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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27

A healthy liver secretes each day about two
and a half pounds of bile, which contains a
great amount of waste material taken from
the blood. When the liver becomes torpid or
congested. it fails to eliminate this vast
amount of noxious substance, which, there
fore. remains to poison the blood ar d be con
veyed to every part of the system. What
must be the condition of the blood when it ls
receiving and retaining each day two and a
half pounds Of poison Nature tries to work
of this poison through other channels and or
gans-the kidneys. lungs. skin, etc; but these
organs become overtaxed in performing this
labor, in addition to their natural functions,
and cannot long Withstand the pressure, but
becomes variously diseased.
The brain, which is the great electrical CEN
tire of all Wit atty, is unduly stimulated by the
unhealthy blood which passes to it from the
heart, and it fails to perform its Office health
fully. Hence the symptoms of bile poisoning,
which are dullness, headache incapacity to
keep the mind on any subject, impairment Of
memory. dizzy. sleepy. or nervous feelings,
gloomy forebodings and irritability Of temper.
The blood itself being diseased. as it forms
the sweat upon the surface of the skin, is so
irritating and poisonous that it produces dis
colored brown spots. pimples, blotches, and
other eruptions, sores, boils, carsuncles and
scrofulous tumors. The stomach, bowels and
other organs spoken of, cannot escape becom-
ing affected, sooner or later, and costiveness,
piles, dropsy, dyspepsia, diarrh9a, female
weakness. and many other forms of chronic
disease. are among the necessary results. As
a remedy for all these manifestations of dis
ease, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
with small daily doses of his Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets are positively unequalled. By
them the liver and stomach are changed to an
active and healthy state, the appetite regula-
ted and restoi ed, the blood and secretions
thoroughly purified and enriched, and the
whole system renovated and built up anew.
Sold by all first class druggists and dealers in
medicine.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
The Antiquity Of Iron.

According to the Iron Age, wedge
or plate of iron has beeu found i'm
bedded in the masonry of the great
ply ramid, the indication being that it
must have been wrought in the age of
Cheops, placed by some authorities as
far back as 5, 400 years ago. This makes
the use of iron about 2, 500 years more
ancient than it is supposed to be, and
affords opportunity for explaining the
cutting of the sharp and well defined
hieroglyphics on porphyry, granite, and
other hard stones employed in the con-
struction of Egyptian pyramids, tenn
Piles, and tombs. How these could
have been cut before the age of iron,
has been a puzzliug question to many.
Further investigation may show iron to
have been in use G, 900 years ago.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
A INDUSTRIOUS Army.

The army of Germany, which in the
last few years has played such q con-
siderable part in Europe, furnishes an
interesting topic of inquiry to all who
see that sooner or later the champion
fighters on that continent will again get
to licking each other, in the teeth of all
civilization. Well, the brute force
kept on hand by Germany is thus
labeled off /: 1880 officers, 329, 600
soldiers, 314.97O horees, 2,7OO field
cannon, and 800 siege pieces. Moltke
has them all rubbed up every morning,
and SO they are kept bright and shin
ing. Out of this effective total, 846,-
720 men can be got thoroughly ready
and equipped to take the field six weeks
af er the first order therefor. TIE
Landsturm law which has just passed
the Reichstag will add to the army
POP. 500 soldiers, while the organization
of the "fourth battalions I" will also
furnish 1852, 100 soldiers and 3,4OO
officers. Thus when the day of battle
does come, the grand total of the i'm
perial army will be SO, 94S officers,
1,6S4, 200 soldiers, and 331, ITO horses,
One hardly knows whether to pity
most the poor horses or the men caught
in such q trap.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
Spartan DiDnprs.

