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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
Paris on Sunday.

On Sunday Paris puts on its garb of
medieval gayety and rushes madly to
the races. An immense throng of vehi-
cles make their way up the Champs
Elysees, and from the Arc de Triom-
phe seem to cover the long and graceful
alley under the blOssoming trees ike
swarm of insects. All classes of the pop
ulatiOn join in the frequent carnival.
Gamblers, duelists, and statesmen, ar
lists and poets, dukes and legitimists,
the whole corps, apparently, of the
Legion of Honor, clerks, shop keepers,
students, mingle in the mad chase of
pleasure, AMI don the cap of folly. OF
the fairer, but not in this instance al
ways the gentler sex, the throng is no
less conspicuous. Painted and daring
faces dash by, from whose extravagant
modes of dress the fashion of the world
are governed. Close at their side
duchesses and famous women, the
leaders of Partisan society, rich and
languid mothers whose infants are at
nurse in the deadly shambles of the
suburbs, American matrons who are
educating" tPeir children in Paris,
English ladies who have forgotten the
proprieties of Victoria's court. Vir-
tue and vice ride on together. The
refnements of the nineteenth century,
the delicacy of cultivated life, the
charms of moral purity, are lost in me-
di8val folly. It is as if one were trans
ported back to the city of Rabelais or
of Henry Ill, saw Catherine de Me-
dici amidst her maids of honor, or the
women of the Fronde and the League
at their maddest exploits. In the Sun
day evenings, l am told, The throngs of
fashion fill the theatres to listen to
plays from which modesty shrinks, at
which virtue trembles. It is easy to
conceive that in such society dissipation
and mad gayety lead to their natural
results, that crime, remorse, despair,
brood over the scenes of fancied pleas
ures. Paris teens with tales of horror
unnatural mothers, frightful fathers
the wretched home, the sudden death,
suspicious almost too dreadful to be
told, fates harder than those of the vic
Tins of all common misfortune, are
usual themes. There are rumors of
fair American women who have pur-
chased titles at the loss of their for
tunes, happiness, and even their lives /;
of American families who have ven
tured within the circle of Partisan gay
ETY., and been undone, It is certain
that Paris is no safe school in which to !
complete an American education,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
"Cats',-After Victor Hugo. ;

In the burlesque novel which Punch is
now publishing, after the French OF
Fictor Nogo" (Victor Hugo), the fol-
lowing remarks on cats appear in con-
nection with the passage of the hero
through the streets of London at night:
"Antoneroly, muttered to himself
'Heigho ! and passed along the de-
serted streets"
"He seemed to be treading on the
silent tOmbs of the nameless and the
forgotten.
"He heard the march of cats through
the darkness"
"They rushed to an attack with loud
cries, springing up suddenly from every
quarter-areas, roofs, balconies, lamp
posts, cutters, lanes, passages, courts,
alleys, and thoroughfares.
"They few up the trees in the
squares, and scurried madly round the
crescents.
"All their habits were nocturnal.
The feline rule always is to appear
Unexpectedly.
Chow many tragic sights have been
witnessed by the statues of the metrop-
oils
cat Antoneroly's footsteps the cats
fed, filling news after news with their
unearthly cries.
"Quiet neighborhood-back streets.
These words sum up the whole of the
Feline war.
They live in purr-lieus.
cit is quarrel of localities of fami-
ly against family tabby against tor
toise-shell 4; pussy-cat against pussy cat.
''All our attempts, our movements in
legislation and in education, our ency-
clop@dias, our PHILOSOPHERS, our genius,
our glories, all fall before the Cats.
"Could its youth be trained
"The Cat's-cradle has even been a
puzzle.
"They love blind-alleys. Strange
blindness
GA colossal scufie, a jangling of
Tittums, an immeasureable rebellion,
without strategy, without plan, chival-
ric and savage, appearing like fantastic
black, shadows, tails of the past, the
devastation of g. ass, the destruction of
fower-pots in back yards, the ruin of
squares, the terror of invalids-such is
the sleepless warfare.
"Antoneroly passed on among the
vanishing shadows"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
The American Rough.

