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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04
The Steamer Elephant.

Mr.. Thomas Hartshorn is still able
to thow little light on the annals of
the steamer Elephant" Captain Jim
Homer remembers the " Elephant, " and
bears witness to her speed. He re-
members that she had tin elephant on
her jackstaff, and one painted on each
wheel-house. All questions as to the
existence of such boat are thus put at
rest. Mr.. Hartshorn says, by way of
further recording the exploits of the
Elephant "She was comm up from
Orleans on one of her trips, and struck
a wood yard Just below Shirt-tail Bend.
The woodward was about a mile long,
and the current set strong agin theshore
that the yard was Oh. The Elephant
pulled up at the lower end of the yard
and wooded. She started agin the cur
rent, and durn me if she didn't wood
three times at that yard. She was the
broadest boat across the stern, reckon,
that you ever saw. She had two rud-
ders, one at each side, and when she
was moving she made sort of suction
or eddy behind her so strong that if a
man fell overheard he would follow the
boat all day. When a man tumbled off
they used to look at the books to see if
his passage was paid. If it was paid
they pulled him aboard, and if it wasn't
they let him slide"
fThe Elephant, continued Mr..
Hartshorn, "made one trip to st. Louis
Just after she was built. She was in
sight of the town about two days be-
fore she got there. All the steamboat
people were out lookin' at her chimneys
and pilot-house, and trying to tell what
boat she was. Finally one of the pilots
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04
Latin Phrases in Common Use.

Ab initiO, from the beginning.
Ab OUO, from the origin.
Ad intfnitttD1, to an unlimited extent
I'D Hbitltna, at pleasure.
Ad UGJOren1, accoI ding to value.
4 fOrtjOri, with strong reason.
A pTiOri, beforehand.
A posteriOTi, afterwards.
Bona tide, in good faith.
CODaDos nlentis, of sound mind.
Cl.i bona ? for what good2
De fdctO, in fact.
De ,jIre, by right.
De noUO, anew.
Dec UoLente, God willing.
Dran1atis persona, characters repre-
sented in a play.
Er cathedrG, from the chair of au-
thority.
E.re,cnt onlnes, they all go out.
E.r offcjO, by virtue of the office.
E:r Odrte, on one side.
Er post faCto (bad Latin), after the
deed.
Fac sin1iLe, an exact copy.
Id Onane genus, all of that sort.
IN statu quo, in the state in which
it was.
In toto, entirely.
In trd7sitot, on the way.
Lpse dirit, mere assertion.
Lpso facto, by the fact itself.
jus !ge1lti,t711, the laws of nations.
LGp8us HnglSB slip of the tongue.
LOcuDl tenens, substitute.
LeG tdLiOYis, law of retaliation.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04
The Formation of Diamonds.

Two specimens of diamonds found by
Agassiz imbedded in the itacolumite or
elastic sandstone of Brazil settled the
long mooted question of the matrix or
natural origin of that jewel. Diamonds
are particles of pure carbon crystalized
at a certain temperature, caused by the
volcanic action which has upheaved all
the ledges of itacolumite or elastic sand
stone found on the face of the globe.
If this precise degree of heat should by
any irruption or convulsion of nature
be applied to those vast storehouses of
carbon, the coal fields of the west,
there is no telling the amount of dia-
mond crystals that might be produced.
But it seems that this exact amount of
heat is never attained save in the ita-
columite formation, and whenever loose
diamonds are found in sands or in con-
glemerate formation they prove the ex-
istencs of larger quantities imbedded
in itacolumite In the neighborhood.
Wherever that formation is upheaved,
therefore, we may look for diamond de-
posts here. As yetn efforts have been
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04
The. sonorous Sand of Kunai.

