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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18
LOpgteIlOW's HOme.

A correspondent of the Nashville
Amertcan writes as follows of a visit to
the home of Longfellow:
He received me cordially, and invited
me Immediately into his study, a room
of comfortable dimensions, a large table
in the center, an old -fashioned hearth
with andirons, and two windows OPEN
ing upon the lawn. On either side Of
the fireplace was a l9rge, comfortable
chair, one being that recently presented
10 him by the children, made from " the
spreading chestnut tree" There were
books to the right, 10 the left, behind,
and in front of me, and the walls were
covered with pictures. A thousand OBJ
jects, each with its own interesting his
tory, crowded the corners of the room,
busts Of Shakespeare, Goethe, and
Dante. In a small glass box was a
piece of the coffin of the greatest Of Ital-
ion poets; near the door an excellent
crayon drawing of Mr.. Lowell, and a
painting OF a scene on the coast Of
Maine, the work of an artist FRIEND, il
Illustrating the poets beautiful lines:
A wind came up out OF the sea,
Aud said 90, mists make roo for me-"
1t hailed the ships and cried, = Sail on,
Ye mariners, the night is gone"
On the table was Coleridge's inkstand,
and a volume of his poems, owned and
used by himself. Along the margin are
notes in the authors own handwriting,
corroborating Lambs statement that
when you loaned a book to Coleridge it
returned with additional value. The
two familiar verses in Ancient Mari
ner"--
The & cme is done! I've won I've won!
Quoth she, and whistled thrice.
are followed by the stanza:
A gust OF wind strert up behind
And whistled through his bones;
Through the holes OF his eyes and the hola oil
his month,
Halt whistles aud halt groans.
There is a marginal note opposite, in
pencil, "To be struck out, 5. Il. c."
and according TO his wish it has been
omitted in subsequent editions. After
showing me these treasures we passed
into the adjoining room. A piano, a
queue, stood in the center, with Mendel-
ssohn's "Songs Without Words" open
upon it, as if some one had just left the
instrument. Everywhere the eye was
pleased and the attention arrested by
some curiosity or work of art-the arm
less Venus of Milo, the mutilated Psyche,
n bust of Emerson, a statuette of Sum-
ner, who was a warm friend OF the poet,
n fine bust of his wife, an oil painting OF
his three daughters.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

