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ventriloquism Easily Acquired.

A writer in the Chicago Advance says
that "the ventriloquist's art is as easy
to learn as falling off log. He main
tains that there is no difficulty in &C
quiring the power. In the first place,
he says, speak any word or sentence in
your own natural tone; then open the
mouth and fix your jaws fast, as though
trying to hinder any one from opening
them further or shutting them; draw
the tongue back in ball; speak the
same words, and the sound, instead of
being formed in the mouth, will be
formed in the pharynx. Great atten-
ton must be paid TO holding the jaws
rigi |. The sound will then be found to
initiate a voice from the other side of
the door when it is closed, or under a
floor, or through a wall. To initiate
sound behind door partly open, the
voice must not be altered from the
original note or pitch, but be made in
another part of the mouth. This is done
by closing the lips tight and drawing
one corner of the mouth downward or
toward the ear Then let the lips open
at the corner only, the other part to re-
main closed. Next, breathe, as it were,
the words out of the orifice formed. Do
not speak the words dintinctly, but ex-
pei the breath in short puffs at each
word, and Jas loud as possible. By so
doing, you produce the illusion in the
minds of your listeners that they hear
the same voice which they heard when
the door was closed, but more distinctly
and nearer on account of the door being
open. The lips must always be used
when the ventriloquist wishes it to ap-
pear that the sound comes through an
obstacle, but from some one close at
hand
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HAR VFSTLNG.
BIZ MARY s. LADD.

The little birds sang, and the orchards rang
With their cheerful notes, and the sunshine lin
gered
Der the bending lea, on shrub and tree,
With yellow feet-and dewy fingered.
And down the lane, the loaded vain
Came numbering on, and the girls came after,
With tumbled hair, round faces fair.
With chidlike glee and merry laughter.
Young farmer Blake took the tiny rake
From the little hands of Jessie Perry;
While with look askance, and sidelong glance,
At their expense the rest made merry.
And jessie in pride, left young Blakes side,
And tossed her head in q manner naughty:
But he whlstled a song, and sauntered along,
Though dearly he loved this maiden naughty.
The ripened grain they took from the vain,
And heaped in the barn, now running over
With the weight 1t bore of its garnered store
With its new-mown hay and its fragrant clover.
And down by the well, it there befeIl,
While the horses drank Of the cooling water
In the pale twilight, all was made Alright
TWtxt Blake and Jessie, the farmers daughter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03
French Bathing.

A French gentleman who really in
tends to wash himself prepares for so
grave and unusual an act with precau-
ton. As he generally lives, when home
in Paris, in a sort of sugar-plum box,
which he calls an dppGrtemeTt, but
which could not be used for ablutionary
purposes without great harm and loss,
he does not know what effect water APP
piled to any other part of his person
than his face and hands might have
upon his health and prospects in life.
His doctor, whom he naturally consults
on the subject, combines the resources
of science with the resources of his own
imagination, and recommends him to
stand bolt upright on the sea-shore, in a
becoming costume, and wait for the
waves. When the waves have hit the
French gentleman, he is of course bound
in honor to return the blow, and does
so with his head down and his mouth
full of salt water. Determined also
conscientiously to follow the advice of
his medical man, he begins to jump,
dance and disport himself after the
manner of a seal. Having had enough
of this, he puts his feet in hot water,
provided in a tub in his bathing ma
chine, drinks a glass of rhtED1 and fan
cies himself a sea wolf for the rest of
the day. Some of the ladies' dresses
are outrageously fine when they go pub
licly into salt water. A yard of false
hair, long parasol, double eyeglass,
a pair of sky-blue trousers, fishing
net and opera glass, feather, poodle
dog, two young gentlemen, an Illus
trated newspaper of fashions, pair OF
lilac boots, a lighted cigarette, camp
stool, a nosegay and nightcap make
up this simple and interesting costume.
The sea is a big place, and a French
lady may want ell these things before
she gets to the bottom Of it. The best
part of her bathing is, as might be sup
posed, to walk on the sands and keep
her costume dry. There must be a
large crowd to tempt her to wet it but
If she once resolves on doing so, she
calls upon all mankind (toltt Le monde
to witness her courage. Then she COM
mits herself to broad-shouldered fish
erman, who takes her in his arms and
goes through a sort of war dance with
her, while all the gentlemen of the
neighborhood are looking on admiringly
through telescopes and opera glasses.
When she comes out, the proper thing
is to ask her ISL ellie a beducoltFO f1eche,
to which question she answers, refec-
lively, HduUdiS Stjet." At Trouvllle
and some other places, it is considered
good, lady-like taste to smoke a cigar
cite. perched on a camp-stool, immedia-
tely after the war dance above men
tioned.-Oor. N. Y Herald.
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What the Garter Does.

