Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
NASHVILLE, Tenn,
Jan. IS, 1895.

Mr.. EDITOR: I now snatch few
moments from a most busy life to
send you a few notes. Things are
quite lively about here now. Ex-
aminations are in progress i'll the
College, and all the students say
we are having "fat" ones at that.
l don't know how it is, but I gen.
orally feel very complaoent about
these times. In other words, !
don't give myself any extra ankle
ty of mind over examinations. OF
course they are difficult. but it
does no good to get scared.
Mr.. Corbett, the champion fight
er of the world, has been in our
city for the last three or four days.
He came here with theatrical
troupe. He is one of the best ac-
tors in the play, as a matter of
course. 1 had u kind of curiosity
to get a good close look at him. So
1 went down on he stage during
the last act in the play, which was
fight at four rounds between Nj,
Corbett and his trainer, Mr.. O'Dou-
mel. The act was to represent the
fight between Sullivan and Corbett
at New Orleans two years ago.
Corbett is not such a large man.
He has comparatively small legs
and long arms but not so large as
one might think. He is six feet,
one inch high, combs his hair
straight up, and is as handsome ~
man of twenty-eight years as you
could find anywhere. He is no
brute as many people suppose, but
is refined and cultured. His sue
cess, as. he himselfsays, lies in his
activity. 1t seemed to be almost
impossible for Mr.. O'Donnel TO hit
him. He lodges under his oppo-
nent's blows, and deals two or three
hard on5s Oh his opponents head
before he eau turn round. They
used the regular boxing gloves
which keep away the pain that an
ordinary fist blow would cause.
SOME ANCIENT RELICS.
The other day, while strolling
carelessly about to rest my mind
for a little while, I chanced to en-
ter the building of the Nashville
Historical Society, and I was
struck with surprise to find so
many old relics there. They make
it their business to collect these
things and preserve them from
the wreck of the hands of time.
There you may see hundreds of old
relics, but the things that I took
most delight in were such as he'll
met, worn in the battle of Water
loo; a javelin used by one of Ce-
sar's soldiers in the Gallo wars;
a mummy found in the Catacombs
near Cairo Egypt. Let me talk
about this mummy a little, for l
presume most people are like |
was, they don't know much about
what a. mummy is. A mummy is
the body of a dead person, and the
way in which the ancient Egyp-
tians preserved them was to take
out the intestines and bind up the
body in some kind of spices and
other things to preserve it. Then
they wrapt up the body tight with
linen, and laid it in a Catacomb.
The linen is nearly all gone now,
but the shape is very good, and
the figure looks somewhat natural.
From what could be learned, the
mummy is about three thousand,
three hundred years old. I could
not begin to name the numerous
other things I saw: There were all
kinds of Indian implements, and
letters written by all the great men
of our country from George Wash
ington down to Ben Tillman, but
unluckily they hav'nt one written
by Ben yet, but I suppose when
they learn of the greatness of this
man they will endeavor to get one
of his. When I say, down to Ben
Tillman, mean in time, not i'll
greatness.
Yours very truly,
VAN STAR.