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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01
Forestry.

One-third of the land surface of our
globe is covered with forests. The
largest tree in the world is situated
near Muscoli, at the foot of Mt. Mtna.
and is called "The Chestnut Tree of
Hundred Horses" believed to be the
Oldest tree in the world. Its name
arose from report that Queen Jane of
Aragon, with her principal nobility.
took refuge from q violent storm under
its branches. At one time it was sup
posed that it consisted of clump of
several trees united. But on digging
away the earth the root was found en-
tire, and at DO great depth. Five enor-
nous branches rise from the trunk
204 feet in circumference, the intervals
between which are of various extent, one
of them being sufficient to allow two
carriages to drive abreast. A fig tree
stands on the northerly bank of the
river tombstone, in east Australia, lat
itude 81 deg, longitude Isl deg, near
Brisbane, measuring three feet from
the ground $50 feet, and at IS feet,
whore it sends off great branches, 20
derch, near Constantinople, is plane
tree measuring 149 feet in circumfer-
ence. The "Giant Redwood Tree" in
Nevada, latitude SO deg, longitude 129
deg, is 11S feet in circumference.
There are thirteen other trees standing
near it, measuring from u to 4s feet
in circumference. In Oaxaca is
cypress tree measuring lit feet in cir.
conference. The "Grizzly Giant"
the monarch of the Mariposa Grove,
measures % feet in circumference.
The Tulare Fresno Forest, SO called
from its being situated in those two
COMMITTEES California;, extending 70
miles in length, with a width in some
places of 10 miles, consists mainly of
big trees with multitude of smaller
ones, measuring from 6 to 100 feet in
circumference. In 1852 John Dowd
discovered in Calaveras county, Cali
fornia, grove of 103 trees, covering
space of fifty acres, measuring from 70
to SO feet in circumference. There is
an elm tree in the south of England
which measures 81 feet in circumfer-
ence. In Norfolkshire there is famous
lime tree measuring 48 feet in circum-
ference. On the Hubbard farm, in
North Andover, stands a magnificent
elm tree, measuring 81 feet in circum-
ference. A barberry bush has taken
root in . notch thirty feet from the
ground, which can be recollected by
some of the oldest Inhabitants during
their boyhood. At Hinghsm, near the
Old Colony House, is an elm tree
measuring Is feet in circumference.
The Washington elm, in Cambridge,
measures 25 feet, and the big elm on
Boston Common measures "A feet in
circumference.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

To MEASURE Corn IN THE cara
farmer asks how to measure corn in the
ear, or in the crib or bin. There are
several rules for tnis, but the most COM
mon is what is called the % inch rule
that is, upon the presumption that a
box foot square and 20 inches deep
will hold one bushel when shelled.
This rule applies only to the dent or
gourdseed variety of corn. The cubical
contents in feet are first ascertained,
and this multiplied by three and divid-
ed by seven, which will give the BUSH
els of shelled corn of fifty-six pounds.
Thus q crib that is thirty-twe feet long,
eight feet wide and thirteen feet high
in the average, will hold ], 1875 bushels,
and two of them 1850 bushels. A
common wagon box, eleven feet long
and two feet high, would hold % BUSH
els corn in the ear. Another rule for
the farmers boy is to reduce the con-
tents to cubic inches and divide by
1852, which will give him the bushels.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

ORIGIN OF THE WORD " PROTESTANT. -
"A contemporary says that with the
month of April is associated the de-
rivation and dissemination in a formal
and official manner of the designation
of Protestant. The Emperor Charles
the Fifth called diet at Spires in
1929, to request aid from the German
princes against the Turks, and to ad-
wise means for allaying the disputes
growing out of Luther's rebellion
against Catholicism. The diet con-
demned the reformers, and issued q
decree in support of the doctrines of
the ancient church. Against this de-
cree six Lutheran princes and the dep
uties of thirteen towns of the empire
formally protested on April II, 1880.
From this act the designation of Protest
ant, which was then given to the follow
ers of Luther. is derived. The Calvin
lists were subsequently included, and
the title became general for all the scots
outside the original Christian church.
The six protesting princes were John
and George, the electors of Saxony
and Brandenburg Earnest and Francis,
the two Dukes of Lunenburg; the
Landgrave of Hesse, and the Prince of
Anhalt.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