Here is something from the Book of
Beauty that is strictly local here or
anywhere else. Women should read it {:
ga handsome leg is rarity, we had
almost said an impossibility, among
American women. The reason of this
is the place where they wear the garters.
No French woman, no English woman
of cultivation, nowadays wears her
carriers below her knees. It is ruinous
to the shape of the calf. More than
this, it has serious consequences of an
other kind. The principal vein of the
leg, vena saphrenabrevis, runs just be-
meath the skin until it nearly reaches
the knee, when it sinks beneath the
muscles. Now, if this is obstructed at
its largest point by tight garter, the
blood is checked in its return to the
heart, the feet are easily chilled, and
more liable to disease the other veins
of the leg are swollen into hard, blue
knots become varicose, as it is called,
and often break, forming obstinate
ulcers. This is a picture which physi-
cian'sees nearly every day. With the
garter fastened above the knee all this
pain and deformity is avoided, but it is
still better to wear no garter at all, and
to suspend the stockings by tapes around
the waist. In this case, however, a well
fitting stocking is needed"
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CLOTHES
WRINGER
Half Alive.

1t is a sad thing to pass through life only hall
alive. Yet there are thousands whose hAbituaI
condition is one of languor and debility They
complain of no specific disease; they suffer no pos
tive pain. but they have no relish for anything
which affords mental sensuous pleasure to their
more robust and energetic fellow beings.
In nine out of ten this state of lassitude and
torpor arises from morbid stomach. Indigestion
d stroys the energy of both mind and body. When
the waste of nature is not supplied by due and
regular assimilation of the food. every organ is
NOW. what does common sense suggest under
these cirCumstano IS of depression? The system
needs rousing and strengthening: not merely Tor
an hour o. two. to sink amer wards into pitt
able condition than ever las it assuredly would do
II an ordinary alcoholic stimHlant were resorted
to- but radically and permanently.
How is this desirable object 10 BE- accomplished ?
The answer to this question, founded on the unva-
rying experience of quarter of century is easily
given. lnfuse new vigor into the digestive organs.
not waste time in administering temporary RENE
dies, but wake the system up by recuperating the
fouD tain-he of physical strength and energy,
the great organ upon which all other organs de-
pend for their nurture and support
BY the time that dozen doses Of the great vege-
feeble frame of the dyspeptic will begin to feel its
benign influence. Appetite will be created and
with appetite the capacity to digest what it
Fersevere until the cure is complete, until health
and bone and nerve and brain. flows through the
channels of circulation, instead of the watery pa
bulum with which they have heretofore been fm-
perfectly nourished.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

