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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21

Astounding in volcanic mountains some
12,0C0 feet high, many of them not
reaching the surface of the ocean, and
others which do SO forming the number
less islands Of the Pacific. The study
of the coral rocks proves that this sink
ing has continually been taking place
during several centuries, and observa-
ton of the coast will undoubtedly
reveal the fact that it has not yet
ceased.
The most eminent German biologists
and ethnologists now maintain that the
locality of mans's primitive origin, the
seat of the so-called Paradise, was in
the Pacific ocean south of Asia, whence
the race slowly diffused itself northward
toward Asia, westward to Africa, and
eastward to Australia. When the great
Pacific continent slowly sank, so that
the ocean commenced filling the valleys,
man retreated to the mountains, which,
by continued sinking, were transformed
into islands, and now form the many
groups of Polynesia. The insularity of
the thus preserved races was not pro-
ductive of civilization, which requires
conflict, in which the superiors in the
end gain the victory over the interiors.
In those islands, the inferior races were
preserved for want of this conflict,
hence their savage condition even at
the present day while primitively the
greatest advance took place at the spot
of lhe most intense conflict, the con-
tinent of Southern Scientific
17neTic1u
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21
WRECK OF THE FLORIDA.

Romantic Story Spoiied-A True History Of
the Affair.
Some weeks since an article from o
New Orleans paper was extensively
published throughout the country, to
tine effect that the crew of the schooner
Florida, which sailed for California
from New Orleans in 1849, and was
supposed to have been lost, with all on
board, had been discovered on an island
in the Southern Pacific by an English
vessel, which had been driven thIther
by continued storms. The crew stated
that the Florida had been wrecked on
this uninhabited island twenty six years
ago, and that in the interval they had
not seen a human face. They declined,
however, to leave the island, having
established themselves in comparative
comfort. The narrative was said to
have created great sensation among
the surviving relatives of the crew, and
an effort was stated to be on foot to fit
out q vessel which should visit the
island. A gentleman who was living in
Valparaiso, Chill, in 1849, states that the
Florida put into Port Famine, at that
time the Gillian penal settlement; that
the convicts boarded her, massacred all
OF the crew except young man named
Marcum, and made sail for the main
land. On her way she was recaptured
by CHILEAN war vessel and brought
into Valparaiso, where the gentleman
referred to got the above details from
Marcum's own lips. Marcum, whose
parents are still living in Versailles,
KY, proceeded to California, where he
soon after died of smallpox at Placer
vile, in that state. The British steamer
Thetis had first seen the Florida after
her capture by the convicts, and gave
the information to the Chilian author
tiles, which led them to send out the
vessel which brought her back into
port. A revolution was in progress in
Chill at the time, and the records of the
event may be lost, but the full details
we're on the log BOOB of the Thetis,
which may be examined in the office of
British admiralty.
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Changes in the Earth's Surface.

1t has been proved that the whole
Pacific coast, especially California, with
all its mountains, is psrpetually rising,
and that at comparatively rapid rate.
The land containing its bosom our great
American lakes is slowly sinking while
southern Indiana, kentucky, and the
surrounding states are rising. Geologi-
cal Investigations prove that our great
lakes, except Ontario, had formerly a
southern outlet until, by gradual
northern deprcssions and southern mp
hoavals, n northern outlet was formed
from Lake Eric into Ontario, about
forty Thousand years ago. This outlet,
the Niagara river, is still wearing away
its channel. The division line of
the watershed south of the lakes
and the Mississippi valley, has
since that time been steadily travelling
southwark and when Chicago recently
turned the waters of Lake Michigan,
through the Chicago river, into the
Mississippi valley, the old state of
affairs was artiticialIy re- established.
New Jersey is sinking. with New
York City and Long Island, at the es
timated rate of about 16 inches per
century. The coast of Texas is ascend
ing at a comparatively very rapid rate,
some observers stating that it is as
much as 80 or 40 feet in tho last half
century.
Combining these observations with
the results of TIE recent deep sound
ings of tho United States steamer Tus-
carora in the Pacific ocean, we fine that
the bed is evidently sunken continent,
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The Story of q Pearl.

