The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-12

The principal time-niecc Of the Paris

'''idtl'h>r anu by II are regulated all the
numerous clocks employed in the Observable
~. II Is described ag an instrument of sucb
precision that IL scarcely varies To the extent
81 one second IN a twelvemonth. 4 PROPOSE
tionr It appears has Just been made by VI.
itNerrlcr, the director Of the observatory, to
Piace ali the public clocks throughout Paris
~ ulrect connection with this time-piece. lie
proposes to lay telegraph wire which shall
connest the regulator of the observatory with
the clock of the Luxembourg palace, now
USED ior the prefecture of the Seine and the.
municipal council; and that time-kceper in
turn, II Is proposed, shall be put in electrical
communication with those at the BourSe-
Palace de Justice, mairies of all the arron-
eiSsements Of the city, churches and other
public buildings.
Agricultural returns for October
show the wheat crop OF the present year to be
a short one, and there is a marked dctcriorst-
ton in quality. The average is about eighty
per cent of last years production. If this
indicates total depreciation, il amounts
to nearly 62.Q0O,oOO bushels, and gives the
crop at 246O00,OO0 bushels. In quail
lty, the crop averages fourteen per cent
below sound condition. The condition
nt the corn crop is exceptionally high
The produce reported this wear falls
short of 1874, about per cent. Oats
product per cent greater than last wear
Potatoes promise 10 be extraordinary, both
IN yield and quality. Tobacco > per cent
above the average. Barley is 81 per cent.
oi last years crop, AMI bqckwhcat not tar-
hoD1 the average.
A very curious circumstance con
nected with the visit Of II. Il. II. the prince
OF Wales 70 India, is the fact that twill in
voluntarily Weld quite a profit 10 the. inSur-
ancc offices. .HsiIrge amount Of property Is
held under lease for lives in various parts of
England, and the life of the prince has BEEN,
~ many eases chosen for insertion, bpcaase
81 C;ln nevFr drop without the fact becoming
known both To lessor and lessee. Lessons
arc Frequently in the habit of eiicctiug a
policy ~ the princes life to pretect them
selves against the contingency OF his death
avoiding the lease. Insurance offices have
issued notices in regard to these politics
stating that the visit Of his royal ffichncSs
neccssitates an additional prcmiuni for extra
u'ki which should be paid before his sailing
The burning of Virginia Citv, the
fnterprising and thriving capital of Nevada
casts a cloud ever the Frightening prospects
OF the country The destruction of eight
millions Of property in a day by fire iS,a ca
tamlty that no insurance can cover and no
sympathy can alleviate. The losses IN Chi
cago and Boston and Baltimore have taught
uS what such distractions of property mean
and how much suffering they entail The
causes Of Die fire have not been reported.
But the Citg was largely constructed of wood
and 30 unlWnccded the conjunction of wind
and iiilme to sweep it out of existence. 1t
certainly seems as though we have had con
hagrations enough to teach oar people the
criminal folly At building tinder-boxes to in
VItc destruction.
The Russians are discussing the con-
str'Etjon Of a canal to join together the Cas-
pian and Black seas. The Caspian is a salt
ftke of from four hundred To four hundred
amt fifty feet depth of water which is con
S,dcfahiy below that of the Black, owing to
thc copIouS evaporation under the fierce
summer heat. The canal is proposed to he
seven hundred and fifty miles long, thus con
AtItutlnS It a far larger and costlier enter
PRISE than the Suez canal. Russia actually
nae a coasting fleet of eight hundred vessels,
al hNty-eight thousand nine hundred and ten
tonnage, on the Caspian, and it is exclusive
mistress, with tha exception of a few Persian
An article on panicS, recently read
ut the English Social Science association
took the position that panicS or commercial
crises occurred at regular intervals; and that
every ten years one might be looked for. To
gd9rd against its evils il was proposed to
establish banks with small amount of sub
Srription to begin with but as the capital
waS not to be Withdrawn until the panic
occurred, the aggregate would amount to a
vast sum. These banks would remedy the
defects Of the government banks which are
too immohile, and not easily adapted to great
emergencies.
\ medical CotempOrary, lauding the
system of international weather bulletins
lately established hv our signal service bu-
rcau, goes on to hope that a similar scheme
may ere long b" appliC@ to the record of
prevalent zymotic diseases, i'm the form of
";u international bulletin Scttin" forth Of
hcIally the movements of the waves of cpl
dcmic disease from their initiation to their
decline, medical signal officers becoming
the counterpart of the weather observers"
The run Of salmon in the Sacramento
river during the present season has been
something Unprecedented. Mr.. Livingston
Stone, in charge of the United States salmon
Matching station ON the M'Cloud river. stating
under date Of August %, that, in space of
about a hundred yards by thirty, 5000 salmon
per hour could be seen jumping out Of the
water Mr.. Stone has actually counted 100
IN minute, and has seen eighteen spring
out ot the water at once.
Folev's statue of Stoncwail Jackson,
which was unveiled at Richmond last week,
Is thus spoken of hy the London Athcn;rum:
"Ot II, critically, we are bound to say that
We wish 1t had been u better work of art and
we say this not only for the reputation of the
sculptor, but for the honor Of the heroic
general himself, rs we'll as on account of the
sympathy which has led many English ad-
lairerS Of 'Stonewall To subscribe funds and
The merchants of Manchester, Eng,
the city which has been supposed to stand
Unrivalcd in the manufacture of cotton goods
have begun to import calicoes from the
United States. This statement is made bv
the London Times on the authority of the
prapcrS' Trade journal. The importers say
that the American goods are much better in
quality and appearance than those OF English
Manufacture.
James Lick has just pro- oScd to
build his SSOO,OOO astronomical observatory
ON the summit of Mount Hamilton. il the
supervisors ot Santa Clara county will cuu-
Struct a railroad thithcr from San Jose.
Mount Hamilton is SiNty-fvc miles from san
Francisco, and its summit is I.I4O feet high.
lt Is thought by many that Mount Diahlo
would he q better site.
Is it not astonishing that men, who
have the whole world to conquer. will bother
their great heads with the tightncSS OF a
WuWanS skirt. How about your Stovc-ppc
hatS2 They make your heads bald and
greasy dish-cloth, vet you wear them.
Would that some prophecies might arrive
in Israel and tell the awful consequences of
this fashion.
Remarking upon the great rain
storms of July, August and September a
writer in the Country Gentleman SAYS !:
" These great rains point To an open winter,
west, for which reason those corn-growers
who make haste To harvest their crop aS early
rs it Is fit for the crib will have advantage
ousy taken time by the forclocl."
The visitors to the gardens of the
Philadelphia geological Society are 50
numerous that in eight months the receipts
were SISOo0, and the average attendance
was $50. With such prosperity the society
will before long possess one of the best col
lections of animals known. IL is intended
to prepare a very full collection of American
animals for the centennial.
Gen. W. ID. Washburn, of Mime
aPnIls, Mimi, made an assignment of all his
property for the benefit of his creditors a
wear ago, and now the aSSigneeS, after paying
all debts in full, have restored to the general
assets 10 the amount OF S3O0.O0l. Ii a man
must fail, that's the way to do it,
Susan b. Anthony Is severe. She
says, i'm recent letter: Il couldn't go five
miles out of town, when | was i'm Missouri.
without meeting flock of graSShoppcrs that
would make Il better bench of Judges than
the present supreme court of the United
Statcs;' Their woman suffrage decision
worries her.
Stanley did not go on his African