The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-02
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USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

SHE was pretty, and as they nestled
together ON the beach the zephyr COM
ing from DER the water chilled her for q
moment, and she sneezed "cachee.
Augustus caught the false teeth in his
lap, and now the heartless wretch says
his affections are all centered at home.
THE other day at Vicksburg small
colored boy fell into the river and was
rescued in a haIf-drowned condition. He
could have eaisly been pulled out by
negro floating by i'll a skiff, and when
some one swore at the darkey for his
lethargy, he replied; "Dis yere is my
last paper collar, and the boy was kick
ing the water like an alligator"
| THERE is a Maine man who has pre-
served document emanating from
Justice of the peace, to this effect:
Hancock, IS. Novr 18th 1909. Then
personally appeared Ibrook Eddy of Ed
dington, and acknowledged myself guilty
of having uttered two profane oaths on
this day, and has paid fine for the
same as the law directs to me-"
THE reason why halfripened grass goes
! farther in feeding stock than hay cut
| dreen and properly cured, Is that cattle
go not like the woody fiber of the first,
and eat no more than hunger forces them
to; but they come out "spring pool"
Hay cut while green and juicy is cheap
est. because cattle fed on it come out bet
ter in the spring.
IT is the London Telegraph which
puts forth this SANDER upon American
babies: "The transatlantic infant has a
peculiar mode of crying in a series OF
sharp, spasmodic yelps, very different
from the sostenuto howl of the British
bantling, and with intonation as though
it were prematurely striving to reclte
the Declaration of Independence with
its mouth full of peanuts and popcorn:
THERE is megatherium in the Detroit
Museum. Its stomach must have been
about the size of beer-vat, and cor
respondent of the Graphic dosen't under
stand how it could possibly have salts
fed itself with ants. Unscientitic minds
are always criticizing everything that
they do not comprehend. Undoubtedly
the megatherium used to spell his ants
with Gu" and found it very easy to
live on them.
A MAN of kindly nature is apt to pro-
vide for the comfortable old age OF a
horse that has long carried him, and
would be grieved to sell such an animal
to a poor master for mean work and mis-
cradle treatment. Poverty may force
consent but certain gratitude Is felt
for old and faithful service; still more
where there is personal affection, as IN
dog. But when there is no personal re-
lation it would seem that our rights over
animal life are increased by certain do
mesticity. If by defending sheep we
cause their numbers to increase, our
right to take the lives which would not
have existed without your cares appears
greater than in the case of wild ANIMALS
wholly independent of.
FRANCE LEARNING TO SHooT-Ihe
international rifle matches of England,
America, Switzerland and Belgium have
at last reused France to perception OF
the importance Ofreviving and extending
among Frenchmen the knowledge and use
of arms. The French Societe du 1tr, or
shooting club, which meets in the house
of the Club des Officers, in the Rue de
Bellechasse, at Paris, is now organizing
shooting-matches for France on the prln-
ciple of those which have long been so
popular in Switzerland and in Belgium.
One great source of the ineficiency ofthe
vast but hasty levies made by France
after Sedan in the late terrible war was
the absolute ignorance of the use of fire
arms which prevailed to an incredible ex-
tent among the new recruits, both from
the cities and from the rural districts.
A FAMOUS ARMoRER.-Andre de Far
rara was the most famous armorer OF
modern times. He first came into note
in the Highlands of Scotland. 1t is said
he was the only person who could forge
armor that would resist the Sheffield ar
row heads, or make swords that would
vie with the best weapons of Toledo and
Milan. He is supposed to have learned
his art in the italian city whence he was
called. to have practiced it in secrecy
among the Highland hills, as his genuine
blades were all marked with crown.
Before his time no man in Great Britain
could temper sword in such way that
the point should touch the hilt and spring
back uniniured. He is said to have
worked in dark cellar, the better to en-
able him to perceive the effect of the heat
mon the metal, and to watch the nicely
Of the tempering, as well as possibly to
serve as a screen to his secret method OF
working. Many of his blades, with new
basket hits, are to be found in the Scot
fish regiments of the present day.
THE SMUGGLERS OF UPPER-TENDOM.-
Last week the new and stringent regula-
tions adopted by the Treasury Depart
ment for the examination of the baggage
If Messengers arriving at Atlantic ports
went into effect. Every article in every
,runk and box is taken out and over
iauled. Miss Flora McFHmsey, and all
he other McFlimseys, are required to
make oath as to the foreign market value
# each article. The custom-house Off
ers then attach the amount OF duty to
he items in the list. The examination
5 very strict, and the disgust of both
aides and gentlemen, especially the for
ner, at the vulgar exhibition and aP-
,raisement of their fnery, is said to be
omething ludicrous. Sometimes passen-
ers are compelled to pay from 5000 to
everal thousand dollars duty. Ofcourse,
his is all according to law, but great
government which resorts to eXpedients
f this kind cannot be complimented on
is fiscal simplicity. But it is chiefly to
he class of persons who now feel the ter
or of the screw, that the existence ofthe
resent odious tariff is due, and if they
ow complain they will receive little