Arsene Houssaye writes from Paris to
| the New York Tribune Here is a
pretty story which has been quietly told
| 80 long that think it time to tell it to
you aloud. A certain jeweler has a pink
| pearl which is the joy of all eyes, but
| never goes into the world. Why does it
dwell in perpetuity in the showcase of
| the jeweler? There is in Paris lady of
| shadowy fame who thinks herself a
| woman of the world because she is very
| pretty and has court of suitors. Her
means of existence are not known. She
came out one fine day from Poland,
| saying that her husband was a prisoner
in Siberia. She is still young, and bears
his absence gaily. When man is dead
in love with her she does not say like a
celebrated actress, eff you love me,
jump out OF the window" but she tells
you, "1f you love me so much, give me
the only thing want on earth. 1t is an
Incompatible pink pearl which have
seen at jewelers., for which I thirst
like CLEOPATRA. She takes her lover to
the jeweler. He is himself charmed with
this wonder. which seems to have fallen
from the breast of Venus after having
rested there little longer than the
other pearls. How could SO beautiful
woman be denied thing SO beautiful :?
Especially as the pink pearl costs only
ten thousand francs. No man dead in
love could refuse it, especially as the
leweler accepts check s.s readily as the
cash. So the pearl is bought. A few
days afterward the ardent aspirant is
astonished to miss it from the lady's
neck. "Ah," she says to him, 81 have
written to India to order one like it,
and then shall have two pendants wor-
thy of queen. Please keep nay secret
till haye then both"
And while she is thus talking to one.
she is saying in the strictest condolences
to another, "My friend, if you really
love me SO much, do me favor. There
is pink pearl at my eweler's worth at
least loo, 900 francs, which he would
give me for 10, 900, but my dresses have
cost SO mnch that I've nothing on hand
for jewels. Help me buy this. which is
Indispensable to my happiness. She
leads him to the shop like lamb to the
slaughter. SIS it not of the lovliest
Orient? Old Homel's Aurora never
sprinkled finer ones among the roses
which she scattered from her fingers"
Naturally the second does as the first,
captured by the poetry and tho mirage
OF the thing. 1t is always the same with
the third, the fourth, and the fifth.
"Above all, keep my secret till the
other comes from India" Giving a pearl
like this to a woman is not like giving
money. 1t is unlocking a star from
the sky it is cutting a rose from the
caliph's garden. This whole little COM
edy is SO well managed that each sim
pleton imagines his gift a privilege.
Who would not be happy to give de-
light to those beautiful blue eyes, full
of poetic dreams?
So that, in short. since she has been
in Paris. how often do you imagine that
the ieweler has sold his pink pearl !?
Twenty one times. Total, 100000 francs;
which the noble Polander from tho an
Gent Poland has levied on the love of
her nei ghbor.
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Old Maids.

A writer on maiden ladies says 1t
cannot have escaped remark that to
many minds in many cases it is censid-
cred sufficient to condemn cause to
say that it is promoted by ga lot of old
maids" Sometimes they are " strong-
minded females ;" at others "blues p
but if you want to cover them with
ineradicable ridicule, dub them a
bevy of old maids" or throw in the
male friends who assist them in the
promotion of their philanthropic OF
charitable objects, and facetiously term
the whole ga parcel of old women OF
both sexes" and your end is at once &C.
complished. Why this should be 80 we
were never able to understand. Age is
surely as honorable in a woman as in q
man. Celibacy can be no more worthy
censure in the one sex than in the other.
If it be, indeed the men are in the worst
predicament for it 80 happens that in
Great Britain there are half-million
more women than men, SO that the ladies
could not all get married if they would.
Nor are the professed misogynists at all
consistent in the bestowal of their ridi-
Guile. Let persevering band of spinsters
strive to break down the wall of preju-
dice which bars their entrance to the
SultaDl6 HuC uOuUIdDlc pIOlcbSlOu y
medicine, for the purpose of alleviating
the ailments of their own sex, and no
terms of obloquy are thought too dis
courteous to apply to them. Let Miss
Nightingale go out to Scutari to bind
up the wounds and attend to the sick
wants of soldiers brought fresh from the
battle field, and she is heroine. The
woman as nurse may be deifed, at
physician she cannot be tolerated. Let
women strive to enter our universities,
the so-called nurseries of bellies lettres
and the arts, and they "unsex them
selves" yet who think of "old maids I"
as they read the novels of Miss Austin
or admire the pictures of Rosa Bonheur?
Let them seek to obtain the right to vote
for widows and spinsters who have the
same qualification and fulfill the same
state duties as men. and politicians are
aghast. Yet Miss Harriet Martineau's
"Political Economy" has been in its
time a text book, and Miss Burdett-
Coutts was made peeress in her own
right for her efforts to ameliorate the
condition of the poorer classes of the
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21
Midsummer Fashions,

