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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
ROYAL Grief.

The London correspondent Of the
New York Sun describes some Of the
extraordinary manifestations Of the
Queens grief at the death of Prince
Albert, as follows "She had the arm
of the late Prince Albert modelled in
wax and clothed, and would pass hours
sitting with il drawn through hers, alb
sorbed in melancholy reflections recall
ing the past. The apartments of the
deceased were kept in precisely the
same order ~ that observed in his life
time his slippers and dressing-gown
regularly aired his clothes, boots and
toilet apparatus placed as though he
might come back at any moment 30
claim them. She slept land sleeps) with
his portraits pinned on the bcd-hend,
and framed with immOrtCNCs beside
her. Her letter paper and envelopes
were so deeply bordored with black that
the white space rcscmblcd q mere patch
ON n sable ground. LASTLY, she kept
all her servants in the complctost
mourning for a long, long time, and
wanted the Prince of Wales, even after
he got married and set up for himself nc
Marlboro House, 30 do the same, which
the young man fatty refused to do, and
left Windsor in n hun, not returningf for
a considerable period. This was tho
beginning of frequent qunrrcls between
them, up 10 the time of his dangerous
illness and convalesccnce i'm 1871, which
effected a reconciliation.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Fire Alarm.

A contemporary calls attention to one
of the simplest and most effective de-
vices for giving timely alarm in case of
fire breaking out in a building-namely,
an ingenious little invention known as
the Tunn1cliffe Fire Alarm. 1t is
nothing more than a cylindrical barrel
some three inches long by an inch and
a half in diameter, which, by a screw
attached midway along its length, may
be readily secured to the ceiling or any
part of the room desired. 1t is made of
malleable iron, with a smooth bore, and
contains, when ready for use, small
charge of powder, to which is attached
an inch of fuse. This fuse is formed of
a chemical mixture that will ignite
whenever the surrounding atmosphere
is heated to 200 degrees Fahrenheit !;
that is to say, it is kindled by merely
heated air, and at a temperature less
than that of boiling water. In case OF
fire, the heat, which ascends at once to
the ceiling, quickly ignites the fuse, and
causes the required explosion to take
place before the flames can get beyond
a point at which they may be quenched
by a pail of water. The discharge of
one of these protective instruments
makes a report as loud as that of an
army musket loaded with regulation
cartridge.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Tree.Culture for Proft-The Larch.

To show the profit attending the cul-
tivation of the larch tree, in forests, the
following extract from an essay read
before the Northern Horticultural So
ciety, at its session in Freeport, ILL.,, by
w. E. Lukens, is of interest, and may
perhaps open the eyes of the Western
farmer to an industry more remunera-
tive than that of raising corn at thirty
cents per bushel. After saying the
larch should be planted four feet apart
each way, and may be procured at a
cost of from IS to $15 per thousand, Mr..
Lukens adds
"Any one who takes the pains will
readily see that the expenses of fifty
acres of larch for the first ten years, in
Guiding interest on land worth $50 per
! acre, cost of plants, preparing the
| ground, planting, and cultivating two
or three years, with ten per cent. COM
pound interest on each investment, will
amount to about $4,000. At that time
three-fourths of the trees should be
thinned out, leaving them eight feet
apart. These, If worth fifteen cents
each, will amount to over $15, 900, or a
clear profit of $4,000. If this sum is
kept at compound interest for twenty
years it will amount to $5S, 564, sup
posing it to double in every eight years.
But at twenty we may cut three-fourths
of the balance, or 25, 312 trees, worth at
that time at least 81 each, or $50, 624.
This at compound interest for ten years
will amount to about 1922, 500. We
then have left s, 437 trees 80 years old,
worth not less than $40 per tree, or
1884, 370-an aggregate profit of 1855, O64
in thirty years from fifty acres of land.
"But if you plant corn every year on
fifty acres, allow it to produce forty
bushels per acre, and sell it at so cents
per bushel, allow interest on the net
profit each year at compound rate for
the same time, or thirty years from first
planting, you will not get it higher than
$50, 900 or $4,000. Thus we find the
trees will yield profit of 1896, 054 more
than the corn crop at so cents a bushel.
cit will be seen that in this calcula-
ton the trees at ten years are put at Is
cents each, while the probability is that
they will be worth nearer rs cents. But
if each tree will make three cuts five
feet long, a good fence can be made
by inserting them one foot into the
ground, nine inches apart, and mailing
another on the top to keep them steady.
1t would require eight of these poles to
make rod of fence, which at Is cents
each would only be $1.20 a rod. All
can see that this is very low estimate
of the value of such poles as they will
be at that age"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Improyed Gum Arabic MuciIage

