton necessary in their manufacture.
In the manufacture of nitro-glycerine,
two tubes, each about a quarter of an
inch in diameter and six inches in
length, lead into a single tube of double
their capacity, but of the same length.
Nitric acid is introduced into one and
sulphuric acid into the other of these
small tubes. The large tube contains
glycerine. The two acids are then
forced quite gradually into the glyce-
forms an explosive of incalculable
power. So powerful and dangerous is
this article that not an onnce of it is
allowed in the mandatory while this
little tube, six inches long and half an
inch in diameter, is being filed, and
the tube is kept constantly swathed in
ice during the process. TO make giant
powder, this nitro-glycerine is allowed
to drip upon a clay, similar to meer-
schaum, imported from Germany. This
clay is the only perfect absorbent of
nitro-glycerine known. As Hercules
powder is darker, it is believed that
that explosive is manufactured by the
same process, charcoal, an imperfect
absorbent, being used instead of said
quality of clay. If, in the manufacture
of nitro-glycerine, a strong tube is kept
swathed in ice, and a quantity of the
liquid only six inches in length and half
an inch in diameter is allowed at the
building at the same time, no wonder
that Genl Won Bokkelen, with his pre-
paration twenty per cent. more power
full, remarked that he would have it
handled thermometer in hand.
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Old Folks in the Garden.

If it were not for gardens it is hard to
tell how many quiet. elderly, moderate
ly well-to-do people could get along, or
how they could even live. The house
was finished and furnished years ago
the children are married and gone; the
old gentleman and his wife comprise the
whole family; there is a revenue sTfi-
cient to support them; they can read
the paper and go to church; they visit
little, and occasionally have visitors, but
there is no occupation for them unless
they seek it, as they do, in the garden.
This garden of theirs has been made
rich; there are currants, gooseberries,
Strawberries, and some pear, peach and
apple trees, which, like themselves, show
marks of age; then around the house
are rose-bushes and all kinds of old
fashioned Towering shrubs, and over the
kitchen and paths grape-vines spread in
long and devious ways. Much time is
spent in keeping all these in order, but
more time in the planting aud care of
vegetables. Sheltered as the ground is,
every thing starts early; cucumbers are
in the rough leaf before young men on
poorer soil get theirs above ground, and
corn is ready to hoe before others plant.
The old gentleman is up in the early
morning stirring the ground, and killing
weeds, and inhaling the pure fresh air,
while he thinks of days past, and dead
friends, or muses., perchance, upon the
future life, wondering, it may be, if in
that unknown land there will not exist
employment of some kind connected with
the growth of plants. While the tea
kettle is simmering the old lady steps
70. To
MES, or roses, or pinks, or lilies have
come forth in the night, or if insects
have committed ravages. After break
fast they both appear again, and many
are the hours they spend with their pets
and friends. Thus their summers pass
peaceful and contented. All this is not
practical" but we happened the other
day to witness just such scene, and we
believe there are thousands of our
readers who will find the picture true to
life.-NeaO York Tribune.
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"A young married friend tellsa good
joke on himself perpetrated by a little
three-year old ''pride of the family. -
She is the only pledge of love that has
twined itself around the heart and af-
fections of himself and wife. A few
evening since minister visited the fam
lily and remained until after tea. At
the table the reverend visitor asked the
blessing, and the little one opened her
eyes to the fullest extent in startled
wonderment. She could not uuder-
stand what had been done, and it was
with great persuasion that her mother
could keep her quiet during the time
they were at the table. When they
left it, she walked up to the minister,
for whom she had formed great friend
ship, and said: "What did you say at
the table before we commenced eat
ing?" MY little darling, I thanked
God for his goodness in giving us to eat,
so that we might grow and be strong -
"Papa don't say that, " What does
your paper say?" Papa says, "Godle-
mighty, what a supper "
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

Most all pills in the market, and
those styled vegetable, are not only large,
nauseOus, gripping, and difficult to swallow,
but they contain mercury, besides aloes, gam
boge, and other injurious drastics. These are
old medicines and used before medical science
developed better, now supplanted Iy much
more pleasant and effectual cathartics. DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Furgative Pellets embody
the latest and best cathartic form, and are
vegetable, tasteless. coated. small and neat,
and in delicate glass walls. Sold at IS cents by
druggists 654
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