Miss Harriet Gardiner, who was
almost mobbed in Ballina, Ireland, and
who inundated the crowd by drawing
a revolver, is described as considerably
over fifty years OF age and is an old
maid of unprepossessing appearance and
attire. She is a very masculine woman,
rides and drives about like a man, hitch
ing and unhitching her horses. She
always goes armed and is a regular dare
devil. She goes out shooting with her
dogs and jumps over bog holes like a
boy. She Inherited FarShill, her resi-
dence, from her mother, and drove her
father, Major j. Gardiner, out OF the
place. She scarcely ever recognizes
him or any of his children by his second
wife. She lives a solitary life, sur
rounded by a queer household. She is
a relentless woman with her tenants,
and her pluck has hitherto enabled her
10 carry everything with a high hand.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Cologne water was first so called in
1903, when an Italian citizen Of Cologne
named johann Maria Farina prepared
1t. Since that time genuine a de co.
logne has been manufactured by the de-
Bcendants Of Farins.
A few years ago a japanese publisher
brought out a life OF Washington in
forty-ive volumes, with illustrations in
which the father Of his country is repre-
sented in modern dress, wearinga heavy
mustache, carrying a cane and ccom
panied by a skye terrier.
When Napoleon III. went TO the front
in 1870 his mass Of baggage looked like
a travelling hospital. 1t included three
kinds of batltubs, a large medicine
chest, an invalid's easy chair and a Pc
culiar sort of stretcher. The emperor
took several very gentle horses and had
double wadded saddles, with extra pad
dings in the back.
Thus they make new potato es at Paris +:
Old potatoes, small and cheap, are taken
to the banks of the Seine, put in tubs of
water, and vigorously stirred and
stamped upon by their owners feet.
This process makes The potatoes bright
co.ored, smooth and satin like, exactly
like new tubers. Then they are dried,
rolled in paper, and sold at the Mar
chanGes de Comcstibles.
Paris, in the course of its history, has
been besieged ten times. The first time
in so b. G. and the last in 1870. 1t
was fortified until the time OF
Louis XIV, who RACED the delenses, as,
in his day, the idea of a a foreign army
reaching the heart OF France was
laughed at. Napoleon |. did not fortify
Paris, and the allies, in 1914, found only
a few hastily built redoIbts in their
way.
Byron wrote "The Corsair in ten
days, at the rate of 200 lines a day; Lops
de Vega wrote 800 dramas in 100 days;
Voltaire composed "Zaire" in three
weeks and Olympic" in six days;
Dryden wrote his lode to St. Cecilia"
at one sitting, and Mrs. Browning's
''The Lady G%craldine's Courtship " was
the work of twelve hours. Shakespeare,
Dickens, Wordsworth and Moore, on the
other hand, were slow workers. Hep
worth Dixon rewrote his 1.-TWO
Queens" eight times, and K~inglake's
"Eothen" was rewritten five or six
times.
Cardinal Antonelli was very fond Of
canary birds, and at one time had more
than 200 of them, which had been pre-
sented to him.
The atmosphere of the Mosque of St.
Sophia, Constantinople, is filled with
the odor of the musk with which JUS
tinian charged the mortar when he re-
built the church in 539 A. d.
The statistics of the French war Of
fee show that during the first half of
the eighteenth century, ending FIVE years
Fontenoy, 45O, 600 Irishmen died
in the French service, and during the
last half $50, 200.
Glass ta1lecloths are on exhibition in
New York. Their manufacturer says
that they are strong and durable, and
can be washed and ironed.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

1t must be confessed that the build.
ing of a stable for twenty horses on the
top of a private mansion, access to
which is obtained by means Of a lift, is
calculated to awaken a feeling of aston
ishment ven in these days of marvels.
Yet this is the case on a house just
erected in Belgrave square, London, by
Mr.. Sassoon. Ground is very valuable
in that fashionable part of London, and
by RELOCATING the horses to the top of the
house two birds are killed with one
stone, for space is saved and the mel
of the stables avoided. The horses do
not seem by any means TO object to the
mode Of ascent; possibly they are I'M
conscious of it on account Of the closed
shutters Of the lift.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

The price which England is to be
called upon TO pay out of the pockets Of
the English, Scotch and Welsh tax
payers, in order to settle fore yer the dis
quieting Irish land question, is, accord
ing to the &atist, the very modest
amount of 81, 500, 900, 900.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

Large tracts of land in one Of the
northern states of Mexico have been
secured by capitalists of Ne8 York city
and San Antonio. Texas, and rumor says
that an extensive colored colonization
scheme is being matured.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

Two men fred simultaneously at each
other in a Salt Lake barroom, and the
bullets came into collision. There could
be no doubt OF this, for M bullet
dropped 70 the floor midway between
the antagonists, who weroten feet apart,
and tho other was turned upward to the
ceiling, while both were flattened,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

The raising of horses in the great yell
lowstone valley of the far West has be-
come IN important and profitable bust
ness. Some of the herders have from
500 to 1900 each, and dispose of their
three-year-old colts at from $50 to SlOc.
The animals feed on grass alone, and
the only shelter from the weather is
roughly. built sheds.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

Accusations of dishonesty are now
made by some of the Mormons against
their bishops in connection with the
tithing system. Every Mormon is re-
uuired to give TO the church authorities
one-tenth of all his products if he is a
farmer, the same proportion ofhis profits
if he is in mercantile or professional
business, and of his wages if he is an
employee. Special officers are appointed
TO collect these tithes, and they are x
acted with the utmost rigor. Five hun
dred Mormons / tely wentin into Colorado
to work on a railroad, and supposed
they were for the time safe from the
customary ~exaction, but Brigham
Young, Jr., followed them, and de-
manded tenth of their pay. The tithes
yieid not less than a million dollars a
year to the church, and Of this large
revenue the head men make no account
ing to the people. 1t is charged that a
corrupt and successful ring exists at
Salt Lake City, and its early downfall is
predicted.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18
TIMELY TOPICS.

