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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
Animal Wonders.

In each grain of sand, there are mar
vels in every drop of water, a world.
In that great spectacle called nature,
every being has its marked place and
distinct role and in that grand drama
called life, there presides a law as har-
moni0us as that which rules the move
ment of the stars. Each hour removes
by death myriads of existences, and
each hour produces legions of new
lives. The highest as we'll as the lowest
created organism consumes carbon and
water to support life and its duties, and
it is not uninteresting to glance at the
food, the habits, and the ways and
means, peculiar to some of the inferior
animals. From their petrifed elections
we know what such fossilized reptiles
as the plesiosaurus, etc. are, and may
some day be able to discover the fish
aud crustacea they hunted down. Ami
mails, when not living by their own
respectable efforts, are either parasites
or dependents; many would seem to
have positive trades, or are connected
with branches OF industry. There are
miners, masons, carpenters, paper man.
ufacturers, and weavers, lacemakers
even, all working first for themselves,
and next to propagate their kind. The
miners dig into the earth, from natural
arches and supports, remove the use
less soil: such as the mole, the CHR
chilla of Peru, the badger, the lion ant,
as well as certain worms and mOlluscs.
TDe masons build hUts and places ac-
cording to all the rules of architecture,
as the bees and tropical ants there are
fish that construct boats that the waves
never can upset, and Agassiz has drawn
attention to fish which builds its nest
on the floating sea weed in the middle
of the ocean, and deposits therein its
eggs. The wasps of South America
fabricate a sort of paper or pasteb0ard.
Spiders are weavers as well as lace
makers ; one species constructs diving
bell, a palace of lace. When the as
tronOmer has need of the most delicate
thread for his telescope, he applies
to a tiny spider. When the naturalist
desires to test his microscope, he selects
a certain shell Of a sea insect, so small
that several millions of them in water
could not be visible to the naked eye,
and yet no microscope has yet been
made sufficiently powerful to reveal the
beautiful variegated designs on the
atomic smells Aristotle remarked,
and he has since been corroborated, that
a variety of plover enters the crOcodile's
mouth, picks the remnants of food off
the animals tongue and from be
tween its teeth. This living tooth
pick is necessary, as the tongue
of the crocodile is not mobile.
The Mexican owl, when enjoying a
sizes a, puts itself under the guard of a
kind OF rat, that gives the alarm on the
approach of danger. Parasites are
everywhere, depend on no particular
condition of the body, and are as abun-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
Magnificent Pauperism in the So nth

The New Orleans Picayune is pub
fishing a series of articles in the hope
of doing something to lead the plant
ing class out of what it calls the present
slough of despond. During the past
three years, the editor reminds them,
the southern states have produced large
crops of cotton, and sold them at good
prices. Putting the incoming crop at
only CSC, 900 bales, and the total pro-
duction the last three seasons reached
the enormous aggregate of II, 75O, 900
bales, worth about $725, ,000,0 900. The
avera@e crop for the ten years preced
ing the war was 3, 545, 900 bales, worth
S17S, 100000. The average of the last
three years is 3,916,000 bales, worth
$234, $50, 900. Yet, Notwithstanding all
this, the Picayune says, the cotton
states are in deplorable financial con-
dition. They have gone on producing
cotton and purchasing supplies, appar-
emily doing prosperous business, only
to find that each year leaves them
deeper in debt. Now the merchants
refuse to advance the means to put in
large crops, the planter begins to rel
ize how desperately poor he is. More
than one remedy may be requisite for
this condition of things, but one OF the
most effective of these would be a
greater diversifcation of agricultural
interests, to the end that the planters
may live more within their own re-
sources than heretofore.
ToRPEDoEs are now sent into whales
at the end of q newly-invented harpoon
in use at Norway. They kill the fish
without delay
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23

THE SoUrH AFRICAN DIAMoSD FIELDS.
"A letter received in Salem from q gem
tleman Of this city, now located at
Cape Town, @. q. II. reports that the
diamond fields are IN bad way-a
very few paying expenses. Many OF
the claims are $50 feet deep, and what
with the labor OF hosting dirt and
pumping water, 20 say nothing Of the
hundreds OF tons of earth that fall in
at short intervals, and consequent ex-
ira labor aud danger, diggers are fast
realizing that the old ways are giving
out, and that stock companies must
soon take their places. Not over
3 600 whites and blacks are now nc the
the fields, while few years ago there
we're ten or fifteen times that number.
The business Of the fields has. OF course,
m influence upon the business of Cape
Town and Port Eiz beth. Both ports
are glutted with stocks Of all kinds,
far beyond present requirements.
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Mrs. JOhnsOn's Mistake.