No other country ever produced such
an article. He can be distinguished
anywhere by the qualities that are
enameled on his scoundrelly counten-
ance. He is so cowardly, cruel, cum
ming and vicious that one does a great
wrong to call him beastly. He is q
bully. ever imposing upon and abusing
the weak, and shrinking before the reso-
lutte and strong. He begins life by
robbiug his father, If he has one to
know, and beating his mother, and he
ends it as New York Alderman or
Judge. There is no place where the
rough is found in such perfection, il /
may be allowed to use the word, as in
New York. He abounds everywhere in
our blessed land of free institutions,
especially about our cities, but nowhere
such a specimen as in New York. Some
years since he was produced upon the
stage under the name of Nose the fire.
man. But Nose, unfortunately for
himself, volunteered in the beginning
of the late war, and appeared at the
first Bull Run as a zouave. The pen
sive public was disgusted TO learn that
its favorite Nose ran away like a pol
troon, as he is, at the first fire, and
could not be rallied or stopped even.
He disappeared from human view and
human fayor.--DOl Pidtt
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
How About The Trot ing Turf ?

There has been a marked falling of
this year in the entries for the purses
advertised by Cleveland, Buffalo and
Springfield. The telegrah reports the
number of entries received as follows
For the nine purses for trotters at
Cleveland, amounting to thirty-three
thousand dollars, sixty-four nomipa-
tions are made, which, at ten per cent
swells the entrance money to 500, 400.
leaving $40, 900 to be provided for out
of the gate money and pool receipts.
The nine purses advertised by the
Buffalo Park Association, aggregating
$51, 200, have called out sevennty.th
entries, which, at ten per cent, makes
the tax on owners and drivers amount
to $36, $40, leaving $14, $50 to be gath
cred from the gate and other receipts
Last year the eight purses, amounting
to $67, 900, had eighty five nominations.
The money received in entrance fees
was $61, $50, leaving $5, $50 to be pro-
vided for the purchasers of admission
tickets. The eight purses advertised
by Springfield this year foot up S45,-
600. The entries are sixty-two, and the
entrance fees $33, $50. The difference
between the money paid out by the
Association, and the money paid in by
the owners of horses is $11, $50. Last
year the purses given by Springfield
aggregated $38, 900, and the nominations
counted one hundred and fifteen. The
entrance fees were $49, 400, or 81, 900
more than the total of the purses. The
loss toTthe Hampden Park Association
this year, as compared with the success
of last, is just $22. The figures,
we imagine, are sufficiently striking to
impress one at glance. Turf, Field
and Farm.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
The Hackman,s Passenger.

The st. Louis Republican relates the
following: ella Chausse, a Paris hack
man, had pretty wife and wanted to
keep her near him. He used to drive
her around in his hack when passengers
we're scarce, and took pleasure in often
looking to see if she was there. He
may not have made much money, but
it paid him in the satisfaction of know
ing that while his wife was riding be-
hind him in the carriage she had not run
away. He was sure he had her and that
was as good as fare. La Chausse's wife
must have been constitutionally tricky
came of a tricky family, perhaps. at
any rate, poor La Chausse's anxiety
about Nine. La Chausse was not with
out cause. One day he could not find
her to take drive with him, and was
plunged into deep gloom. he was told
that his favorite passenger had run
away with lover. This news, received
from sympathizing neighbors maddened
him. He soon heard that his wife was
in London, and he started there to hunt
her up. He looked high and Iow-in
high places and in low places-but
could not find her. She was a hand
some woman and he loved her, and
could almost have felt her anywhere
within a mile of him. One day, while
feeling his way through London, he
heard of the assassination of a woman,
and felt that it was his wife. He went
to see the corpse, and sure enough it
was she. There could be no doubt
about that, for he both saw it and felt
it. He turned away from the sickening
sight, and went back to Paris and
mounted his coach-Oox, with as good
heart as he could, He began to drive
furiously-so fast and reckless that pas
sengers were afraid of him. He lashed
his horses, and every minute turned and
looked with terror stricken stare, in
his carriage. His colleagues of the box
wanted to know what allied him? He
asked them if they saw no battered face
and bleeding eyes in his carriage. They
did not, and he only plunged furiously
again through Paris. He always had
passenger now-he felt her presence,
and saw that she was there. She never
got out OF his carriage. It was the form
of the murdered woman he had seen in
London. He was trying to drive away
from her now-or dash her and himself
to pieces on the stones. She was his
only passenger, and he came to be sure
she was always there-the reminder of
his wife his love and wrongs. So one
day he did not mount his box, but took
a razor and cut the cord which bound |
him to his phantom passenger. He and
that ghastly shadow forever pursuing
him peopled the world alone To him
there was no one else. He felt only her. |
His death was reported among num-
ber of late suicides now SO prevalent in
Paris--a grim procession marching slow
ly with their wounds freshly bleeding,
towards the land of shadows"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
Two KinglY Coun1eS.

