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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

LACK OF INGENUITY IN AUSTRA.-The
most stupid expenditure of human ma
ture is seen in everything here. There
seems to be an utter want of ingenuity.
Shovels and spades have handles six
feet long as thick at the top as at the
bottom, and twice as heavy as required.
You cannot make a workman-or his
employer for that matter-understan
that this immense handle Is no stronger
than its weakest point, and that this
weak point is Just at it's junction with
the iron. The scythes used are nothing
but exaggerated bill-hooks, two feet
long, six inches wide at the base, the
back being solid mass of iron more
than half an inch in thickness. The
snaths are perfectly straight, five feet
long and as large as a mans wrist, and
one straight peg foot long for ham
die. But the best illustration is the
process of planning a board. A small
plane, some 10 inches long, and nearly
square, has hole bored through one
end, and through this hole peg foot
long is thrust, protruding on each side.
1t takes two men to work this machine.
The two seat themselves astride the
board, and one pulls, the other pushes,
and both pause few moments to rest
every time they have to hitch along the
board. In order to plane ten foot
scantling, therefore, an affair of two
minutes with us, two men work for more
than an hour. Besides-and such in
credible folly exasperates an American
the two men sit in the blazing sun with
out thinking it possible to carry their
board to plaae of shelter, perhaps ten
PAGES away, or to put up an awning with
the boards lying idle about them. And
yet Austria objects to fair patent law,
or even to sanction fair discussion of
the subject Vienna letter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
how the Naturalist SEARCH the Sea-.

Prof. Verrill's invention, the cradle
sieve, is of a semi-cylindrical form,
about three feet long, and one and a
half wide. While the dredge is coming
up, this sieve is hung over the side of
the vessel, and ultimately the dredge is
lifted over and into the sieve. The
lower end of the dredge net is then I'M
tied and opened, and the dredge lifted
a little; and the entire contents slide
out of the net, gently, into the sieve.
If now there is no anxiety to secure
without injury the very smallest and
most delicate specimens, and there is no
occasion for haste-perhaps to repeat
the haul-the cradle sieve is covered
with tight-ftting lid, lowered over
board, and allowed to drag by tow
line in the water till the mud is washed
out. III, however, there is time enough.
as there usually is, stream of water
from the pump propelled by steam
power is passed through few lengths
of hose into the sieve, while it is hang
ing over the ships side. The hose, in
the hands of some one of the natura-
lists, is, of course, entirely under his
control, and by moderating the force,
volume and direction of the stream, he
can wash out of the mud his most deli
cate specimens, with as much personal
care for their safety as he chooses to de-
vote. No one, however indifferent he
may be to scientific pursuits, can escape
the infectious ardor with which the
naturalists crowd around the spread
tarpaulin, as the contents of dredge,
trawl, or tangles are brought to deck.
The spiteful little Keeling engine has
pulled its load up to the davit, and the
practiced crew lift the burden carefully
and deposit it on the sailors table
cloth, the tarpaulin. Down on their
knees go the scientists around it this is
their homage to nature. Bottles with
alcohol, jars with glycerine, dishes and
bowls with sea water, pals, tubs and
all kinds of receptacles are brought into
requisition. The naturalists, all but
one, thrust their fingers into the muddy
mass, pull out their plums after the
fashion of Jack Horner, announce the
name of their wriggling captives, and
plump them into the pot, pail, or bot
| tle-all but one, who sits with pencil in
hand and records the names as they are
called, emitting duplicates. Every few
/ minutes, as a rarer specimen is brought
to light, or one respecting whose charac-
| teristics there is some mooted question,
the heads crowd together over the tar
paulin, and discussion takes place
which is In more than one sense Greek
| to the uninitiated.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

The JDIMYJoHNs.-Mr Diaz tells in
Our Young Folks comical story of two
twins, who looked SO much alike that
the neighbors could not tell which was
Jimmy and which was Johnny, and so
called them "the Jimmyiohns. And
this is the account of one of their funny
"ways." When the Jimmies were little
toddling things, just beginning to walk,
they were constantly falling down, tip
ping over their cradle or humping their
heads together; and Mrs. Pl1mmer
found that the best way to stop the cry
ing, at such times, was to turn it into
kissing. The reason of this is very plain.
In crying, the mouth flies open; in
kissing, it shuts. Mrs. Plummer was q
wonderful woman. She found out that
shutting the mouth would stop its cry
ing, and to shut the mouth she con-
trived that pretty kissing plan, and at
the first sound of bump would catch
up the little toddlers, put their arms
round each others necks, and say
"Kiss Johnny, Jimmy! Kiss Jimmy,
Johnny 1t was enough to make any
body laugh to see them, in the midst of
a crying spell, run toward each other,
their cheeks still wet with tears, and to
see their poor, little, twisted, crying
mouths trying to shut up into kiss
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
What Virginia is Doing for Education.