w. H. Frink, of Honolulu, has sent
some strange sand, taken from a bank
on the island of Kauai, to the Academy
cf Sciences of San Francisco, In his
letter he thus describes it's peculiaritv:
The bank, which is composed of this
sand, commences at a perpendicular
bluff at the southwest of the island.
and extends one and half miles almost
due south, parallel with the beach.
which is about 100 yards distant from
the base of the sand bank. This sand
drift is about sixty feet high, and at the
extreme south end the angle preserved
is as steep as the nature of the sand
will permit. The bank is constant
ly extending to the south. It is said by
the natives that at the bluff and along
the middle of the bank the sand is not
sonorous. But at the extreme south
end and for a half-mile north, if you
slap two handfuls together there is a
sound produced like the low hooting of
an owl-more or less sharp according as
the motion is quick or slow. Sit down
upon the sand and give one hand a
quick circular motion, and the sound is
like the heavy bass of a melodeon.
Kneel upon the steep incline, extend
the two hands and clasp as much sand
as possible, slide rapidly down, carry.
ing all the sand you can, and the sound
accumulates as you descend until it is
like distant thunder. In this expert
ment the sound was sufficient to frighten
our horses, fastened a short distance
from the base of the drift. But the
greatest sound we produced was bv
having one native lie upon his belly and
another taking him by the feet and
dragging him rapidly down the incline,
carrying as much sand as possible with |
them. With this experiment the sound |
was terrific, and could have been heard
many hundred yards distant. With all |
the experiments that were made. it |
seemed the sound was in proportion to |
the amount of sand put in motion with |
a proportionate velocity. Another con-
slderatiOn seems requisite-that is, it's |
perfect dryness. The dry sand would |
sound on the surface where six inches |
beneath it was wet but if any of the |
vet sand became mingled with the dry,
It's property of sounding ceased at once.
The sand appears to the eye like ordi-
lary beach sand, but ordinary beach
'and will not produce the sounds. 1t
las been said that it lost its sonorous
when taken away from the
bank. But can discover no diminish
ng of its sonorous qualities, even with
he bottle uncorked, and we have had
ain frequently and an atmosphere more
han ordinarily moist for this time of
vear. Perhaps if exposed to a very
lamp atmosphere it might absorb mois-
ure enough to prevent its sounding"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04
THE HOME AMONG THE HILLS.
BIZ HARRIET BI'EwEN KIMBALL.

BIZ HARRIET M'EwEN KIsIBALL.
Midway between these towering hills
One lonely hnman dwelling
The c1rcling acres, culture swept.
Its little history teIlingl
On either hand the meadow land
MAKE fa1r the mountain spaces
With golden reach of buttercups
And silver drift of daisies
Behind, the massive forest wall:
Before, the river running;
And close about the little cot
The signs of human cunning:
The signs so homely and so sweet
That draw us to each other,
And make the daily life Of man
Familiar to his brother
We know the hand at early morn
That cottage hearth-fre kindling:
We watched the dropping of this corn;
We wait its purple spindling!
part have we in all the tolls
OF these our mountain neighbors:
portion in the precious gain
Heaven winnows from their labors.
We taste their trials. share their feasts,
And, with passing wonder,
We Iinger even while we go,
Their choice, their lot to ponder.
Amid the grandeur and the gloom
On every hand abiding.
A flower Of human blossoming
This little home is hiding.
What tender wind Of Providence
The small seed hither drifted,
Where yet these shadows vast may fall
On village spires uplifted?
Less awful seem those hills august,
Less lone the valleys glooming,
Since in this wilderness the rose
or human life is blooming
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The River Rhine.

The great river Rhine takes it's rise
in the mountains of Switzerland, and
drains not less than IL, 900 square miles
thereof and, In passing towards tie
sea, it flows through a h:lIy, rough,
mountainous country, as do its princi-
pal branches, the Main and Moselle,
and as also does the parallel but smaller
river Mas (or Meuse). Any observing
traveller who traces the course of the
rapid Rhine can readily perceive the
ravages it has made on the hill and
mountain sides of the country through
which it forces its way. The multitude
of enormous ravines, gorges, canons,
and valleys which it has excavated, and
thrown the materials thereof into the
sea, account for the filling up of 26, 600
square miles of shallow ocean. The
Swiss mountains whose rains and melted
SHOWS tumble in torrents towards the
channel of the Rhine, have been scraped
and torn by glaciers, and lowered in
height, and reduced in size, by the ac-
tion of water and ice. The eye can
detect at a single glance where
whole cubic miles of rock have been
worn away, and carried off in the form
of powders, gravel, sand, and sedi-
ment, and rolled or Aoated into the
Holland sea. The waters of the Rhine
are never clear and limpid, but always
dirty and murky like those of the Mis-
souri,, and never fit to drink, on account
of the alluvial matter with which they
are charged. The Rhine is deep, rap
id running stream, the apparent size
and width of the Ohio at relative dis
tances between its source and outlet;
but, in the course of a year, it dis
charges far more water than the Ohio,
as it never runs so low; nor does it rise
suddenly so high, but continues to flow
throughout the year with strong, pow
erful current. fed by the melting SHOWS
of the Alps in summer, as by rains at
other seasons. In the course of a year
it conveys into the sea an enormous
quantity of sediment-millions of cubic
yards in amount.
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Bailey in Westminster Abbey.