Murat Halstead, while in London,
saw the royal family at church. He
describes the scene: "Ihe services con-
cluded, the royal party we're escorted
to their carriages by the dean, who is
personally high in the favor of the
queen and her sons. The prince of
Wales presents the appearance of a
stout and amiable middle-aged gentle
man, large in the neck, and bald -heade q.
He was in plain citizens dress, and wore
a gorgeous button-hole bouquet. He
has been accused of many exec sses, but
his face is pleasant and free from the
evidence of vicious indulgences. He is
a very intelligent and agreeable looking
gentleman, and when one considers the
facilities that he has had for being led
into temptation, it must be confessed, 1
think, that he has taken good care of
himself. His appearance confirms his
reputation here as that of kindly and
clever good fellow, The princess of
royal family. Her pensive beauty has
faded but little. aud her happy taste IN
dress and her airy grace excite general
admiration. should have noticed care
fully how this fair princess was dressed,
but her sister-in-law, the crown prin-
cess of England and Germany, came in
view, with the tall, bronzed soldier,
with close-clipped hair and tawny beard,
the crown prince, her husband. The con-
trast between the distinguished couples
was strongly marked. The prince and
princess Of Wales seemed a shade fes-
tive. They were smiling and gracious,
with, perhaps, one may say, little of
the glitter of the opera or fairy tale
The other couple were serious and plain,
clothing dark, features grave, meaning
business.
A more soberly dressed and unpre-
tending couple than the future emperor
and empress of Germany we're not iD
Dean Stanley's congregation that crowd
ed the ancient abbey"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
An Opium-Eater's Experience

A writer on De Quincy says: /: "At
one moment he dropped upon his &C
quaintance from the clouds at another
he would vanish into utter darkness for
weeks or months together. One day he
came to dine with Christopher North
so we are told in the Professors life
was detained for the night by heavy
storm of rain, and prolonged his i'm
promptu visit for year. During that
period his habits must have been rather
amazing to well-regulated household.
His wants, indeed, were simple, and in
one sense regular, particular joint Of
mutton, cut according to a certain
mathematical formula, and an ounce of
laudanum made him happy for a day.
But in the hours when ordinary beings
are awake he was generally to be found
stretched in profound opium slumbers
upon a rug before the fire, and it was
only about two or three in the morning
that he gave unequivocal symptoms of
vitality, and suddenly gushed forth In
streams of wondrous eloquence to the
supper parties detained for the purpose
of witnessing the display"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
Gen. Wayne and His Camels.

The name of Gen. Wayne, of Geor-
gia, having been mentioned in connec-
ton with the Russia mission, and espe-
cially as the choice of Gen. Gordon,
who is supposed to be in high favor
with Gen. Grant because of his advo-
cacy OF the third term. The New Or
leans Picayune supplies some remin-
iscences of Wayne that will prove inter
esti' reading, 1t says:
ga native Georgian, a son of the ven
erable judge of the supreme court,
Gen. Wayne was regarded as a very ac-
complished officer of the old army. He
arose to the rank of major in that army,
and from his scientific aud intellectual
attainments was frequei tly appointed
to special duty. There was one of these
assignments which mDy be referred to
now with wonder and interest, as illus
trative of the great pl ogress of the last
twenty years. This was the scheme
concocted and carried out by Major
Wayne of introducing camels into this
country for transportation across the
plains. The major succeeded in get
ting a handsome appropriation from
congress for this experiment. Furnish
ed with United States ship, he pro-
ceeded to the Mediterranean and there
obtained a large bunch Ito use the
pine wood phrase) of camels, which he
brought to the United States and landed
at Corput Christi. where they we're cor
rallied and set to breeding. This proved
a very slow business, for peculiar rea-
sons. The camels did not take to
Texas, nor Texas to the camels. The
wild cattle and horses fled at their APP
proach, as the subject of Montezuma
did from the mailed cavaliers of Cortez.
When the Arabs who accompanied the
camels to this country returned home,
the Texans, in whose charge they were
left, grew quickly tired of the ungainly
critters, and could find no use for them.
The mesquit grass made them too fierce
for use as draught or riding animals,
and neither the water nor food of the
country was adapted to their stomachs.
Their bumps grew vissibly smaller,
their legs more spindling and shaky,
and their tempers more unruly. They
we're finally abandoned or sold out TO
menageries, and then the United States
ceased to have any camel property, and
Maj. Wayne disappeared from public
view until the civil war broke ont, when
he buckled on his sword and performed
his not very conspicuous part in the
struggle on the confederate side"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
The Scandal as a sedative.

