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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15

taking more than a glassful. After
supper, they sometimes engaged in a
sword play, challenging each other to
friendly combat, in which they only
joined their extended hands and points
of their swords, without injury, but
sometimes they began to fight in earn
est, wOunding each other; in which
case they became irritated, and if the
others did not interfere they fought till
death. In former times, also, the
strongest would take up the limbs Of
cattle, and, if challenged by any, they
fought with swords until one was killed.
In Celtiberia, the lights were brought
in by boys, whe cried out, "Uincdmus;"
and speaking of lights, it may be no.
ticed that a substitute for a candle
among the Gael and Scots farmers
generally, is slip of resinous fir wood
dug out of the MOSES and dried. This
Is called gius pull or blair, and is held
beside the guild man during meals by
the younger branches of the family. 1t
would seem that, anciently, the chiefs
had servants for the purpose Of holding
their rude 1ambeauX; and story Is
related of an earl of Braidalbane show
ing some English friends these torch
bearers, in proof that he possessed
much more valuable chandeliers than
those of silver exhibited to him in the
South. Old Gaelic poems mention wax
candles as in use. The master of the
lights, an officer in the King of Wales
household, was obliged to hold a taper
near the kings dish when eating.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15
An Injured Females Trick.

This is not bad story Of a robbery.
At any rate it demonstrates the inge-
nuity of the female brain The scene
is laid in Austria. A woman in tears
the sex, as you are probably aware
can always at will turn on the water
works; they find them so useful-ar-
rived at the house of a priest, and
poured into his kindly sympathetic ears
a narrowing story of i'll usage. Her
husband was a drunkard, was in the
habit Of cruelty beating her, was-in
short, the usual tale, and her prayer
was that his reverence would send for
her worser-half and soundly lecture
him on his behavior. Moved by the
evident sincerity other grief-it showed
his ignorance of woman's wiles-the
good father readily consented; and the
good wife earnestly thanked him, wiped
her eyes and went on her way rejoicing.
Her way took her to shop of silver
smith to whom she said the priest in
question wished to see some handsome
snuff-boxes, from which to select one
for present, and appointed for his
visit the very hour upon which she and
the good father had previously agreed
as the time when the lecture be ad-
ministered. The worthy silversmith
repaired to the priests house and was
received at the door by the woman he
had already seen, and whom, in the
innocence of his heart he believed to be
the servant. She directed him to leave
his parcel with her and proceed up
stairs to the sitting-room. Arriving
there, his host lost no time in COM
mencing the exhortation, when ensued
first astonishment, next indignation,
and finally explanation. OF course by
the time both men had thought of look
ing after the sham wife and the snuff
boxes she and her plunder had entirely
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15
An Old story with a New Moral.

On the evening following the day
that the balloon went up from Fall
River, Matt Maloney, on returning to
his slab mansion, was met at the door
by Biddy in a high state Of excitement,
with the earnest exclamation:
90, Matt, there is a strange cat In the
room !"
"Put her out thin, and don't be both
Nm me about yer catp" replied Mat, in
Aer a needless tone.
sve been striving to do that same
h 'Ipg this two hours" replied Biddy.
bhe's behind the big rid chest now,
I'D would ye be after helpin' me TO
chase her out, will yer"
"To be sure l WILL" says Mat. "Bad
luck to her. "Will ye show her to me,
and III soon teach her to have some
respect for me house, the thafe Of the
wLrldW
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15

The visitor in Edinburgh is generally
interested in the enormous tenements of
the old town, which tower TO the sky as
high as steeples. The narrow doors at
the base of these monumental houses
stand open, and there are children play
ing on the white stone stairs that lead
up and up, ten and twelve stories into
the sky. Lower Edinburgh lives up
there in decent poverty. Little children
look out of the lofty windows into the
deep gardens and the railway sunk in
the valley nearly two hundred feet
below. There are flower-pOts here and
there, and white curtains, and perhaps
rows Of tiny stockings hung to dry.
Few fashionable people climb to these
lofty homes, but let us try the expert
ment, and "see what we shall see."
The first block is black and lofty ten
ement having an elevated sidewalk at
the second story, above the stores in
the street. g.. We pause before tiny
window, scarcely as large as napkin,
and narrow door, surmOunted by a
sign, "Cigars and Tobacco" With Sc
we're crowding, we get into the box Of a
shop. There is little counter, and
the young woman behind it seems to
fill the entire place, and makes pretty
picture Of herself with jars of snuff and
festoons of pipes for background, She
talks rapidly and cheerfully, and seems
well content with her lot. We spend a
pleasant quarter of an hour with her,
make some triling purchase, and with
draw. Then we enter great stone
hall and climb eight flights of stairs in
an ancient tenement. This is not the
top, for there are three more stories
above this. 1t is high enough, GER
tainly. A rosy-faced matron opens to
our knock, and bids US welcome with
profuse apologies, as she has just moved
in and is "hardly secured up" She,
like the little shop woman, is smiling
and cheerful, and though manifestly
poor, would scorn to receive charity.
The next visit is to a green-grocer's
shop, box of place, piled with cab
bages and tended by a lonely widow in
faded black. She is busy with her
trade, and we tarry with her but mo-
ment. More visits follow, and in every
home we find frugality, thrift and con-
tent, and return to the luxurious new
town with increased respect for the
,unr, LIZ .nnr-
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15
The Battle Of Sedan.

