The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-14
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
AN execution quite out of the usual
order of legal destruction in this coun
try is announced 70 take place at Salt
Lake on the 22d of June. A murderer
Is to be shot instead of hanged, the laws
OF the territory permitting the CHASTITY
choice between these methods of making
mis- exit The rifle team may yet dis
place the rope, and with marksmen who
understand their business we shall not
oe under the necessity of adopting Mr..
Marwood's horrible improvement in ties
A SUMMARY of the party results at
the late election to the French chamber
of deputies shows that 3,673,0 900 votes
were given for the republic, ], 1,413,000
for the empire, and 1,394, 900 votes re-
present the combined strength of the
Bourbon and Orleanist monarchies.
About three and half million voters
abstained from voting. OF the votes
given the republicans cast 433, 600 more
than a half, or a majority of S66 900
over both monarchists and the empire.
HE French hygiene commission has
made report to the Paris municipality
IN respect to cremation. The report sets
forth that if the system of common
gravcsis to be continued cremation would
offer great sanitary advantages. The
commission foresees, however, that legis-
aative obstacles would arise, rs the de-
structiOn of bodies would prevent the
detection of certain crimes If adopted,
the commission thinks cremation should
be made optional, and an autopsy should
be made in every case where it is re-
sorted to.
THE first pure glucose made in this
country is being manufactured at the
glucose works in this city. The demand
for the article by confectiOners alone, in
the United States, is immense. The
sources of supply heretofore have been
France and Germany, where glucose is
made from potatoes. Here it is the pro-
duct of corn wholly. 1t is pleasing to
the taste rs honey. The production OF
grape sugar and glucose opens a new de-
partment for Iowa corn. The capacity of
the works here is 800 bushels per day.
This branch of manufacture bids fair TO
become of immense Importance to the
state and country. DurppOt (L0,0a)
Gazette.
Tie French ministerof marine reports
gradual falling off in the sardine fishe-
ries, owing to the inadequate supply of
bait, the roe of Goldfish from the Ameri-
can fisheries having heretofore been relied
ON for that purpose. 1t has been found,
however, that grasshOppers pounded into
paste initiate the roe so exactly that
the most knowing of the sardines cannot
distinguish the difference; and accord
ingly the French government has inn
ported large quantities of the insects
from Algeria in order to try the new
bait on a large scale. Should the exper-
iment prove an entire success the grass
hopper problem which has so puzzled
the western agriculturist may be consid- !
cred solved.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Telegraph describes a breakfast to which |
he was invited by the khedive of Egypt, |
and which consisted of not less than |
twenty-five courses, and it lasted until |
three o'clock. About the cheapest wine |
was hook at fourteen dollars a bottle, |
and one dish of a peculiar small and del !
icate rice, grown on the khcdive's own
estates, cost one louis Il grain, or about
two dollars and fifty cents a mouthful.
1t is hardly necessary to say-which is
probably the reason that the correspon-
dent doesn't do it--that while YOU are
eating this rice a gorgeOusly-uniiormed
mamaluke stands by with musket
loaded with slugs, and at the end of the
first mouthful you have to stop.
The London Daily News publishes
the following synopsis of the annual pro-
duce of gold and silver from all sources
tor the last twenty-five years: The
Puinquennial average production of gold
from 1852 to 1856 was G29, 900, 900; from
S57 to 1861, e24, 100000; from 1862 to
1866, e22, 200, 900; from 1867 to 1871,
e23 SOC, 600; and from 1871 to 1873, e2O,-
100 900, thus showing steady decrease,
while the opposite is the case with silver,
viz: 1926, eS, 100000; 1S57-G1, eS,-
4OO. 900; 1S62J66, $4,000, 900; 1S67l71,
eIO, 500 900; and 1S71-75, eI3, 900, 600
The News attributes the great fall in
silver, which amounts to threepence
in the rupee, or about twelve per cent.
in India, to its increasing disuse, while
the reverse holds good for gold.
Mr.. DIsRAEII, who is admitted by
EngIishmen to be one of the most effec-
tive parliamentary speakers of the last
two generations, has one popularity that
might be initiated with advantage by the
legislators of this country. BY far the
larger proportion of his speeches, includ-
iup many of the more brilliant, have not
exceeded twenty minutes duration. 1t
has been ascertained that the Old Testa-
ment was written with 5,642 words, that
Milton used only 5000 words for the
making of his poems, and that Shaks
pcare employed only $4,000. The moral
OF these figures is that if there are, COM
paratively speaking, so few words in the
English language, a man who talks for
two hours on a single subject falls under
the grave suspicion of vain repetition,
not to say causeless cackling.
NORTH CAROLINA claims not only that
portion of her people adopted the first
eclaration of independence of Great
ritain, over a year before the famous
declaration of the colonial congress- but
that the first victorious fight of the revo-
luton was fought and won by North