Friday evening a woman about thirty
years old was arrested in the western
district for disturbing the peace, and
the event almost distracted her, al
though she had seen the inside of a cell
before. She began bowling and weep
ing as soon as she was locked up, and
| Biiab, the ianitor of the Ninth-avenue
station, felt his heart getting tender.
He offered her harvest apple, but she
merely stopped long enough to see what
it was, and then went on CRYING out:
s. am dying, I know am |"
He besought her to live for the sake
of her husband, who is away on the
lakes, but she said she would be cold in
death before morning if not set at liter
ty. He showed her the almanac and
tried to induce her to peruse it and
settle her mind, but she tried to pull
his hair through the bars and raised her
voice until It could be heard two blocks
away. He began reading the almanac
out loud, but she drowned his voice and
he had TO give up. Then he went out
and bought some peppermint drops and
handed to her, saying that it was a
burning shame to arrest lady like her
for merely hitting another woman on
the ear with shovel. She was quiet
for few minutes and then broke out
again, and the roof of the station seem
ed to be raising up. Bijah offered her
pound of gum drops, a new bonnet, a
black silk dress, house aud lot and $50
900 in bonds if she would only quit,
but she danced up and down and yelled:
"Lemmie eoutor shall di-ah -
He locked all the doors and sat down
on the front steps to let her exhaust
herself, but, after an hour and ten min
utes, there being no cessation, he ran in
with an ak on his shoulder and threat
ened to cut her head right off if she
didn't stop.
"I won't ! I won't A.! I won't !'' she
shouted, dancing up and down, and
taking a fresh start. He drummed on
the coal scuttle with the ak to drown
her voice, but the voice drowned the
scuttle. He put the hose on the pen
stock and threatened to drown her, but
she shut her eyes and pitched her voice
on new key.
The old man was in despair. The men
up stairs couldn't sleep, and people out
doors thgouht that a panther had been
Gagged. As the officer rubbed his bald
head and looked around his eye lighted
on an old paper, and his smile extended
from ear to ear. He carried it in,
turned up the gas, and shouted
" Have you read the Beecher scandal
yet?"
"Read what !'' she exclaimed, sud-
denly ceasing to scream.
"The Beecher -Tilton matter, p" he con-
this ERE thing what every
body is talking about ?"
"No-where is it ?'' she asked, and
he passed in the paper, telling her that
if she would be good he'd hunt up the
rest of the statement in another paper;
and from that moment until daylight
the woman never uttered word, except
once when she asked if there weren't
seven or eight more papers with state
ments in.-Detr0St Free Press.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
The crops in the Northwest.

IL is quite manifest that the advices
from different sections of Minnesota,
Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and Iowa
indicate that the prospects for the yield
of spring wheat are not SO fattering as
they were two weeks ago. In fact, it
seems to be conceded that the yield Of
1874 will be far below that of 1873.
Reports from all sections indicate
that the corn crop looks as well as it
did in 1872, which was an unusually
prolific year, and corn is really food
for both man and beast, and therefore,
of the very first importance to the
farmer. The weather continues dry,
and if the corn has hereafter a suffi-
cheney of rain, and the country IS not
visited by the early autumnal frost, the
farmers will make on their corn what
they will lose ON their smaller wheat
crop. The harvest throughout the
north west generally will at least be ten
days earlier than it was in 1873,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
ROYAL Religions.