Victor Hugo describes his return to
France from the fourth exile, and gives
the following account of Sedan. This
paradise was sepulchre; the valley
was round and deep as the bottom of a
crater; the crooked river resembled a
serpent; the high hills in successive
ridges surrounded this mysterious place
like a triple rank of inexorable walls.
The sun was burning; the birds were
singing; the ploughmen were going
along whistiing ard singing; the sheep
and the doves here and there; the
soliage shivered and whispered; the
thick grass was full of flowers. 1t was
frightful He could see the blazing
sword of the angel trembling over the
valley. He gives historical descrip-
ton of the battle of Sedan, and of the
defeat of the French army, which he
assigns to the superior numbers of the
Germans. The Germans, he says, were
three or perhaps four against one.
They had 250,0O0 men; they held the
high ground, with an Incomparably
stronger artillery. The French army
which was below, had almost no artil-
lery and no ammunition: they depend
ed only on their mitrailleuse. The
Germans had the ambuscade ;the French
had nothing except heroism. In
describing the battles after the Germans
had set fire to the villages, he contin-
ues; The German artillery opens fire,
and the French soldiers fall and die.
Among the dead which cover the fed,
there was the corpse of an officer, on
whose body was found, after the battle,
a sealed note containing the following
order, and signed Napoleon :" '"TO-
day, lst of September, there will be rest
for the whole army" In about one
hour everything was destroyed. The
regiments pell-n ell retreated to Sedan.
But Sedan was in flames the ambulan-
ces were too; there was nothing left but
to open a passage. The Third Zouaves,
dismayed, gave the example. Cut off
from the rest of the army, they have
opened passage and escaped oBelgium
it was a flight of lions. All at once,
in the midst of disasters, amidst the
immense piles of the dead and the dying,
in the midst of this unfortunate hero
ism, comes the shame. The white flag
is hoisted. There were Turenne and
Vauban, both present, the former by
the statue and the latter by the citadel.
The statue and the citadel assisted in
the frightful capitulation. What an
awful state of the country! What
eternal shame!
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15

Bret Harte was lecturing in Pensyl-
vania a short time ago. At one of his
appointments he felt very much de-
pressed.
1t is a popularity of humOrists, we
are told, to be unaccountably melan-
choly and gloomy at times. Harte was
in this mood now.
One of the committee went in back of
the scenes to see him, and the de-
pressed humorist welcomed him as a
CLEAN of unusual good sunshine. They
shook hands-Harte earnestly, and the
committeeman decorously.
"Mr. Harte," he said, gravely, "you
will find this an unusually healthy
city,"
"Ah!" said the pleased humorist.
eyes, The death rate is only one a
day."
At this juncture Harte took the COM
mittee-man by the arm, and hurried.y
asked:
''Is he deadp"
"Dcad?" CALCULATED the committee
man. "Who dead ?"
why, the man for the day?" was
the grave reply.
kamSMmp mpittee-man stared with all
q 4. a .,' 30 the immovable face of
X |s 4 IN clerk here, or register,
u y NJ AIomething like that, of
\ X n || " I.| find out whether a man
~ ~ 4 "a Y "A. 4 \. ~ '8'a'4'' lied ?"
X 4 ' Nose So" slowly re-
W Il a I|j " N u N|g Z! w NJ good, then, to find
N N N X IN all right, for
N n. 3. M 81 N NJ VI Sly tomorrow
X & Y II X <, < II q z K mad, ! cannot
m X |k yself, and
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committeeman. AZ I
81 am sorry, Mr.. krb
you,'' he said; "But f yet
that information earlier. ht.
That death rate spoke Of fely
the average"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15
GOOD NIGHT.

