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The wife as . Traveller.

Let us have no can't, one way or the
other. Home is the pleasantest place in
the world, and that is not home where
the wife is not Women are rarely good
travellers, and wives are perhaps the
worst travellers in the world. Our
friend Punch, who is mo cynic, and
strictly a family man, once made per
son ask his friend: Are you going to
travel for pleasure or are you going to
travel.with your wife 2" 1t sounds very
dreadful when the laugh has died away;
but there is a kernel of truth in the half
unpleasant satire. IF you you,
strong, hearty man, with no aches, pains,
or nerves-fnd travelling sometimes so
fatiguing, such WEAKNESS, such pain
of a pleasure, what think you is felt by
the much more highly strung creature
who travels to please you and in order
not to be separated from your side over
long +? Where you feel badly she starves;
where YOU grumble she silently endures,
till perhaps she. can endure no longer.
Does her fatigue increase your enjoy
ment? Does II not spoil it altogether?
Are you not vexed beyond utterance
when you can not get her the much de
sired cup of tea, when the the train is
full and she can not lie down, when at
the end of long journey that is the best
bedroom to be had? SThenthere are places
which can not be visited save on foot or
on horseback !; and while she can not
walk, how, lin the name of all that's rea-
sonable, can she be expected to ride a
mule on that saddle for hours upon hours
over the Tete. NeiTe or the. Col de Balme2
She tiies, and succumbs. You don't let
her, and she feels she has marred your
pleasure. And both of you inwardly
confess, as night closes in, that Nine De
Stael was right when, in 'Corinne," she
describes travelling to be, "Un des plLs
tyistee pLGSiFS &c Ia Uie." Then leave your
wife at home Many men do; many
men must. The matter of cost settles
the question very frequently. What's
meat for one may, be meat for two !
but what are travelling expenses for one
are not and can not be made travelling ex-
penses for a second likewise, more especial
| " whom the second wants several things
with which the first can dispense. But
| is it pleasant to any man to leave his
wife at home, even though she be the
one to urge him to go on a little tour,
| thinking that he requires it? If he be
ANYTHING of fellaw, he feels as though
he were acting selfshly, even though he
may not be, and, in any case, he misses
his usual and best companion, and must
often feel desperately lonely without
I fher. Think of those dull evenings
spent in hotel bedrooms, and at such a
/ moment he has a heart of stone if he
| does not feel disposed to exclaim, as in
Maud, ooh, that it were possible after
long absence" ETC., and even the least
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-28
CuriOsities of Contingent Expenses.

The latest report of the contingent
expenses of the house of representa-
tives," is not volume to be finished at
one reading 1t is not dull work. 1t
is both useful and entertaining, as it shows
how a part of the federal money goes,
and indicates the recklessness which
usually marks public disbursements. The
smallest items sometimes serve this pur-
pose as well as the larger ones. When
the report is not interesting in itself it is
so in what it recalls.
The very first item, for instance,
$4S7 so for a stenographic report of the
Busted investigation" reminds us of
an improbable judicial experiment.
Equestrianism seems to have been a
favorable practice in the legislative
department of the government. In
the page occupied by payments for
horses and carriages" the charge
for "carryalls" and teams to deliver
mails for the house of representatives
is plain enough, but what shall be said of
saddle horses ?'' OF these there are
twelve-unless indeed, the same animal is
put down a dozen times. Half dozen
whitewash brushes" does not seem to be
an extravagant charge, in view of the
whitewashing" done by congress.
Fifteen dollars worth of French black
ing and forty-eight dollars worth OF boot
black stools will not escape attention.
It may be said that it is rather petty
business to object to the government s
paving for a few " shines" The easy
answer is that it is equally small for the
legislative members of that government
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not to.pay for their own "shines." There
is an item of sos for " fifty pieces fine
bathing sponge" 1t is going far enough
for the government to provide combs
(12 dozen), hair brushes e dozenl, nail
brushes a dozen), hat brushes q dozen),
and wisp-brooms 6 dozen), to enable
representatives to make respectable ap-
pearance at the capital; but the line
certainly ought to be drawn at such
articles of toilet luxury as fine bathing
sponges- especially as the efficient use of
them by members is doubtful. We be-
lieve that money was better spent for
" refreshments for enrolling clerks on
duty at night at the close of the forty
third congress although it is not clear
how they could eat eighty dollars WORTH
The number of knives distributed
among members is surprising. On one
page we find eight dozen and half on
another fifteen dozen, on another sixteen
dozen and half, on another thirty-one
dozen, on another four dozen, ON another
two dozen, and on two other pages
dozen each-eighty-three dozen, beside
odd lots here and there, making in all
more than a thousand knives, or nearly
four for each representative. With such
about knives there must be
great recklessness in stationery. Now
the amount of money expended IN this
way is not very large. If the supply of
knives and note paper and envelopes and
blacking and sponges and brushes was
cut off, the saving to the government
would be comparatively trifing. The
wasteful habit, however, is sure to ex-
tend beyond little things; and official |
looseness in the matter of mucilage and |
sealing wax has been accompanied with |
looseness in granting subsidies in sums of |
millions of dollars.-Net0 York EUeniRg |
Post
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-28

