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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30
The Art of Dress.

The Pail Mall Gazette, in a review of
M. Charles Blanc on the art of dressing,
says "Sonle of our readers will per-
haps be surprised to learn that the
style of a lsdy's dress shottld depend
upon the shape of her nose, just as the
colors she wears must be chosen with a
due regard to her complexion and the
particular shade of her hair. If the
nose is classical the toilet must have
certain style about it, especially when
the persons features and bearing are
imposing. But what is style asks M.
Charles Blanc; and he then proceeds to
tell us that this question may be an
swered by the first principles of decor
ative art-namely, that there is more
majesty in repetition than in alterna-
tion, and more dignity in harmony than
in contrast. Few eolors, lines that are
seldom broken, an air of simplicity even
in the midst of richness, uniformity of
materials, and quiet trimmings consti-
tute toilette severe. On the other
hand, different shades of colcr, broken
lines, novel trimmings, and the piqu-
ancy caused by contrast are the charac-
teristic features of a toilette de genre,
and would suit person with a "tip-
tilted" nose, as Tennyson has it, or at
least an unclassical one, a pleasant
looking countenance, or saucy eyes.
There are thus two extremes
and coquetry, or, in other words, dig
nifty and gracefulness-as we'll as
medium style, which may be termed
pompous elegance. M. Charles Blanc
compares the three kinds of toilet to
the three orders of architecture, and
tells us that by taking little from one
and a little from another we can COM
pose dresses that will suit any style of
features. A lady, however, in selecting
her toilet, should always bear in mind |
that she must adorn herself in such a |
manner that when people look at her
their attention, after resting a moment |
on her dress, will become concentrated |
on her person. In this manner the ele- |
gance and gracefulness of a lsdy's at
tire will cause people to admire the lady |
herself. How often have we heard it |
said, we saw some magnificent dresses |
this afternoon = Now, if the clever
dressmakers who fashioned those robes |
had exercised little more ingenuity |
the same people would have remarked,
We saw some very pretty women this |
afternoon
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

The CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD
The preliminary surveys for the Cana
dian Pacific railway are rapiply ap-
preaching completion, and the actual
construction of various sections of it
will very shortly be in progress. In
the government estimates for next year
there is an item of Sc, $50, 900 under the
head of &c Pacific Rail way" and on the
occasion of its discussion in committee
of supply, the premier indicated what
the government proposed to do in
furtherance of this undertaking. A
telegraph service is. to be established
along the entire route in advance of the
railway, and 81, 900, COO is asked for that
purpose. The contracts for this are
already let. Two millions of dollars is
for the payment of the large purchase
uf steel rails recently made in England
by the government so, 900 tons of the
best steel rail were secured at the av-
erage rate of $49. 30 per ton, which is
claimed TO be lower rate than iron rails
we're sold for during 1873, and a little
more than half the price of steel rails
during the same period.
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He'll.

The word "hell, translation of the
Greek word Gehenna, is q term used to
designate the valley of Hinnom. This
valley bounds Jerusalem on the north.
and lies below Mount Zion-a scene of
sacred and imperishable associations.
In this valley Moloch, the national god
of the Amorites, was worshiped with
the borrid and inhuman rite of sacri-
ficing children in the fire. When
Josiah, in his conquests, overthrow this
idolatry, he poured contempt upon the
Internal practice by casting into the
valley the bones of the departed. In
the estimation of the old Hebrews
the bones of the Gead caused
the greatest of all pollutions. What
ever person, place, or things they
touched we're forthwith considered
"unclean." Hence this valley of Hin
nom, this "hell," having been the re-
ceptacle of the human remains which
Josiah threw into it, was considered
place the most polluted and &C
cursed. From this circumstance it be-
came a common receptacle for all the
refuse of the city of Jerusalem. Here
large quantities of decomposing veg
etable and animal matter were con-
stantly thrown. This putrescent matter
generated an abundance of worms; the
worms here never died. To prevent
the noxious effluvia. springing from
this mass of corruption, poisoning the
atmosphere and breathing disease and
death into the heart of the city, fires
were kept burning day and night. This
valley, therefore, was literally a place
where "the worm never died, and
where the fire was never quenched. -
Rea, PhkLflR
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

THE CLEVER BoNAPARTIsTs.- "A Paris
correspondent writes: The Bonapart-
lists cleverly selected the 10Th OF Au-
gust, a 6ete for French Catholics. as the
fete of the Napoleons. The churches
are then filed, and all France has the
air of praying for the imperial family.
In the evening there are fireworks IN
honor OF persons bearing the name Of
Marie, and the Bonspartists, OF course,
set down all this expenditure Of gun
powder 10 the account of the Napo-
leonie dynasty. The violet bong also
appropriated as their omblem, they
have confscated 10 their profit one Of
the most popular .fctcs in France add
one OF tho most favorite howets. There
saarna datarm ination, however, not 10
tolerate this monopoly, and for some
days ladies oi all parties bayo beer
wearing violets
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30
Nude StatuaFV,