ParIs Celebrities at the Convivial Board.
Have you ever heard of the academy
of the Spartans, or rather of the Spar
tan dinners? For this is an academy
that dimes, which gives it great ad-
vantage over the French academy. 1t
has another advantage; it is not en-
ployed on a dictionary. 1t contents
itself with being witty-at table. 1t
pronources no discourses nor funeral
orations. It has held its sessions Mt
Trois Freres Prorencaur, as the Petit
Moulin Rouge, at the Maison dor and
at Brebant's.
At the last sitting 1 proposed toast
in very good champagne-to Gen.
Read, who was just starting for Greece.
He had brought book of blank pages,
and said to us, "This book will be
mine, when each OF you has inscribed
a thought in it," don't know whether
we were especially witty that day, but
I copy some things which fell from our
pen.
"There is no such thing as liberty,
for no man is free if he is the slave of
his conscience.
"Al loves-even maternal love
have their anguish and their griefs.
God has made pain for every pleas
ure the gate of Paradise opens into
hell.
"a note from a woman, no matter
how tender, is sight draft on you !;
you must always pay in some coin or
other.
Marriage begins with one of the
seven sacramento it ends with one OF
the seven mortal sins.
Thought is like Jeapnot's knife.
Common men are content to keep it
bright for use; men Of genius first
change the handle and end by changing
he blade.
"Sooner or later we pardon our
friends the injuries we have done them.
elf borrower comes, lend him your
ear.
"Women always give more than they
promise /; men less.
Love ls ike nquor men say IL 1s
killing them but always come back to it.
eff you become famous, beware of
the fools-for they always gather around
the people who are stared at.
Gen. Read would not write conceit
like the rest. He had just experienced
profound grief in the loss of his
father. This is the thought he has in
scr,bed in the book, which is still at its
first page:
Life is the road to death. The In.
dams say: Death does not kill, it
makes us invisible. It is the sorrow of
survivors to see no more those whom
they loved /; but the first friend We lose
gives a clearer vision to the sonl.
Every step toward death opens little
wider the gate of eternity"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
French Manners.

A writer says "The French are said
to be the politest people in the world,
and in some RESP ects they are so. Their
poli:eness may be only skin deep it
may be only stilted etiquette, without
heartfelt emotion But, on the whole,
it is better than studio indifference and
rough incivility. If not absolutely sin
cere, it has the external appearance of
being so, and saves the feelings from a
sense of outrage. A Frenchman always
takes off his hat on entering shop or
an omnibus or any other conveyance.
He is expected always to bow first to a
lady of his acquaintance it would be
thought quite out of place for lady to
take the initiative. On entering draw
ing-room French people bow to every
one who may be in the room, whether
they are acquainted with them or not.
The omission of these trifing civilities
by the English causes them to be con-
eidered rude and boorish. The line of
demarcation between different eli sses of
society is less strongly defined in France
than in England. Servants consider
themselves pretty nearly upon an equal
ity with their masters and mattresses,
and their manners are marked by free
and easy GOODNESS, which weuld be con-
sidered the height Of impertinence in
England. They wish you 'good-morn-
ing and goodnight as friend might
do, and expect to be thanked whenever
they open the door for you; French
man of every class touches his hat to the
servant who opens the door for him.
The lower classes in France live much
more frugally and inexpensively than
people of the same rank in England.
Soup and bouiUi form the usual dinner
and supper of the upper class of farm
ers, workmen, and servants in French
families. The richer farmers have the
pot au teu every day, others only once
or twice a week, and live on bread and
soupe aur chour on the other days, with
q relish of cheese, salt fish, and some
times butter"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
Endurance OF Eastern Horses.

Australian horses, unprepared, I'M
shod, and uncared for, are in the con-
slant habit of performing forty, fifty,
or even sixty miles a day, when on
journey over rough roads or through
the wild native bush, without even
track. There food consists of what
they can pick up for themselves, in
many cases when tethered to prevent
their strayiDg, and their grooming in
having the rough mud rubbed off with
bunch of grass but they have at
least one advantage over poor Caradoc
in being allowed to rest and ease their
limbs in whatever manner they choose
during the night. 1t is stated on the
authority of Add ell Kader, that Arab
horses will travel for three or four
months at the rate of fifty miles day
without showing fatigue, and are capa-
BILE of doing 80 miles in a single day
during the journey, il treated with care,
and quietly ridden the next. Some
years ago an Arab, only four hands one
inch high, was ridden in India 400 miles
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
What an Alaska <quaw is Worth.