Sir. j. Hawkshaw, in lecture. before
the British association, gives the follow
ing hint to those seeking new inventions
and discoveries:
The marvelous progress of the last two
generations should make every one eau
tious of predicting the future. OF en-,
gineering works it may be said that
their practibility or impractibility is
often determined y B tlier e5sments than
the inherent sdifi&illty in the works
themselves. eater works than any
yet achieyef in to be a6edmpiished
not, pefb ets awful SOcie3y
may not RED ze tle1a thszxotld could
not at present AfiilId lo pay tos them;
The progress Of aii lssring works, if we
consider it, and t',e expenuibure upon
them, has been pfodigious One bfrAl
dred andFsixty th'|1s9ild miles of vail
way alone, pit into fgares at 920se0O
per mile, an0uuts to 93,200, ,0Qe,0OO
sterling; 400, ,90o miles of teIekfaph, at
eI0O per mile and e100 100000 more
for sea canals, docks, harbors, water and
sanitarx works constructed in the same
period, and We get the enormous sum Of
e3, ,340, ,000, 900 sterling expended in one
Generation and a half on what may un-
houbtedly be called useful works The
wealth of nations may be impaired by
.expenditureso on luxuries and WaI; ut can
not be diminished by expenditures on
iforks like these. As to the future, we
know we can not create force we can,
and no doubt shall, greatly improve
the application of those with which we
are acquainted, What are called inven-
lions can do no mors than this, yet how
much mere every day is being done by
new machines and instruments! The
.telescope extended our vision of distant
worlds. The spectroscope has far out
stripped that instrument by extending
our power of analysis TO regions as re
mote, |. Postal deliveries were and are
able Organizations, but what are they to
the telegraph : Need we try to extend
your yisien7 into fntnrity b Our present
knowledge, compared to what is an
known even in physic5 is iufnitesimal.
We may never discover q new foree-yet
who can tell ?gssts E.W te ofF
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The doctrine of atayism-which
means. i'm the scientific slang Of the day,
a reversion of the traits OF ancestors--
has a moral bearing which has not been
suficientIy considered There is sweet
comfort in it for the sinner When q
man has an attack of atayism, he Is, OF
course, not responsible for his misdee.ds-
His great-great- t-gTandiather - acting
tific truth is fully appreciated, the aver
age thief will plead that his remote an
cestor was baboon and stole cocoanuts,
and that he is, therefore, not responsible
for what atavism has lead him into. Aud
- in private life. the morosc, selfish man
will say that he cannot be blamed for
this nature, because the small leather
bag, which Mr.. Darwin counts as the
FIRST form of life, clings in sulky selfish
ness TO a rock and leads its lonely life In
utter disregard Of every other existence
atavism endows hiIn with the samc
traits.--N y Express.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-28

