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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Modern Fandals In Rome.

In Mr.. Augustus Hare's book
'Walks in Rome" recently published,
he alludes to the insensibillty to, and
want of appreciation of, landscape, syl-
van, and horticultural beauty mani
tested Ey the Roman municipal author
tiles in carrying out recent improve
ments. The Villa Negronia Masslmo,
the most beautiful of Roman gardens,
with the grandest of old orange avenues
and glorious groves of expresses, amid
which Horace was buried, villa whose
terraces dated from the time it belonged
to M8cenas, and which was replete with
recollection of the romantic story OF
Vittoria Accoramboni, of Donna Cam
lila Perretti, and of Alferi, has been
ruthlessly and utterly plowed up, so
that no trace of it is left. 'Even this,
however" Mr.. hare goes on to say, Sis
as nothing, compared with the entire
destruction of the buildings which re-
main The baths of Caracalla, stripped
of all their verdure and shrubs, and de-
prived alike of the tufted foliage amid
" b ch Shelley wrote, and the howery
carpet which so greatly enchanced their
lonely solemnity, are now series of
bare, featureless walls, standing in
waste, and possess no more
attraction than the ruins of London
warehouse. Then with regard to the
Colosseum, he writes:
''The Colosseum, no longer gar |
anded ring is bereaved of everything |
which made it so lovely and so pictur
,sque, while botanists must forever
leplore the incompatible and strangely
Inique flora of the Colosseum, which |
Sienor Rosa has caused to be carefully
even the roots of the
hrubs having been extracted by the
iremen, though in pulling them out
nore of the building has come down
han 500 years of time would have in
nred."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Flies Are UsefnI-An Interesting Ex-
pertinent Made.

It las generally been believed that
the common house fly was nuisance
and oI no EARLY use. Prof. Emerson,
a not, d English chemist, found that
flies were not so useless as they are
supposed to be, but that as scavengers
of the air they are indispensable. Did
you ever watch a fly who has Just
alighted after soaring about the room
for some little time? He goes through
a series of operations which remind you
of cat licking herself after meal, or
of a bird plumipg its feathers. First,
the hind leg is passed over a wing, then
the fore legs undergo a like treatment;
and lastly, if you look sharp, you will
see the insect carry his proboscis over
his legs and body as far as he can reach.
The minute trunk is perfectly retrac-
tile. and it terminates in two large lobes,
which you can see spread out when the
insect begins a meal on a lump of
sugar. Now the rubbing together of
legs and wings may be a smoothing op-
Grafton but for what purpose is this
carefully going over the pody with the
trunk, especially when that organ is not
fitted for licking, but simply for grasp
ing and sucking of food.
IL.
that the action of the hies was to gather
animalculee, which had attached to them
in flying about the room. He took
sheet of white paper into the kitchen
and waved it around, taking care that
no flies touched it, went back to the
microscope and there found animal
cules, the same as on flies. He had
now arrived at something definite; they
were not the progeny of the fly, but an
imalcules floating in the air; and the
quick motions of the flies gathered
them on their bodies, and the flies then
went into some quiet corner to have
their dainty meal.
The investigator goes on to describe
how he continued the experiment in q
variety of localities, and how, in dirty
and bad smelling quarters, he found the
myriads of flies which existed there lit
orally covered with animalcules, while
other flies, captured in bed rooms or
well ventilated, clean apartments, were
miserably lean and entirely free from
their prey. Wherever filth existed,
evolving germs which might generate
disease, there were the flies, covering
themselves with the minute organisms
and greedily devouring the'same.
Mr.. Emerson, while thus proving the
utility of the fly, has added another and
lower link to that curious and necessary
chain of destruction which exists in ami
mated nature These infnitesimal ami
malcules from food for the flies, the
flies for the spiders, the spiders for the
birds, the birds for the quadrupeds, and
so on up to the last of the series, serv-
ing the same purpose to man. He GER
tainly deserves credit for an interesting
and novel investigation, and for an
discernment which might
even attack the difficult task of teach
ing us the uses-forsnature makes moth
ing without some beneficial end-of the
themselves.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Some Successful Literary People.