The Hoona tribe of Indians, a few
weeks ago, sent a deputation of we'll
armed warriors to Sitka to treat with
them for the full value OF certain de-
missed squaw of the Hoona tribe, whose
existence a Sitka buck few months
before had, by the accidental discharge
of his gun, cut short. The council was
held on the beach at Indian town, few
yards from the commanding officers
house. After arguing for and against,
the cash value of the defunct lady of
Hoona descent was found to be 900
yards of calico, four camphor wood
boxes, fourteen muskets and sixty blank
cts. Terms cash. The succeeding
night was then devoted to a universal
spree in the Indian town in homer of
their guests.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
Cocoa and Chocolate.

Cocoa and chocolate are prepared
from the nuts by freeing them from the
pulp and making them undergo a pro-
cess similar to mailing. They arc af-
forwards roasted in a perforated cylin-
der, and are then freed from tLeir husks,
and made into cocoa, or chocolate,
which is similar to cocoa, but made
into a paste, and contains sugar, and
generally some favoring addition, as
vanilla, or other matte substance.
TIE best chocolate is that which dis
solves entirely in water, leaving no
grounds i'll The bottom of the vessel.
Chocolate should rot be IN lde till re-
quired fer use. Wafer is better than
milk for making chocolate, which should
on no acc punt be allowed to boil, as the
oil would then pass TO the surface.
Neither coffee nor tea approaches cocoa
or chocolate for nutritive properties.
The latter contains every ingredient
necessary to the susteI ancs of the body.
Its active principle is theobromine, an
alkaloid which is akin In character to
theme and caffeine, the active principle
Of tea and coffee.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
A Relic OF Washington.

An interesting relic of the early days
of George Washington has been for
warded to the New York University for
the state library. The relic dates back
to the time when GenI. Washington
was but land surveyor, and consists
of a map of 1861 acres of land, situated
in Augusta county Virginia, and GER
tifcate setting forth that the same had
been surveyed. Both the map and GER
tificate are from the pen of Washing
ton, and are models of neatness. The
certificate is signed &C. Washington"
and is dated November 7, 1749-the
surveyor being then in his seventeenth
year. After Washington's name appear
the initials "S. @. c." which stands
for surveyor to the county courts. The
document is in a remarkably good state
of preservation, and is inclosed in a
stout metallic frame, and protected by
glass. The New York state library al
ready contains the survey ing imple-
ments used by Washington, and this
addition will materially increase the
interest attached to the collection.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
Value OF Mineral Products.

The aggregate value of all the miner
ais mined in the whole world amount at
present to 81, 900. 600 per year of
this coal alone is worth nearly two
thirds, say s666, 900, 600; the rest one
third. or about $3.50, 600. 900. Gold
stands at the head of the list, the value
OF this metal mined per year being about
800. 600, 600 next is iron ore, being at
$40, 600, 600; but of no mineral is the
production SO largely increasing as that
of iron, and it will soon surpass in
value that of gold. It has increased
during the last seven years from Is to
%, and gold remained about as it was.
The production of steel increased from
1s to "a, proving the progress of indus
try in general in which steel is the main
agent.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
Alexis and His Bride.

The pretty maid of honor whom the
grand Duke Alexis married all nnbe-
knownst to the old folks. appears to be
as spunky as she is beautiful. Alexis,
it will be remembered, was sent to
America that he might forget her, but
while that plan cured the grand duke,
it didn't appease his bride, WHIP was
sent out of the empire by spscial'traip.
She went to Geneva, and rec, ntly it ap-
pears that Count Shouvaloff was sent to
treat with her. It was proposed that
she should renoupce all claim TO the
hand of Alexis, should chen &c her name
and disappear. In return for this SER
vice she would receive ], 1000, 600 roubles
down, and an annuity OF Is, 900 Ioublts
which would be continued 10 her child
in case the latter survived her; but
Mrs. Alexis wouldn't do 1t. She loved
Alexis too much for that, and SO mat
tiers stand at present.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
japanese Workmen.