Joaquin Miller has poem in the Chi
cago Magazine, and these are the intro
ductory lines:
Twas night in Venice. Then down to the tide,
Where a tall and a shadowy gondolier
Leaned on his oar Like lifted spear
Twas night in VenicS; then side by side,
We sat in his boat Then oar a-trip,
On the black boats keel, then dip and dip
These hoatmen should build their boats more
wide,
For we we're together, and side by side.
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WOULDN'T BE CONFENTED.-At the
court in Belfast, Maine, recently, Judge
Libbey sentenced Martin l.. Tower 10
twenty five years in the state Prison
This fact was communicated % the p-is-
oner's mother, who was struck with ss-
touishment at the magnitude Of the sen
tence. "What did they do that for?'
she exclaimed, Twenty-Five years! why
he won't be contented there three weeks"
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IT is announced on authority that the
measure of.closihg all public houses and
other places where Stfong drink IS sold
on Sunday in Ireland viii be again
brought before the British parliament
early in the ensuing session, baelsad with
the full support ofthe Home Rals
bers. In Ireland, last year, the ptiiieis
ple of that measure was adopted BY a
very large majority of the adult inl1abz
itants, but was epposed, of course, by
the distlllefssj ! brewers, and pnblicans
Neverthelesi the British government,
unwilling to incur the enmity of the
public school interest, tsfefrained from
supporting the Irish Sunday-closing bill
in the last Session.
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Sow, ELL. er NeVerI

There is one aspect of this Centennial
wear 1876, which deserves more atten7
ton than has yet been bestowed upon AZ.
IL is of grave importance in connection
with the institution of marriage and
with the rights of women. There may
be people, perhaps, who will say that IL
Was only by mere accident that the
Declaration of American Independence
was made in q leap year. These ssmo
people will tell you that il was only by,
accident that AIaximilian RObespierre
splashed his silk stockings on the mem
orable occasion which, as great his
torian has 80 Convincingly shown, led
him on and up to the giddy heights OF
mower and of crime II was only by ac-
cident, too, we suppose, that CIomwell
and his comrades were turned ASIDE
from their purpose of cmbarking for the
new world. Why did not the congress
of the colonies act IN l115 or postpone
action till l777? There can be no doubt
in the mind Of any thoughtful student
of history, that the true answer TO these
questions is TO he found in the fact that
the year l776 was not only blssextlle
wear. but of all bissextile years the most
duardrennial year imaginable, since l776,
being divided by four, gives us as it's
result 444, or - many fours as can only
he conveniently crowded into the num-
her of anv year, which is at all likely TO
interest us or-oursdescendants TO the re
motest generation. 1t was, in short, n
four-Ieaved clover Of year, and as
everybody knows who knows anything,
and everybody believes "hc believes
ANYTHING, your four leaved clover ~ the
highest symbol of feminine good luck.
This, of course, prefgured for the United
States of America an influence oil the
most unexampled sort upon the united
state of matrimony. IL was plainly
written in the book of fate from the be-
ginning that the old and conventional
relation of the sexes should be reversed
in the Republic of 1776, and the young
women of America will be false To their
duty and to the high destiny OF their
country if they fail TO celebrate this, the
FIRST centennial leap year of our history
by formally doing away with the etete
customs of past barbarian and inau
gurating the new era, which has thus isr
been only fee5ly preached and ProPhe-
sled by such voices crying IN the wilder
uess as those Of Miss. Susan b. Anthony,
Mrs. Cady Stanton, and Mrs. Lucy
blackwell Stone. Let every unmaTried
girl in America who respects herself
and the republic, take q solemn oath,
say on a pair Of scissors or an old shoe
or anything else which may he regarded
as really binding by the female mind,
not only to refuse the lhand of any man
who offers himself to her in marriage,
but also to shoot on the spot any man
who may refuse her hand when offered
TO him by her, after mature consultation
with his parents and guardians.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-28

JOIN BRIGHT, in letter to George II.
Phillips, advises those who advocate a res
form Of funeral exhibitions and expense
to copy the practice of the friends, than
which nothing can be simpler nor better.
But he regrets that the fashion of weaFs
ing mourning has increased among
friends, who do not comprehend or value
the principles on n-whieh the parties Of
their forefathers was based Mr.. Bright
would thus ruthlessly destroy all-that
makes deaths. and funerals interesting
and prohtsble. These Teformers would
even rob-Hndertakers- their business
and Iuill.....a-..l-tI,a;,-- ...1.,1l.-.-----
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"A voung man in Olathe. Kansas. wh

