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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28

Capt. Vandiver, of this country, who,
by the way, is quite a stirring farmer,
recently hired three young men to work
on his farm. He told each man that he
must be up in the morning by the first
growing of the cock. He had faithful
old rooster who never failed to crow at
the earliest dawn, and it was agreed all
round that his first notes should be the
signal for the boys to be up and about
the duties of the day. Monday morn.
ing came, and the Captain awoke, as
usual, before day, and listened long and
patiently for chanticleer to "sing his
earliest greeting" but he sang not.
Day began to dawn, and the old hens
were singing III the barnyard, but no
growing was heard on the farm. By
and by the sun arose and sent his first
and brightest rays through the Captain s
window. The Captain again awoke
from his second snoOze, and, seeing the
sunshine on the floor, sprang from his
bed with the exclamation, "What in the
ID is the matter with that chicken q
From the bedroom of the boys came
there snores, loud and long drawn-Out.
The Cd" says the Captain, them
lazy rascals are asleep yet What i'll
the mischief can be the matter with my
old rooster?'' Putting on his clothes,
he FASTENED to the hen-house-all the
chickens had flown the roost save the
chanticleer, who sat with dropped wings
and head between his feet-fast asleep.
The boys had chlOroformed him.
Columbia MO- Herald
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
Hot Work.

In relation to the subject of how high
a temperature men can endure and work
in, a writer in the British Journal of
Science notes the following interesting
cases During the relocating of fur
naces in an iron-works in England, the
men worked when the thermometer,
placed SO as not to be influenced by the
radiation of heat from the open doors,
marked 120 deg. In the Bessemer pits
40 deg. was reached, and yet the men
continued a kind of labor requiring
great muscular effort. In some of the
operations of glass making, the Ordi-
nary summer working of temperature is
considerably over 100 deg. and the radi-
ant heat to which wOrkmen are sub
iected far exceeds 212 deg. In Turk
ish bath the shampooers continue four
or five hours at a time in moist atmos-
phere at temperatures ranging from los
deg. to ITO deg. A case is mentioned of
a person in the same establishment
working for half an hour in heat of
1S5 deg In enamel factories men work
daily in heat of over 800 deg. On the
Red sea steamers the temperature of
the stoke hole is 145 deg. and some men
will labor there for half an hour without
a drop of perspiration, while others are
carried out fainting. These examples
of continuous work at 10 deg. ,120 deg,
40 deg. and 145 deg, correspond to
depths in mines of $3.50, 1850 and
5, 750 feet. The author thinks, there
fore, that the limit of 1000 feet, fixed
by the English Commissioners as the
extreme workable depth of mines, is
too small, and he considers 500" Yet a
safe boundary"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
TObaceO Versus Intellect

At the nearest calculation the inter-
nal revenue report last year showed that
the United States consumed about ten
million cigars during that time. Many
old smokers prefer the pipe to the CT
gar, and probably as much tobacco is
consumed in that way as in cigars.
However out of the way numerically the
previous statement may be, it is true
that there are in this country II, 294
manufacturers of cigars, and that they
employ II, 491 men. Wherever tobacco
can be raised, the farmer finds it one of
the most ready-paying crops, and con-
sequently is very apt to go into it. Its
use increases from year to year in a
greater ratio than the population. Peo-
pie differ so widely as to its effects, that
it is only just, whenever a candid state
ment is made of any test, to give it pub
hcity. Recently, at the Polytechnic
School in Paris, one of the professors
inquired into the habits of the one
hundred and sixty students there, and
then made comparison between their
| devotions to study and to smoke He
found that in each grade of the school
the students who did not smoke out
ranked those who did smoke, and that
the scholarship of the smokers steadily
deteriorated as the smoking continued.
On account of several trustworthy re-
ports of such nature, the Minister OF
| Public instruction in France issued a
circular to the directors of colleges and
schools, forbidding tobacco to students,
as injurious to physical and intellectual
deyelopmcnt
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
The Story of a Tramp,