A serious objection to the use of gum
arabic, as an adhesive, is found in its
showing through unsized paper, and
thus producing a semi-transparent blot.
This is also attended with the still
greater inconvenience that the two
layers do not stick together satisfac-
torily. On this account gum arabic
mucilage cannot be used for attaching
paper to pasteboard, nor wood to wood,
nor one metallic substance to another,
since the gum soon peels off. All this
inconvenience may be remedied, it is
said, by adding to the gum solution of
sulphate of alumina 2 parts of crystal
lied sulphate of alumina answering for
125 parts of the concentrated solution
Of gum arabic, in the proportion of two
parts of gum to five of water. The salt
is to be dissolved in ten times its weight
of water, and the solution mixed direct
with that of the gum solution, which in
this condition well deserves its name OF
vegetable glue. A solution of alum re-
places the sulphate of alumina, but to a
much less satisfactory degree.
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A Singular Lawsuit.

There is curious case now on trial in
the Surrogate's Court, in New York. A
man named Hardin died recently, who
had done an extensive business as an
| importer for twenty-five years. He was
at his business every day. and his asso-
Citations were with prominent and hon
orabIe men, He amassed during his
business career fortune of So, ZOO, 900,
and was generally thought to be a
bachelor of modest and retired social
habits. Yet, during all this time, and
undiscovered by his most intimate ac-
quaintances, he has lived with a woman
as his wife under the assumed name of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walker. To the neigh
bors, the trades-people, the family
physician, and other domestic ASSOC
ciates, he was known as Mr.. Walker,
and q married man to the business
men of Broad and Liberty streets, he
was known as Mr.. Hardin, and bachel-
or. Throughout twenty-five years there
was no confusion of the two charac-
ters-a circumstance which could only
be possible in great metropolis like
New York. Upon his demise, the woman
with whom he had lived as a wife made
application for half of his property, to
which he was entitled in the absence of
a will, while several nephews claimed
the whole of it on the ground that she
had never been married to the deceased.
In support of her claim, she has pro-
duced abundant evidence that she has
been known as the wife of the deceased
for twenty years, and that during that
time he had acknowledged and treated
her as such. At the last stage in the
proceedings, however, the contestants
produced a witness who claimed to be
Mr.. Walker, the real husband of the
woman, and who testified that the
woman was arrested in 1913 for stealing
a watch, and sent to Sing Sing for two
years, after which she had lived with
deceased as his wife. The Mr.. Walker
produced is drunken shoemaker, who
spends most of his time on BIackwell's
Island. Altogether the case is a queer
one, considering that $4,000, 900 are in
yolyed,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Extraordinary Fatality.

Five brothers, comprising the entire
male members of a family named
Smaller, of Haddam, Conn, named re-
spectively Olcott, Orwell, Oscar, Or
Iando, and Oliver W., chose seafaring
life. Three became masters and part
owners of the vessels in which they
sailed. Since 1857 four have died and
been buried at sea. The fourth, Capt.
Orlando Smaller, left Savannah, Ga,
for this port, in his vessel, the schooner
Guy R. Phel ps, on the Goth of Septem-
Der. He died of fever on the third day
out, and his body was committed to the
deep, after an Intellectual attempt of the
mate to reach the port of Beaufort, in
order to send his body home. The fifth
brother, Capt. Oliver w. Smaller, now
commands the schooner E. S. Glider
sleeve, which sailed from this port for
Cedar Keys, Fla, on the I'd of October,
and encountered the fearful storm of
the 9th and 7th inst, between Cape
Lockout and the Bahama Islands, but
arrived out with the loss of only few
spars and torn sails.-NeaO York E'Uera-
inn P0ef
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Laughter as a Medicine.