The modern sculptor has hard time
of it with his portrait statues, it must
be confessed. What is he to do? Shall
he dress a gentleman as ne finds him !;
go back to the toga or further back
still to the altogether natural man ?
Or shall he compromise with cloak or
water-proof-as in the case of the
savior of his country, expiating his
virtues in Union Square? They have
the same trouble in England as here /:
vide VIM. B. Scott. For centuries,
he says, the portrait statues CT the
kings appeared in the Roman cuirass
with bare arms and knees, and their
statesman in the chlamys and toga.
Gone last step only was wanting to
adopt the ideal antique and abandon
clothing altogether, and this was very
near accomplished toward the close of
last century. Canova's statue of Ma
poleon, now in Apsley House, is abso-
lutely naked and the statue of Samuel
Johnson, in st. Paul's, is almost un-
draped, a single loose covering being
thrown so as to be only useful for the
sculptor's supposed artistic purposes
a Iudicrous spectacle in a simply
rational point of view; the stout old
gentleman, as he leans his head on his
hand in his nakedness. seeming to be
saying TO himself: What a sad case
things have come to with me- at last,
standing before the prbIic in a state of
nature"
IT is n matter Of tradition that the
statue Of Washington, by Greenough,
in the grounds of the capitol at Wash
ington, is saying as plain as gesture
and countenance can say my sword
is by my side. and my clothes are IN
the patent office toward which he
points with majestic modesty.-Scrib-
Yler for March.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

THE WORM OF THE STILL AND IT'S
MYSTERIOUS MEANDERINGs. The best
Joke on the distillers occurred when a
party belonging to the United States
coast survey struck Murray county.
The party, as usual, chose a steep hull,
and then erected their field glasses and
instruments for surveying the adioin.
ing country. The distillers took it
into their heads that these instruments
were designed for the express purpose
of spying out hidden still-houses, and
for fifty miles around that hill they
took up their stills, hitched up their
teams and made tracks. Some of them
didn't stop until they had put a whole
county between themselves and those
machines. For a man in store clothes
to attempt to buy, beg, borrow or steal
a drink of whisky in that country is
about as easy as to obtain water in the
great African desert. 1t is impossible
to find man who has seen any within
the last five years. Let them he salts
fed that he is "all right and Re will
have more offered to him than he can
drink in year. As long as a commu-
nifty is at peace, very few distillers are
caught When a quarrel arises, or
some distiller kicks some fellow out of
his still-house for getting too drunk,
that's the time for the government.
The party who cons ders himself ag-
grieved turns informer, and the distil-
Ter is arrested.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

part of Greenland. The melting of the
ice on the surface of glaciers gives rise
to considerable rivers, and as these find
some crevasse in the ice, they descend
with violence, and it is conceivable that
that such a stream striking the bed
rock below might be the means, with
the masses of rock they would put in
notion of producing the enormous cav
tiles which are now observed. This
theory, as carried oat by its supporters,
meets with some difficulties, bit seems
to be the best which has been proposed.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

and that whenever they say yea or nay,
they in honor mean it. Teach them
that coniugal happiness is not depend
ent on external decofum, nor on the
money of the husband, but simply and
alone on his character. These things
having been instilledJ and they having
understood them, then, If hestinae has
arrived, have them marry without his
givings; they will find their way along
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

MARY AND ABBY.-When Parson
Smiths daughter, Mary, was to marry
young Mr.. Cranch, the father permitted
the sanity maiden to decide on her text
for the sermon, and she meekly selected,
Z" Mary has chosen the better part,
which shall not be taken away from
her," and the discourse was duly pro-
nounced. But when her wild young
sister Abby, was bent on marrying a
certain Squire Adams, called John,
whom her father disliked, and would
not even invite to dinner, she boldly
suggested for her text, "John came,
neither eating bread nor drinking wine,
and ye say he hath a devil" But, gays
Colonel HiRginson, no sermon stands
recorded under this prefix, though Abby
lived to be the wife of one president OF
the United States and mother of an
other
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

pensive French bonnet, and she in
quired the price; she was told it was
sold. ''Oh, / had no idea of buying
such an expensive bonnet" said the
lady, upon which the milliner said, "It
is joint stock bonnet-that is, it be-
longs to three factory girls, who wear
il bv tnrns on Sunday"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