One of our local judges lately took
a lesson in spelling in a justices court,
when a Mr.. Wood was the witness.
"What is your rame?" asked the clerk.
" Ottiwell Wood" answered the wit
ness. Chow do you spell your name?"
then asked the somewhat puzzled judge.
Mr.. Wood replied: go double T, I
double q, E double L, Double q,
double o D." The astonished Judge
thought that was one of the most extra
ordinary names he ever knew; and,
after two or three attempts to record it,
both he and the clerk gave it up, amid
rOars of laughter.
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"A man in Whitehall kicked

"A man in Whitehall kicked another
man, and was arrested for so doing.
When brought before a justice of the
peace, he informed his honor that the
man he had kicked was lightning rod
man. The justice at once discharged
wouldn't kick lightning rod man wher-
ever he finds one, is unfit to enjoy the
liberties for which Washington fought
and Thomas Payne wrote. That Justice
had paid five hundred dollars for light
ning-rods on his house last spring.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

HABTTUA1 constipation leads to the
following results Inflammation of the kid
neys, sick and nervous headache, biiousness,
dyspepsia, indigestion, piles, loss of appetite
and strength; all of which may be avoided by
being regular in your habits. and taking, say
one of Parsons Purgative Pills nightly for
four or six weeks.
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Thirty YEARS EXPERIENCE
OR AN OLD NURSE.

mss. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup is the
prescription OF one OF the best female physI-
clans and nurses in the United States, and has
been used for thirty years with falling safety
and success by millions OF mothers and children,
from the feeble infant OF one week old to the adult
It corrects acidity OF the stomach. relieves wind
collie, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health
and comfort to mother and child. We believe 1t to
be the best and surest remedy in the world in all
cases OF DYSENTERY and DIARRHEA IN
CHILDREN, whether IL arises from teethi1g or
from any other cause Full directions for using
gill accompany each bottle. None genuine unless
We fac sinile of CURTIS & PERKINS Is on the
NHside wrapper.
Sold by all medicine dealers.
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THR HOUSEHOLD PANACEA,
FAMILY LINIMENT

In the best remedy In the world for the following
complaints, viz: Cramps in the limbs and stom-
ach, pain In the stomach. bowels or side, rheuma-
tism In all its forms bilious collie, neuralgia,
cholera, dosentery colds, flesh wounds. burns, sore
throat, spinal complaints, sprains and bruises,
chills and fever. For internal and external use.
It's operation 10 not only to relieve the patient,
but entirely removes the cause Of the complaint
1t penetrates and pervades the whole system, re-
storing healthy action 70 all Its parts and quicken
ing the blood.
The Household Panaeea is purely Veg
etable and all heSIing.
Prepared by
CURTIS q BROWN,
No. AIS Fulton street, New York.
For sale by all druggists.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

THE PUREsT AND swRETEsT CoD-LIvEA on
is Hazard Il CasweIl's, made on the sea shore,
from fresh, selected ivers, Of the Cod only, by
CAswELL, HAZARD d Co., New York. It is abb
solutey pure and stoeet. Patients who have
once taken it prefer it to ell others. Physi-
clans have decided it superior to all other oils
ia market--C0np.
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DR.. J. r. MILLER'S
UNIVERSAL
MAGNETIC BALM.

1t cures as IL by MAGNETIC
INFLUENCE, Neuralgia and all pain, and is
therefore very properly termed " Magnetic
Balm" II is purely a vegetable preparation. 1t
has no equal as r remedy for
Cholera, Cholera MorbuS, Diarrhna, Dysen-
terry, Collie and all Bowel Complaints.
Hts timely use will cure Colds, Group, Diph-
liberia, Quinsy, and all Throat affections.
when properly used. Fever and Ague,
and other complaints Incident 10 our western and
southern climates, are easily broken up.
Nervous Pain. Sick-H Headache, and Rheu-
matism are cured by this medicine when all Others
have failed. Toothache, Earache, Burns, Chill
blains and Bruises relieved at once by its use.
The genuine has ID. Ransom &CO.'S
private Revenue Stamp on the outside, and DR..
J. r. Miller's Magnetic Balm blown in the bottle.
Examine closely and buy none but the gen
uine.
Sold by all Druggists. Price Is cents per
bottle.
D. RANSOM, Son & Co Peopr's, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

The bronze statue of Thomas JEFF
erson, which has stood in front of the
executive mansion at Washington for
these many years, has been removed to
a plat on the east side of the house, and
Gen1 Babcock is going to have hard
some fountain erected where it formerly
stood
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

