The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-21

lace from this island, manufactured into
| ofa-pillows-sleeveless basques, imagining
that it was to Europe alone we had to look
for this industry-Bermudas sends some beau
tiful inlaid tables, walking canes, natural
| flowers, straw-pIat bonnets. Aspecimen of
| the cench-shell used by Games cutters, at
| tracts the curious. They also send specimens
of coral, nullipores, corallines, sea-fans and
sea rods, also some maps and diagrams.
| The Bertnudas are grotip OF Islands in the
North Atlantic ocean, belonging to Great
Britain, five hundred and eighty miles south
east of Cape Hatteras between latitude $50
| IA 32o 25' and longitude $40 49, and go 52'
west. They occupy space twenty-three
miles by thirteen, and are three hundred and
| sixty-6ve in number, separated by narrow
channels and are mostly rocky islets. They
are closed on three sides northwest and
south by coral reefs, extending in some parts
| ten miles from the islands, and are the only
| ones occurring in the broad expanse of the
| Atlantic ocean of so marked an extent.
WOMEN AS JOURNALISTS.
There has been legion of journalists in
attendance at the exhibition, of whom we
i have spoken, and with mray of whom we
have communed. Yet ou!s Interest in the
| genus homo, while marked ana sympathetic,
| is not so keenly alive to theif editorial con-
| dition and future hopes, rs to their more at
tractive press representation in fair woman,
! of whom Ledyard truly says, al have OBJ
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| ornament themselves more than the men;
| that, wherever found, they are the same
kind, civil, Obiiging, humane, tender beings,
| inclined to he gay and cheerful, timOrOus,
! and modest" Yes, tits so! only that will
4 add with more virtue than man, more fortI-
| tude, and schoOled from out the absorbing
| influences of the domestic circle, as self-sac-
! rifcing as a Harvard. See Florence Night
| ingale, as brave as Cesar; see Joan d. Are as
| fanatically patriotic as Brutus; see Charlotte
To-
| Hemans, etc. There is role played, no
! field entered, no gage thrown down-but the
| talent, the energy, and the courage of wO-
man has been ready to do, dare and suffer
| for humanity. In the wide field of journal
| ism women are sustaining themselves with
credit to the sex. | have met but few, yet
they are among the brightest of the intellec-
tually glittering thrOng, Mrs. Louisa L. Cra-
gin and Mrs. ThOs. H. Lombard of Boston.
The former magazine writer of confirmed
ability, as her many articles in the leading
papers of the country attest, Mrs. Lombard's
reputation as a careful writer of fugitive
pieces, a rare virtue in the field of express
sion, is f1atteriug one. | am surprised at
the number of feminine correspondents in
attendance at the exhibition, and more so at
the facility with which they present the sa-
lient points of the varied interests of the
construction. If have always admired wO-
man in her various walks, | now dOubly bar
an observance to her esteemed qualifications
for the duties of the very highest order of
journalism. |
MISCELLANY.
I'alluded in a previous letter to the cotton
pavilion of Brazil, and intended enlarging
upon its merits. This has been prevented
by an accident; the latter caught fire, and
the pavilion that was, is not; value 800. 1t
was tasty and unique affair, and was highly
appreciated by visitors, particularly those
who had never seen so lavish display of the
staple in building form. Last Sunday the |
emperor of Brazil, escorted by Senior A. P.
de Carvalhi Borges, of the commission, in |
charge of Col Asch, cicerone, for the while, |
inspected the main building, the entire par |
ty, many scientific individuals in con juno |
ton, numbered one hundred. While they |
were inspecting the musical electric organ of |
which / have written, Prince Oscar of !
Sweden put in an appearance, accompanied |
by the Swedish commissioner Daunfedt. |
Now | know these royal chaps had, what |
the boys call a high daddy time" "Sauce |
for the goose is sauce for the gander." If |
kings and princes, and their shadowy at
tendants pass within the gates on Sunday, |
why not the people? That's the question. |
Distinctions occur at times, without differ
ence, but here is a distinction considerably |
different. And so says the "vOx pOpuli."
A building is specially devoted to saw-nill. !
handsomely constructed truck is placed |
upon the floor upon which a frame is placed |
upOn wheels, six pair of some six inches i'll |
diameter. Upon the frame is placed the log. |
A break is used on the side of the slide. The |
log faces a circular saw. The brake is moved, |
the truck starts, and counted sixteen while |
a log of sixteen feet was cut through; an
other move of the brake, back movement, |
and the log runs back clear of the saw. All |
this lOg-sawing was performed by one man.
A Chinese giant, named Chinki Use is on his /
way to the centennial in charge of an 1tal- |
ian Snowman. He is nearly seven feet four
inches high, weighs two hundred and nine
ty-seven pounds, is thirty-seven years old |
and eats at each meal fourteen bowls of rice |
ami vegetables. Halifax sends the best |
specimen of skates, not looked at to-day
the thermometer some ninety-six or more.
They sell largely to the United States, Rus
sia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France and
England. Quebe" has philodonte foun- |
tain. South Australia sends beautiful, L |
might say perfect, wax representations, OF |
the different varieties of fruit, produced in |
that portion of Australia. Trinidad sends |
sample of fibre extracted from the husks OF |
the cocOanut adapted for making brOOms, |
brushes, etc, value $250.00 per ton. Tne |
government botanist sends twenty samples |
of fibre. There are more than one hundred |
and ninety specimens of different woods |
from Trinidad. The island is east of Vene-
zuela, between north latitude 100 81 and 1O0 |
5O, west longitude 6lo and 62o A. of Green |
wich, length sixty-fve miles on the south, |
ffty-three on the north side, and respective |
ly forty-eight and fOrty-nine miles wide. 1t |
IS separated from the continent of America
by the gulf of Paria. 1t was discovered by
Columbus, July 81, 1893; Colonized in
1888. }. b.