The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-12
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

ism, but are entirely due to accident,
though the native priests have no sort
of objection to such accidents, being
exceedingly glad when they occur. It
takes a crowd of about fifteen hundred
worshipers to drag the monstrous car,
with its sixteen huge spiked wheeles,
and, confused and entangled in the five
long ropes which they hold, many of
the poor wretches naturally fall and are
crushed out of life. Of late years the
English authorities have ordered nets
to be fixed to the car for the protection
of the people, and deaths are much less
numerous.
Orders have been issued from the
ministry of police renewing the prohi-
bition against Turkish ladies entering
shops for the purpose of making pur-
chases, whether the shops be kept by
Turks or Christians. This prohibition
was first issued at the beginning of the
present sultan's reign, but has for some
time past been allowed to fall into dis
use. 1t is now formally renewed in a
communication addressed to the foreign
legation, and direct order to Mussul-
man shOp-keepers, and Turkish women
must for the future make all their pur-
chases from their carriages, as the ma
JOrlty of the better classes do at pre-
sent, or where they have no carriages,
at shop-doors or windows.
Within a few months several bake
ries have been established in the CAPT.
tai of Japan, and bread is now sold
regularly in the streets to those wishing
TO cultivate foreign tastes. 1t is sold
either in loaves or in slices, and ven
ders and purchasers appear Go be alike
indifferent as to the freshness of the
article. Some of the loaves exposed
are covered with a rich green mold,
which IS apparently regarded as an
adornmeDt by the japanese. The slices
are toasted brown, and then eaten with
the native soy. Butter is not vet in
demand among the Japanese, notwith-
standing that there are large number
OF COWS and diaries in Yeddo.
Public sentiment signifies the COM
mon march of good mems thoughts. It
should be but a road, marked plain,
that men may know the way to travel !;
but, instead of this, public sentiment is
employed, sometimes as bride to stop
free thinking, as an intimidation to
check free acting, as a bauble to lure
appropriateness, or as a threatened
fools cap with which to terrify it. The
virtues which public sentiment drills
into towards may be of great benefit to
society, but are of little credit to the
men upon whom they are dragooned.
III. W. Beecher.
The law of congress allowing 100
acres of the public lands to any person
who will plant and keep in order for
ten years forty acres of timber is rem
dered almost wholly imperative by the
decision of the land commissioner at
Washington, who says the farmer must
plant forty acres of trees in a single
year; To break and plant forty acres
would cost the farmer more than $3.50,
sum which few farmers can afford 70
expend for that purpose in one year.
Yet IS there golden beauty in decay,
As Autumnis leaves outshine the leaves of May;
Ihe calm Of evening with its roseate light;
The starry silence Of the wintry night
The stiffness Of repOse when storms are DER
And the sea murmurs a peaceful shore;
The brOOding memories of the past that make
The old man young again for beauty's sake;
Ihe hope sublime that cheers the lonely road
winch leads him gently to the hills of God.
London Spectator.
Among the abandoned industries of
the south, which will probably be taken
up again, is the manufacture of leather
from alligator skins. Some of the
southern papers are urging the people
IN their vicinity TO turn their attention
to the matter, arguing that if it paws
New EnglRnders to bring the skins from
the south and tan them, it must pay to
tan them where they are taken, bark
and other material necessary being
abundant in that region.
"A life of Washington is issued bv a
Heddo publisher. This literary novelty,
says correspondent, is brought out in
no less than fOrty-fOur volumes in the
Japanese characters, and is profuse1y
illustrated In the highest style of art.
Washington is represented in the
clothes and fashion of the present day,
and with moustache, carrying a cane,
and accompanied by Skye terrier. He
IS gazing at lady with traine, a Gre
clan bend, and hideous waterfall.
"A San Francisco 'milliner has in
vented hat which will probably sell
well In cases where blushing is not SO
spontaneous as it might be, or used to
be. When the wearer bows or lowers
the head abruptly, tiny pair of steel
clamps compress the arteries on each
side of the temples, sending the blood at
once to the cheeks.
"A circular has been issued bv the
war department fixing the standard
height for recruits in the United States
army as follows For artillery and in
tantry, five feet four inches and upward
for cavalry, not less than five feet five
inches, and not more than five feet ten
inches. This regulation is not applica-
BILE to musicians, or recruits for colored
regiments.
When up some woodland dale we catch
The many-twinkling smile of Ocean,
Or with pleased eSr bewidered watch
His chime Of endless motion
STILL as the singing retire.
They seem to grasp with strong desire;
such signs of love old Ocean gives
We cannot choose but think he lives
KeJLe.
The wives and other female rela-
tives of the transported communists
who desire to join them in New Gale
donna continue TO be forwarded thitber
at government expense, and a Havre
paper gives particulars of the departure
of 500 women who left that port, few
days ago, on board the steamer Fenelon.
many of them with families.
The Chicago and Alton railroad. on
which the recent terrible disaster oc-
Cured, has been IN correspondence with
parties in Austria in regard to what are
known as "blOck signals" for trains.
which throw an electric light. or a sig
nal IN the day, one mile in front and
one mile to the rear, and change as
these distances are traversed.
The latest departure in naval archi-
lecture IS the construction of a Russian
iron clad which is perfectly circular,
and is driven through the water by six
screw propellers. So far as hardness is
concerned, nothing could be more per-
feet. Ahead, astern, or spinning round
Ike Top, the vessel is equally at home.
DR.. John Stockton Hough contends,
IN the Medical Record, that feminine
longevity is greater than masculine; he
believes woman was created first; man,
being a secondary development, will
soonest decline, and woman will survive
him in the process of final extinction.
The expectation of Oregon salmon
is rapidly increasing; scarcely a vessel
leaves San Francisco for any part of the
world that does not carry away greater
or lesser amount. The sources of the