INSURANCE business seems to be a
fayorite refugefor the confederate lead
eIs. A southern correspondent of the
Syracuse Courier writes: "Jeff. Davis
is, 1 believe, president of an insurance
company; Wade Hampton is in the in
suraBce business at Baltimore Beaure-
gard is engaged in insurance and street
railroads, / understand. at New Orleans,
and Gen. Joseph i. Johnston, who sur
rendered to Sherman, is president or
manager of a company at Savannah. ]
found son of Gen. Dick Taylor, and
grandson of old President Zach Taylor,
conductor of Pullman car running
from Jacksonville TO Louisville.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30
England and India.

| A LOHdon correspondent of the New
York Tribtne itlforms usthat the prince
of Wales is preparing for trip to In
dia, and that conjecture is busy to &C.
| count fOr the movement. The prime
minister, who is of eastern descent, and
who is so fertile of suggestion, is cled.
tied as being the originator of the plan,
but, whoever ruay be it's author, there
| is significance in il. No sovereign of
England has ever yet visited this vast
dominion, end it is quite well under
stood that it is no spirit of restlessness
or adventure nor a love Of travel and
change that impels the future king to
turn his face and his feet eastward.
The purpose unquestionably springs
from q knowledge of Russian aggres-
sion into central Asia so wildly and
successfully exposed by Mr.. Edgene
Se-Eyie< ii bis recent report forwarded
to Secretary Fish, the publication of
which by Our government has excited
so much interest in diplomatic circles.
The journey of the prince is a recogni-
ton of the depth of this interest, and
the idea is 10 bring him into personal
relations with tho vast multitude of
his future subjects in India, and espe.
cially with the great princes, whose de-
scent is more ancient than his own, and
whose hold upon the people is still
strong. He naturally wishes to sti1nu-
late and strengthen their loyalty to the
British government, as we'll as to take
q personal view of the eastern situation,
whose somewhat startling complications
have been disclosed by Mr.. Schuyler.
The colonial system OF England has |
for long time provoked much discus |
sion among her statesmen, many of |
whom have taken the broad ground that |
would be greater without her |
than with them. So great |
mind as Sydney Smiths adopted this
view, and, when it was proposed in the |
British parliament to appropriate a
large sum for the development of India,
he asked in one OF his strongest essays /
il it was good policy for England to
build up prosperous and powerful
empire to be wrested from her by future
and Franklins.
Pending our struggle for independ-
ence, the ministers of George III.
5toutly maintained that the independ-
ence OF the American colonies would be
decisive of the fate of England-that
the sun of Britnin's glory would then
set and forever "Would you ask
mighty giant" said the ministry, Ito
shrink voluntarily into a feeble and
puny dwarf?' But our independence
was ashieved, and instead of diminish
ing the power and commerce of England
both were augmented. Instead of leav-
ng the mother country dwarf, it left
ler as strong man, from whose shoul-
lers a burden had been taken, being
more active and vigorous than before.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

To MEASURE Corn IN THE EAR.-A
farmer asks how to measure corn in the
ear, or in the crib or bin. There are
several rules for tots, but the most COM
mon is what is called the % inch rule
that is, upon the presumption that a
box foot square and % inches deep
will hold one bushel when shelled.
This rule applies only to the dent or
gourdseed variety of corn. The cubical
contents in feet are first ascertained,
and this multiplied by three and divid-
ed by seven, which will give the bush
els of shelled corn of fifty-six pounds.
Thus crib that is thirty-twe feet long,
eight feet wide and thirteen feet high
in the average, will hold ], ,425 bushels,
and two of them 1850 bushels. A
common wagon box, eleven feet long
and two feet high, would hold % bush
els corn in the ear. Another rule for
the farmers boy is to reduce the con-
tents to cubic inches and divide by
4,O32, which will give him the bushels.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

A CONTEST, novel in this country,
however common abroad, has just been
decided at Paterson, New jersey.
There a number of English mechanics
out of employment have been amusing
their leisure in rearing and training
carrier-pigeons, and the first match in
this country was flown the other day.
Seven birds were entered TO fly an
average distance of tUree miles. The
time made was not considered fast.
The winner of the first prize made the
distance in something over three min
utes, and one bird was over eight min
utes in reaching its cote. The first
prize, under an old English custom,
was large copper kettle of little value
pecuniarily, but greatly esteemed as
the emblem of victory. The test was
merely prelude to grand match in
which some two hundred pigeons will
be entered to fly ten miles. Some of
the birds to be entered have a record,
having distinguished themselves in fly
ing between London and Paris.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30
Insular Flora.