THE CLEVER BoNAPARTIsrs.-AP Paris
correspondent writes: The Bonapart-
lists cleverly selected the 18th OF Au-
gust, fete for French Catholics. as the
fete of the Napoleons. The churches
are then filed, and all France has the
air of praying for the imperial family.
In the evening there are fireworks IN
honor of persons bearing the name OF
Marie, and the Bonapartists, OF course
set down all this expenditure OF gun
powder to the account OF the Napo-
ieonio DYNASTY, The violet being also
anpropriated as their emblem, they
have confiscated to their profit one of
the most popular .fetes in France and
one of the most favorite flowers. There
seems determination, however, not TO
tolerate this monopoly, and for some
days ladies of all parties have been
wearing violsts."
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

THE WORM OF THE STILL AND IT'S
MYSTERIOUS MEANDERNGs. The best
joke on the distillers occurred when a
party belonging to the United States
coast survey struck Murray county.
The party, as usual, chose steep hill,
and then erected their field glasses and
Instruments for surveying the adjoin
ing country. The distillers took it
into their heads that these instruments
were designed for the express purpose
of spying out hidden still-houses, and
for fifty miles around that hill they
took up their stills, hitched up their
teams and made tracks. Some of them
didn't stop until they had put q whole
county between themselves and those
machines. For a man in store clothes
to attempt to buy, beg, borrow or steal
a drink of whisky in that country is
about as easy as to obtain water in the
great African desert. 1t is impossible
to find a man who has seen any within
the last five years. Let them be salts
fed that he is call right and he will
have more offered to him than he can
drink in a year. As long as a commu-
nifty is at peace, very few distillers are
caught. When a quarrel arises, OF
some distiller kicks some fellow out OF
his still house for setting too drunk,
that's the time for the government.
The party who cons ders himself az
grieved turns informer, and the distil
Ter is arrested.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

pensive French bonnet, and she in
quired the price; she was told it was
sold. ooh, had no idea of buying
such an expensive bonnet" said the
lady, upon which the milliner said, eft
is joint stock bonnet-that is, it be-
longs to three factory girls, whs wear
it bv tnsna nm Sunday.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

and that whenever they say yea or nay,
they in honor mean it. Teach them
that conjugal happiness is not depend
emit on external decorum, nor on the
money of the husband, but simply and
alone on his character. These things
having been instilled, and they having
understood them, then, if the time has
arrived, have them marry without mis-
givings; they will find their way along
unaided
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

MARY AND ABBY.-When Parson
Smiths daughter, Mary, was to marry
young Mr.. Cranch, the father permitted
the sanity maiden to decide on her text
for the sermon, and she meekly selected,
"Mary has chosen the better part,
which shall not be taken away from
her," and the discourse was duly pro-
nounced. But when her wild young
sister Abby, was bent on marrying a
certain Squire Adams, called John,
whom her father disliked, and would
not even invite to dinner, she boldly
neither eating bread nor drinking wine,
and ye say he hath devil" But, says
Colonel Higginson, no sermon stands
recorded under this prefix, though Abby
lived to be the wife of one president of
the United States and mother of an
other.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, MAY l, 1875

part of Greenland. The melting of the
ice on the surface of glaciers gives rise
to considerable rivers, and as these find
some crevasse in the ice, they descend
with violence, and it is conceivable that
that such stream striking the bed
rock below might be the means, with
the masses of rock they would put in
motion, of producing the enormous cav
tiles which are now observed. This
theory, as carried out by its supporters,
meets with some difficulties, but seems
to be the best which has been proposed.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

INSURANCE business seems to be a
favorite refugefor the confederate lead
els. A southern correspondent of the
Syracuse Courier writes "Jeff. Davis
is, believe, president of an insurance
company; Wade Hampton is in the in
surance business at Baltimore ; Beaure-
gard is engaged in insurance and street
railroads, I understand. at New Orleans,
and Gen. Joseph f. Johnston. who sur
rendered to Sherman, is president or
manager of a company at Savannah. l
found a son of Gen. Dick Taylor, and
grandson of old President Zach Taylor,
conductor of a Pullman car running
| from Jacksonville to Louisville,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01
The New England Sabbath.