Right this way, Mr.. Bailey. Now
tell the people just how man feels
who visits Westminster Abbey. "You
are rushed about from point to point,
and from trying to store your mind
with impressions you fall to looking out
for your legs. You are up to your neck
in romance, over your head in history !;
and your whole performance is a reckless
and aimlesss effort to claw your way out.
The impressions which you receive are
but transitory ;ithey come and go like
flash, and after you are bowed out of
doors you feel as if you had taken a'pro-
minent part in boiler explosion, and
are just about as clear as to the de-
tails. Ipassed by scores of kings and
queens and peers entombed, 1 walked
over acres of others, and wondered how
theyi could be so careless with their
dead. I got.up from the service which
I witnessed on entering the building,
and found I had been sitting on an
entire family"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04
The Terrible Famine in Palestine

Rev. DIR. Clark, of the American
board of foreign missions, has received
a letter from Rev. j. o. Barrows, of
Cesarea, dated July 10, in which he
gives some thrilling details of the ter
rible famine now prevailing in that re-
gion. Mr.. BarrOws writes:
While at Yodegat, which is eighty or
ninety miles north of us, I witnessed
the rayages of the famine, which is very
severe, and also beyond, toward Angora
Many villages are entirely deserted in
some, cne or two, three or four fami-
lies, or parts of families, remain in the
district OF Sungartu, which is beyond
1odegat, and in which city there is a
Protestant church, as many as five
thousand persons have died of starva-
ton but the horrors of this famine
are lndescribable. Many people have
subsisted on grass for weeks. and then
died. The beggars have flocked to the
cities, and there many of them have
died, because they could not get NOR
sci of bread. Old men, mothers with
babies at their breasts, young men that
have become children, young boys and
girls half-naked, begging, crying, faint
ing and dying.
Bodies have been in the streets one,
two and even three or four days before
their burial, and the dogs have feasted
on them.
Many of our Protestant communities
and families have suffered greatly. At
SaDgartU some of the brethren have
sold house, shop, household furniture,
bed clothing, everything, and now must
beg or starve. In one village there was
one Protestant family; the father, moth
er and all the children but two have
died OF starvation.
In the village of Iniirli there was
pleasant Ii tie Protestant community,
several of whom were members of the
church, with the preacher residing with
them, but they were poor. This preach
er went to Yodegat and purchased -four,
becoming responsible for the pay him
sell, and SO kept alive six families. Now.
uhless sss the preacher can be paid, his
creditors will take everything from him.
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Professor Huxley on a Century's
Progress.