The novelty in belts is the gros grain
ribbon, more than two inches wide, and
worn about the waist, to fasten in front
on the left side in bow, with loops and
ends reaching nearly or quite to the
knee.
Undressed kid gloves retain their old
favor and are much used not only in
travelling, but for country and street
wear. Cotton gloves, for extreme warm
weather, come with kid finish backs and
two or three buttons.
For indoors, beautiful waists and
overskirts are made of lace and insert
ings (usually white), designed to he
worn over silk and velvet long skirts,
while if the wearer is possessed of fair
neck and arms, low bodice, without
sleeves, and edged with handsome lace,
is worn as an underwaist.
Hats Of English straw are much more
serviceable than those of chip, and
consequently accepted as most suitable
for travelling, and are unpretentiously
plaid or plain silk, with or without the
addition of a wing, constitutes the
garniture of many.
linen, lawn, and other translucent
textures, are fast being abandoned be-
cause of the impossibility of that crisp
freshness which constitutes their chief
attractiveness. Instead are worn over
underskirts of silk and velvet over
dresses of gay Madras plaids, soft India
fabrics, batistes and ecru lace.
Travelling dresses are almost invari-
ably made in three pieces, consisting of
a plain cuirass basque, a long, full
overskirt, simply draped and finished
on the edges, like the basque, with
piping, a crimped fringe or other
equally simple trimming, and an over
skirt sufficiently short to escape the
ground in walking, and sparsely orna-
mented. The favorite color is brown.
Broad-heeled shoes, having a ten
dency to square rather than round toes,
furnish the favorite walking boot, and o
half-low tie is also admissible. Colored
stockings are more in vogue than ever,
and come both plain and striped. The
former are the later of the two, and
show the new red, for which there is
such furore. After the silk hose, the
most expensive as we'll as the hand
soonest are of Lisle thread, and many
of them bear the old-fashioned clicked
instep and ankles.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21

The London Times, of Saturday, the
18th of July, says: "a private letter
received yesterday, in Sheffield, from one
of the crew of the iron ship Glance, of
London, which arrived in the Thames
from Adelaide, on Thursday gives in
telligence of terrible event which re-
Gently occurred at sea. On the 9th
ulsimo the Glance passed an outbound
vessel, bearing the name of Jesse o.
borne, and WAS hailed by the captain of
the latter ship, who reported that one
of his crew had gone mad that for five
days the maniac had stationed himself
aloft, and that nothing could induce
him to return to the deck. The cap
tain further reported that the mad
man had armed himself with n large
chise1, with which he was cutting the
ropes, and that the boatswain had tried
20 bring him down. The maniac, how
ever, threw block at tho boatswain,
knocking him On the deck and breaking
his arm and leg. AS matter of safety
to his vessel and crew the captain of
the Jesse o @boTne considered that il
was necessary to shoot the maniac,
and after some consult Ition that course
was decided upon. The crew and oili-
GERS of the Glance were requested to be
present as witnesses, and in their pres
nnce the man was shot with revolver
In consequences of the way in which he
moved about the rigging three shots
had been fired before he was fatally
injured. He fell dead on deck, and
his body was eventually thrown over
GARD"
A LONDON architect has submitted to
the municipal authorities of that city
plan for gigantic pyramidal metropolis,
which il 10 cover five acres ofgro und,
and yet be capable of holding, in it's
vaults, $4,000 corpses.
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The Cow Theory,