"A young man in Olathe, Kansas, who
is particular about his washing, the othel
day wrote a note to his washerwomar
and one to his girl, and, by strangC
fatality, put the wrong address on each
envelope and sent them off. The washer
woman Was well pleased at an invitation
to take ride the next day, but wbe1
the young lady read: IF you muss W
my shirt bosoms, and rub the buttons of
my collar any more, as you did the las
time, 1 will go somewhere else" she crieC
all the evening, and declares that she viii
never speak to him again.
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nxorious of husbands discovers the truth
of the latter half of Latin line too well
known to be quoted. He has travelled
sswithout & her." and misses her unspeak-
ably.--fen1pts Bar.
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lie WORKS. That wAY.-Yesterda
while fifteen or twenty men were sitting
ina saloon at the ferry-dock, toasting theiy
shins and lamenti9g The. hard times, a
man opened the door and cried out !;
4" Who wants work. at twelve, shillings
a day. Not a person made answer.
Some shut theireyes and preteNdedto be
asleep, and others were busy looking out
of the windows. In about FIVE minutes
another manope bic docrand shouted.
~ Who wants an easy .plsce in the city
hall ?g q j do r. was chorussed in tones
that made the decanters jar, and every
man Jumped 10 his feet. " So do l -
said the man as he shut the door and
walked away.
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MY DEAR" said Cincinnati packer
to his daughter, "a regular Murillo
painting has been discovered in our
city" 'Is it water color, pa?' "No,
my dear. it's a real hogs oil painting"
And the young Lady screamed, "Oh,
Iardn
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Tho Wasbinoton elm Of Comhr

The Washington elm at Cambridge,
under which Washington drew his sword
and took command of the Continental
armies, is visibly deeaying, because its
ancient roots have been deliberately un-
dermined and cut through by the Canta
brigham municipal government in order to
make way for public sewer.
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WHAT persons are by starts they are
nv nature. You see them, at such times,
off their guard Habit may restrain
vice. and virtue may be obscured by
passion. but intervals best discover the
man-iSterne. m
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RETTER SWEAR 0FF.

sad New Years Observation-Disclosures Ef-
feets OF BurI1ngtOn Bourbon. sr,rf
BuriinSton Hawkeye.
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- --'sAs to being. eonfieted with the
geut, p said Mrs. Partington, s'high hv:
ing don I bring it on. It is iincoherent
in some families, and is handed down
from father TO son. Mr.. Hammer, poor
soul, disinherits it from his wife's grand
mother"
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To sUBGE frouf the reportst for 1875
and 1873, the discFiinfnation against
New York by the various railroads is
beginning 20 tell During the first niue
months of 1874, the grain receipts in
the metropolis were S4, ,l66, ,049 bushels,
but during. the corresponding period of
1875 they were only 90 ,234 ,201z@a loss
of about one.auartes Of the whole
traffic. But.while New York lost more
than twenty million bushels, the exports
from the principal ports of the Atlantic
were 1000, 900 greater in .1lS75 han ! 1sf9,
and what vexes the. metropolitan mer-
chants mo5t rs the fact that the mischief
Is being done by railroads THAT were
built with their money.
.--E-5-I ..-.--.H--e.-
OLD Mr.. Fruits and old Mrs. Fruits.
of Indiana may well be;caiied I. the. -fifst
Fruits u Vie earth" the one being il3
and the other i'll years old The old
gentleman neither smokes nor chews,
which goes to show, as Sisesmeh have
long contended, that the true secret of
health and long life lies ina total at1stil
nence from the use of tobacco, and we
beg the young reader who is fond Of the
weed TO make a note of the ElctA. This
venerable couple have lived and loved
and cutup sndquarreled together as man
and wife for So years. The old lady has
been an incessant smoker for sixty years,
which shows the absufdity of sslpposings
us some blockheads contend, that the use
OF tobacco is injurious to health and Short
ems life, and the young reader who is
fond Of seloking on chewing NC eongrafu-;
late upon the fact.
- SEVERAL of the. San Francisco papers
have expressed the fear that there-is
great danger that, the Chinese population
will soon become formidable elementfn
politics, through the requisition of the
right of suffrage. Thus far, however,
only three or four Cinnamon have been
naturalized, and this followed from the
fact that they were born'in this country.
As the Chinese have shown no desposiy
tion to settle permanently in the United
States, but simply come shere for MONEY!
- making purposes and return home as
soon as they can, there viii hHve to lie a
radical change in their programme be-
fore hesChfnese vote viii become such
formidable affair when they began
generally to bring their families with
them and settle, here Permanently, the
politicians NAV look ont for the celestial
votes This they have not done to any
great extent. -.s
w alai.e
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uary 6, showing considerable decrease
at all The principal paints2as compared
with the same period of last year. The
aggregate is 10000, against 2,43O,005
last year. There are reports, however, to
the effect that the returns thus far given
do not fully show the total packing, as
certain parties have made under state
ments merely speculative purposes.
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a speaker - YFTWRN - ng
WIsEN twentyssi il theusand SIX han
dred and aixteeh Utak women pray. ion
the coptiniIaansse 'b tha rolvgamon / pEfiina- FL