A short time since two individuals
were lying in one room very sick, one
with brain fever, and the other with an
aggravated case of the humps. They
were so low that watchers were needed
every night, and it was thought doubt
full if the one sick of fever would re-
cover. A gentleman was engaged to
watch over night, his duty being to
wake the nurse whenever it became
necessary to administer medicine. In
the course of the night both watcher
and nurse fell asleep. The man with
the mumps lay watching the clock, and
saw that it was time to give the fever
patient his potion. He was unable to
speak aloud, or to move any portion of
his body except his arms, but, Selling a
pillow, he managed to strike the watcher
in the face with it. Thus suddenly
awakened, the watcher sprang from his
seat, falling to the floor, and awakened
both the nurse and the fever patient.
The incident struck the sick man as
very ludicrous, and they laughed heartily
at it for some fifteen or twenty minutes,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
LIQUOR Drinking.

The amount of drunkenness which
statistics show to prevail in our larger
cities goes far to account for the marked
increase of poverty and crime lately
noticed in the country. Dayton, Ohio,
with a population of 80, 900, has 500
bar-rooms, and consumes $4,000, 600
worth of whisky annually. Milwaukee
has $50 liquor saloons, and a population
of II, 440. Chicago, with a population
of 298, 977, supports l,s00 bar-rooms /;
and New York, with a population of
942, 900, sustains 1000. That is to say,
New York supports one bar-room to
every 235 inhabitants Chicago one to
every 10; Milwaukee one to every 105;
and Dayton one to every 56. The
money value of the consumption of
whisky, malt liquors, and tobacco in
Dayton, it is estimated, amounts to five
times that of bread.
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GenernI Noies.

The Grange is spreading in Virginia.
The Paris Fire Department is man
aged by a New Yorker.
MAINE claims the premium over all
other States in weathering the financial
panic.
THE same engine at Spencer. Mass.
grinds sausage and prints the village
paper.
A FRENCH chemist has discovered
new method of making brown sugar and
he thinks he can sell it at three cents a
pound.
The reintroduction Of rufTs, now so
popular in this country, is due 20 a wen
on the neck of an English lady Of
quality.
BRIGHAM YOUNG is building himself a
new house, which one of the local pa
pers declares will be zone Of the most
gorgeous and costly residences any
where between sunrise and sunset.
= REJECTED contributors form so large
class in England that they support
two magazines, whose pages contain
nothing that has not been declined by
the unappreciative editors of other peri
odicals.
ONE good thing which the Changers
propose TO do is TO teach farmers how TO
take care of their agricultural imple-
ments A majority of Western farmers.
it is said, leave their high-cost machines
uncovered over winter.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON, the surgeon,
makes a larger income than any other
member of his profession in England.
In his youth Sir Henry was a linen
draper, but now, at the age Of %, he rs
at the head of his profession.
A KANSAS pastor has wisely declined
an addition of SlO0 10 his salary, ON the
ground that the hardest part of his la
Dor heretofore has been the collecting
of his salary, and IL would kill him 90
undertake to collect 500 more
IT is predicted rs one Of the possible
practical uses of balloons that the time
will come when mechanics who have 10
work on church spires and high build
ings will do it by means Of balloons in
stead of with the dangerous scailolding
now in use.
In 1912 the theory of national pro-
service of the Government on the high
seas was thus stated by Daniel Web
ster: /" In every regularly docu-
mented American merchant vessel the
crew who navigate it will find their pro-
lection in the flag which is over them"
Mr. TEGETsmGER recently liberated az
the London Bridge Station eight
pigeons which competed for valuable
silver cup. They rose well into the air,
and then flew straight away in the right
direction without turn. Two of them
made ga dead heat" the time, elm
GLIDING that required for capturing and
showing the birds, being 70 minutes
the exact distance G3 miles. The
weather was overcast and rainy.
MosT American travellers throw away
much of their reading matter at their
journeys end. But in England at each
station can be found box fastened up.
very similar To our letter boxes, but
sometimes larger, into which the trav-
eler puts his papers, books, etc. Those
are in turn collected by men who carry
them TO hospitals, homes for old men
and women, and similar institutions,
where they are gladly received.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
The Highest and the Lowest Lakes in
the World.