Clemens, the humorist, better known
as Mark Twain, has done better than
any man of his turn of labor. He has
been seven years before the public, and
during that time has become rich
enough to live on his income. His
property in Hartford is worth more than
$50, 900. Mrs. Stowe has made more
than any other American woman, and
has probably cleared 100000. This
may seem like large sum, but when it
is scattered through quarter of cen
tury, it is not such and immense thing
as it first appears to be. Marian Harland
(Mrs. Terhune), who has written in
dustriously for twenty years, has prob
ably made $15, 900 by dozen novels.
Perhaps Mary J. Holmes has done
equal Y we'll. Gail Hamilton Miss
Dodge enjoyed a good sale for her
books, for the first few years, but
her vanity got the better of her judg-
ment, and she quarreled with her pub
fishers. Her next book was devoted TO
the quarrel, and it at once impaired her
popularity. She has corner IN Har-
per's papers and also in the Independ-
ent, but will never do much IN books
again. Her impudence toward the
venerable John Todd, who differed with
her in opinion, showed how tie vanity
arising from success spOils real talent.
Walworth, who was shot by his son,
never made much out of his books, and
they were, in fact, too inferior to sell
without extraordinary puffery. josh
Billings SHAW has found unusual pop
ularity. He is witty and says. many
wise as we'll as funny things. 1t seems
a pity that such clever fellow should
be obliged to borrow the jokes of poor
Artemus Ward and print them as
original, but such is one of the weak
nesses of funny fellows. Times.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
A ViscouHtess' Vengeance.

The Viscount De Fulse of the Chateau
of La Grangerie, near Tours, France, is
now sorry that he brought his family
matter into court. He thought his old
mother, the viscountess, for some years
a widow, was spending money and
managing the estates foolishly, and he
applied to the proper tribunal to have
her restrained on the ground of insanity.
She replied in court that the viscount
was neither the son of herself nor her
husband, and had no right to tile or
estates, or any thing that was hers. He
was so much astOnished at the revela-
tions his supposed mother made that he
wanted to withdraw the suit, but was
not allowed to do so. He has to hear
it ont now, and the old lady is permit
ted to furnish proof of her assertion.
Her story is that her marriage with the
former viscount was considered by his
friends a n1eSGLlidnce, and the couple
wanted TO fix it up with the noble fam
lily. They thought child would make
it all right, but they had no child of
their own. They made arrangements
to have a child by giving ont that one
was coming, and the infant was pro-
dured to order. The Viscount De
Fulse is that infant, and lie is not
happy with his title.
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Treasure TrOVe.

The finding of the hidden treasure by
workmen employed on Staten Island,
the other day, has a rOmantic interest.
The pace where the gold was discOv-
cred is an old manor house occupied by
Geo. Dongan, earl of Limerick, in colo
NAL times. The peer dreamed one
night that a large amount of gold was
hidden beneath the soil of the garden.
He related this dream to his retinue,
and his lordship, according to tradition,
commanded detachment of his soldiers
to fog and scOrch John BOdine, the
owner of the estate, into the mood of
making known the hiding place of this
treasure. They cOnfOunded his lgnor-
ance with obstinacy, and tortured him
almost to the point of death. Several
of his children had dreams similar to
those of the cruel lord, and repeatedly
upturned the garden earth. Some
time ago the property came into the
possession of gentleman who rented 1t
to Mr.. Fl. G. Windsor, paying teller OF
the Mercantile bank. Suddenly he and
his family disappeared. Then it be-
came known that he was an apparent
defau1ter. For years afterwards strang-
ers' voices sounded in the old house,
and strangers faces appeared at the
windows. While digging about the
premises, the workmen came upon
buried treasure in gold coin to the
amount of $4,000. In consequence,
every well-regulated family IN the
has bought spade and
n crowbar.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Miss Soldene's Floral Offering.