The Troy Wing of a recent date tells
the following story: GA great number
of persons who are known as tramps'
are at present wandering about the city.
A part of these are undoubtedly seeking
employment, while others are Migrants
from preference and habit. On Monday
afternoon one of these wanderers ac-
costed a Wing representative on First
street, and said "Can you tell a fellow
where he can get work % Receiving a
negative reply the miserable man re-
lated his woes as follows stranger,
[ do not want to go to the poor-house,
but l am afraid there is no help for it.
/ have travelled every step of the way
from Utica, and asked for work at every
town, and of every person, and begged
my lodging and my food. I kept up
my courage, for [ had heard that Troy
was a large manufacturing place, and L
was sure, sir, that I could get some
thing to do, SO that 1 could earn an
honest living. My mother lives near
Buffalo (here the man began to weep,
and she is expecting money from me to
pay the few dollars she owes for rent,
and to buy coal and food for the winter.
My God, sir, wish [ was dead" Hun
dreds of men who have been thrown out
of employment by the recent money
panic will, we fear, be obliged, like this
man, to seek the shelter OF the county
pOOr-hOuse"
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Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh furnishes forty-six per
cent. of all the glass, ninety-eight per
cent. of all the steel, and thirty-eight
! per cent. of all the iron manufactured
in the United States. In 1870 Pitts
burgh contained twenty-one bottle and
| phial factories, twenty-three window
| glass factories, thirty-ive flint and lime
| glass factories, nine steel establish
ments, thirty-two iron and two copper
mills. The total capacity of her large
metal working mills is not less than
eighty to one hundred tons per day I;
nine have nail factories connected with
them. The value of the annual produc-
ton of the iron mills alone was Ill 1870
over twenty-three millions of dollars /; it
must be now over twenty-six millions.
The average daily consumption of pig
metal was about ! 200 tons. Upward
of $50, 900 tons of pig-metal were con-
sumed annually in the mills and found
ries of Pittsburgh. This was three years
ago, and the figures have been largely
swelled since that time.
The number of coke ovens in 1870
was $50, and their annual product over
&c, 000,0 600 bushels. Pittsburgh in
Guided also then six cotton factories, six
lead factories, twenty-seven machine
shops, eleven brass foundries, nine
chair and cabinet factories, four mallea-
BILE iron foundries, twenty-three brick
yards, two glass mold factories, eight
pOtteries, four pillow factories and the
largest cannon foundry in the United
States, together with $50 manufacturing
establishments.
The amount of capital invested in the
mines about Pittsburgh is about
thirteen millions of dollars, the amount
of coal annually mined over one humid
red millions of bushels.
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A Raey Examination,

The following racy examination OF
candidates for the admission to the bar
is taken from the Western LGoO Journal.
The examination commenced with
" Do you smoke %
6" I do, sir"
Have you spare cigar ?"
81 have, sir" Extends a short
"Now, sir, what is the first duty of a
lawyer ?"
"Collect fees, sir"
"Right. What is the second %
To increase the number of clients. .
"When does the position toward
clients changer"
"When making out bill of costs"
Explain"
owe then occupy the antagonistic
position. become the plaintiff and he
becomes the defendant.
"Suit decided, how do you stand with
the lawyer on the other side p
CHECK by iowl."
Enough, sir. You promise to be
an ornament to your profession, and I
wish you success. Now, are you aware
of the duty you owe me p
Perfectly"
Describe it"
cit is to invite you to drink.
"But suppose decline p
Candidate scratches his head.
"There is no instance of the kind on
record in the books. l cannot answer
the question.
You are right. And the confidence
with which you make the assertion
shows conclusively that you read the
law attentively. Let's take a drink,
and I will sign your certificate at once. "
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4 Samnln of Hard Times.