In the mountains Of Belvar, between
Tuskestan aud the far western limits of
the Empire of China, toss the pure,
sweet waters of tho long and narrow
Lake of Sir-i-kol, 1900 feet above the
level of the sea. IL this lake were in n
colder part of the world it would be
but n sheet Of ice for IL is nearly as
high as the top Of Mt. Blanc.
In the southern part Of Palestine,
near to the Syrian desert, sleeps the
sullen, dark, and vaporous water 10
which men have given the name Of the
Dead Sea. Lying as it does at the bot
tom of bowl formed by the rapid de-
scent of the surrounding hills, the Dead
Sea is the lowest water ON the globe,
13, 600 feet below the level Of the Med
iterraneGn.
TheIake Of Sir-i-kol nightly contrast
be called the Lake of Life, for IL flows
from the rapid, life-giving Amoo river,
anciently called the Oxus while into
the deep and bitter basin Of the Dead
Sea sinks and perishes the once bright
and Joyous river Jordan.
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When the doctor came in the morning
he found his patient vastly improved ;
said he never knew so sudden a
turn for the better, and now
both are up and well. Who says
laughter is not the best of medicines
And this reminds the writer of another
case. A gentleman was suffering from
liberation in the thrort, which at length
became so swollen that his life was de-
SPARED of. His household came to his
bedside to bid him farewell, Each in
dividual shook hands with the dying
man, and then went away weeping.
Last of all came pet ape, and shaking
the mans hand, went away also with its
hands over it's eyes. It was SO ludic-
rous sight that the patient was forced
to laugh, and laughed so heartily that
the ulcer broke, and his life was saved.
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I,SUU,UOU
Of this quality there is used for
The Most Nutritious Food.

Upon this subject a writer in the
Philadelphia Star says
submit the following article on food,
hoping it may do a little good to the
poor class in these pinching times
Oatmeal contains 81 per cent. of nutri-
tive matter wheat, S54 per cent; po-
tatoes, % per cent. the best flesh meat,
% per cent. It may be seen by the
above that one pound of oatmeal con-
tains nearly four times as much nutri-
ton as one pound of beef. We pay for
beef per pound fifteen, twenty and
twenty-five cents for one pound OF
oatmeal we pay five cents.
Nearly half the people of ireland and
Scotland live on oatmeal and potatoes
they do not taste flesh meat once a
month. The writer of this article has
not eaten flesh for year; he finds him.
self better physically as we'll as men,
tally. His dinner for one day consists
of one cents worth of oaten meal or
cracked wheat made in the form of
mush. He does not do this for econo-
my but for health.
l would like to say few words before
| close this article on wheat. Wheat
contains of the carbonates, or heat and
fat and fat producers, sixty-two per
cent; of the phosphates, the class that
supplies the bones, the brain and the
nerves, and gives vital power, both mental
and muscular, two and a half per cent. ;
of the nitrates, the class that supplies
the waste of muscle, twenty-one per
cent.
If wheat were eaten in its natural
condition, without boiling, it would
supply all the needed elements in the
human body; but in the process of
boiling nearly the whole of the phos-
pilates and nitrates are removed; so
that bread made CT superfne -four will
sustain life only few weeks.
The best way to get good wheat meal
is to buy of any mill in our city half a
bushel of whole wheat, thirty pounds.
Either get the miller to grind it for
you, or take it home and grind it in your
coffee mills.
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French Wars.

An Agiers journal gives the following
list of the wars carried on by France
during the past five centuries:
In the fourteenth century there were
43 years of war; 8 of civil war % Of
war on the soil Of France Is of war on
foreign soil
In the fifteenth century there were II
years of war ID of civil war 43 on
the soil of France; 25 on foreign soil
In the sixteenth century there we're 50
years of war 33 Of civil and religious
war 8 on French territory; A on for
eign territory.
In the seventeenth century there were
60 years of war of religious war III
of civil war 81 of foreign war.
In the eighteenth century there were
50 years of war; Of religious war o
of civil war 81 of foreign war.
In the nineteenth century up 70 the
present wear. there have been more than
the average number Of wars at home
and abroad.
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Literature and Long Life.