The New Orleans Picayune of re-
cent date says Last night, during the
performance of "Mme. PArchiduc at
the st. Charles theater, in this city,
Henry Gallagher became so charmed
with Mile. Soldene's singing that he
could not resist the temptation of throw
ing her bouquet. Nine. IArchiduc did
not see it at first, as she was singing
with her back partly turned to the
audience, but as soon as she turned to
make the usual bow in acknowledge
ment of round OF applause, her de-
lighted eyes fell upon the nosegay, and
she gracefully stopped to secure it.
Just as she did so the seemingly en-
chantod flowers moved few feet from
where they had fallen upon the stage.
The Diva paused for a moment and
then made another attempt, when 10!
the flowers again drifted away from her
grasp. The idea now flashed across
her mipd-'the thing has got a string
to it., and suiting the action to the
thought, she made a desperate rush,
pounced upon the flowers and sent
them whirling back into the face of
the malicious spectator. Then striking
a majestic pose, she cast a contemptu-
GUS and withering look upon the dis
comfited Gallagher, who at the same
moment felt the heavy hand of police
man resting upon his shoulder. The
Soldene's tormentor was taken to the
first precinct station charged with dis
turbing the peace, and Monsieur PArch-
iduc, upon hearing, about the matter,
declared that he rather liked it it
was original"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Brains.

James Boswell, blacksmith, died in
Indianapolis on Wednesday night, in a
drinking saloon of the seventeenth
grade. This fact might not be of great
human consequence but for the fact
that a post-mortem examination revealed
that his brain weighed sixtY-one ounces.
This drunken blacksmith has remorse-
lessly demolished some of our admira-
tion for few of the great men of the
earth. The great American orator,
Daniel Webster, had a brain which
weighed fifty. seven ounces, and all
Americans boasted of it. The phrenol-
Ogists regarded Webster's brain as a
rare specimen. This quantity of albu-
men and cerebral fat, with the phos-
phorus and osmazome, etc., and the
water-though the water didn't go to
Webster's brain so quickly as to some
in the head of Webster was believed to
account for his greatness. Men traced
his reply to Hayne directly to the
weight of his cerebelilIn1 and n1edulIG
O6LOngGtG. We took special pride in
the fact that this country had produced
brain weighing fifty-seVen ounces.
Cuvier's weighed less than three ounces
more Dupuytren's but an ounce more
NapoleOn's scarcely any more. When
Rulof, the Greek scholar, college pro
fessor, rObber and murderer, was hung,
and it was found that his brain weighed
more than Webster's, we all felt a sense
of chagrin, but we accounted for the
fact on the ground that Ruloff was
built for great man, man of genius,
but was somewhat erratic, so to speak.
That he had a singular talent was ad-
mitted. But the death of this black
smith has hammered all confidence in
measuring brains by ounces out of us.
He wasn't an Eihu Burritt of a black
smith, either. He was q corpulent,
drunken hammerer, and no more And
a cerebral weight of sixty-one ounces,
avoirdupois !
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Marriage, or Your Money.

A young man who promises woman
to marry her, and backs out of the con-
tract from any cause or motive what
ever, stands very little chance before
the courts in some localities in England.
The woman has the bar, the judges, the
jury and public sympathy all on her
side, and may count on damages with
as much certaintyas if she had the money
already in the Bank of England. A very
strong case is presented in that of Miss
Wynn, an innkeeper's daughter, of
Shrewsbury, suing a young man for
breach of promise. Hurst had property
and was solid subject. His lawyer
offered to provebe fore the assizes that
Miss Wynn was both incorporate and
unchaste- Hurst acknowledged the en-
gagement and postponement of the
wedding. He had written Miss Wynn
letter stating that he had seen her
drunk, associating with bad characters
in low houses, asking to be let of, and
Offering to pay all the expenses she had
incurred in getting ready to marry him.
In court there were witnesses to prove
the drunkenness and low associations
of the plaintiff, but the judges refused
to hear them, and oold the jury to dis
miss all such considerations from their
minds in making up verdict. The pre-
siding judge said he had great doubts
whether plea of intemperance was a
good answer to the action. Insanity
and bodily infrmities were held to be
no defense. He consulted with his
brother Judge, and the two wise heads
decided that intemperance was no de-
fense, and as for the other plea-asso-
citation with bad characters-was not |
sufficient. There must be evidence of |
personal unchastity. A witness was
called to prove intemperance, and he
was ruled out by the judge. A witness
to prove unchastity was also squelched, |
and the jury brought in damages of G225 |
Tor the plaintiff. The Shrewsbury girls |
nave pretty sure thing on marriage or
your money. If they don't make it pay |
t is not the fault of the judges and |
,OurtS
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Cork Mattresses as Life Preservers.