Prof. Joynes of Washington and Lee
university writes to the Hanover IN. 81, }
Anvil: That you may see that the cold
educated classes" in the south do not
deem education ''of little importance, :"
let me ask your attention to my own
state of Virginia, a state in which the
government, and hence also the school
administration, is fully in the hands of
these old educated classes. In this
state, under a system of public instruc-
ton organized during the few years
since the war, I find from the school re-
port of 1872, an aggregate of 1896 pub
lie schools, an increase of 648 since the
preceding year, with an actual enroll
ment of 166,377 pupils, an increase of
35, 289, and an average full attendance
of 50, 4SS, an increase of 10, 766 since
the preceding year. Besides I find 20,-
497 pupils reported as attending private
schools, number which, from want of
full information, is doubtless far below
the actual fact. In the same report, I
find in Virginia 1877 private high schools
or academies, with 7,701 pupils, ga
large portion of whom will shortly en-
ter college," In collegiate education,
for herself and her sister states of the
south, Virginia is scarcely second to
any state in the Union. In her colleges
and universities, I find 1873 students,
and in her technical, professional and
normal schools, 852-a total of 1866 in
attendance upon different schools of the
highest grade. Such are some of the
statistics to be found in the admirable
report of Superintendent Sheffner and
if other endorsement is needed, let me
refer YOU to the reports of Gen'l Eaton
United States commissioner of educa-
ton, and of Rev. Barnard Sears, d. D.,
commissioner OF the Peabody fund,
both of whom refer to the school work
in Virginia in terms of highest praise
This is what the cold educated classes"
that control Virginia have done and are
doing for education All this has been
done in state blasted, almost ruined,
by the war and the exhibit here made
represents an amount of personal and
public sacrifice, for the sake of educa-
ton, of which our fellow-citizens of the
north have scarcely any exception. At
the north education, though necessity,
is, in a sense, luxury that is, it is
supported mainly out of the superfuity
of abundant wealth. Here it is sus-
tanned by people who have been, for
the most part, reduced to poverty, and
many of whom feel the school taxes as
an actual deduction from their means of
living. Your colleges are endowed with
hundreds of thousands of dollars by
men who might almost give millions;
ours gather their scanty contributions
in tens and hundreds from those who
must often deny themselves to do this
much
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
IN THE SUNSHINE.

The peach hangs heavy on the garden-wan,
See, love, seel
The paach hangs heavy on the garden-wal;
It's ripe, rose-tinted, and ready to fan.
Fruit meet for thee and me,
Ills ripe as ripe can be,
May we not pluck it from the garden-wal?
The sweet birds warblo near the garden-wan,
Hush. love, hush
The sweet birds MARBLE near the gsrden-wau;
With melody their mates they softly call.
Each wOos unto his nest
The one that each loves best;
wsrbliRg so sweetly by the garden-wall.
Warm lips are waiting by the garden-wall.
Yes, love, yes!
Warm lips are waiting by the garden-waIl;
They wait loves kisses, and they claim loves all
If thy hearts love be mine
Az my hearts love is thine,
May we not tell II by the gsrden-wal2
London Spectator.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

The attention of our many readers il
called to the attractive advertisement Of
J. n. Harris & Co., advertising their
great and valuable lung remedy,
"Allen's Lung Balsam." This balsam
has been before the public for ten years.
Notwithstanding this long period, it has
never lost one whit of its popularity, OF
shown the the least sign of becoming IN
popular, but on the contrary, the call
for it has been constantly increasing,
and at no previous time has the demand
been so great, or the quantity made been
so large, as at this day. We earnestly
recommend its trial by any one who may
be afflicted with cough or cold, and
we warrant it to cure if directions are
followed. It is sold by all our city
DRUGGISTS
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

THERE is scarcely any disease in which
purgative medicines are not more or less re-
quired, and much sickness and suffering might
be prevented we're they more generally used.
No peison can feel well while a costive habit
of body prevails; besides, it soon generates
serious and often fatal diseases which might
have been avoided by timely and judicious
use of DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets,
or tasteless, coated, concentrated root and
herbal juice anti-bilious granules. These lit
duce such a secondary tonic effect upon the
bowels rs to bring about permanent healthy
action and increase their peristaltic motions.
Price rs cents vial, by ali druggists. $50
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