Says writer in the Chicago Journal:
In the requirement of perpetual health,
mental recuperation is a necessary
agent. It is all fiction to say that men
must burn their brains out with the
midnight oil. There is nothing in the
most intense application which must
necessarily tend to shorten life. The
testimony which history bears to the
longevity of men whose lives have been
essentially intellectual confirms this
proposition. The following illustra-
lions from literature are striking con-
firmations of this theory. Georgias, the
rhetorician, worked to the age of 1O8
years. Isocrates wrote to the age of
98. Hipocrates was an ardent student
to the age of SO. The same is true
through long list of the names of per-
sons of that age, who exerted the great
est influence upon literature, philosophy
and history. Nearer. eur own day,
Richard Bentley died at the age of 81,
Neander at 78, Sealiger at SO, Heyne at
81, Parr at 80, Habley at 81, Newton at
81, Lord Bacon at 65, Kant at SO, Goe-
the at 80, Lord Mansfield at SO, John
Wesley, at 88, Benjamin Franklin at 50,
DIR. Chalmers at 80, DR.. Johnson at 70,
Herschel at "a, Laplace at ".
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Tipping in France.

An American resident in Paris was
so struck with the absence of drunken
ness in the French capital, compared
with that prevailing in American cities,
that he recently investigated the sub
ject and collected some interesting sta
tistics ON this head. OF 5000 people he
met in restaurants, 200 were slipping
coffee, $50 drank beer, $50 had cognac
and coffee, $50 cognac alone, $50 COM
mon wine, 80 absinthe, 90 whisky, and
10 expensive wines. The Americans and
English were among the whisky and
brandy drinkers. OF the 5000 there
were only four the worse for what they
had imbibed, and they were Americans
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09

CAPT. Fry AS AN ARTILLERY OFFICER.
Capt. Joseph Fry, during the war,
belonged to the Confederate Mississippi
squadron, and was commander OF the
battery at st. Charles, on White river,
Ark, which fred the fatal shot into the
gunboat Mound City, cutting her steam
drum, whereby Engineer William Viii
cox. of Cincinnati, and over 100 others
lost their lives. Capt. Fry was gradu-
ate of the Annapolis Naval School,
which he entered in 1874, and served in
the United States Navy until the COM
mencement of hostilities in 1861. He
was a native of Florida. Little Rock
(ArE.) Gazette.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09

WHAT PAIR OF SPARRows CAN Do
By careful investigation, it has been as
certained that a single pair of European
sparrows, during the infancy of their
brood, feed their little ones an average
about 1880 caterpillars in a week !
Now, take your states and pencils, my
little friends, and see how many cater
pillars in month the sparrows killed
by that Sussex County Club would have
destroyed if they had been permitted.
Think what quantities of pretty leaves,
how many bushels of grain, and what
an abundance of nice fruit must be de-
stroyed by the taking off of 1900
worm-eating birds !-,St. Nicholas.
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JUSTICE SLOW BUT SUBE.-The Span
ish steamer Murillo, which ran down
the Northheet about a year ago, re-
Gently ventured 10 enter an English
port. Suit was Immediately brought
against her by the owners Of the North
feet for GA, 900, and the Murillo was
condemned and will be sold in payment
of the judgment. II is a satisfaction TO
know that punishment, however made
duate, has finally overtaken the owners
Of the Murillo, though 1t would have
been more satisfactory had the officers
of the steamer been found guilty OF
manslaughter and imprisoned FOR life.
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PAPER FROM HOP STALK.-At the
last assembly of paper-makers in
France, samples were submitted OF
paper made from the sheath of the hop
stalk. BY removing the outer skin, and
subiecting it to a certain process, tex
tile substance possessing the qualities
which make rags so valuable in paper.
making-length, suppleness, and deli
cacy of texture-has been produced.
The invention is patented.
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ENGLISH RAILWAY SPEED.-The En-
glish papers give the following statistics
as to the speed of their railway trains {:
Those of the Great Western are the
most rapid, it's fastest trains running an
average of fifty-milrs per hour; while
those of the London and Northwestern
run only forty-three. The Great North
ern stands second for speed-fifty miles
and the other great lines average
forty-fve. The best speed made in
America averages only a little over
thirty miles.