The introduction of cork mattresses
on board sea-going vessels is urged by
the English papers. 1t is proposed that
in place OF the hair mattresses now in
use, granulated cork mattresses should
be used. One of these mattresses, as
at present made, is capable of floating
a weight of sixty pounds in the heavi-
est seas. By making the hammocks
and mattresses of cork, a good means
is obtained for saving life. Another
advantage is that they can be rendered
instantly available by the passengers
and crew. The Russian and German
navies have already adopted this re-
form, and the English government is
about to adopt them. Secretary Robe
SOD, in his last report to congress-, al
Iuded to the subject but, Of course, it
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14

ART IN JAPAN.-An italian school of
painting is to be organized IN Japan
nnder the protection of the government
The Orientals are becoming decidedly
civilized. In fact the time is not far
distant when the Heather Chlnee y
will be myth-a literary fiction OF the
dim past without living counterpart
an evolution from the inner conscious
ness of a novelist, with no contempora-
neOus prototype to give bis creation,
color or shape. Then the missionaries
pioneers of civilizatiOn-will be COM
ing home, leaving the children of the
sun to run their religion, and with it
their politics aud civil institutions, upon
the basis Cf the advanced ideas of the
age. When enlightenment has pro
eeeded so far as to enkindle a desire
among a people to welcome art within
the moral circuit, first the confines of
their thought, ambitions aud lntelh-
gence. then day of jubilee is at hand.
The Japs have a higher destiny than
tea, fans and fire-crackers. John China
man is not forever to ''washee- washee.
The improved Mongolian is the success
of the future -E Exchange.
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A Strange Goose Story.

All the fish stories that were ever told
are quite equaled by the following
goose story, which is taken from a
recent number of the Yolo (Cal) Mail:
While hunting in the tules near the
sink of Cache creek, recently Abe
Green, an old hunter, discovered a pet
ritied wild goose, standing upright,
with legs buried about one half in the
adobe soil. He thought at first it was
living, and creeping near, fired his gun
1T it, bat the bird did not bulge an
inch. Walking up to It, he found it
dead, and. in trying to pick it up, was
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astonished at its immense weight. 1t
had turned to stone, and mark on it's
wing, near the forward joint, showed
where the shot had struck it, knocking
a piece off. He managed to raise it up
out of the ground, and when he laid it
down a piece dropped from its breast,
disclosing hollow inside, from which
pure, clear water began running. It's
feathers were very natural, and its ap-
pearance was calculated to deceive-so
lifelike. He took it to~his cabin, down
the canal, few miles back of Washing
ton, where it can be seen by those who
wish to see such strange and unusual
sioht
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organ has two manuals-the great and
the swell. 1t requires two able bodied
men TO keep it pumped full of pious
wind, whileNone plays it out. The
music, or rather noise, is about on a
par with that resulting from blending
of Scotch bag. pipes and Chinese gongs,
and usually before conference week the
nervous women and children are mott
fed to leave town. 1t will soon be
played by water power.
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FoR BETrrR OR FoR WORSE,