In 1916 they made a law in Massachu-
setts, that if any one CONTEMPORARY
behaved toward ye word preached, or
ye messengers thereof. For ye first
scandale, to be convented and reproved
openly by ye magistrate at soJne leo
ture, and bound to good behavior and
if q second time they break forth into
ye like contemplate carriage, either to
pay So into ye public treasury, or to
stand two hours openly upon a block
paper affixed on their heart, with this,
A WANToN GosPEILER, written in CAPT
tai letters ye others may fear and be
ashamed of breaking out into ye like
wickedness."
In 1877 the general court ordered
that "a cage be set up in the market
place of Boston, and in such other town
as the county courts shall appoint,
wherein shall be put, to remain till ex-
amined and punished, any one breaking
the Sabbath" Officers called tything-
men enforced the observance of the
Sabbath. The law provided that, as q
badge of Office, they should have Q
"black staff of two foote long, tlpt at
one end with brass, about three inches. y
This staff soon came to have a feather
stuck into one end, with which to tickle
the noses of drowsy sinners, while the
end tipped with brass enforced order on
the pates of unruly boys. In this man
ner was the congregation kept attentive
during the sermon, which generally
lasted about an hour and half, meas
ured by an hour glass standing on the
pulpit.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

A WOMAN in Switzerland was recently
married to a man in America by proxy.
This looks as if it might prove to be
the first step toward a system Of happy
marriages. The proxy experiment
should have a full and fair trial.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

A MEMBER of the North Carolina leg
islature, IN discussing bill, asked /:
Mr.. Speaker. are we men or jack
asses?" Several North Carolina pa
pers are unable to take sides.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01
England and India.

A London correspondent of the Ne,
York Tribune informs us that the primo
of Wales is preparing for a trip to In
dis, and that conjecture is busy to &C
count for the movement. The prim,
minister, who is of eastern descent, anG
who is so fertile of suggestion, is Q, ed
tied as being the originator of the plan
but, whoever may be it's author, there
is Significance in it. No sovereign OF
England has ever yet visited this vast
dominion, and it is quite well under
stood that it is no spirit of restlessness
or adventure nor a love of travel and
change that impels the future king to
turn his face and his feet eastward.
The purpose unquestionably springs
from knowledge of Russian aggres-
sion into central Asia so wildly and
successfully exposed by Mr.. Eugene
Schuyler in his recent report forwarded
to Secretary Fish, the publication of
which by our government has excited
SO much interest in diplomatic circles.
ton of the depth of this interest, and
the idea is to bring him into personal
relations with the vast multitude of
his future subjects in India, and espe-
cially with the great princes, whose de-
scent is more ancient than his own, and
whose hold upon the people is still
strong. He naturally wishes to stimu-
late and strengthen their loyalty to the
British government, as well as to take
a personal view of the eastern situation,
whose somewhat startling complications
have been disclosed by Mr.. Schuyler.
The colonial system of England has
for a long time provoked much discus
sion among her statesmen, many of
whom have taken the broad ground that
would be greater without her
than with them. So great a
mind as Sydney Smiths adopted this
view, and, when it was proposed in the
British parliament to appropriate a
large sum for the development of India,
he asked in one of his strongest essays
il it was good policy for England to
build up prosperous and powerful |
empire to be wrested from her by future |
and Franklins.
Pending our struggle for independ-
once, the ministers of George III.
stoutly maintained that the independ- |
ence of the American colonies would be |
decisive of the fate of England-that |
The sun of Britain's glory would then |
set and forever. "Would you ask a
mighty giant" said the ministry, "to
shrink voluntarily into a feeble and |
puny DWARF" But our independence |
was achieved, and instead of diminish
ing the power and commerce of England |
both were augmented. Instead of leav-
ing the mother country dwarf, it left
her as strong man, from whose shout
1ers q burden had been taken, being |
more active and vigorous than before.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01
TO A WEIR Y OLD WOMAN,