Mr.. Bounderby's grim foreboding of
the time when the British workman
would demand to be fed upon turtle
soup, administered with a golden spoon,
may be nearer accomplishment than the
Bounderby race and kindred political
economists suspect. A contemporary
at Auckland in New Zealand draws at
tention TO the fact that the laboring
classes In that remote, but hourishing,
dependency have been, for some time
past, in the custom of riding to their
daily work in carriages. The practice
is said to prevail in the provinces of
Auckland and of Canterbury and we
are told that a party of men, employed
in making hay into bales throughout
the TamaH district, habitually revel in
the luxury of being conveyed to bust
These hay-balers are said to earn seven
and sixpence a day, but they are now
demanding ten shillings, Gas they can
not keep up a horse and buggy upon
less" Mr.. Bounderby may groan dole
fully at this statement, pointing, as it
seemingly does, at the rapid approach
of the Turtle Soup and Gold Spoon
age; after which, of course, Will come
the deluge; yet, after all, is there any
thing very phenomenal in the fact OF
laboring men riding to their work?
Postoffice lctter-carriers have, for many
to the verge of the districts where their
deliveries commence and tens of thou
sands of masons, carpenters and brick
layers avail themselves every morning
of the facilities offered by the "work-
mems trains on the Metropolitan rail-
way. Even those involuntary workers
whose lot it is to pick thefestive oakum,
or ascend the stairs of the jocund tread
mill, "ride to their work, and in one
of her maiesty's own carriages, too.
It is very easy to sheer at the New Zea-
land husbandmen for availing them
selves of four wheels in lieu of two legs
for transportation to the scene of their
toll but it might be as well to remem-
Der that in merry England the seeds of
rheumatism, sciatica, rupture and pre-
mature decrepitude, are commonly
sown in the frame of the agricultural
laborer, through his being compelled to
walk Internationally long distances, and
often in wet clothes, to and from the
farm where he works. Perhaps, how
ever, it is "the trap with cushioned
seats" that will stick most sorely in the
politico-economical throat. A spring
less wagon, with planks across; jolt
ing chaise-cart, costermonger's "shal-
low" such vehicles might be tolerated
as beseeming the laborer's degree, but
"trap with cushioned seats can only
mean proximate revolution and ultimate
anarchy. Our best hope should be in
the Conservative workingman, who.
if he were forced to take a ride, would
naturally, "knowing his station" care
fully remove the cushions from the
seats of his traps, and dutifully submit
to be bumped, rather than indulge in
the luxuries providentially provided fer
Mr.. Bounderby and his betters.-Lo1s-
don Daily Telegraph.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

Dr. j. walkers CallIOrnla VIM
egar BitterS are a 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 thGrefrom 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 life giving principle,
a perfect Renovation and Invigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERS in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are q gentle Purgative as vel! as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERS are Aperient, Diaphoretlc,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, C0unter-Ir ritant, Sudorihc, Altera-
tive, and Anti-Bilious.
r.. II. MCDONALD u CO.,
Druggists and Gen. A CTS. San Francisco, California
and cor. of Washington and Charlton SITS, N Y.
Sold by all Drug lists and Dealers.
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Thirty YEARS. EXPERIENCE
OF AN OLD NURSE.

Mss. winsIOvv's Soothing syrup is the
prescription OF one Of the best female physi-
clans and nurses in the Uniied States, and has
been used for thirty years with never falling safety
and success by millions OF mothers and children,
nom the feeble INFANT OF one week old to the admit
Il corrects acidity Of the stomach. relieves wind
colic regulates the bowels and gives rest, health
and comfort to mother and child. We believe 1t to
oe the best and surest remedy N the world in all
cases Of DYSENTERY and DIARRHGA IN
CHILDREN, whether II arises from teethl1g or
nom any other cause. Full directions for using
gill accompany each bottle. None genuine unless
yEside wrapper.
Sold by all medIcilas dealers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

The embarrassments attending the
importation of Chinese women at San
Francisco are of the gravest description.
The other day IA bad ones arrived, and,
before the Protestant clergyman who
undertakes their reclamation could get
access to them, they had been put on
their guard by male confederates. None
of them, therefore, would admit their
immoral purpose in immigrating some
said they came to see their mothers,
some to hunt up sister, some to take
in sewing, etc. Eight of them con-
sented to go to the Methodist Chinese
mission. They are also expert Snug
glers, and these were completely swathed
in silks. Upon the IA women we're
found "a gowns and 81 pairs of silk
trousers
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