He constantly found the observation
made by English political writers, that
the French were persons necessarily in
competent to govern themselves, be-
cause ever since the year 1889, they had
been in a state of chronic revolution.
But those Englishmen who could recol-
lect that the Long parliament began in
1910, and that the last Stuart rebellion
was in 1745-tbat was 105 years-might
be inclined to doubt whether even a
much longer period of political vicissi-
tude and political struggle than that
which had been passed through by
France, was the slightest indication that
people were not able to govern them
selves efficiently. In the early part Of
the last century they had, in fact, but
Just got rid of their Bourbons and all
they represented. Society was in a
state of corruption which could only be
compared to that of the second empire
in France. Bribery was the means of
government and peculation was its re-
ward. Four-fifths of the seats in the
house of commons were notoriously for
sale in one shape or another. The min
lister required to know the state of the
vote market more than any other, and
even the king, at later day, occupied
himself in the subsidizing the kings
and alloting to them subsidies
to their merits and SER
vices, with retail rather than a royal
Laughter The condition
of the church was either terpidity or
Hear, hear. The position of |
dissenters was a scandal to a civilized |
country. Priestly and the men who be-
lieved with him had, if the law were |
put in force, no civil rights, or at least
none that were worth having by any
man who valued civil rights. His
preaching was a crime, and every Sun
day, during which he abstained from
going to service which he abhorred,
ne could have been visited by fine and
AS to the material condi-
lion of the ecountry, he need not tell them
It was time when no man dare make a
Journey without being armed when it
,ook several days to get from here to
London; when canals were an inven-
ion whose utility was greatly doubted,
md whose revolutionary tendencies
we're strongly suspected. Laughter. I
And when they thought that, all that
vas only hundred years ago.-Ad-
lresS at RiTD1in0hdnl,
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Blood as a Fertilizer.

At the large New York, or rather
Jersey slaughter-house, fifty tons OF
quite dry blood reduced to a me d%nst, %
are obtained every two weeks; Inc
drying takes place in iron cyiinaser1s,
having a rotary motion IKE oonee
roasting, exposed to moderate neat;
Blood dust is an excellent manutes eno
sells at forty dollars ton. a part on
the evaporation takes place m Vals'
The dried flesh and bones OF All AMI
mails that accidentally die, ground up
together, Iyield q strong manure.
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made to bore into the itacolumite for
nation itself for these gems. But as it
is granular silicious rock of laminated
structure distinguished by its peculiar
fexibility, sheets of it bending back and
forth as if jointed, there is no reason
why it should not be worked to advan-
tage in searching for diamonds. Ledges
of it are found in Georgia, and North
and South Carolina, and diamonds of
great value have been picked up in the
first named state
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Whitewashing.

We hardly know a more pleasing
sight than while whistling along on the
various lines of railroads, to see farm
house, with all its out-houses and fem
ces, exhibiting a snowy whiteness in
striking contrast to the green fields. 1t
at once impresses our mind thst the oc-
cupant has at least an idea of cleanli-
ness and beauty. Apart from all this,
it is a preservative of wood, and it adds
at least fifty per cent. TO the looks OF
the place, and in a sanitary point of
view its use can not be overestimated.
Its cheapness places it in the reach of
all. Why not use it freely2
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Robinson Crusoe's island.

Crusoe's island is to-day little para
disc. Lord planted there, on one of
his voyages, apples, peaches, grapes,
plums, strawberries, and several kinds
of vegetables. The number of the lat
ter was increased by a Scotchman,
David Douglas, who had landed on the
island in 1926. He was not a little as
tonished to find hermit there, who
had been on the island five years. On
the second day he was not little sur
prised to see a man suddenly emerge
from a cIump of bushes and approach
him. He looked upon himself as Cru
soe's successor, although he did not
occupy the historical cave, having built
himself hut of stones and sods, roof
ing it with the straw of Wildcats. As
cooking utensils, he possessed only a
single iron pot, the bottom of which,
one unfortunate day, had fallen out.
This damage he had, however, the
ingenuity to repair with wooden bot
tom but now he was compelled to
place his pot in the ground and build
fire around it. This mans name was
William Clark, andhe came from Lon
don. He had few books, and among
them there was copy of Robinson
Crusoe's adventures and of COwper's
poems. He called Douglas attention
especially to the well-known poem be-
ginning:
"I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute, etc.
Nevertheless, he did not seem to be
happy. There was one wish, his great
est, that he could not gratify-he could
get no roast beef
At Dresent. this island is in the pos
session of a colony of Germans. Sixty
or seventy, under the leadership of an
engineer named Robert Wehrhahn, set
tied there in 1868. They describe the
island as being in the highest degree
salubrious and fruitful. On their arri-
val they found large focks of goats,
about thirty half-wild horses, and some
sixty asses. They brought with them
COWS, hogs, fowls, farming utensils,
small boats, and fishing-tackle.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04