God keep you safe my little love,
All through the night
Rest close in His encircling arms
Until the light
My heart Is with you as / kneel to pray.
Good night God keep you in his care alway
Thick shadows creep like silent ghosts
About my head
lose myself in tender dreams,
While overhead
The moon comes stealing through the window
bars,
A silver sickle cleaning mid the stars.
For /, though / am far away,
Feel safe and strong
To trust you thus, dear 10 e-and yet
The night is long
say with sobbing breath the old fond prayer
Good night Sweet dreams God keep you
everywhere
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15

Captain Paul BoyntoD has just made
trip down the Garonne river from
Toulouse to Bordeaux, in France, in six
days and fourteen hours, and met with
warm reception all along the voyage,
He will now undertake a voyage down
the Seine.
Mr.. william II. Vanderbilt, during
his stay in Paris, purchased pictures by
celebrated artists to the amount of
5000, 900.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15
RATES OF ADVERTISING,

Regular rates Of advertising. sl per square
first insertion, and 20 cents each subsequent
insertion
Special contracts will be made for all adyer-
hsements for four insertions or over.
Transient advertisements always payable
quarterly in advance
Marriages and obituary notices over one
square charged for at half regular rates.
All local notices 10 cents line for each In
sertion.
No notices inserted for less than nfty
centa
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shepherd Dogs.

I| a
method of cani 4. e NJ E. +, \. \ 5. y. "
ticed, consists iM0lal1 &c puppy,
while very young, from its mother and
in accustoming it to its future compan-
ons. A eve is held three or four times
a day for the little thing to suck, and a
nest of wool is made for II in the sheep
pen. AT no time is it allowed to asso-
ciate with other dogs or with the child
rem of the family. From this education
It has no wish to leave the flock, and
Just as another dog will defend its mas
ter, man, so Will this the sheep. On
the approach of stranger, the dog i'm
mediately advances barking, and the
sheep cluster in his rear as If around the
Oldest ram. These dogs can be readily
taught to bring home the flock at GER
tain hour IN the evening. Their most
troublesome fault when young is their
desire to play with the sheep, and In
doing so they sometimes gallop their
harges numerically. They come to
the house daily for some meat, and as
soon as they get it, skulk away as If
ashamed Of themselves, Away from the
flock they seem timid with regard to
other dogs, but when with their charge
neither domestlcated nor wild dogs dare
venture to attack them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-15
Celtic Feasts.

Diodorus and Athen@us give curious
pictures of the Celtic manner of con-
ducting feasts. The former says, cat
their meals they sit npon the ground,
on which wolves or dogs skins are
7 tRzkmsqr at hand are their fire.
n N Aahny pots and spits full of
N v NJ M n N. they are served by
! ! ) : : : !
separate tableS ID x '. \ IS 4. N X s. { &
Gauls took their''~ WA |A e "A \. K. NJ |5 q "
beds or cushions. %s'i ';j'sS 4 (,
could agree they sat DON, & |
a circle. In the middle 81 n a NJ N Is 4
reckoned most worthy, eiHS2D | N W
rank or valor; and next A.
placed the person who gavd n " 4 < n x
tainment. Inc Others were ~. IN
each according to his rank. BeHinN
the guests stood some who bore shields {;
a number of spearmen sat in clrclel
opposite to the others; and both took
meat with their lords. 1t was the GUS
tom to put the bread, broken into many
pieces, on the table, with flesh out of
the caldron, Of all which the king or
chief first tasted. Some would take
up whole joints with both hands, and
tear them in pieces with their teeth /;
but if the flesh were too tough, they
would cut 1t with knife, which was
kept in sheath, in certain place
near at hand, Boys served round the
wine, both right and left, in earthen
or silver pots. The company drank very
leisurely, frequently tasting, but not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-14
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

TBR INTERMEDIATE WORLD. BY T. T fo"hshHD'
D. b. limo. pp. $50. Leo shepArG
Thu condition of the dead In the interval
betWeen death and the resurrection as set forth IN o
feachinRt Of the New Testament and confirmed W uo
disclosures Of science, is the subject OF THIS worA "
Townsend starts from the assumption OF many mouein
psychologists that physical tissue Is not inc CAUSE
vital force, but that, on the contrary V'a WV
cause of the development Of physical tissue In the
~ "a raferred 10 by the author it is demonstrabe on
~ pbvsieal grounds that the soul is an agent no less
EXTERNAL 70 the cerebral mechanism than light IS 10 lne
ave or soupd 10 the ear Hence he argues vital Ioree
s distnRuishable from bodily tissue, and II death is
separaton OF vital force from bodily tissue as nothing
in the universe can be lost 1t follows that the vital
forces which make up the living man must after death
remain somewhere in the universe. Thls' IN his
opinion, may perhaps be considered as the sum
OF scientific teaching on the subject and for further
light We must have recourse the revelations OF inc
Bible From these, DR.. Townsend concludes tna'
there ia a place for dsembodied souls; that Tue
surroundipgs are unlike those Of our present phys
zeal life and that there nothing known upon SCI
enthc grounds which would prevent the soul from pass
ing into that place when separated from inc preSe"
physical organism in discussing the subject he takes
the ground OF an inquirer rather than OF dOgmaSt
his style is free from controversial aspery ne shoWsa
familiar acquaintance with wide range Of divergent
opjnons and often fort6es his own positions ey an
appeal TO authorities that hold place in theology the
reverse Of his own. There is certainly an occa-
sional want Of srictness in his TeasOnings his WISH
often appears to be parent Of his thought he reeS
upOp humane impulses and imaginative Suggestions
rather than upon rigid analysis and exact verDa inter
pretation but his book cannot fail to be valued Tor us
catholic spirit its wide sympathes, and it's bright views
Of the destiny of man.
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NHARLIER INSTITUTE,

