The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-16

plications. But the pure cow manure,
| spread over the bed about three inches
| thick. proved far the best. The year
before last we had most wonderful
growth, and, as We believe, entirely from
this cause. We always leave our stalks
until they are about one foot high be-
fore cutting them we fancy they are
much better, and we know we get three
times as much vegetable food fit to eat.
If we cut them just as they show above
the earth, and to get sficient length,
point the knife somewhat diagonality
downward. seyering the plant about
three inches under the soil, we only get
an edible portion of about two and a
half inches in length whereas, if we wait
one or two days more for increased
growth, end cut just at the surface, we
get nearly or quite nine inches of ex-
cellent food, and we think our bed yields
more of this long kind than the short,
and that the plants really thrive better.
After the first cutting being thus delay
ed, there is no more lost time, as all
future growth, by being allowed to
flourish q little longer before cutting,
comes in rotation the SINE as if cut
earlier; but, as I before said, we think
this treatment. Farmers Union.
|
The Queen of the Paris Washer Wo-
men.
Ny cook had suggested that, as for
eigner, I ought to profit by an opportu-
nifty which she could afford me to study
what she called lie vrai peupel Pa
risien. Her son is washer-woman' s
He could make interest with his master
and fellow-cleanser of soiled linen to
obtain NV inscription as a member of
the S0ciete DIES Lavandicres de la Seine.
Thereby I should have all the liberties
of the corporation-be entitled to vote
at The election of the queen, and assist
ut the dinner and ball given in celebra-
ton of her maiesty's happy accession.
introduced by the young washerman, |
should be sure to receive a cordial wei
come, and run no risk of being taken
for mouchard. Now, as the nO1tUeLte
co6che S0ciaLe of Gambetta may any
day come uppermost, thought it wise
to accept my cooks offer, and fraternize
with the workers in the boat. An ap-
pointment was made with her son at 4
this afternoon. He turned out, ] was
glad to find, very prepossessing AMI
almost acknowledgements young
fellow; intelligent, communicative, and
we'll spoken. His name is CelestlE. |
found the godmOther who gave it to
him along with him. She struck me as
being a very fine specimen of the Paris
ouvriere. Life had gone hard with her;
but she had kept her head always brave
ly above water. There was that ex-
pressed in her appearance which dlstin-
cuisines the old women's faces in the
Dutch paintings-the victory of moral
force over plainness and poverty AS
we stood on the wharf above the boat
in which she has long worked at daily
salary of two francs, gaunt females, la
den with hod-shaped baskets full of I'M
washed or freshly washed linen, ascend
ed and descended the river stairs. Lit
tie girls of eight or nine years old also
staggered along under piles of drip
ping clothes. Theirs is hard trade to
follow on a cold March day. But 1t did
not appear to disagree with them. /
was sorry to observe now and then q
drunken bag presenting n picture of
squalor rarely met in other parts of the
city. It was disappointing to hear that
neither ball nor banquet would be CIV
en- in honor of the new queen, the police
having refused to authorize, this year,
the traditional fetes. But in 1874, when
the territory will be evacuated by the
Prussians, and the republic proclaimed
by new Assembly, NJ. Celestin inform
ed me that all the time-honOred rites
will be duly observed. The riverside
royalty was instituted centuries ago.
The washing queen was a sort of official
guardian of the young laundresses of
Paris, who elected her ON the principle
Of universal suffrage. She was not
chosen for her beauty, but her charac-
ter, and was privileged to plead, in pri
vate audiences before the lieutenant of
police, for any constituent who had G. t
into trouble The tradition is still fol
lowed of looking more to the characters
than the faces of candidates for regal
honors.
The boat which I expected to visit
was reported in a dreadfully sloppy
state. It was therefore suggested that
[ had better postpone my inspection of
it until March twelve months hence.
Acting on this suggestion, 1 waited with
my humble supporters the arrival of
the queen and vice-queen on the wharf,
the elections having just taken place.
In few minutes they appeared at the
foot of the stairs with a following of
about dozen persons, whom | took to
be the aristocracy of the corporation.
The heroines of the day wore crowns of
artificial flowers. But they were dress
ed in their working garments. Indeed,
their skirts and aprons were saturated
with suds. The Queen-a well-to-do
mistress laundress-is a comely woman,
with a squat figure. She leant on the
arm of the owner of the washing boat,
who contributes 300f. to the coronation
charges. The yice-queen-a girls
positively plain. The Figaro might
describe her as fury, though she looks
q good-tempered, harmless sort of wo-
man. Her mouth is wide and prone to
laugh. But, unfortunately, if one half
of it is furnished with pearly teeth, the
other, so far back as the hinge of the
jaw, is entirely void of ivory. The
full-blown sovereign, when I was pres
sented to her, frankly shook hands with
me, and promised her good offices in
obtaining q high place for me at the
next ball or banquet. She took it for
granted that must, from my sympathy
with working people, be sound at heart.
1 suppose she meant by this, republi-
can, for she was at some pains to ex-
plain that there was nothing monarchi-
cal in her dignity. If all the "other"
sovereigns in the world, somebody in
her following observed, merited their
crowns as well, there would be few
revolutions. The godmother of NJ. Ce
lestin here gave utterance to few pa
triotic and democratic sentiments, which
were warmly taken up by the royal par
ty. She, good woman, proposed with
the addition of sProprete
ct Charlie to the national trilogy in-~4
cribed over the portals of the public
Proprete ct Charlie, " were
all the republic needed to set it on its
feet. I recommended the saying to the
attention of politicians here and else
where, and beg to drop the curtain on |
the queen and her following, who adj |
iCurned to wine shop on the quay, to |
rink, in the thin vintage of Argenteuil, |
the health of her majesty and the re-
public of the republicans. London
NeWS.
How Huber Discovered the Maraud-
ing Habits of Ants.
He was walking in the environs of
Geneva between and 5 o'clock in the