Speaking of the COW theory-that is,
| that man with five acres of land eau
maintain himself, his family and his
cow-a writer in the Farmers Magazine
for last month has the following
On Sir Baldwia Leighton's estate in
Shropshire, England, pauperism is al
most exterminated by means of the COW,
it being the rule rather than the excep-
ton for laborer to have sums varying
from 600 to ESQ put in the savings bank
ont of the proceeds of the sale of butter.
l have seen the books with the sums
entered to their credit. Most cottages
have two or three small fields attached
to the holding, mostly laid down in
grass. The COW, however, is only
second string to the laborer's bow, and
does not in any way interfere with his
giving efficient service to the farmer, as
the COW can be looked after by the wife,
who makes the butter and sends it to
market by the carrier.
We have frequently called attention
to the great boon good COW is to the
poor man, and the large profits of a good
dairy. This is especially the case where
only few COWS are kept, and are we'll
cared for.
A friend of ours, with three grade
short-horn COWS, has realized no less
than ninety dollars from the product of
each COW in a single season, besides the
milk and butter used in the family. But
these favorable results depend upon two
conditions, one or both of which we
frequently see overlooked or disre-
garded, to wit First, That we have q
good COW, good in forn-that profita-
bile disposition may be made of the
carcass for beef, when the COW is no
longer wanted for the dairy, and lib
eral and steady mixer. 1t is incompre-
hensible to US that poor. COW should
ever be used, when good ones can be
obtained at SO small an advance upon
the common price. This is especially
true where feed is high, and the animals
kept with view of supplying milk and
butter for the family or market. In
deed, inferior COWS should not be kept
for any purpose, but should be slaught-
cred for beef as soon as their inferiority
is discovered. To keep an i'll formed
COW, or a poor mixer, for breeder, is
even worse economy than for the dairy,
as in this way we perpetuate and multi
ply improbable stock.
The second condition for success with
the dairy COW is that she have plenty to
eat and the best and kindest treatment.
All farmers understand the importance
of crowdirg hogs designed for slaughter
that it takes half as much to make an
animal "hold it's own" as to keep up
the highest degree of gain, and that,
therefore, if we only half feed, what is
consumed is dead loss; 80 it is when
we merely keep alive young cattle or
other stock. But in no instance does
full pasture, or a proper supply of
other food in winter, or when pasture
is short, pay better than, in the manage
ment of the dairy COW. the more plenti-
full the food the greater will be, not
only the yield, but the absolute profit.
r. C. j., in National Live Stock
journal,
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ours, be healed at once. Never speak
of it outside, but to each other confess,
and all will come out right. Never let
the morrow's sun still find you at vari-
ance. Renew or review the VOW at all
temptations-it will do you both good.
And thereby your souls will grow to
gether, cemented in that love which is
stronger than death, and you will be.
come truly one.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21

THE man who swears turns speech
into q curse, and before his time re-
hearses the dialect of hell. He waits for
no bait /; but i" bites at the devils bare
hook" The shrevd Quaker's advice to
the prcfane youth, "Swear away, my
young friend, till thee gets all that bad
stuff out of thee," points to the real
source of the vice ; for it is out of an
evil heart that proceeds evil thoughts.
false witness, andIblasphemies. We fear
that the purest tongue will need puri-
flying before it is fit to join in the celes-
tial praise of Gods upper temple. For
that worship let us attune our voices by
ceaseless prayers, by words of love, by
earnest vindications of the right, by
habitual "speech seasoned with salt "
of divine grace. The melody of heaven
will spring from a harmony of hearts
each voice there will bear part in the
song of Moses and the Lamb.-Rev.
IHeO. L. Cuyler.
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rapidly that the eye does not separate
them, and the result is an intense beam
of light, 80 dazzling that the eye of a
person within the lantern cannot rest
upon them for an instant without in
tense pain. As observed from distance
of several miles. this light is SO bright
as to cast well-detined shadow upon
the deck of a vessel.
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AT THE DOOH.