My friend, johnson, has an establish
ment for the manufacture of jewelry
and silver-ware in Boston, Some time
ago he sold bill of goods to a deal er
| in Augusta, Me. About month after
ward his partner was on visit to Ban
gor. and while there johnson wrote to
him to this effect:
81 have heard nothing of that ieWelry
I sent to Augusta. If you are arDund
that way stop and inquire if it was re-
ceived all right.
He put the letter in his pocket and
forgot to mail it. Next day he lett the
coat at home and Mrs. JohnsoS, as
usual, went through the pocketS and
she found the letter. When johnson
came home that afternoon and otened
the front door he was amazed tb see
Mrs. johnson with her bonnet or and
an umbrella and handbook in her hand,
sitting iu the hall on a trunk. looking
as if she had about Twelve hundred
pounds pressure of rage to the square
inch. He said:
"Why, Emeline, what on earth are
you doing ?"
"Im waiting for a cab to take me to
my mothers, you brute !"
"To your mothers? Why, what's
the matter ?'
"Matter-matter? You know well
enough what's the matter, you wretch.
I'll not live with you another hbur
Oh, don't talk to me, if you please
Go and talk to Augusta-go talk to her
if you're so fond of her. I've done
with you. This winds you up with
mei'
6. What 10 1-o, ,,,o,r oo-Lo o
You're behaving ridiculously."
"I know I au,l Abuse me Keep
on abusing me !! Knock me down and
stamp on me Augusta II like it, I
dare say 1 wish l had her here now,
the wretch I'd give ber taste of this
umbrella I'd scratch her eyes out!"
"Really, Emeline, this is the most
extraordinary conduct. "Will you tell |
me, my dear, what you"
sob, don't dear me, if you please!
Save your publishing sweetness for her.
It's too late to soft-sawder me. I'm |
going home to mothers. You can't |
give me clothes to be decent, but Au-
gusta gets all she want, of course. 1
go slouching around this house in an
old calico dress, but Augusta, I dare
say, has her silks and satins. can't
get a decent breast pin, but you can
give Augusta cart-load of 'em. It's
Infamous !"
"Emeline p
Well, what? ?"
"Did you read the letter left in my
coat yesterday?'
eyes, 1 did, and that's the way dis
covered your villainy."
Emiline !"
"WeIl, what dyou want ?'
"That letter referred to some jewelry
[ sold to man in Augusta, Maine.
Emeline !'
"WeI?"
"You've been making fool of your
self.'
"Was it really Augusta Maine? Oh,
William I'm afraid have. I'm afraid
-boo-hoo !-boo.hoo y
Here Mrs. Johnson broke down and
wept profusely over the lid of the band
box, while Johnson putlher umbrella
gently in the rack and carried her trunk
upstairs, while she gave play to her
feelings. She didn't go home to her
mother. But that night she fixed a
lozen of JobnsOn's shirts that he had
oeen trying in vain for a month to in
luce her to repair.-N Y. Weekly.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
MISS HELEN.