OF the TAO mills returned, only SO are
in the cotton growing states, where more
than half should be located. Georgia
has a fourth of all the mills in the
south, and is likely to have third or
more. Tennessee has less than an
eighth, unless more have been recently
built than we remember or have heard
of. Rhode Island is not much larger,
if any, than some of our cotton growing
counties, yet it has 126 cotton factories.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

CHAPPED HANDS. face, rough skin, pimples,
nngworm, salt-rheum, and other cutaneous
smooth by using the JUNRER Tar Soar, made
by CAswELI, HAZARD d Co., New York. Be
certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made by
US, there are many limitations made with
common tar which are worthless.-Co
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

A southwestern man recently for
warded to Washington eighteen mutt
lated three-cent postage stamps, and
modestly asked the postmaster general
to either send him good ones in return,
or "make it right" by giving him an
appointment of some kind.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

There is ivery-stable keeper in
Albany who never let's horse without
exacting promise that the lessee will
drive slowly. One day, last week, a
youth, who wished to attend funeral,
applied to the livery man for a horse.
"My friend, you can have one if you'll
agree to drive slow" "Well, see here,
I'm going to funeral, and I'm bound
to keep up with the procession if it kills
the horse"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

Hon. JOSEPH FAREWELL, mayor of
Rocklsnd Me-, Isaa, NJ. Bragg, Esq. Bangor,
and Messrs. Pope Bros, Machias, Me-, lumber
merchants, fully endorsed the Sheridan Caval-
ry condition Powders, and have given the pro-
prietors liberty to use their names in recon-
mending them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

WE see that PRooTHR & GANB1E's
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, 1873-10-03

THIS is no Intoxicating beverage or
doctored liquor, to lead the tippler on to
drunkenness and ruin, but strictly medical
preparation made from roots and herbs, suit
able to any age or condition. AS a family
medicine, Simmons Liver Regulator is equal
to an entire medicine chest
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

DoN'F hawk, hawk, spit, spit, blow,
blow and disgust everybody with your catarrh
and offensive odor, when DIR. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy will speedily destroy all odor, arrest
the discharge and cure you. 65S
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Mr. %,ader;ck Charinpton of Ton

Mr.. Frederick Charington of Lon
don, England, has supplemented his
recent retirement from firm of brewers,
on the ground of the evil caused by
drink, by becoming a missionary to the
poor of East London. He has bought
chapel in Bethnal Green in which to
carry on his labors.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

THE most astonishing cure of chronic
diarrhea we ever heard of is that of VIM.
Clark, Frankfort mills, Waldo county, Maine ;
the facts are sttested by Ezra Treat, Upton
Treat and M. A. Merrill, either of whom might
be addressed for particulars. Mr.. Clark was
cured by Johnson's Anodyne Liniment.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03
THE HOUSEHOLD PANACEA,
AND
FAMILY EMINENT

Ii the best remedy in the world for the following
complaints, viz: Cramps in the limbs and ston-
Ach, pain In the stomach. bowels or side, rheuma-
tam in all Its forms bilious colic neuralgia
cholera, dosentery colds, flesh wounds burns, sore
throat, spinal complaints, spraIns and bruises
chIls and fever. For Internal and external use
Ib operation Ia not only &c relieve the patient
but entirely removes the cause Of the complaint
Il perstrstes and pervadss the whole system, re-
-toFing healthy action to all Its parts, and quicken
ing the blood
The Household Panacea Is purely Veg
etahle and ali hesl ling.
Prepared by
CURTIS a. BROWN,
No. AIS Fulton street, New York.
For sale by all druggists.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

THE Narrangasett collar company are
turning out from rs, 600 to 100 900 Elmwood
and Warwick collars day. This shows their
immense popularity. If you have not worn
them we would advise you to do so.-Con.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

AT THE V1ennA world 1alf, the grand
medal If progre g, which was the recognition
of highest excellence in pumps, hydraulic
rams and garden engines from all nations was
awarded to W. q B. DOUGLAS, Middletown,
Conn.,, the Oldest and best established manu-
facturers Of these goods in the world.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

A BUSINESS THAT PAYS. adver-
tisement of wealth and Wonders of the
Boundless West" One agent is clearing 5000
mar xUaaL
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Overrated Fortunes.