You thread with tender fingers, oft,
The shining rfnglets Of my hair;
You tell me they are fine and sottr
And vet, You say, Sour heart they hOlu
In their long links Of sunny gold
An idle, willing prisoner there.
And YOU have told me, when my hand
Lay warm in yours, that in its clasp
Your future waited, great and grand
II I should choose TO let il stay;
But that, if II were drawn away
All hope would fly beyond your grasp.
And you have said times not few,
That death, whene'er 1t cross your way
VIII aud your heart as firm and true
As nov, when blithe, and young, and fair,
You gauge me by inv shining hair
Aud by my smiling eyes to-day.
And, though think truer heart
Neer breathed on earth than yours, know
Thst if, with hand in hand, we start
On hte's long journey, there will come,
Ere one Of us in d. attn Is dumb,
Words Of regret aud bitter woe.
z 2 For you love beauty; and come day,
Nnen Time comes by and finds me fair,
He'll turn, with touch Cf sure decay,
. The golden links to graY-and 10!
1uur heart viii slip lts bonds, and go
Ia new-fOund freedom Otherwhere.
And the white hand, whose clasp in yours
Makes al, you say, your life is worth,
Might, even as its touch assures,
Be strong some day to cross your Will,
And, right or wrong, persist until
Il should become your baue ON earth.
And when death comes, as come it must
To me, suppose twill better be,
IT, looking on my quiet dust,
YOu'c can say family, through your tears,
" We have been friends for many years,
And she was very dear to me-
Than that, With bitter, parting sigh,
Fou should look back. far back azain
long wasted life, and cry,
q Al, better had lived alone
For We had long estranged grown
And life was uaught but constant pafu1
80, friends In deed, and word, and thought
Let us shake hands and 60 our ways,
And some time, when the years have brought
Their many changes, we can see
That II 7EAs better things should be
Jus@as they were in former days.
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The blue flame from n coal Of fire
has a temperature of $500 degrees
Fahrenheit, the flame of hydrogen and
of oxyhydrogen, $500 degrees. The
temperature OF the eclectTic spark is
unknown, but 1T is supposed TO be
about %, 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
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was a great deal too important and es-
sential to receive any attention on the
part of that body. Our ocean steam
ships ought to use them, if they have
not already done SO, and passengers, if
they ale wise, will avoid steamers that
do not carry them.
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SWALLOWED ONE KNIFE Too MANY.
The case is mentioned of an Ameri-
can sailor who died in Guys Hospital,
London, a post-mortem examinatiol of
whose body showed that his disease
was due to his repeated exploits of
swallowing knives, from the effects of
which he had been sick for three years.
The first time he swallowed fourteen
knives, became sick, but recovered, and
commenced again, betting from time to
time on his bravado exploits. While
ON an English ship he swallowed seven
teen knives in two successive days; but
this appears to have been too much, and
after long suffering he died. fourteen
of the knives were found in his stomach,
but, strange to say, partly digested,
the iron parts as well as the horn han
dies. The stomach itself was not at all
injured. He had good appetite to the
last, and his sickness and death were
alone caused by the haft of large kuife
becoming immovably fixed across the
intestints.
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Prices for common horses in England
are said TO have advanced 100 per cent.
in the last twenty years,
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understanding.

Yrs said tAc driver ol AiAN S"a "
the man who stood on the steps, "she 3
n mighty nice mare for car work-least-
ways TO look at. Kick2 Well you bet.
Since I've had her, she's removed the
insides from two horses hitched IN WIN
her. she's caved in her sail times
enonqh TO make one carpenter rich' ana
livened up moren one passeilgeI
member one case in particular Nee
old gent with youngsters, goin 09t lgr
a Sunday picnic he'd a basket OF lunch
co0ered mo with a table-cloth. Jest as
he was Citing of, the mare worked
rornd when / wasn't lookin', ana she
fetcbed that basket one clatter with
botb feet--I don't rightly know but she
cot in all four-snyways there was
inncn for everybody within ten rods,
wbetber he wanted IL or not; the paper
hovs mostly did. Think the old man
saved the handle of the ham ana the
cork of one bottle. Sich nlce-iooAih
beast as she is, too. Why that marc
has been bought out Of the stables not
Iess'n three times cause she was sech a
gentle. lookin' lady's horse. Wen, It's
good for the doctors and wagon-makefH'
ANYHOW. Always staves up the family
and gets back into the team less'n
week. Never was broke, she wasn
and never will be till she falls on a
house, Chicago Tribune,
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CIRCUMSTANCES.

o world, both gifts we're pure and bright,
Holy and sacred in Gods sight
God will Judge them and thee aright
The daily gazette., 1875-03-11
.JEEFEnsos HOUSE.
rSw CASTLE. DEL4EARE.

JOHN W. GRAY, PROPRIRTOK.
This large and beautifully situated house
has been put In the very best repair for the
reception OF visitors who will find at 1t all the
accommodations OF FIRST-CLASS HOTEL :.
II commands 1ne view of the Delaware Bay,
and is one Of the most pleasant and delightful
placee In the State for excursions or pic-nics.
The house is kept In the best style, the bal
diled with the choicest wines, liquors and
mait drinks, and table supplied with the sub
si0ntsts can arrive by boat or rail. Parties
who wish to go fishing or boat riding on the
noble Delaware, can be Accommodated with
suitable boats. The patronage Of the public
is respectfully solicited.
ty22.t j. w. GRAY.