1t was a wild, seQuestered spot,
On the bank Of the Bois Dorce,
Whsse rushing waters tarried not
In their race for st. Louis Bay.
And there sat by the side of the yellow stream
A fisherman, bearded and broad Of beam;
And he anglea for perch, with skill supreme,
The whole Of that summers day.
The fish were shy, or the bait was stale,
Or the water too muddy Iween.
For never perch tapped his silvery tail
On the bank where the fisher was seem
Not a bite, not sign of q nibble, to show
That here in the depths Of the broad bayou
Were perch, or pike, or pompano,
Or garf1sh pearly green.
As the yellow sun was going down,
70 the sound of the marsh-hen's cry,
The fishernlan's brow was marked with frowl
And his broad breast heaved with a sigh;
For his hook was fast in a hidden crag.
Waterlogged boUgn, or the root OF tag,
Such as wave where the naiads lie.
To his feet arose that fisher brave
That fisherman broad Of beam
And, with delicate care. essayed to save
His dipsy ana hook from the stream.
Twas delicate care and delicate touch,
But more than a little was mucn too much,
A 5erk too many, pull too strong,
And prone on his back he lay, along
With prickiy prongs of cactus plants,
That pierced the linen of blouse and pants
? In band, and body, and seam.
Did he rave and tear his shaggy hair,
AS men are wont TO QOE
This fisherman-did he curse and swear
Until the air turned blue?
Far from it. One brawny hand he laid
On his port eide, where many blade
OF cactus had gone through;
The other he slowly raised aloft,
As he heaved heavy sigh,
And then, in accents sad and soft,
Helen Blazes I" heard him CRY.
How sweet methought, is the love that queIs
The evil passion that rises and swells
Within the troubled soul.
When pain excites, the wicked swear,
Or disappOintment corns, or care,
Leave woe, instead Of comfort, there,
And misery holds control!
Sweet Helen May thine influence
Bide ever with him thus;
Thy spirit sOothe the rage intense
That prompts the spoken cuss;
For men will rage, and men will swear,
AND carry on, ana rip and tear,
And break the decalogue everywhere,
If thou, dear woman, be not there
To counsel and to keep them clear
OF things iniquitous.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
THE COCOA TREE.

[AIr. Charles Warren Stoddard has introduced
into his book of South Sea Idyls the following
poem. 1t is little knOwn:l
Cast on the water by careless hand,
Day after day the winds persuaded me;
Onward drifted till a coral tree
Stayed me among the branches where the sand
Gathered about me, and ONLY grew,
Fed by the constant sun and the inconstant dew.
The sea birds build their nests against my root,
And eye my slender body's horny case.
Widowed within this solitary place
Into the thaukless sea I cast my fruit:
Joyous thrive, for no man may partake
All of the store bear and harvest for his sake.
No more heed the kisses of the morn;
The harsh winds rob me of the life they gave;
watch my tattered shadow in the wave,
And hourly dro0p and nod my crest forlorn,
While all my ibres stiffen and grow numb
Reclining the tardy ships, the ships that never
come.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23

dant in persons of the most robust as
of the most debilitated health. They
are at home in the muscles, in the heart,
in the ventricles of the brain, in the
ball of the eye. They are generally
and are not necessarily, as was. onue
supposed, confined to q special animal.
The parasites of fish have been detected
living in the intestines of birds and
there are some that, for the purpose of
development, must, pass into the
economy of a second animal.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
SpriBg BOnnets.


A Paris correspondent writes Not
withstaDdiDg the cold weather the
spring bonnets are out in full bloom
and beauty. They are very, very
pretty this season, and very becoming
TO almost any style of feminine face.
The old graceful gypsy shape, set rather
on the back of the head, yet coming
well forward, and fitting closely and
snugly over the back hair, is the most
in vogue. The hi2h brim of the front
stands ZIP somewhat too much above
the head for actual beanty, but when
the spacs is filled in with flowers the
effect is good. Flowers are TO he worn
in lavish profusion Every fashion
able bonnet now looks like a perambu-
lating bouquet. Flowers fill up the
brim, load the front, wreath the crowd,
and dangle in long, dropping sprays
over the wearer's shoulders. Rice
straws and the c0arser straws are in
great favor. A very beautiful bonnet
which was shown me was made of rice
straw. The exterior disappeared com
pletely under a wreath of wheat. oats,
and poppies, and long sprays of oats
dropped at the back. The high brim
was lined with black velvet with a
single bow of poppy-colored silk set at
one side. Another was of black straw,
with broad scarf of white matelasse
Surah tied around the crown aud held
down in front by large cluster OF tea
roses. Over the crown was laid a row
of mingled white and black ostrich
feathers, ten being employed to form
this garniture. A wreath of tea-roses
inside the brim and broad strings of
white matelasee Sarah completed the
whole. A delicate and graceful bonnet
for young girl was composed OF rice
straw, with q wide puff OF blue silk
around the crown the brim was lined
with blue silk and filed in with pale
pink rosebuds. All these we're OF the
gypsy shape. Another very pretty and
youthful looking bonnet of rice straw
had the wide brim that was so popular
last year; it was lined with pale blue
silk, the brim raised at one side and
confined with bow, and a wreath of
forget. me-nots encircled the front the
crown was shaded by two long and very
rich pale blue ostrich feathers. A shape
specially reserved for young girls IS
somewhat like an inverted saucer, which
does not sound very effective, but which
on the head Is very stylish and pretty"
BRITISH POLAR EXPEDITION. Nearly
all the petty officers who will compose
the crews of the Arctic exploration ex-
pediGonary ships have been entered at
Portsmouth, and allowed to go on leave
of absence until the ships are commits
stoned. Like the officers, the seamen
and marines are all volunteers. Only
men of very good character and of the
very best constitutions are taken. The
medical examination is especially strict.
The height is limited 70 between five
feet six inches aud five feet nine inches,
and the age TO between twenty-five and
thirty. one years. In Consequence OF
this standard many young, active men,
and tall, powerful ones, are disapPolnt-
ed in their wish TO join.
1 ~. /. l..
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23