Queen Victoria is the legal head of
the Episcopal church of England, and
the Presbyterian church of Scotland.
When she is in England her Presbyte-
rianism is practically called dissent, :"
and when she recrosses the Tweed into
Scotland her Episcopalianism becomes
dissent" there. She has morbid
hatred sof ritualism. The Prince of
Wales is inclined to ritualistic ceremo-
MES, while his eldest sister, the Grown
Princess of Germany, is a Lutheran !;
his brother-in-law, Lord Lorne is a
Presbyterian another brother-in- law,
the Grown Prince of Prussia, is Pro-
testant Lutheran; a sister-in-law, the
Duchess of Edinburq, is Greek Oatho-
lie; her husband is a Low Church
Episcopalian the other brothers and
sisters are Episcopalians and Presbyte-
ri Sps by turn, their particular creed de-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
AFRICAN EXPLORATIONS.

Henry NJ. Stanley Sent Out by the New
York Herald and london Daily Tele-
We are in the position this morning
to announce that arrangements have
been concluded between the proprie-
tors of the Daily Telegraph and Mr..
Bennett, proprietor of the New York
Herald, under which an expedition will
at once be dispatched to Africa with
the object of investigating and report
ing upon the haunts of the slave trad
ers of pursuing to fulfillment the
magnificent discoveries of the great ex-
plorer, DIR. Livingstone, and of COM
pleting, if possible, the remaining
problems of Central African geogl Apply.
This expedition has been undertaken
by, and will be under the sole COM
mand of Mr.. Henry NJ Stanley, whose
successful journey "in search of Liv-
ingstone," upon the suggestion and at
the charge of the proprietor of the
New York Herald, was the means of
succoring the illastrious traveller, and
securing to science the fruit of lis
researches, while it enabled our dis
tinguished countryman to prosecute his
latest Investigations. Mr.. Stanley will
in short time leave England fully
equipped with boats, arms, stores, aud
all the provision necessary for a thor
ough and protracted African expedition.
Commissioned by the Daily Telegraph
and the New York Herald in concert,
he will represent the two nations whose
common interest in the regeneration of
Africa was so we'll illustrated when the
lost English explorer was re-discovered
by the energetic American correspond
ent. In that memorable journey Mr..
Stanley displayed the best qualities of
an African traveller; and with no incon-
siderable resources at his disposal to
reinforce his own complete acquaint-
ance with the conditions of African
travel, it may be hoped that vely i'm
portaht results will accrue from this un-
dertaking, to the advantage of science,
humanity and civilization. London
Daily Telegraph, Jatly 4.
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Blue skv and White Clouds.

The ethereal blue color of the sky is
due to minute particles of matter which
float in the air. We're these particles
removed the app arance of the sky
would be dead black. It is a fact in
optics that exceedingly fine portions of
matter disperse or scatter the blue rays
of light, coarser portions scatter red
rays, still coarser portions scatter all the
rays, making white light. An atmos-
phere is full of aqueous vapor, the par
ticles of which diffuse white light in all
directions. When these particles are
enlarged they become visible in the
form of clouds. The vapor particles of
the white clouds are supposed to be
finer aud lighter than those of the dark
clouds. That the diffusion of light in
our atmosphere, the blue coloring of
the sky and the color of the clouds are
due to the presence of matter floating
in the air, has been conclusively proven
by Tyndall. On passing beam of sun
light through glass tube the beam is
rendered brilliantly visible by the re-
feotion of light from the dust particles
floating in the air contained in the tube.
But on removing the dust particles,
which is done by filtering the air by cot
ton wool, or causing the air to pass over
a flame, the beam of light Is no longer
visible in the tube.
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A Minstrel,s Renartee

The Hornet says " Now that Frank
Brewer, the popular American minstrel,
is dead, we will make the world a pres.
ent of two capital stories about him.
The first is Howard Paul's. Meeting
Brewer one day, Howard said, Il am
very sorry that could not attend your
fathers funeral last Sunday, Frank. i
hope that your friends supported you
in your affliction.' T-thousands of
'em, replied Frank the old house was
c.crowded-lOe turned money a1Cayy
When Brewer first arrived in New York,
seedy after a journey, the bar keeper at
the Metropolitan asked him to pay for
his glass of brandy before he swallowed
it. 'W-what cried Frank, aston
ished at this unusual demand. Yes,
said the bar-keeper, it's the boss's or
ders-all strangers must pay for it be-
fore they drink it. 'G-goodness cried
Brewers, is it so instantaneous in its
f-fatal effects ?"