Money is more mixed with hyperhole
than almost anything else. A mans
fortune is almost never stated correctly.
It is doubled, trebled, quadrupled. Oc-
casionally man dies who was supposed
to have been modestly independent, and
proves to be nearly rich. But generally
it is quite the other way. The late
Horace F. Clark was considered worth
$40, 1000, 900, at least, and he was not
worth over So, 100000 Samuel N. Pike,
who built the Grand opera house, was
thought to have cleared SIC, 1000, 600 to
So, 900, 900 in whisky and real estate
operations and yet, on settling his
affairs, they showed only 800, 900.
Elias Howe, the sewing machine man,
did not leave one-fifth of what he was
credited with.
The fortunes of Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Alexander T. Stewart, and William B.
Aston are now represented at 800, 000,-
600 each, albeit it is doubtful if any one
of them has half as much. Aston may
turn out, with all his land and leases,
to be worth $40, 100000; but Stewart
will not be likely to foot up over $685.
000, 900, and Vanderbilt will be lucky to
$30,OO0,0OO. Geo. Law enjoys the re-
putation of having $40, 900, 900, though
half the sum would, probably, be nearer
the fact. Peter Cooper ought to be put
down for s., 500, 900, instead of S., O0O,-
900; Horace B. Clafin at $4,000, 900,
instead of $15, OO0,O 900 to $50, 600, 600 !;
E. S. Jaffray at $4,000, 900, instead of
100000; August Belmont at 81, OO0,-
600, instead of 100000 Robert L.
Stuart at 50, 500, 900, instead of $6,OOO,-
900; and James Brown at $4,000, 900,
instead of $8,OO0,OOO to $4,000, 900.
So, if Moses Taylor's 800, 1000, 900, Jay
Gould's $40, 900, James Lenox's &c.
600, 900, Amos r. Eno's 81, 900, 900, Roy
al Phelps $5,OOO,OOO, E. D. Morgan's
81, OOO,O 900, Marshall o. Roberts $780,
600, 900, and other large estates were
divided by two. three, and even four,
the quotient would be far more trust
worthy than the general report and
belief. Chicago Tribune.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

CAN IT DE TRUE?-Within the last few
months a considerable number of per-
sons have called upon DR.. Walker, the
proprietor of the popular medicine
known as Vinegar Bitters, and assured
him that, in their belief, his preparation
is an infallible antidote for rum and to-
bacco. The minute details which have
been furnished him forbid him to
doubt the accuracy of the statements.
This new claim of great remedy to the
confidence of the public will give vast
and well-deserved impulse to its popu-
larity. Heretofore the Bitters have
been recognized as a pure vegetable
tonic and corrective, devoid of alcohol,
and thoroughly adapted to the cure of
stomach and bowel complaints, nervous
disorders, bilious affections, muscular
diseases, and, indeed, majority of the
ailments within the reach of medicine
but # it will also cure the cravings for
liquor and tobacco, philosophers, states
men and theologians ought to unite
their voices in its praise. Can the good
news be true? It is easy to test the
question.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

SOMETHING THAT TAKEs.-The three
fold combination agency for selling wealth
and Wonders of the Boundless West" There
is much sure money in it. See advertisement.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03

Show us a man or boy who is too
proud to pull off his coat and go to
work, and we, in return, will show you
a fit subject for the poor house or the
penitentiary.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-03
Cotton Mills in the United States.

The following statement is regarded
as a full report of all the cotton mills
in the United States at the last census.
The table is useful for reference to any
one interested in the subject
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PEERLESS

We advise those desiring to become
agents for really valuable books to address postal
card to T. Ellwood Eel. Phila., for circular.