The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

Oue CHlCdRO ITiDuue al SI.oO d ASS, tOl
which the brewer gets $3.50, and the re-
taller about ST.
NJ. TALLEYRAND PERIGoRD, centen-
nial commissioner from France, writes 10
his people that the Americans have sadly
deteriorated, socially, and intellectually.
ENGLIsHMEN have patented something
even more humane than the gyro or
steel pigeon. 1t is an artificial hare for
greyhound racing, mounted oil sort of
shuttle that runs in a deeply grooved
rail four hundred yards long, and is op-
Grated by two men with windlass. The
dogs chase it just as eagerly as If it were
a real hare.
Cole YOUNGER, one of the rufians
of the bank robbing gang who recently
came to grief in Minnesota, has written
a letter, in which he says: al am proud
to say we were raised by religious pa
rents and attended Sunday school regular
in our boyhood, and, too, had charge of
a bible-cl&ss while in Texas, at Seyne,
Dallas county. l have ever respected
christianity. I have known the right,
and indorse it. / condemn the wrong,
but yet the wrong pursued me-"
A BARREL of 1861 Johannisberg, from
the famous cellars of Prince Metternich,
has just been knocked down for the
highest price ever given for even that
wine. The purchaser is the recently
deposed sultan, who, after attempting
to jump into the Bosphorus, seems de-
termined to drown his cares in the bowl.
The piece contains 400 bottles-about
G3 6s. bOttle-sO the Sultan Murad
will have something to console him for
the sword of Osman, now worn by his
brother.
SPEAKING of American civilization,
Brenchley says; 81 am not aware that
any discovery has been made, either of
fragments of ancient pottery or of gly-
phic inscriptions, to the north of the
parallel OF Cedar City. In South Amer
lea the analogous traces of Indian
civilization stop at less distance from
the equator, and do not appear to go
beyond the 31st decree. 1t was then,
between so degrees south latitude and
3S derees north latitude that the leading
nations of America existed, and con-
stituted powerful and cultivated So
cieties."
IT is well known that Tweed was re-
cognized by the Spanish authorities |
through one ofNast's cartoons, represen-
ting the ex-Boss in the act of beating a |
child. But it remains for the London |
Times to suggest that this cartoon not |
only furnished the means of identifying |
Tweed, but also deceived the Spanish
authorities as to the character of his |
offence, so that his extradition was per-
mitted. The child was a fgurative |
Personation of justice, but the Spaniards
supposed that it was real, and that
Tweed was a kidnapper; and although
the mistake was afterwards discovered,
the word of the government allowing the
extraditiOn to proceed could not be with
drawn.
The excess of unmarried women should
be diminished, if philanthropy and
sound political economy are capable of
graphing with the evil There ale two
ways of solving the difficulty. One is
an equalization of the sexes by means of
the aided emigration of surplus women
TO new settlements. Gov. SHADES down
east schOolmistresses married 80 rapidly
after going west that their successors
were put under two thousand dollar
bonds to remain single for three years.
In many cases this proved no obstacle to
impetuous wOoers, who paid the pecu-
mary forfeit that they might be united
to the object of their affection. The
same thing is going on every day in New
Zealand.
THE problem of feeding the young and
poor physiologically is not easy, but is
simple if considered from the scientific
point of view. That the bulk of the
food OF the poorer classes must always
be bread is unquestionable. Peas, beans
and other like leguminous plants, how {
ever rich i'll albumen, can never be ex-
pected to successfully compete with
bread; first, because they require steep
ing in water and boiling for hours--next,
they become hard so easily, and then are
indigestible, while at all times they are
not so easy to be digested as bread. But
bread is not so good food as meat-and
here chemistry comes in, and shows that 1
bread soaked in broth made from extract
of meat is as good food as the best meat
diet. Indeed, the most eminent chem
lists and psychologists are now agreed in
the opinion that, when people will use
more of such simple vitalizing extract.
and little less tea, for their strength
and health, they will be willing to dis
Pense with the present artifces of cook
cry rs numberless as they are useless.
THE centennial exhibition will, iudg-
ing from present indications, prove to be
the most successful of any international
exhibition. Last Saturday was the one
hundred and fifteenth day. At that
time 4,O7l;3l3 paying visitors had been
present. The Vienna exhibition was
open one hundred and eighty-six days
and the totnl number of paying visitors
only reached 8, ,492, ,622. The Vienna pro-
ceeds at the gate were 1894, ops. .25 while
at Philadelphia on Saturday, 81, ,SS4, ,534
had already been received-a sum nearly
double the Vienna income. The nom
paying visitors at the centennial exhibit
tion down to Friday last numbered
J ,36S, ,5O9, making total attendance of
5,439, S22 in the one hundred and fifteen
days. At London in 1856 there were
6,039,l l95 visitors in one hundred and
forty one days; in 1862, CPL, ,IO3 in one
hundred and seventy-one days. and at
Paris in 1867, S,SO5,O69 in two hundred
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