And thou vert once . maiden fair.
bluehing vfegin, warm and young,
With.myrtles wresthed in golden hair
And Rlossy brow that knew no care
Upon . brideGroom's arm you burg.
The golden locks are silvered now.
The blushing cheek In pale aud wan.
The Spring may bloom, the Autumn glow.
AIS one-in chimrey-corner thou
eittrt shiverine On.
A moment-and thou sipkst to restr
To vake. perhaps, an angel bleet.
In the bright presence Of thy Lord.
o weary II hfes path to ALL
Hard In the strife, and light the fall,
But wondrous the reward
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

EDGAR PoE said Ito vilify a great
man is the readiest way in which q
little man can himEelf attain greatness.
The crab might never have become a
constellation but for the courage il
evinced in nibbling Hercules on the
heel"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

Nj. D. CONWAY tells of lady in one
Of the manufacturing towns of Great
attracted to the window of a millin or .
shop by a beautiful and very ex-
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01
Nude Statuary.

The modern sculptor has q hard time
of it with his portrait statues, it must
be confessed. What is he to do? Shall
he dress a gentleman as he finds him !;
go back to the toga or further back
still to the altogether natural man
Or shall he compromise with q cloak or
water-proof-as in the case of the
savior of his country, expiating his
virtues in Union Squaref They have
the same trouble in England as here ::
vide VIM. B. Scott. For centuries,
he says, the portrait statues of the
kings appeared in the Roman cuirass
with bare arms and knees, and their
statesman in the chlamys and toga.
"One last step only was wanting to
adopt the ideal antique and abandon
near accomplished toward the close Of
last century. Canova's statue of Ma
poleon, now in Apsley House, is abso-
lutely naked and the statue of Samuel
johnson, in st. Paul's, is almost un-
draped, a single loose covering being
thrown 40 as to be only useful for the
sculptor's supposed artistic purposes
a ludicrous spectacle in simply
rational point of view; the stout old
gentleman, as he leans his head ON his
hand in his nakedness. seeming to be
saying to himself What sad case
things have come to with me at last,
standing before the public in n state OF
nature"
1t is a matter OF tradition that the
statue of Washington, by GreenOugh,
in the grounds of the capitol Mt Wash.
ington, is saying as plain as gesture
and countensnce can say: My sword
is by my side, and my clothes are in
| the paten Office toward which he
points with majestic modesty.-Scrib
| ner for March.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01

A SIGNIFICANT fact is the statement
that firm in Wales rendered to supply
an English railway with 10000 tons Of
rails at a price which would not have
given them any profit, and yet the con-
tract wag gained by a firm in Belgium
at 20 shillings per ton less than the
Welsh offer.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-18
Hotel Personals.

-Demonico:-W. II. Pankey, Harris
burg, Illinois; John Smith, Cincinnati;
A. Mckenzie, Philadelphia; j. S. Powers,
Cape Girardcau; VIM. Lancaster, Jack
son, Tenn.
st. Charles ;-R. $. Crash, st. Louis;
i. b. Reed, Joliet; Thorn. Duncan, New
Orleans; d. A. Reid, Memphis; VIM.
Bagnell. st. Louis; S. +. Jones, Adams
Express Company; ID. Levy, New York;
X. G. Apologize and wife, Sikeston, No.;
Maurice levy, Cincinnati; I. Farnbakcr
and wife, New York; w. p. Sullen,
Smithland, Ky.
Grand Central Green +. Garner,
villa Ridge |; F. S.iCarter, Mound City
J. b. RucLer, Memphis VIM. Purkins,
Vienna; NJ. W. Wilhelms, Vienna Frank
Smith, Memphis !; j. II. johnson. Arkan'
sas II. +. Potter, Mound City; W. @
Henderson. Evanstown, Ill. j. Q. A
Thompson. Evansville ~. 4. Richardson
Posse county, Indiana.
Planters u. Mailer, Washinton; l.
Keane, Washington; Il. Harrison, Mem
phis; James II. Brownlee, Carbondale
samuel Chapman, Carbondale; WIN. )
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-18