We see that PRoCTBR & CANDLES
EXTRA OLIVE Soar is becoming very
popular in our city, its quality we know
is superior, and being nicely perfumed
we are not surprised that consumers
prefer it. and that it has large sale.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-05

JoHNsoN's Anodyne Liniment may be
used to advantage where any liniment is de-
sirable. In cases of severe cramps and pains
in the stomach, it is undoubtedly the best ar
ticle that can be used internally.
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ALL trave

ALL travellers should wear the Elm
wood or Warwick collars, and avoid the an
noyaace of having badly washed and ironed
collars. Try it once and see how nice it is
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To ExTERMINATE RATS AND MICE
Mix equal parts of finely powdered
gypsum, sugar and -four, well together,
putting few drops of the oil of rhodi-
UNI in the mixture toward the end. Put
in the places infested by vermin, and
have vessel containing water near by.
The rats and mice will readily devour
the preparation, and then drink where
upon the last plaster they have swal-
lowed will become solid in their stom-
achs, causing death soon afterward.
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MALAY Customs.

| was told, writes a traveller in Bor-
neo, that it is indispensably necessary
that young man should procure a
skull before he gets married. On my
urging that the custom would be more
honored in the breach than in the OBJ
servance, they replied that it was estab-
lished from time immemorial, and could
not be dispensed with. subsequently,
however, it was allowed that heads were
very difficult to obtain now, and a
young man might sometimes get mar
ried by giving presents to his lady
loves parents. At all times they de-
MED warmly ever obtaining any heads
but their enemies, adding that they
were bad people, and deserved to
die. l asked a young man whether he
would be obliged to get head before
he could obtain a wife. He reptile
Eyes" "When would he get one ?"
"Soon." "Where would he go to get
one ?" "To the Sarebus river" men
ton these particulars in detail, as I
think, had their practice extended to
taking the head of any defenseless trav-
eler, or any Malay surprised In his
dwelling or boat, should have wormed
the secret ont of him. The men marry
but one wife, and that not until they
have attained the age of seventeen or
eighteen. Their wedding ceremony is
curious, and is performed by the bride
and bridegroom being brought in pro-
cession along the large room, where a
brace of fowls is placed over the bride
groom's neck, which he whirls seven
times round his head. The fowls are
then killed, and their blood sprinkled
over the foreheads of the pair, which
done, they are cooked and eaten by the
new-married couple alone, whilst the
rest feast and drink during the whole
night.
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F. Nf- r.
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative
Pellets, or Sugsr-Coated Concentrated Root
and Herbal Juice, Anti-BhNlls Granules-the
Little Giant" Cathartic, or NHlfNH TH fdy70
Physic, scarcely largerlthan mus
tard seed, yet representing much eath1rte
power large Tepulsve pills, behg most sra'chfHg
ard thorough, yet Iyratly an kindly ePeyatirg
Being entirely Vegetable, no PaTiie-
ular care is required sIiile using them. For
Riood, on1iPafion, Pain in
Shoulders, 4ightness of Chest,
Dizziness, Sdnr EructatiOns, had
taste I'm moAth, bilious attacks,
Internal FeVN, Rush OF Hood
COIOred Urine, GIoOmy FOrebOd-
ings, take DIR. PiorAe's Pellets.
One or two, taken dali Nor a time, will cure
PfmPIes, BIOtchA, EruPtIOns,
BOIls, scrofuIOus yes and yiru-
lent Affections of Hkin, Throat
and Bones. No cheap wokd or paste board
boxes, but kept fresh and rel4 BILE in walls %
cents, by druggists, or 81 hdoren. Manufac-
tured at the Worlds Dlpeusary, Nos.
So, 81, 81 and So West SeneclfSL, buffalo, N. Y.
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[ HAVE been dyspeptic for years
began to use the Simmons Liver Regulator
two years it has acted like a charm in my
case. Rev. J. c. Holmes, Clayton, Ala.
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sCHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS.

These Pills are CuWpOlri exclusively ul NeEelh-
hi" ingredients, Eud although thrN rutifn.N Hup.I-
scie the use OF mercury, do not leave hil ~ lA
injurious effects. They act directly upon me NNet
aud are valuable remedy in AL caH,t az leianEe-
meut resulting from "a dl-YTdrrDl stat" 90 lhhl or
EAn. Liver complaint. bilious Disorder ludlNrs.
ton sick headache, typhoid nHI other towers. ctc-
an suysunib 10 the nee use uI -rIttSrE's MAN
puNET RUS.
Fnr sHlo hv an drugGi-ts n2H dralrrr