The next inauguration will be more
Of a show than it usually is. Nearly
every State in the Union is to be repre-
sented at Washington by military or
civic organizations.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

The largest crane in the world is
nearing completion at the Woolwich
arsenal, England. Two thousand tons
Of iron are employed in its construction
and it covers a quarter Of an acre. For
years have been occupied in putting the
monster machine together. When fin
ished it is expected that it will be able
to lift four lOO-ton pins, and one man
can easily work it.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

An interesting experiment in co-operas
ton has just been inaugurated in the
Five Points, New York city, where a
grocery upon the cooperative principle
has been opened. The goods sold will
be of the lest quality and of moderate
price. Amy person may share in the
profits by becoming a member on the
payment of twenty-five dollars in
monthly installments of one dollar each.
Checks will be given whan goods are
purchased, which viii entitle the bearer
to a share in the profits. An excellent
feature Of the institution will be n coffee
and milk room in the rear.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18

New York and Wisconsin produce
the greater part of the Limburger cheese
manufactured in this country, which
amounts TO thousands of tons. II costs
less than half the price of the imported
article, and is more profitable than any
other cheese, because more weight is OBJ
tanned from a given quantity Of milk,
and better prices are realized.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18
Price Four Cents.

those which can be distinguished when at rest suffces to keep the protective colors al- ways true. On the other hand, when the in- sects are on the VI ing, lowering about flowers rising in the air to pirouette and gambol with their mates, they run comparatively Iit- tie risk from the birds
 They are too nimble for their pursuers and they seem fairly secure by their power of doubling, as they fit rapidly along from spray to spray. The birds are bad marks men at moving target they cannot double like their prey, and they prefer to aim at their butterflies sitting, as French sports men are said to do at cartridges On the other hand, with butterflies, as with men, faint heart never won fair lady. If the in- sects did not venture out in the open air to seek their mates and charm them with their painted pinions some bolder rival would car ry of the prize, and so leave the towards un- represented in future ages. Thus, in the course of generations 8 great many butter flies have come to have two sets of colors- the one set attractive for their own kind and the other set protective against their ene-
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18

Can any one improve his condition by whining? If not, whine not. Adam never dared to use the silly slang, Some other Eve. "-Syraeuse Times. The heat is expanding everything except the time for a thirty day note.-O1 City De17ick.
 Who says it is unhealthy to sleep in feath- CTS? Look at the spring chicken and see how tough he is.-Bostoz Courier. About [, 1000, GOO, ,OOO pins are made in the United States every year, just about enough to hold seven women's toilets in position Boston Transcript.
 There are II, ,OoO railroad engines in the United States, and each one averages fifty toots per day. Where do these s50,O 900 daily toots go ?-Detroit Free Press. They go to make the toot ensembie-LoaoeU Courier.
 Wont you please play us something, Miss Hammerandbang asked Fogg. 1T should ike to ever so inuch,'' said she, looking at her watch "but really have no time :" ''So have heard, replied Fogg; 'tbut we will overlook that, you know."-Boston Transcript.
 A young man has just been married. On the evening of the happy day he observes his bride carefully restoring her bouquet of orange blossoms within globe of glass pre- pared for the purpose. Much surprised, he inquiries the reason. She, with charming smile, replies, ''But, my dear, I may be able to keep it for next time. ."-From the French.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18