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 thereirOm 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 mvigOrator
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 gentle Purgative as wei! 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, Diuretlc,
Sedative, Counter Irrtant, Sudoritic, Altera-
tive, and Anti Bilious.
r.. II. MCDONALD ~ CO.,
Druggists and Gen. Agts, San Francisco, California
and cor. of Washington and Charlton SITS. N y.
Sold by all nrUEg lists &c nd Dealers
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

There is nothing like knowing
what has become of ancient things. We
are just informed by diligent investi-
gator that the ark is now in good state
of preservation, but lying under an
eternal mantle of snow, hundreds of
feet deep, at an altitude of II, 500 feet
above the level of the sea AS snow
always covers the top of Ararat, it is
impossible for any of Noah's descend
ants to go up and find the ark. Furth-
ermore, the ark was smaller than the
Great Eastern, had three decks, and was
divided into numerous compartments,
for the safety and order of its occupants.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

WE see that PRooTER IL CANDLES
EXTRA OLIVE Soar is becoming very
popular in our city, its quality we know
is superior, and being nicely perfuned
we are not surprised that consumers
prefer it, and that it has large sale.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

The PUREsT AND SWEETEST CoD-EIvER On
is Hazard & CsswelPs, made on the sea shore,
from fresh, selected livers, of the Cod only by
CAswELL, HAZARD & Co., New York. It is alb
solutely pure and street. Patients whe have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi-
clans have decided it superior to all other oils
III market.-COnl.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

SUCCESS is the best test of SUPERIOR
ty; the wonderful demand for Simmons Liver
Regulator is one of the convincing proofs that
this article is appreciated above everything
else Of the kind. However much its jealous
defamers may throw their shafts, truth will
prevail, and so will this medicine.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

BASE BALL is undoubtedly good exer-
else and capital amusement but it often coca
sions bunged eyes, broken skins and blistered
hands. We can tell you that in all such cases,
if Johnson's Anodyne Liniment is resorted to,
it will reduce the swelling and stop the pain.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
How Beef suet Is Made into Butter.

The experiment of making butter
from beef suet, after French invention,
going on in various places in this coun-
try-in California as well as Connecti-
cut, among the rest. The process is
hus described. A large tank is filed
with sheets of fresh, selected suet,
which is thoroughly oleansed by the use
of cold water. Then it is run through
a machine similar to a sausage cutter,
and ground thoroughly at the rate of
300 pounds an hour, coming out as
white as snow. It is Immediately
thrown into a vat containing about a
foot of water. The entire mass is raised
to the temperature of blood heat Q10
degrees Fahrenheit) by coil of steam
pipe laid in the water. After half an
hours constant stirring it is allowed to
settle, and in few moments all the lit
tie pieces of membrane and crap sink to
the bottom, while the fat or rather the
pure stearine and oleine float on the
water. This is gathered off and placed
in another vat to cool, and when about
the consistency of lard is wrapped in
cloths (about 800 TBS. in each wrapper)
and subjected to presses of tremendous
power. As the pressure is applied the
Oleine Oozes through the cloth and is
conveyed by little troughs, similar to
those of cider mill, to another tub. In
this state it looks like the clearest olive
oil, and may be kept an indefnate
period without spelling or becoming
the least bit strong. Any little dust or
impurity which before may have escaped
is here separated, and the oil flows like
the finest honey. The stearine, amount
ing to about 80 per cent, remains in the
cloth. This is sold to the candle manu-
facturers, and as it is much superior
to tallow for this purpose, commands
high figure. The oleine is conveyed by
a tube to the churn, when the final OPP
Grafton takes place. This department
should be 10 feet square, with double
walls (the space between being filled
with sawdust) resembling a large re-
frigerator. A rack containing about 20
cakes of ice is suspended from the cell
ing, so that the cold air in descending
keeps the temperature always low. A
number of Blanchard churns are ar
ranged along one side of the room, into
each of which is introduced Is pounds
of the oleine, together with two quarts
of pure milk, and hree-eights of pound
of annotto, used for coloring. The
churns are set in motion, and kept at
uniform rate of speed for II or Is min
utes, when they are stopped, and the air
is redolent with the perfume of butter.
Ice-water is thrown in the churn, when
the butter gathers, and it is placed on a
large table, settled, and thoroughly
worked. By this process the milk is
extracted, and the butter is finished.
On weighing the butter it is ascertained
that there has been an actual gain in
each churn of one-and-a-half pounds,
equal to 40 per cent, since it left its
oily state
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

We do not recommend the frequent
or constant use of any medicine. 1t is impor-
tant to take even a good article judiciously.
Parsons Purgative Pills are safe, prompt and
reliable as laxative or cathartic.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

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, 1873-10-17

There is a large emigration to
America of the small farmers in the
Neapolitan provinces of Italy, and the
landed props ietors are alarmed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
soHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS.