Col. s. Is. Reed, a prominent rail-
road man Of Joliet, and who is connect
ed with the Mississippi Central railroad
company, was registered at the st.
Charles yesterday.
Victor Trusell, Henry Hunsaker,
Riley Lane and number Of other prom.
inent men of the county, are in the
city, attending the present session Of tho
County Court. They all speak more OF
less discouragingly Of the condition Of
their crops, but they are hopeful Of real
izing more than was anticipated after the
late rains and flood, should the weather
be favorable.
William Bagnell, brother Of Mr.. +.
IL. Bagnell, Of whom We spoke yester-
day as being engaged in a forty thousand
dollar law suit with the New Orleans, st.
Louis 4 Chicago railroad company, is in
the city. William Bagnell has brought
suit against the Mississippi Central rail.
road company for forty thousand dollars
for material furnished the road during
its construction, and is here in the inter.
est of the suit.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-18
A Big Excursion.

BY reference to advertisement else.
where, it will be seen that an excursion
will 60 over the G. & V. road to Tunnel
Hill, on Sunday, that promises to be
the biggest affair Of the kind that has
taken place this season. The various COM
mittees for the perfecting ofevery arrange
ment are composed Of gentlemen who are
thoroughly versed in planning affairs
of the kind, and we feel assured that In
this instance no effort will be spared on
their part to make this excursion one OF
real enjoyment and pleasure to all who
participate. The fare for the round trip
is astonishingly low, and will no doubt
be taken advantage Of by large number
of people along the line of the road ia
pay visit to Tunnel Hill, and many
other places of interest In that section Of
our State.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-18
Return ola Fortune Hunter.

Mr.. Pete Smullens, whose home is on
the Cumberland river eight miles from
the mouth, took passage on the James
Fisk yesterday, having just returned
from an eighteen months tramp in Cali
fornia. MIR. Smullens went out with a
party Of forty fortune hunters, every one
of whom would be back to-day, he says,
If they had the means. They are all
working by the day on low wages at
at what ever employment they can gel
and are scarcely making living. Nearly
all had money when they went, but have
lost it all, and many are in very poor
circumstances.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-18
Honor 20 che Veterans.

Honor also to the inventors whose
genius have emancipated the race OF wo-
men from the drudgery OF the needle.
Honor above all to firm which like the
Wilson Sewing Machine Company, dis
tributes its machines broadcast through.
out tho land at prices that even the poor
and humble can afford to pay. A tirst-
class machine for fifty dollars! This Is
the proclamation of tho Wilson Sewing
Machine Company to the people. Ma.
chimes will be delivered ut any railroad
station In this county, free OF transporta.
ton charges, II ordered through the
Branch House at $40 North Fourth street.
st. Louis, Mo.
They send an elegant catalogue and
chrome circular, free on application.
This Company want few more good
agents.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-18
A CHEAP Pleasure Trim.

An excursion train on the New Or
leans, st. Louis & Chicago railroad, and
one on the Paducah & Memphis railroad,
will run through to Jackson, Tennessee,
tomorrow, conveying passengers who
may wish day sexcursion and who may
wisl, to attend the celebration and picnic
Of the J. r. X. or Mystic Krew, of that
city, at exceeding low rates. The fare
from Cairo 10 Jackson will be two dol
lars and twenty-five cents for the round
trip. The distance from this city to
Jackson is one hundred and seven miles,
and as Jackson is one of the most beauti-
fnl and flourishing towns In the South.
persons Who have never visited the city
should not let this chance go by without
making the best oft. The celebration will
take place tomorrow, the 10Th instant.
The trip to Jackson and return will be
made In one day.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-18

Little Katie Hyland, daughter Of Mr..
John Hyland, was yesterday morning
bitten in the hand by savage dog. Tie
wound is quite painful one, although
not serious. Upon hearing Of the fact,
Mayor Winter and Health Officer Brown
got OIL the trail and succeeded in capt,,r.
ing the dog, and having tied around his
neck rope, to which was attached a good
sized stone. dumped him in the Ohio
river, thus reducing our dog population
one, although he will not be missed very
much, as we still have enough left to an.
sWer all purpOses.