.z e- +5 4tz 5H-z- 5sss ; -#zs+
 gain actual knowledge of their method of dren to arouse men and women to the im-
 portance of conscientious and wisely directed
 oversight of the schools by the public, to be exercised in the choice of school officials.
 Fifty-six years ago Frederick Douglass was a slave on the plantation of Edmund Lloyd on Wye river in Maryland. This week he has been revisiting for the first time in ffty-six years ''the old plantation" He was very kindly received by descendants of his old master. He was shown by MT. Harwood Lloyd, the great grandson of his former own CT, every familiar spot he inquired for, and the party were invited into the old mansion. The old hall where Mir. Douglass often play ed when slave-boy was inspected, ani the visitors partook of the Inequalities of the house Mir. Douglass was visibly affected at the great kindness and consideration shown him, and drank the health of the family, saying that he trusted that God in his provi- dence, would pour out from his horn of plenty to the latest generation, and that children and descendants of the master of the old house would worthily maintain the fame and characteristics of their ancestors On his way back to Washington Mir. Doug lass stopped to pay his respects to the widow of Admiral Buchanan He was most kindly received by Mrs. Buchanan. Although the old lady is now seventy-fve years of e,she had vivid recollection of MT. Douglass boy hood, and on the broad veranda looking out on the river. and surrounded by her daugh ters and great-grandaughters, she and Mir Douglass chatted for over an hour, recalling memories of the past After receiving a handsome bouquet from Mrs. Buchanan to take home to his grandchildren, he and his party took their leave, MT. Douglass saying that among many strange and eventful periods of his life there was none so strange, none more eventful none half so agreeable and pleas ant, and none that so plainly told how God moves in a mysterious way, as this trip, and that it would form the greenest of the many green spots in his memory.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Some men are worth their weight in gold, and even more. and the brigands who cap. tured Mir. Suter considered him one of that kind The e15,000 paid as ransom for Mir, suter represents 264 pounds of gold, while his weight is about 154 pounds.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18

The idea of founding German university in one of the western States of this country meets with considerable favor in Germany. Several banking houses of note at Berlin have offered their sympathy and operation to the leaders of the movement at Frankfort
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18

If anybody in this region has an egg of the great auk he can get a good price for it. Two of them were recently sold ia London, one fer five hundred dollars and the other for five hundred and ten dollars. The ex- planation of these prices is that there are no more great auks, and only fifty of their eggs are known to be in existence.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18
A Strange Dream.


 On the 17th of May, 1877, the following statement was made to the Psychological so- ciety in London (the late Sergeant Cox being the president) by Mir. Gordon:
 He wished to narrate an occurrence which had taken place among persons known to him, and he had no doubt as to the authen- ticity of the facts. Some years ago two sis- ters living in Scotland were married and lived within few miles of each other one had been married to gentleman of consid- able property who farmed his own land, and the other to minister of the Church of Scotland. One morning in harvest time Mrs A appeared at breakfast in a state of mental disturbancey and told her hus- one of his horses as she desired to go to see her sister. This being inconvenient in the middle of harvest time, he replied that he could not spare one and asked why she wished to go. She then said that she had dreamed she was in church listening to her brother-in-law preaching; she heard him di- vide his sermon into firstly and second ly," and at last he came to thirdly :" at that moment her father-who was dead-entered the church, and beckoned to the preacher to follow him :: then he followed the figure out of thaschurch. Upon this her husband lent her horse, and when she arrived at the house of her sister she found the blinds all down, and the servant said, ''How could you possibly have heard the awful news SO soon pn s'What news2' The servant replied, Don't you know that master is lying dead up stairs ?" He had been found in his study stone dead; he had been writing his sermon, and after getting through two thirds of it he stopped, when he reached ''thirdly.'' These facts were well known to all the relatives of the deceased clergyman.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18
OH, hOW RIDICULGUs '

There's a silence deep, and breeding sleep, That over the drear earth steals; And tn gentle buzz Of the June bugs COZ Through the orchard and meade " peals. At the garden gate, though it's rather late. Stand youth and maiden fair; She is seventeen and little lean, And she bangs her nut br .wn hair. The old gate creaks Maud's blushfng cheeks Are kissed y two rose bu Ii Hys; Down the garden path, with great big lath, stern parent softly skips. There's scattered group, and wild, wild whoop, And a swiftly moving boot; In the new spring pants see him madly prance, And away for a street car scoot.
 -HhicaGo TJjblt3le
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18
Rapid Transit for n Porcupine.


