The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-16
MisneIIal CONS PararranhS


of the Ohio election.
GEN. BURNSIDE bankers after
Sprague's Senatorial mantle.
THE time for building fires with kero-
sene has about come around.
THERE are sixteen American scuIp-
tors in Rome and eleven in Florence.
THE Hon. Alexander Mackenzie. the
new Canadian Premier, began life as a
stone mason.
RHODE ISLAND is the richest territory,
in proportion to its square miles, on the
face of the whole earth.
THE Swiss are said to be beating both
the French and English manufacturers
in the silk ribbon trade.
THE steam power now employed in
Great Britain exceeds that of the
strength of all the horses and men in
the world.
A PENNSYLVANIA mechanic is credited
with having invented a machine capa-
BILE of turning out twenty horse-shoes in
minute.
A PROJECT is under consideration by
the French Geographical Society for
turning the water of the Mediterranean
into the Desert of Sahara, and making
it great inland sea.
A VERMONT woman. who recently fol!
lowed the remains of her irregular hus-
band to the grave, remarked that she
had one consolation, she knew now
where he slept nights.
Mrs. ELLEN UPPER, who is called
L l. ~ r
the best living authority on everything
relating to breeding and hiving bees,
! their habits and diseases.
THE numbering business of Minnesota
is much affected by the depression.
| Only 913 men go into the woods this
winter, against ], 675 men sent last win
ter by the same number of men.
THE workingmen of Detroit have
matured plan for forming ward or
/ CARNATIONS, with a central committee
for the purpose of securing employ
ment and relief for each other during
| the coming winter.
IT is stated that during the year end
ing August 81, there were thirteen hun
dred railroad accidents in this country,
resulting in the death of three hundred
andforty-one persons and injuring four
! teen hundred and ten.
INK is one of the things in which
modern science seems to have made very
! little improvement. An analysis of the
INK found on manuscript eff the year
| go showed that its composition was
/ similar to that of the inks now in gen
eral use.
| The farms in England are ten times
as large, on an average, as those of
Ireland. There are only 200 600 ten
ant farmers in England, which contains
| 200 square miles while ireland, with
only 30, 600 square miles, has 700, 600
| tenant-farmers.
An electrical apparatus has lately
been invented to signal the entry of
water by leakage into the holds of YES
| sells. When the water enters it estab-
fishes current, and communication
is thus set in operation which gives no.
tice to the officers on deck.
WHEN different colors are mixed to-
gether the result is not the destruction
/ of any of the coloring elements
or their chemical combination. The
microscope shows that the particles of
each of the colors entering into the mix
ture remain entirely separate and I'M
/ changed.
AN English veterinarian adduces
| facts to show that rabies or canine mad
ness is very rare in extreme southern
| temperatures, while it is of frequent
/ occurrence in the temperate zone. The
! disease is less frequent in Spain and
/ southern Ital y than in other European
/ countries.
| Mrs. HANNA WOOSTER is the CEN
tenarian Of York county, Maine, having
| been born Dec. 81, 1772. She has
never been in a railway car, but hopes
to visit Philadelphia on July 3, 1876, in
the came car with Miss Lucy Langdon
Newell, of Alfred, Me-, who was born
July 4, 1875.
VARIOUS practical experiments in the
domestic science will be tried soon, now
that the cold weather is coming on.
| The Tefraction of the early suns rays
can be studied by those who are obliged
to get up early and interesting facts
concerning the effect of friction on
matches, and heat on coal and wood,
may be CLEANED by those whose duty it
is to light the fire.
RENT-universal RENTS the cancer
that eats out the vitals of Ireland. Be
fore the famine year, the rents paid by
/ 100000 of farmers aggregated $40
/ 600, 900 to $50,000,000 Six hundred
thousand farmers now pay an aggre-
gate of nearly 800, 100000 and the
townspeople pay $10,O00,0OO more
making one hundred millions year of
rent drained out of this island and spent
in Great Britain.
3 FRENCH savant has been expert
meDting upon himself-not however in
the interests of science-to decide
whether tobacco is injurious to the
mental faculties. While he was q user
of tobacco he observed rapid decay in
the faculty of memory; and after six
years of resolute abstinence from the
use of the weed in any form he enthusi-
astically declares that he has expert
/ enced a veritable resurrection of health,
mind, and memory.
| A CIRCUMSTANCE without parallel in
| the military history Of this country is
recorded in Illinois. fl. M. Wheeler,
Of Schuyler county, in that State, en-
listed in the United States army under
| Gen. Lyon in 1861, was wounded, cap
tured, and paroled, but by some strange
| oversight was never Q1scnargeQ from
service until a few days aro, when the
proper papers were made out, and his
back pay and pensiQn-amounting to
near $4,000-were paid him,
York Sun.
GRAPE-sToNEs are said to be better
substitute for coffee than chicory is
When roasted and ground they are said
to possess an aroma very much like that
of East India coffee, and the beverage
obtained therefrom is about the same as
coffee in taste, though inferior in quail |
ty. The beverage furnished by many
of the restaurants is very far from be-
ing "the same as coffee in TASTE" and |
it is probable that decided improve
ment could be made on the present |
article by the use of grape-stones.
A Pleasant Day.
Among the large number gathered at |
the horse-sale, Friday, was Col. Hig-
ginson, who is, as our Danbury readers
well know, very deaf. Alongside of