ciple and practice, it certainly looks as if
they like it. 1t is barely possible, how
ever, that some Of tine male saints and
the college of apostles have been intimi-
dating these females who have sent the
petition to congress. Mr.. Sergeant, who
presented it, took pains to. state that he
did not, inGdrsetthe petition - ''sA ~
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Attorney General Pierrepont has in
preparation a bill designed to guard against
the taking of unlawful and Improper testi-
-mony in the Court of Claims, and before the
Sojithern Claims Commission. Is
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-28

THE New York Bulletin prints table
of statistics Of pork packing from the
commencement of the season up to. jan
uary 6, showing considerable decrease
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/ ihsyre a good agriculture yearifOr the Cen
tsnhial. s.
Figlres are given BY the New YorI
Bullean Showing an inereasesof the foreigr
trade of Norfolk for 1875 over the previous
year that is truly surprising. The total
value of expectations for the year stands So
243,972 as against $3,7O1 ,0O9 for 1874, an in.
crease of S2,542, 1858. The values. of the sew,
era1 articles of export shipped during the
year compare with the totals Of 1874 as foE
80, NAyS s.. 1875. 1874. G
Cotton. ,633 022 $3 239, ,726
Corn s.s...... A.....3A....i3 nI,690 1927
Flour. 1S,168 400
Slaves and wood d..--,--...'. 429, 6zg @ $50 SVl
Miscellaneous '9 psii'',i,is,,.. ii'',i,is,,. 2s,Sz2 l2,6gl g
Total. ..............s6, ,243,972 S3,7O1 OO9
3 The total sclearaRees were rs vessels az
against 96 in 1874. The imports amount TO
S31 ,442, against IS, ,595 for 1874. As soon as
commerce. generally becomes more settled,
the import-tradea of-N Norfolk probably
assume a.position of eveRsmore significance
than that of the past yearsr
-
.EOREIGN INTE;L.I1GENCE. -
The. .Belgrave mills, in England,
were burned last weeks These mills con
tanned fifty thousand spindles, and the loss
is,estimated-at quarter of million. dollars.
Victor Emanuel, in his New TEARS
speech at the court reception, mentioned the
possiti ility Of events transpiring IN Europe
which would require the cooperation Of The
Italian army. ~
BY the new British factory act, which
came into Iull operation ON The 1st Of Jana-
airy, no children under ten years ofage are
to be employed in any factory; thoseaboYe
thirteen and under fourteen are elassi6ea
assehildren,o instead ofssyoung persons
and all Children young persons and Women
are prohibited frem working extra hours for-
the recovery of lost time. -, "a.
The inducements held out to young
menIon the railways, the police forcsabd in
skilled Industry have become 50 great il
England tfiat the war Office are at their wits
ends where to find eligible recruits for the
army. Eyen in the favorite corps of household
troops the infantry Of the guards, the infe-
i M ie gfnits enlisting is greatly
sons iihed Of
J Tbe Star and Herald, of Panama, con-
iains flle following letter from Soma, an
bouncing the complete destruction, by an
eartlq qua1e, on the fourth of Deeelaber, of
Abaneay: Between four o'cloeS on the
morning Of the fourth and Ave o'clock ON
the morning of the fifth, no less than thirty
seven shocks occurred. A severe flood in
undated the business part Of Valparaiso.
Two, lives were lost, and one million five hun. I
dred thousand dollars worth of property de- |
Ezx.sEE.asf sHaaaA
FROM WARRINGTON.
Attorney General Pierrepont, has in |
a bill designed to guard against /
the taking of unlawful and Improper testi-
mony in the Court of Claims, and before the I
Sobthern' Claims Commission. Is Fl
: So - = .E.z z 49, Es
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OUCEALATTA, theneY elected chief of
the 0herokse p ationsissR member of the
Baptiss 0huncIi, md was ordained as q
minister on Deeenbei z6. he is g a full
blooded, native, nlediunl sized 1about
fifty years of age, and distinguished for
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