The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04
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One of the darkest moments in
boys life is when he suddenly reflects
that he has just swallowed Il dose OF
castor oil Internationally.
If, in instructing child, you are
vexed with it for want of adroitness,
try, if you have never tried before, to
write with you left hand, and then re-
member that child is all left hand.
Here's philosophy: "The particles
that day before yesterday, were grains
of wheat, and yesterday, were nerve
and muscle, to-day are sparkling
thought. Hence life; hence oysters
and all other folks"
1t is estimated that the child popula-
ton between the age of six and sixteen
in the United States and Territories is
about 10, 2SS, 900, and that about 300,-
host of future citizens.
Boys, if a man comes along with a
buggy and asks you to take ride, do
you peg it for home. He wants to
steal you, and prove to the world that
the average detective is no sharper than
the average man who is not detective.
Here's richness! A young man
named Rowe was arrested in Muncie,
Ind, Tuesday, charged with stealing
money from the eyes of a corpse, with
which he was sitting up. The amount
taken was seventy-fiva cents.
A Louisville girl was shot in the
foot a day or two ago, and the doctors
are now engaged in mining for the
ball. One of them has worked his
passage into the foot for so great dis
lance that they are obliged to let his
provisions down to him by a rope.
Many very good people are annoyed
by sleepiness in church. The follow
ing remedy is recommended: Lift
the foot seven inches from the. floor,
and hold it in suspense without sup
port for the limb, and repeat the rem
edy if the attack returns.
1t is estimated that the yield of
gold and silver from the mines of
Colorado Territory for the first six
months of the present year foot up in
gold 81 ,O52, 7O9, and silver S1,004,-
139. This is not supposed, to include
the products of the placer mines of
the territory for that period.
SUNSHINE what you can to
make sunshine in the world. How
many great men have testified that
their whole lives have been influenced
by some single remark made to them
in boyhood? And who cannot recall
words spoken to himself in his child
hood, to which, perhaps, the speaker
attached no importance, but which sank
deep and immovably into his memory,
and which had never lost their power
over him.
Make sunlight! the world at best is
dark enough. Do what you can to
make it more cheerful and happy.
THE SoLACE OF AGE
Howe'er DER youths unclouded sky
The mists of grief may fall,
And lift to heaven the pleading eye
And prayers impIoriDg call
Be sure that ripper age will brig
Occasions few nor brief,
When mercy's Overshadng wing
Must send thee sweet relief.
Be sure that when the hairtkfows gray,
And youth seems dim and FAR,
And that long rest beyond the way
CLEANS like a welcome star
Most shows its priceless worth
blessed guard against despair,
A link tween heaven and EARTH
When Mother Eve the tempting fruit
Plucked for her only kin,
She then and there did institute
A precedent for sin.
She knew the apple tasted sweet,
But thought not of its price,
And said to Adam, +" Let us eat;
It's naughty, but it's nice"
For several years past an Italian ge-
ologist has made study of the trem-
bIings or quakings of the earth, and
more especially those which are so ex-
tremely light as not to be perceptible
save by pendulums placed in the fields
Of microscopes. In one year he recog-
nized between 5000 and 5000 of these
and graphically represent
ing the same over many years by q
curve, he finds that the line CORE
spends neither with the thermometrlc
curve nor with the tidal phenomena,
nor can it be brought into any relation
with the distances or positions OF the
,un or moon. With the barometric
curve, however, it is otherwise, and it
appears that, in the large majority OF
he cases, the intensity of the move
nents augmented with the lowering of
he barometric column, as if-as the
Investigator states---the gaseous masses
Imprisoned in the superficial layers of
he earth escaped more easily when the
Weight of the atmosphere diminished,
which certainly is an interesting TACT
N. Y San.