The Lawrence Mass american tells
of a sad case of restitution which has
come within its observation in that city.
A very poor but honest appearing and
prepossessing young man, named Rob-
ert Steel, on his own request, was SEN
fenced to four months in the House of
Correction, in order that he might work
for the shelter it would afford him dur
ing the winter. He had been discharged
from one of the mills early in the sum-
mer, during a reduction of labor, and
having been deserted by his father, and
having no mother, he had during the
intervening months been dependent
upon the charity of strangers. Without
a bed on which to rest, he had been
compelled to seek shelter at night in
barns and other empty buildings, until
the increasing GOODNESS of the weather
no longer rendered it possible for him
to resort to them. AS last alterna-
tive, he gave himself into the custody
of the City Marshal, requesting that he
might be sent to prison, where he
might work for the shelter it might
afford him during the winter. He was
brought into court and sentenced as
we have stated above. In committing
him, the Judge lamented the circum-
stances necessitating such course, and
said that if at any time any charitable
person offered the young man (who IS
only I'D employment, he would be given
an order for his release.
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Watnr Rollers.

The Boston Journal Of Chemistry,
some time since, made the following
suggestion in relation to water boilers
upon stoves A brass or copper vessel
timed upon the inside, and holding
several gallons, is usually found con-
nected with cooking stoves used in
families. AS this vessel is kept full of
hot water, which is used for ordinary
culinary purposes, it is important that
no deleterious agent connected with the
metal should be employed in its con-
struction. A recent analysis has been
made of specimen of timed brass
plate used for making these boilers, and
It was found that the tin contained 26
per cent. of lead. How far this may
serve to cause injury it is impossible to
say. 1t is certain, however, that lead is
au Objectionable metal to be brought in
contact with culinary utensils, and hence
its use must be condemned. An iron
boiler lined with porcelain would be
much safer, and perhaps not more costly.
We understand such a vessel is con-
structed, and if so, it would certainly be
a much safer one to employ as u reser-
voir of hot water for constant house
hold uSa
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28

The following list gives the ages of
prominent Americans President Grant
will be So, April 81, 1874; John G.
Breckenridge was 50, Jan. Is, 1873 n.
P. Banks, 81, Both of January, 1873 +;
Henry Wilson, 81, Feb. 16, 1873 John
Charles Fremont, 60, Dist January, 1873;
Simon Cameron, IA ; Horatio Seymour,
81; Alexander II. Stephens, 81, Feb. II,
1878 Caleb Gushing, 70, 18th January,
1878; Charles Sumner, 81, Jan. 6,
1873; James G. Blaine, A. Oliver P.
Morton, so, Aug. 4, 1873; Senator D..
D. Pratt, SO, Oct. 26, 1872 John
Coburn, At, Oct. 81, 1872 George W.
Williams, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the
United States, so, March %, 1873 /;
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, 60 ;
J. A. J. Creswell, Postmaster General, As,
Nov. Is, 1873 Columbus Deiano, Sec
rotary of the Interior, IS; Reverdy
Johnson, II, May GO, 1873,
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A Much Abused State.

The humorous paragraph writer's are
still haunting Rhode Island with her
limited territory and population. The
latest assertion of this kind is that if
the firm of A. & W. Sprague should be
dissolved, the other Rhode Islanders
would be admitted into the firm of
Brown & Ives. Here is manifest
effort to create the impression that the
population of Rhode Island is so small
that the dissolution of a single firm will
throw the greater part of the population
out of employment. There need be no
hesitation in pronOuncing this a gross
and malignant exaggeration. Unpreju-
diced persons who have attended a
" commencement" at Brown University,
Providence, r. l., and have seen a pro-
cession of upward of fifty men formed,
stretching quite across the State from
Massachusetts, to Connecticut, and sub
sequently marching with lock-steps, in
a circle, In order to keep within the linn
its of the State, know that these slurs
on fourishing if not positively over
grown State are wholly without founda-
tion,-NelU EOTE GrGDhic.
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Foreign Emigration.

Since May, 1S47, up to Nov. ], 1873,
there have been landed at Castle Gar
den, New York, 5,270,3 1857 persons, well
nigh twice as many persons as were in
the United States at the close of the
Revolution. OF these ], 1868, 430 were
Irish, !, 1863, 900 were Germans, 651 ,272
were English, and the remainder of
various other nationalities. Eminent
statisticians estimate the average cash
value of a man at 81, 900 that is, if he
could be sold he would be worth that
much to the purchaser. The 5,250,00O
emigrants who have landed at Castle
Garden are thus worth s., $50, 200, 900.
That they are their own owners makes
them of much higher value, even as
property, to the country. Again, as
estimated by Mr.. Kapp, one of our for
mer Commissioners, each emigrant
brings on an average $75 in money. But
as citizens and producers the value Of
emigration to the country is beyond all
statement in dollars and cents.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
RnmedI for q Dog Bite.