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BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR BOAsSS 2ND ~
YOUNG MEN OF Z TO 20. PUPILS PlEFAi' -
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The 2ith year will begin Sept mber IL next Commence
ment JnIe i9 wednesday, ct 1880 o'clock p III.
Professor Ellie CharIier owner and head MASTER - A.
Last Juue pupil without extra training was adml'H 10
Harvard ifh honor Latin and Mathematics and II mere
nOw section OF Latin ana Greek MANY lu
uupils are row IN Yale Columbia. Princeton AlOmcI pui
l. now uroessgr I'm file Naval Academy Annapolis Wh{rr
he graduated been assistant professors az os
Point where thew graduated Building unsurpassed lpf oc
ton ventilation school convenences rcc H'iuan
by native teachers, and spoken WIN h'i"
French and German especially.
UNIVERSITY of the CITY OF 4Okk'
1.-THE Annual commencement win be hfld IL h9D-A J.
June 20. at 1880 Il. H., III the Academy Of MGslc
Alumni Meeting at =. m, nj Tie OhlNeIsb', -. IN, .,
Examination for admission II fSDA june TO- az ~ " "
=" 'H' OA'"''''V ''0'' HOWARD CROSBY, Chancellor
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The stranger visiting the old University
town Of Cambridge will find the new edition Of Harvard
and its Surroundings, by Moses King, convenient
guide to the principal objects OF interest and curiosity
in that celebrated locality In addition TO the dcscrp
tive matter relating Cambridge in its present state OF
beauty and bloom it gives many interesting remins-
cenees of the oden time, forming valuable memorial
for those who compare Cambridge iswas with
Cambridge as it The volume is literally illustrated
with engravlDgs Of the public buildings snd the more
noteworthy private residences II is published by the
author in Cambridge
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-14

The Hand Book Of Punctuation, by w. j.
Cocker NJ. A. "a. s. Barnes Coz presents IN priei
compass and Ineligible form the chief rules for the
correct punctuation Of English according to the most
approved authorities and precedents Although there
are several excellent reatises on the subject the pres
en volume deserves attention for its compacness ana
precision and would make an appropriate TEXTBOOK
the examination Of candidates for the honors OF e
prOof-room before admission to that branch OF the
typographical "Cyl Service" The newspapers OF TINS
country are responsible for great deal OF bad proof
reading in which the settled of the language are
made 20 bend to the convenience Of tho eompositor
If the evil is not past remedy, wholesome correction
might be found the study OF compilations ike ths
volume.
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THE ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC. BY JAMES DE MILE
H. A. 12mO PIP. 564. Harper Brothers

THE ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC. BY JAMES DE MILE
NJ. A. 12mO. PIP. 564. Harper n Brothers'
The popular novelist who has turned his
knowledge of language TO such excellent account IN
The walks OF fiction, here presents himself as nm eA
pounder of the laws OF rhetorical expression in when
sphere be is certainly accomplished master IN inc
present work. he considers tho subject Of rhetoric ns
broadcast sense, analytical examination OF ncia
ture comprising the study OF qualities OF STYLE ana te
various forms OF expression employed by dlhereht
writer's His comprehensive treatment covers the grouu
of the most eminent writer's on rhetorlc nc Is ho' a
tious of novelty its sake and his tastes IN liter
atue are evidently controlled by sound conservatism
but his method of exposition and the character OF his IL
Illustrations are drawn from his own resources betraNhg
original Thought Just observation, and singularV
happy gift Of expression. If his remarks sometimes
eayor Of the professors classroom more than OF "h
Grant explorer in the field OF letters, they are away"
free from pedantry amidst the technical details
of the subject where call the rhetOrcans ruleshnt teach
him how TO name his TOOLS" he is fresh and suggestive
presenting delightful glimpses OF the literary DOMAIN
even in marking out the fences which define It's
boundaries.
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