Each farm hand in New York pro-
duced 1916 in crops in 1870 or the year
before, as shown by the census. In
Pennsylvania the return was S715; and
$50 more than in New York. In North
Carolina the yield per labOrer $211, in
Tennessee S31O. These figures are very
suggestive.
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"A naturalistic physician in France
thinks it worth while to protest against
hat mistaken effort of self-control by
which people repress groans, cries and
ears under pain. Telling of man
Who, while suffering under trying OPP
ration, reduced his pulse from 126 to
SO in two hours by crying heartily, he
maintains that tears are benefcent re-
lief provided by nature for anguished
adults as well as children, for men as
we'll as women, and that to check them
is to concentrate upon the whole nerv-
GUS system a restraint that may some
times be fatal.
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rba Fonnder,s medal of the RoYal

The Founders medal of the Royal
Geographical society was granted to DR.:
Schweinfurth, and the Victoria medal
to Major Warburton, who has lately
crossed the interior of Western Austria
liza from the M'Dowell ranges to the
coast north of Nicol Bay, passing over
eight or nine hundred miles of territory
never before trodden by the foot of a
white man. The country traversed
proves to be eminentIy barren and un-
interesting in an agricultural point of
view. For three months the expedition
had nothing to live upon but dried
camel's flesh and such roots and bulbs
as they could gather.
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"A new mitrailleuse has just been
tried at Corie, in the Grisona. The
barrels, instead of clustering around a
center, are placed horizontally, thus
delivering the balls like a platoon of
infantry instead of in a cluster. Twen-
ty rounds were fired in a minute, but
the inventor, Col. Albertini, of the
Austrian army, maintains that forty-fve
rounds can be fred each minute, and
that his mitraileuse will cost one-sixth
less than the one actually in use.
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First drunkard-"I live far away.
I am not like you, a rich man, who can
afford to live in the centre of the city"
Second drunkard-" Never mind, rich
OF what use is it to me Even if was
a millionaire couldn't be more drunk
than I am.
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IF ] should die. dear, where
would You go?" Go? Go after vour
insurance money, was the reply of the
fond wife.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04

"A Duluth woman had managed to
crowd eighteen rings on her fingers
when a stroke Of lightning took her off
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on Cincinnati packet, who'd passed
her two or three times on her way round,
sez, 'Tll bet, by gad, she's the Ele-
phant.' And sure enough she was.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-11-19
31ortrp.
You Know you Do.

When sssorne one'-" steps come up the ak
Your cheeks take on a roster hue.
And though no other hears his knock,
You hear i well-you know You do.
When ''some one talks about the grain.
And bows TO pa, vet looks at YOU.
You see his glance-ah. tbs plain
And give them back-yOu know you do!
Aud. thought may be very wrong.
When pa Is quite ignored for you.
1ou sing for him your prettiest song,
You cunning thing-you know yoa DO,
Aud when he talks of other girls.
OF hateful Kate and Jennie, too,
You ding At him your auburn curls.
fou jealous thing-you know YOU do
You keep your eyes upon the clock,
And wish't Jump an hour or two.
30 that your pa would cease his talk
And 20 10 bed-you know you do.
And when the folk to bed have gone,
And len ''some one alone with YOU,
You wish the clock would stop IT, tongue.
or you stop it-yOu know ysu do.
lie bushes Dc. and looks afraid
To BE- thus left alone with you.
But YOUR ewes ten there ne'er was maid
But could be wooed-you know they do,
Nou peep At "some one meath your curlS.
ntil with love YOU burn him through
And make him hate all other girls
In love for you-you know you do.
And when his arm steal, round Your chair
\ gu give >mothcrcd scream or two.
~ If you didn't want 1t there,
Bat oh, yon do-you know YOU DO.
You nestle closer up To him.
Your head drops on hi shoulder. too.
lod think IL nice TO have jim
You naughty thing-you know you do
lau ~ him Kiss YOUR hlushing cheeks;
somehow YOUR lips meet his lips. too;
You tempt him. silly thing. 10 speak.
Uu wicked iiri-you know YOU do
And when he timilly doth press
HE i>h 30 make a wife Of you.
y p happy heart YOU answer Yes.
au darling girl-you know YOU do,