 On Sunday last Henry Millet, of this city, was hunting near the Summit, when he came upon porcupine. The animal was about fifty yards away when he saw it, making toward the brush near Hume, just before it begins it's rapid descent under the three bridges Clear Greek road. Millet fired at the animal with charge of fine shot, which rolled it over, but did not kill it. As he neared the wounded game to kill it with a stick, the porcupine, bleeding in dozen places, dragged it's body to the edge of the Hume, where it turned for moment defiant ly upon it's pursuer. Just then g stick of timber foated past and the plucky little ami nal sprang upon it. and in few seconds the piece of timber, drifting into the stronger current, shot out of sight under the bridge and then went down the sharp fall in the Hume at rate which must have as- tonished the little fugitive. The trip to the bottom of the incline was safely made, and the timber drifted out of sight with the DOT cupine still clinging to it. People who live in the vicinity say that timber frequently comes down the Hume with squirrels upon it, and one day stick was seen making the chute with big rattlesnalke coiled around it. The reptile was more than astonished at the rapidity of his travelling, and was gnashing his teeth in perfect rage at every branch that came within his reach
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-04-28
NIIIILIsNr.
what the Dcvilish Thing IL.
from the Americana

Nihilism is political programme Of
absolute negatiOn. No God, no pOlit-
ical rule, no fatherly authority, no
moral code beyond the individual in
stinct. All great political thinkers,
Lamennais, Victor Hugo, Mazzini and
PrOudhOn. not excepted, have pre-
dicted an era of violent destruction,
should religion cease to maintain its
hold upon the poor and suffering
classes. Destr0y such peoples belief
in a future of conipensatiOns, where
Lazarus may get the good things this
life has denied him, and you remove
all moral restraints from their con-
duct. But even these authors could
not have predicted nihilism. There Is
something in it purely devilish-as Of
II delight in destruction for its own
sake, apart from any prospective gain
to the individual or his class. II is
not the quest of power, or of comfort
or wealth; it Is the purely Internal in
stinct, which rises 40 high, or rather
falls so low, to need these paltry mo-
tivcs. 1t is irrcligion, not OF the head,
but Of the heart; not OF calculation,
but of passion; not earthly and sem
sual, but devilish. And it is just this
that puts the nihilists completely out
side the pale of the worlds sympathy.
They are not aSsassins, As were Bru-
tus, Harmonious and Charlotte Cor
day, for the sake OF al end beyond the
evil deed, but for the sake Of the evil
deed itself. They do not hope to Sc
cure better government by putting
Alexander III. in the place Of Alcxan-
derII. They have no confidence in any
member OF the family, or in being able
to displace the family. They want
simply their death or that terror which
is u living and constant death.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-04-28

The Chicago Times repOpts from a II
parts Of the winter:whcat regions show
that an ilpr.ense amount Of damage
has sNSnc to crops by the severity
~Ttne winter, but there in not the
slightest danger OF II general failure Of
the harvest on that account. A con-
siderable majority of the crop Ia hack
ward or in unfav0rable condition, but
reports do not Intimate failure any
where and il the fact that good prices
and handsome harvests the two or
three last years encouraged the plant
ing ola largely increased acreage In
most localities, there seems to be u
fair offset for the Injury suffered. In
u great many sections the heavy'snows
OF the winter furnished invaluable
protection against the intense cold,
and later in the spring continued this
defense through the critical period OF
alternate freezing and thawing OF
March. On the whole the situation
Is more encouraging than generally
believed, and unless disastrous late
frosts or other unfavorable conditions
materially impair the present pros
pect, the yield taking the country at
large is likely not to be much less
than that Of last year. Illinois and
Indiana seem to suffer more than
other states. The frnit crop will be a
total failure In many parts of Illinois,
Ohio and the southern states. Trees
in many places will he killed outright.
Bee-keepers also suffered greatly.