The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-12-03

No wonder It Is constantly In a state {
distraction. What would this eountr
have been without Yankee Doodle?
COMMISSIONER PRATT has RRsIiy d,
Cided that the ingenious process c
ehurning new whisky, To give it age an
tone and secure the evaporation of fusi
oil, Is nothing but rectifying, and mus
lie classed i'm that way. One by one til,
secret devices of the whisky men are OBJ
stncted.
THE newly arrived daughter of tht
duchess of Edinburgh increases Queer
NictOria's tally OF grandchildren e
twenty-seven, twenty four Of wlcM arr
still alive, and that of kef total living
progeny to thirty-thrss, Including three
unmarried ohildReG and the Princes
Louise, who : married, but without
faHiiyI
WIEN YOU grumble at hard times and
crippled industries, just cast your eys
over the big water and look st France,
with one hundred aud twenty-three
thousand industrial Establishments, and
giving work o als01k one piilIi6n eight
hundred men. At ieast two-thiFsls OF
these are now losing montli's time and
wages in order to drill for future war,
The explosion and destruction 81 tie
ironclad Magenta makes the second vessel
oi this kind lost by the French govern
ment within two months. The sinking
of the English vessel Vanguard. within
the same period, by the tap of the spur
OF neighbOring vessel, is beginaiag TO
weaken confidence in the durability of
iTORclads.
IL Michigan's population of l 800, 900
Ehere are 90, 1927 more males than females.
In Massachusetts there are 60.OO9 more
females than males. Under stsoh circum-
stances it would seem ealinently proper
for the Michigan sAAle surplus to relieve
Massachusetts, cf her female surplus.
Doubtless she Massachusetts women
would be more than willing.
The annual report of the commissioner
of education contains many interesting
statements of fact. There are enrolled in
public schools upwards of 5000, 600 pa.
pills. with an average daily atteRdance Of
4,5OOOOO. The estimated population be-
tween six and sixteen years is IO, SOC, 900.
To support these children in school cost
last year S74, 900.
The fate of the passengers and crew of
abe City of Waco is yet unsoIved. The
theory that the oil stored on deck ignited
from the lightning and set fire to the
vessel, wrapping her entirely in the
hames IN few moments, giving the pas
Nengers no time to escape the awful death,
seems the most probable. If so, it is one
OF the most terrible catastrophes of the I.
year.
CANADA has INDUCED in the past in
some exceedingly lofty bOasting as to the /
superiority of her buildings over those /
erected on this side of the frontier. The 4
bursting of the grain elevator at Belle
vile, however, is calculated to check
such boasting in the future The struc-
Jure was of the q cheap and nasty" order
of architecture, and its fall scattered 40
600 bushels of grain to the winds and
The pigs.
The old story of the camel entering
the house by inches at a time, is repeated
I'm the Sandwich Islands. Some of the
merchants there imported Cinnamon to
do their work, but many of the latter,
after saving a little money, set up for
themselves, and are now edging their old
masters out of every trade. There are
more than five thousand Cinnamon in the
islands, and they have driven many of
the native and foreign merchants into
bankruptcy.
\ NorIcEABLE thing about the
monthly meeting of the Massachusetts
Total Abstinence Societv, held in Boston,
was little speech by William b. SpOoner
on the prevalence of drinking among
more than one-half of whom,
he said, drink wine. a large majority
of the Roman Catholic clergy drink;
of the Episcopalian and of his
own denominatiou-the Unitarian, some
Of the orthodox and Baptist, but very few
Df the Methodist or Universalist.
THE British commissioner to our CEN
tennial has suggested, according to For
ney, that the permanent buildings of the
exhibition should be kept filled with in
teresting objects, contributed each year,
50 that there may be a bi-centennial
ready made in 1876. This would be
good thing for Philadelphia, perhaps, but
there is no certainty that the rest of the
country would find it either pleasant or
profitable. The coming centennial would
I've an awful bore if we had deliberately
begun preparing for it a century ago.
y little matter of dispute has caused
the disruption of powerful Long Island !
camp meeting association. The dispute
arose from the setting up of billiard ,
saloon and bowling alley on the grounds
last summer. The advocates of these 1
sinful games argued in vain that they
would attract to the grounds just the
class which needed most the spirit of a
camp meeting. Their opponents would
not listen, but seeded and have formed
another association.
THERE is considerable discussion and 4,
difference of opinion as to how rapidly IS
fish grow. a recent letter from England
says that salmon weighing eighteen ,
pounds was caught in the Severn, wear ,
ing a silver label This was identified j
md proved the fish to be one which was {
caught six months before and returned
10 the water. At the time it weighed
nine pounds. That is it had gained
pound and half fora month, or nearly