These Pills are composed exclusively OF vpgetA
ole ingredients, and although they entirely super
sede the use Of mercury. do not leave any uf ltb
Injurious effects They act directly upon the liver
and are a valuable remedy In all eases OF derange
msnt resulting from dsprdered state Of that or
uon, sick headache, typhoid and other fevers etc.
all succumb to the nee use Of SCHESCK's MAS
DRAKE Pills.
For sale nv MI dug lists q nj ,iealors
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

A BUSINESS THAT PAYs.-See adver-
tisement of wealth and Wonders of the
Boundless West" One agent is clearing $500
per week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

= 1t is stated upon good authority
that in consequence of the scarcity Of
broom corn this year, high spirited hus-
bands are increasing.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

The Elmwood and Warwick collars
still held their own, and are just as nice to
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
Relation of Chemistry to Agriculture.

The Boston Journal of Chemistry has
the following upon chemistry and agri-
culture, which places in a correct light
some of the questions connected there
with:
It is manifestly an error to suppose
that the service which chemistry is ca
pable of performing for agriculture is
mainly confined to soil analysis. This
is the most uncertain and perplexing
work which the chemist is called to
perform, and we may add, the practical
difficulties are so great in the work, that
the results are usually not very satisfac-
tory. Let us examine these difficulties
for a moment, or endeavor to bring
them more directly to the attention.
If a given soil is valuable from the
amount of nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash which it contains, it is i'm
portant that the amounts should be
accurately ascertained. Now good ara
BILE, fertile soils will usually contain
only perhaps two thousandths of their
dry weight of the two first of these
substances, and about double the guam
tity of potash. It is evident the fer
tilizing principles are present only as
mere traces, but if analysis is worth
anything, it must detect and correctly
weigh them. The work must be done
with the utmost accuracy, as any small
fractions of error are of immense
Importance when the contents of
whole field are taken into account.
Difficult and delicate as is the labor, it
is quite within the power of the chemist
to correctly determine the amounts of
these agents existing in soils. If chem
L l.
perform, we could not complain, but
the condition of these elements, of their
availability, is a point of great import
ance and one almost or quite impossible
to confidently settle.
The value of soil for growing crops
depends, in a great measure, upon the
condition in which the phosphoric acid,
nitrogen, ETC., exist in it, and if it can
not be positively shown what that con-
dition is, we do not obtain satisfactory
results. When the chemist has esti-
mated correctly the amount of the most
important fertilizing principles in the
covering of an acre of ground, nine
inches deep, he has acquired but part
of the information needed to enable
him to give an opinion of positive value
regarding it's crop bearing capabilities.
There are also other points of import
ance connected with the physical con-
dition of soils which chemistry fails to
shed much light upon. There can be
no doubt, whatever, that some soils
have the capabilities of appropriating
more atmospheric nitrogen than others,
and also the decomposition of some of
the constituents of soils renders them
better qualified to promote
plant growths at one time than another.
All these considerations should not, how
ever, tend to destroy our confidence
in the general aid which chemistry is
capable of affording us they are only
to make us cautious, and
place proper estimate upon the help
n c1yoD15oc
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

Mss. WinslOVv's Soothing Syrup is she
prescription OF one Of the best female phyai-
clans and nurses In the Uniied States, and Ii s
been used for thirty years with never falling sa fet
and success by millions OF mothers and children,
from the feeble infant OF 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 ii 10
De the best and surest remedy IN the world IN all
cases of DYSENTERY and DTARRHGA II
CHILDREN, whether Il arises from teething or
from any other cause. Full directions for using
ALL accompany each bottle. None genuine unless
We facsimile OF CURTIS & PERKINS Is on the
WEside wrapper.
Sold by all medicine deaIera.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

To milk kicking cow-Stand off
about eight feet and yell, $50 you
darned old skin-fiint T.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

-Query-Would it be proper to call
a dancing master hop-merchant