SELF GUIDANCE. 1t is the assertion
of a scientific paper that self-guiaance
is the FIRST condition Of n reasonable,
improvable being. Children should
learn at school how 60 study alone-to
discover for themselves what they wish
TO know. In giving them no initia-
ton, in denying them their free viii,
we prepare them 10 resign themselves
10 the passive part imposed upon the
nation by governments that take the
initiative ia all measures of social in
tegest. We thus form subjects for
tyrant, not cihzenR Of a republic,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23

LIVELY ADVICE. -" How shall I adj
vertise ?" asked timid merchant Of his
more enterprising neighbor How2
why adyertise-do it, go it, make a
break-you are not advertising while
YOU are asking 'how aud while you
ask how, somebody else is taking in the
custom, Start-that is the point You
will soon get into doing it the right
way, while if you act as some folks do
and ask how TO day and how to-mor-
row. and keep up asking TO the end OF
your days, you will never advertise at
all, and very likely never be worth
cant
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
Rejected SnitOrs.

A writer in the Home Journal SAYS
" A woman never quite forgets the man
who has oncs loved her. She may not
have loved him ; she may, indeed. have
given him the No instead of the Yes he
hoped for ; but the remembrance that
he desired q Yes always softens her
thoughts of him, and would make him,
were he reminded of it, friend for
ever. There may be girls who make a
Jest OF discarded suitOrs but they are
generally very young. and the wooing
has been something that did not be-
token much depth of tenderness. There
are mercenary offers, too, that only
awaken scorn and hate in a woman
woOed for money and not for herself;
but really to have touched a mans
heart is something not to be forgotten
while she lives. Always she remembers
how his eyes looked into hers; how,
perhaps, be touched her hand with his,
and how her heart ached when he
turned away without that which she
could not give him. She loves some
one else. Some other man has all the
truth of her soul-always has and al
ways will have-but she cannot forget
the one who turned away from her and
is glad when she hears of his success,
grieved when she knows that ne has
suffered and when some day she hears
that he is married she who has herself
been married lopg years, perhaps she
who, at all events, would never have
married him-is she glad then? I do
not know. A woman's heart is very
strange thing. l do not believe she
knows herself. Glad? Oh, yes and
is his wife pretty and nice ? And then
she says to herself that he has quite
forgotten, aud that, OF course, is best
and cries little"
A FAMILY in Boston "believe in the
doctrine of mortifying the flesh by alb
staining from the use of tea, coffee,
meat and all stimulants, and in order to
keep the passions under restraint, they
administer bsatiDgs to each other daily,
and this practice is continued until the
the patient is thoroughly converted. >"
All this came ont in police court, the
head of the family having been arrest ed
for trying to beat the doctrine into his
wife.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23

THE latest addition 10 the umbrella is
a pane of glass, inserted in the front
breadth through which the holder can
see his way.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
ACROSS THE STREET.

do not know it If she knows
watch her, as she comes and goes;
wonder II she dreams Of it.
Sitting and working at my rhymes
weave her sunny hair at times
Into my verse, or CLEANS Of it.
Upon her window-ledRe is set
A box OF towering mignOnnette;
Morning and night she tends to them,
The senseiess flowers, that do not care
To Kiss taat strand Of looEened hair
As prettily she bends to them.
n could once contrive to get
Into that box Of mignonnette.
Some morning as she tends 20 t&,o,,,,
Desr me! see the sweet blood rise
Aud boom about her chees.s and svsa
And bosom. as she binds 10 fbaTy
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
VALUE OF sUMAoH.