The following botanical fact asso-
ciates itself with meteorological phe-
nomena, being probably directly con-
nected with atmospheric currents: 1t
is curious fact that the little island of
Amsterdam, in the South Indian ocean,
is known to be covered with trees,
whilst the island of st. Paurs, only
fifty miles to the south, is destitute of
even shrub. Botanists have long
been anxious to Determine the charac-
ter of the Amsterdam forest, but the
difficulty of effecting a landing on the
island has generally prevented the col
lection of specimens. In the last part
OF the Journal of the Linnean Society,
DIR. Hooker announces that at length
he has received the desired specimens,
these having been collected by Com
modore Goodenough, who states that
they represent the only species of tree
growing on the island DIR. Hooker
identifies with the Phylicia arborea of
Iheuars, a tree which, strangely enough,
is found in the remote island of Tristan
d'Aeunab. 1t is a curious problem for
those who study insular fioras to sug-
gest how the same plant can have es-
tabhshed itself on these two little
! speeks of land, separated from each
other by about five thousand miles OF
ocean.
A MEMBER of the North Carolina leg
islature, i'll discussing a bill, ssked
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

ORIGIN OF THE WORD Protestant.
"A cotemporary says that with the
month of April is associated the de-
rivatiOn and dissemination in a formal
and official manner of the designation
of Protestant. The Emperor Charles
the Fifth called a diet at Spires in
1929, to request aid from the German
princes against the Turks, and to ad-
wise means for allaying the disputes
growing out of Luther's rebellion
against Catholicism. The diet con-
demned the reformers, and issued a
decree in support of the doctrines of
the ancient church. Against this de-
cree six Lutheran princes and the dep
uties of thirteen towns of the empire
formally protested on April II, 1880.
From this act the designation of Protest
ant, which was then given to the follow
ers of Luther, is derived The Calvin
lists were subsequently included, and
the title became general for all the sects
outside the original Christian church.
The six protesting princes were John
and George, the electors of Saxony
and Brandenburg 4; Earnest and Francis,
the two Dukes of Lunenburg; the
Landgrave of Hesse, and the Prince of
Auhalt.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

NJ. D. CONWAY tells of lady in one
of the manufacturing towns of Great
Britain who recently had her attention
attracted to the window of a milliner's
shop by o beautiful and very ex-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

A SIGNIFICANT fact is the statement
that firm in Wales rendered to supply
an English railway with 10000 tons OF
rails at a price which would not have
given them any profit, and yet the con-
tract was gained by firm in Belgium
at 20 shiilings per ton less than the
Welsh offer,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30

islature, i'll discussing a bill, ssked !:
" Mr.. Speaker, are we men or jack
asses ?" Several North Carolina pa
pers are unable to take sides.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-10-09
VIM. C.. Ralston.

The San Francisco Commsreia! Herald Of Sept
u has the following eloquent tribu.e to the memory
Of the dead banker
Of the two great cAIamities which befell this city
last week--the failure Of the bank Ct California, and
the death OF VIM. c. Rllstou, its late pres5dent-the
latter has inflicted upon the hearts Of oUr people the
most profound grief, the mast intense sorrow Fl
nancial embarrassments are temporary; the less Of
such q man is an abiding weld. OF all the public
spirited, energetic, capable, and Hberal-minded citI-
zens who have devoted time, brain, money, and zeal
il advancing the best interests Of California, none
exceled him in devotion and hberslity. The monu-
ments Of his handiEork, Of his enterprise, OF his
earnest desire to promote widespread prosperity.
surround Us on all sides. His clear judgment, rapid
COMPREHENSIVE, capacious brain, and ready assist
ance, we're always within the reach OF those who
sought them The adviser OF capitalists, the friend
of genius and enterprise, the instlgator OF trade,
commerce, and manufactures, the builder Of real
estate values, the central figure Of financial move
ments, the workingman's employer, the poor mans
benefactor, the free but unostentatious giver of al
most bOundless charities, has been called away TO
eternal rest Through the agency Of his princeiy
hospitality, our resources and capabilities were made
more widely known and appreciated than through
any other private source. Hundreds Of foreign and
Eastern visitors-men of note and reputation. men
of influence and recognized character, whose i'm
pressions carry weight-have been his guests. and by
him instructed TO comprehend California. In the
palace and the howell; in the workshop and the busy
marts of commerce; in the church and in all our
charitable institutions; on the farms and on the
waters, there is mourning and grief for the death Of
VIM C. Ralston. Though he was merely man by
nature" prone to error as the sparks fly upward
possessed of incomplete educational attainments,
he was capable Of overcoming all weakness, and
rising unaided TO a position of such distinguished
grace and honor, earning for himself a worldwide
celebrity, and making himself the object of love and
esteem to the entire community in which he dwelt-
achievements which only one IN thousands OF mil
lions is ever permitted to realize. That he was so
permitted, and selected as a chosen instrument, can
only be construed as a manifestation of that Divine
Goodness which comes to the aid of pitiful humanity
wherever necessity occurs. That o man of such
marked traits of character, such decided tone and
bearing, would have enemies, was an assured Ger
tainty. OF them we have nothing to say. "Ven-
geance is mine, saith the Lord, and I will repay"
The prayers and blessings of a loving, deeply moved
community assembled to Heaven with the spirit of
VIM. c. Ralston.