The remarkable beauty of many of
the articles made by Japanese workmen
is due in measure to the fact that in
japan the artisan is considered to be
the superior of the tradesman in rank,
and that he is hence made to feel a
pride in his work. Here and in Europe
there prevails the general impression
that the merchant is necessarily the su.
perior of the mechanic. The facts do
not justify this view. 1t certainly takes
much more thought and ingenuity to
make chair or writing desk than it
does to sell them after they are made.
The intelligent artisan is, as a rule, de-
cidedly the superior of the tradesman in
mental activity, and frequently has very
much Of the true artistic faculty about
him. 1t is time we thought more highly
of workmen than we do, especially as
they are gradually gaining more and
more power in the state and are thus
assuming the political duties which the
tradesmen have shown a disposition to
ahun
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27

DIR. J. Walkers California Vine
egar BitterS are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found ON the lower ranges OF
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
arc extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERSW Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are tie great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovation and Invigorator
Of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of eve-y disease man is heir to. They
are gentl, purgative as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation OF
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretio
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic
Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorifc, Altera
tive. and Anti-BilioCs.
r.. Fl. MCDONALD d CO.,
Druggists and Gen ACTS. San Francisco, California.
and of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y.
Sold by all Druggists n nd Dealers.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27

According to Lucy Hooper, the recent
grand official ball at the Elysee, in
Paris, was as noted for its maenifice mt
display of diamonds and dress as for the
absence from it of beautiful women.
Diamonds we're as plentiful as pebbles
on the seashore, but not one really
beautiful woman was present. There
were magnificent dresses, all lace and
velvet and rich embroidery there were
poetic dresses, all shimmering green,
with water lilies, or silvery gauze with
moonlight effects of cloudy drapery, or
snowy white adorned with soft fringes
of lilies of the valley; there were
costume. like dresses that limited OF Joan
Of Arc, of Marie de Medicis, or Mime.
de Pompadour there were some fine
eyes, fine Shoulders and graceful figures,
but as for striking loneliness of the
ladies there was none of it. The woman
who did not have on diamond necklace
did not look exactly in fall dress. One
lady, Russian princess, wore magnlh-
cent eme raids, the center stone of
bro 1ch she wora being one huge round
emerald, cut without facets, and about
the s;zs of an English walnut. At
tached to this brooch, in the guise of
pendant, hung a pear shaped emerald
in dimensions. A coronet
of emeralds aud diamonds, interspersed
with pendant pear shaped emeralds,
ma re m the ornaments of this much
ie weled lady. President MacMahon's
wife appear ed in dress of silver-frosted
azure tulla, caught upin front en- tabiier,
with a wreath Of water lilies, over
skirt of light blue silk, bordered with
a deep plated founce. The corsage
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27

To THE SUPPLEMENTAL old retired
physician, who is candid enough to tell
the truth about progress, has declared
that the recent discovery by DIR. Walk
er. of California, of his herb remedy,
Vinegar Bitters, is one of the most inn
portant in medicine. He has tested
them thoroughly, in his own family,
among his frienos, and upon himself
and he is driven to the conclusion that
they possess rare and unexcelled cura-
tive properties. He says of them !:
They contain no dangerous drug (!
They never reduce the patient never
render one liable to take cold-never
interfere with the everyday business
of life-never make their continuous
use condition of cure, and are adapt
ed to even the most delicate organgiza-
ton. They act as kindly on the tender
infant, the delicate female, or infirm
old age, as on the vigorous and athletic
system exercising healthful effects
upon every blood vessel-on the brain,
nerves and lymphatics-on the blood,
bile, gastric juice, etc., enriching i'm
poverished fluids, and imparting vigor
TO mind and BODY"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27

WoRK.-The man who has nothing to
do is the most miserable of beings. No
matter how much wealth a man pos
sesses, he can neither be contented nor
happy without occupation. We were
born to labor, and the world is our vine
yard. We can find a field for usefulne SIS
almost anywhere. In occupation, we
forget our cares, our worldly trials and
our sorrows. it keeps us from con
stantly worrying and breeding over
what is inevitable. If we have enough
for ourselves we can labor for others,
and such task is one of the most de-
Iightful duties worthy and good man
can engage in.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
Advice to a Young King.