Inthecase of,theTbite of dog where the
teeth penetrated the flesh, whether the
dog was known to be mad or not, use
the same precautions. Wash the wound
with warm water, extract al the virus
possible by sucking the wound with the
lips and then cauterize it deeply with the
caustic most readily obtained. The
time in which the effects of the bite of a
mad dog would be seen, varies fro Two
to three days to as many years ; but if
no effects are felt after two or three
months, as a general thing, the patient
may consider himself safe. Bites made
through clothing are seldom productive
of much harm, as even if the dog is mad
the clothing absorbs the virus before
the teeth reach the flesh. Most of all
the fatal cases are where the person was
bitten on some naked spot.
If one is situated where he can take a
Turkish bath soon after being bitten,
do so by all means. The perspiration
will help to carry off the poison that
may lurk in the system.-HeraId Of
Health.
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Mr.. ChOate COnquering a Jury.

We once heard Rufus ChOate make an
argument five hours long to jury. The
statement of his case, the reasoning,
the appeal to the sensibilities of the
jury, were over in two hours. Still the
advocate continued speaking, repeating
with additional vehemence what he had
said before with new illustrations and
arguments. We looked at the jury in
order to discover the cause of this seem
ingly useless expenditure of mind and
force. Eleven of them were palpably
convinced the twelfth, the foreman,
hard headed, unimaginative, unimpres-
sible man of business, had on his face
look of incredulity. Choate devoted
three hours to the task of breaking down
the will of this one man, and of COM
pelling him to admit the cogency of reas-
oning which was foreign to his habits
of thought. He did not stop, and we
then thought he would never stop, until
he had conquered this disbeliever. 1t
seemed, for some time, that years of
talking would be of no avail. At last,
however, the hard countenance softened,
the stony eyes were moistened, the lips
lost their rigidity-in short, the whole
man collapsed. Then Choate concluded
his argument in a few quiet and telling
sentences, and sat down, sure of the
verdict.-E. p. WhippIe.
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Western Union Telegraph.

New York [Nov. 12l Cor. Chicago Times.l
Extraordinary developments have
come to light here to-day, to the effect
that six weeks ago English capitalists,
with $40, 900, 900, came here to buy up
the Western Union Telegraph Com
panys stock, for the purpose of ulti-
mately selling the stock to the Govern
4nent, as a means of the establishment
of the postal telegraph scheme. The
only hindrance to this scheme of the
English capitalists was Commodore
Vanderbilt, who controls very large
interest in Western Union. The En-
glish party, coming here during the
financial panic, had made immense
purchases, and felt sanguine of accom-
plishing their objects. They had even
gone so far as to buy up lobbyists in
Washington, and had plans arranged
for the coup detat. Commodore Van
derbilt, however, got wind of the
scheme, and to-day went to work and
rushed the stock up from 40 to 543B.
The English party will now have to
raise a very large addition to their
present capital, if they hope to carry
through their original scheme.
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Sad Effect of a Centennial Excitement
Upon a Centenarian.

At Wallingford, VT, ON the one humid
reth anniversary of the settlement of
the town, a large concourse of the sons
and daughters of the town was present
to witness and participate in the cere-
monies, and, to make the programme
more complete, Joseph Haskins, an
aged and most venerable citizen of "a,
was introduced as an impressive feature.
The public appearance of people of 81
is so rare an event that the great crowd
drew closer to the stage, and were
hushed when Mr.. Haskins came for
ward and in a voice still vigorous, but,
we presume, more or less mellowed by
age, sang an old Masonic roundelay
about King Solomon. The answering
applause sent the blood in quicker cur
rents through the old mans veins, his
furrowed cheek flushed, his eyes bright
ened, and he passed around among his
friends, telling, in a sprightly manner,
how, when he lived in Lynn, Mass, he
had seen Gen. Washington and other
celebrities of that remote antiquity, and
how he had moved to WallingfOrd a
matter of seventy years ago, and had
been there ever since. He was the es-
sential lion of the day, and it doubtless
filed his soul with more Joy than it had
known for fifty or sixty years. He was
young again, and, with the thoughtless-
ness of youth, was unmindful of the
peril he incurred. In less than an hour
after his song, and while his name was
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
Steel and Glass Billiard Rails