The mistakes Of my life are many,
The sins of my life are more;
And I scarce can see for weeping;
But knock at the open door.
I am lowest OF those who love Him,
1 am weakest of those who pray
But come as he has hidden,
And He will not say to me, Nay.
My mistakes His love will cover,
My sins He will wash away,
And the feet that shrink and falter,
Shall walk through the gate of day.
If 1 turn not from His whisper,
If let not go his hand,
/ shall see Him in His beauty,
The King in the far-off land.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21

OFFICERS and soldiers who served in
the army, physicians, surgeons, and eminent
men and women everywhere, join in recon-
mending Johnsons Anodyne LinimeM to be
the best internal and external family medi-
cine ever invented. That's our experience.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21

ALL the year round, Sheridan's CdU-
al,y Condition POWDERS should be given to
horses that are kept up" To horses and
cattle that Craze in summer they should only
be given in winter and spring.
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A PICTURE.

IA flood of sunlight through rift
Between two mounds of yellow sand;
Three sea-gulIs on q bit CT drift >,
Slow surgfng inward toward the land;
San old, dumb beacon, all awry,
With dIaobled sea-weed round lis feet
star-!ike sail against the sky,
Where sapphire heaven and ocean nee
HI.
This, with the waters ssiTling DER
shifting stretch of sand and shell,
VIII make, for him who loves the shore,
A picture that may please hi.fi WELL
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21

DIR. TUFTS Improved Hair Dye is in
general use throughout the whole country. 1t is
superseding all other hair dyes.
Asthnn a n nd Catarrh-See d. Langelrs sdvt
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The Suffice -Another case of suffice
lately occurred in n small village in
Lucknow, India. The following are the
details of the case : Having bathed and
dressed, the suffice went to the burning
place, accompanied by her relatives and
a number of low caste H:ndoos, who
were in charge of the dead body. Wood
being scarce, the funeral pile was III
part constructed of other fuel, which
was heaped around the woman as she
sat with the head of her deceased hus-
band in her lap. The pile was then
covered with straw, her nephew handed
the sutteo lighted torch, and i'll mo-
ment the whole mass was on fire. The
Chowkeydar and the policeman, when
they arrived, found only a heap of ashes.
About thirty persons, including the vii
lago hoadmnn and the woman's relatives,
bave been committed To the sessions on
the charge of having been dir, city or
indirectly guilty of murder.
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For fit of passions-Walk ont in
the open air /; You may speak your mind
to the winds without hurting anyone,
or proclaiming yourself simpleton.
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CHARLES GREvILLE wrote There was
nothing discussed of which was alto
gether ignorant, but felt as if a Ian
guage was spoken before me which l
understood, but not enough to talk in it
myself. L have not the familiarity with
the poets or the historians which en-
ables me to dis cuss their merits, and a
painful sense came over me of the diff
ference between one who has super
ficially read, and one who has studied :;
one who has laid a solid foundation in
early youth, and one who las / have
done) has buddled together a quantity
of loose reading, as variety, curiosity,
and not seldom shame, impelled. One
must pay for the follies of ones youth.
Reflection of this sort makes me very
uncomfortable, and am ready to cry
with vexation when think of my mis-
spent life.
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ADVICE FOR THE MARRIED.
sacredly the privacies of your house,
your marriage state. and your heart.
Let not father, mother, brother, sister
nor any third person, even presume to
come in between you two, or to share
the joys and sorrows that belong to you
two alone. With Heavens help build
your own quiet world, not allowing the
drarast earthly friend to be the cont
dant of aught that concerns your do
nestle peace. Let alienation, if it oc-