Alfonso is reported to have asked a
distinguished policeman, as he was
leaving Paris for Spain, if he had any
advice TO give him. And the policeman
said, Yes-beware of pithy phrases"
"Of what sort?" said Alfonso. "Well,
such as The empire is peace and
Italy shall be free from the Apprentices
to the Adriatic. and No. stone of our
forts nor an inch of our territory, etc
For if you give out any Of these you
will try to adhere TO what they express
or you won't. If you try to adhere you
foolish fancy of consistency, and if you
don't you will bs written down as a
charlatan and hypocrite"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27

buds and glossy green smilax; with
pinkish yellow, salmon silk dress the
round bouquet is half of tea-roses and
others of pink buds. Sometimes the
entire bouquet is of double violets, with
smilax wreath deep red Aggripina
roses are alternated with pale yellow
hues, and SO on. Violets and &c raniums
neutralize their odors. Heliotrope and
pink rose-buds blend we'll, both in
color and perfume.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27

was ornamented with silver lace and
water lilies. In her hair she wore q
spray of water lilies and a bandeau of
s1lver-frosted tulle, confined by tiara
OF diamonds, and around her neck was
clasped diamond necklace. As to the
gentlemen, they were almost as we'll
worth looking at as the ladies, in their
uniforms blazing with stars, crosses and
gold lace.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
The Bail Bouquet.

A st. Louis fashion writer paragraphs
the bail bouquet of the period. 1t is of
long stemmed flowers loosely yet most
artistically put together and is made
up of but two or three kinds of flowers,
that must not only match the floral
garnitnre OF the dress with which they
are WORD, but must also be of odors
that do not conflict. For instance with
dress of white gauze Hinged with
lilies-of the valley, the hand bouquet
is of real lillies-of- the-valley, pink rose
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
S. I r .,

II he could come, to-day, to-day, to-day
o, what day to-day would be!
But now he's away, miles and mics away,
From me across the sea.
o. little bird flying, flying, flying
To your nest in the warm west,
Tel him IS you pass that am dying,
As You pass home to your nest.
1 lave sister, have brother,
A faithful hound, q tame white dove.
But had another, once had another,
And miss him, my love. my Lowell
In this weary world it is SO cold, so cod,
While 1 sit here all alone;
vouid not like to wait and to grow old,
But just be dead and gone.
Make me fair when lie dead on my bed
Fair where I am lying;
Perhaps he may come and look upon me dead
He for whom am dying.
Dig my grave for two, with q stone to show it,
And on the stone write my name;
If he never comes shall never know it,
But sleep all the same.
-CRristian Rosetti.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27

COLD WEATHER. coolest day
ever known in Paris, France, was
the 21st day of January, 1925,
when the thermometer stood at
1913 degrees below zero. In London,
on the same day, at 8 degrees. The
greatest cold ever experienced in Eu-
rope has been "a d. grees below zero in
Farce 8 in England; II in Holland !;
81 in Denmark, Sweden and Norway !;
46 in Russia +; 80 in Germany zero in
Italy and 10 in Spain and Portugal.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
Wives.

What the true man wants with a wife
is her companionship, sympathy, and
love. The way of life has many dreary
places in it, and man needs companion
to 90 with him. A man is sometimes
overtaken by misfortunes he meets
with failure or defeat trials and tempt
atoms beset him, and he needs one to
stand by and sympathise. He has some
hard battles to fight with poverty, enc
mics, and with sin /; and he needs a wo-
man that when he puts his arms around
her, he feels that he has something to
fight for; she will help him to fight !;
that will put her lips to his ear and
whisper words of counsel, and her hand
to his heart, and impart inspiration.
ALI through life, through storm and
through sunshine, conflict and victory,
through adverse and favoring winds,
man needs a woman's love. The heart
yearns for it. A sisters or a mothers
love will hardly supply the need.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27

The New England sovereigns of in
dustry are purchasing at least $40, 900
barrels If -four Fer month, directly
from mills owned by the grangers. The
average saving is about $3.50 per bar
rel, or $15, 200.