billiard player, who is dissatisfied
with ivory balls, makes in an English
m aper n suggestion which may be worth
attention of inventors. He saws
Everyone who plays at billiards knows
hat occasionally the balls do not run
ftrue. They are made of ivory. and even
when they are quite new the ivory is not
OF equa! density throughout and when
they are Old the external portion is much
more dry than the internal, consequently
the difference of density is greater. and
the balls, especially when going gently.
swerve from direct course. the specific
gravity of the different parts of the mass
being different. 1t has often occurred to
me that much better and truer balls
might be made either of glass or steel.
The weight might be made the same as
those of ivory by having a hollow in the
middle of the ball. 1t is well known
that hollow sphere runs more truly
and more evenly than a solid one. The
specific gravity of ivory is to that of
glass about as 3 to (, to that of steel as
to IL. The hollow in a steel ball would
thus be greater than in a glass one. and
1t would therefore be the truest, and the
elasticity IN either case would be greater
than ivory. 1t appears to me, therefore.
that either steel or glass would be SUI
Perlor to ivory for the purpose, and [
wonder whether it has ever occurred to
amy one to try these materials. | do not
think that glass of the toughest kind
would be more liable to chip than ivory,
and steel would be much less so. There
Is another point to be considered-the
expense, and this am convinced would
be much less in either. case. The ex-
pertinent IS worth trying, as elephants
are getting scarce, and may be applied
to better purposes than making billiard
balls.
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A Mould.Be Monareh,s Abode.

The Count Of Chambord, with an in
come of 600, 900, is content b. inhabit
the ground floor of FrohsdOn Castle,
his residence. His reception-room is
plain. The furniture represents the
style of the latter part of the last cen
tnry, the proprietor having an extreme
dislike of what he calls "gew-gaws.
The prospect from the windows is splen-
did, embracing a range Of hills thickly
wooded with fir-trees. His closet con-
tains large variety of heavy walking
sticks, their owner being lame, and an
equally varied assortment of sporting
Implements, the Count having inherited
from his grandfather, Charles X, who
was the crack shot of his time, decided
taste for sporting. His favorite seat is
an easy chair, made entirely from gigan-
tic stag-horns and upholstered with
stag-skins. His father, the Duke Of
Bern, was very corpulent, and the
Count inherits the paternal obesity.
His stature is less than five feet nine
inches, and his age is 90. He speaks
good deal of Versailles, and thinks that
the bed of Louis XIV. is there ready
for him to sleep in. His wife, three
wears his senior, is more cautious ana
holder than her husband, and is regard,
ed as his superior in intelligence all'.
force Of character. .-
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What We Should Eat,

Those who expect to think, should
not eat much food which simply pro-
duces warmth and fat, such as ham, fat
pork, white bread, butter, rice, tapioca
and starch. These contain very little
phosphate food, being carbonaceous.
The proper food for labOring men
we mean those who have to exercise
muscular strength chiefy-shouId be
that which contains the greatest amount
of nitrogen. Among these barley and
cheese stand high. The red flesh of
the OK or sheep, and bolted bread, are
the leading articles. Men who train
prize fighters seem to understand much
better than others how to build up
physical strength and endurance. When
their battle or their race is ended,
they lay aside their unbolted bread and
fruit, their lean beef and mutton, and
fall into their old habits of hquor-drink-
ing and eating of starch bearing articles,
such as rice, fine bread, pudding, with
fat meat and butter, and they soon be-
come as fat and lazy as these carbon
aceous articles can make them.