The Ohio Farmer, through a CORES
pondent, says: An acre in full bearing
will produce about three tons, and if
well prepared, is worth $50 to 800 per
ton. Curers pay about one cent per ID.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23

Coop housekeepers are sad when they
turn to dust They say "Let us
sweep"
, 1875-06-13


5rAFF0Rp-oa TUESDAY evening last, Of congestion
e ths bra1a Mary l. E.. vie Of William Stafford. In ths
The romans woro taken to Peoria toe lntennoat
;, = q e2a,umrtion. Ella s. oasa
Remains to b. takca 70 Caa,ds Tor ,ats.rn.nt.
1WhhhiTE3ot e2nsumoton. At hi. residences Ne: ae
WI 4rd:s ssa
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No'ice Of funeral hereafter
f1:sr GHEi L.E.en: n..iss Il Norway. wed yssrs
~ Mtnncsota papers please copy.
pRURERTs-Frtesnd ct thu tant!y Of tho Iata George
h r. ass nred to attend Tho funeral ssr.aee to
l'i? VIZ III bRi;fIs feisS s,
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Rochester and Schenectady N. T. paper, pls..s
poWD7Juno Il. at her residence. 80 rronrrseeond-
tanvraf vii leave her ato residence Sunday. Jnns
~ ~ =. n by carriszos 10 cArs Funeral tain 10 Ca
~ A.ssa,: i: ? F.. F. paper, please copy:
'sE Is 81 stis 1s,s 3s.
Funeral sunday Il IL o'clock H. d, ca..l,s.. to a<o-
nPh:ladeiphia and Germantown papsrs please copy:
tho !.h iasr., \: to Bssvoort HOUSE, Il
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~ Loah'n- Cnaads p:pers ploaas copy.
Hbf"OOD-~Jans T.. 1t THO resitancs af 3. L. Tab
cnst- Mary Ayues Haywood.
Fnn-tAl It Gr1ftoE.
~ Massachusetts,, Boston. md Worcester papsza
please ao'se*.
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, 1875-06-13
THE COUNTY BUILDINGS,

Commissioner Guenther wns around tha build
| ing yesterday, having just arisen from six
weeks sickness. He is yet quite feeble.
Monday will be- compiaint day with the Grand
Jury. Those having complaints to make will ap.
pear, or otherwise cannot be hoard during the
week.
The Grand Jury yesterday returned thirty
four indictments, as follows: Larceny, twenty
three; burglary, seven; assault, two; and rob-
berry, two.
The Principal Of ths Cook County Normal WAS
yesterday interviewing tho members of tho
Board to secure their Endorsement Of project
Of his for the erection Of . building adjacent to
the school to be used NJ boalding-house. Such
i building as he desires would cost about
$4,000. TIE house is designed to be co-opa-
ratlye and for the benefit Of students, many OF
whom AZ unable to pay tho present pricce for
board. Tho project, was laid before the Board
some time ago, md does not aeem to hare met
much favor.
Certain members Of certain committees Of the
County Board have been in the habit, OF late, Of
acting for their respective committees in EN-
pfovins help for tho county, auditing bills, and
making reports. 1t is claimed that the practice
has led to serlous abuses and imposltiops upon
the Board, and ought to by corrected Iu the
matter Of auditing bills. especially, every mem
her of the Committee should be present; first,
because they are required to attest their cor
rectness, and second, because they are paid for
such eervice- The Committee clerk should also
be- required TO be present and make 1ninute Of
tho proceedings, and the Board would do well to
reject eald reports unless 30 attessed. Such
reform ID contemplated by certain members. and
tue sooner it is made the better.