The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-20
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the plot ola French novel. A number
of years ago the wife of a wealthy and
distinguished man in fit of insanity
threw her two little sons ont of bay
window of her beautiful home. One
died and the other recovered from his
injuries. The mother was placed in a
lunatie asylum. The father in the
5 meantime by his wealth and political
influence procured an act of the legisla-
ture by which he became divorced from
his unfortunate wife. Now the son
whom the mother had thrown out of the
window became affianced to n lovely
girl, but she Tilted him and married
his father, who gave her the most of
his vast estate. Finally the father
died. The first wife recovered and
sued the second wife for the property.
In her attempt she was assisted by her
son, whose early love for his step
mother was turned to gall by her I'M
faithfulness and transferred to the
mother who attempted to deprive him
of life.
The fine collection of arms at Turin
possesses, among other Oriental objects
which belonged to Sandman Embas-
sador at Constantinople, sword-blade
which has given rise to many learned dis
sertations as to its origin. This sword Is
reported to have belonged to the UNI
fortunate Constantine, last Emperor of
the Paleologi, and it was said to have
been deposited in the mausoleum of his
Turkish conqueror, and to have been
sold by his faithless guardian. But
this current version has been completely
disproved by the Cavaliere Veludo,
Project of the Library of st. Mark,
whose conclusion is that the sword be-
longed to Christian Prince, vassal of Z
the Turkish Empire, Constantine H.,
Brancovan, elected WOiwode of Wal
lachia in 1888. The great riches of
this Prince were dispersed after his
death, and his sword, plundered of its
Jewels and even of its hilt, was lost in
the Capital of the Bosphorus, and thus
fell into European hands.
An automatic scare-crow has been in
vented by an Englishman, and some
Mississippians are discussing the advisa-
bility of purchasing one for erection In
Governor Ames' front yard. 1t fires
guns at regular intervals by means of
clock-work. 1t is so constructed that
it can be charged and put to work the
evening of one day to commence firing
at any hour of the next, and will con
tinue firing at intervals all day, without
requiring further attention, or it can
be set firing Immediately. This ma
chine, it is thought, will have as soothing
an effect upon Mr. -Ames' perturbed-
spirit as battalion of Federal troops.
The line of conduct chosen by boy
during the five years from fifteen to
twenty will, in almost every instance,
determine his character for life. AS
he is then careful or careless, prudent,
or imprudent, industrious or indolent,
truthful or discriminating, intelligent or
ignorant, temperate or dissolute, SO Will
he be i'm after years, and it needs no
prophet to cast his horoscope or calcu-
late his chances.
A countryman visiting theatre, on
looking carefully at his play-bill after
the conclusion of the first act, read that
three months elapsed before the COM
mencement of the second. He at once
went to the money-taker and said:
'.Beg pardon sir, but l must ask
YOU to return my money. I'm Obliged
to get back home tomorrow, so you see
can't manage to stop for your second
act"
One million bushels of peanuts were
eaten in the Uuited States last year
cracked in the opera house and lee
ture room, in the railway trains and
the street, and especially on circus
days. No mention is made OF the
number of million bushels which an
innocent public buy as substitute for
ground coffee.
Funerals in England have become
so outrageously expensive that he
formed Funeral Company has been
formed, which intends to conduct
burials at lower cost and with less
mummery. The undertaken and his
assistants will wear plain clothes, and
the range of prices is from Sl3 to
1910.
Temperance, cleanliness and indus
try! This is the hygiene OF the Bl-
BILE. A "pathy" as old as the race. A
medication applicable to all chimes and
all constitutions; always safe, always
efficient, and to which human sagacity,
in the space of six thousand years, has
not added one radically new idea.
1t was good thing for her that she
opened her eve. She was in a coffin,
ready for burial, in Bradford, Mass,
having been for two days in state
resembling death. A relative was as
tonished to see the supposed corpse
open an eve, and then she was revived s.
and is likely to recover.
Indian corn in north Germany often
assumes a place among the househoio
plants. 1t is regarded there us tropi-
cal. In our country it becomes tropi-
cal only under the name of Bourbon,
and then it warns a man up so that he
feels as if he we're under the troPic OF
Capricorn.
A mammoth steer owned by George
Miller. IA farmer on Lost river, near
Klamath lake, Oregon, has arrived at
Salem. and will he sent to the centen-
NAL. 1t stands 10, hands, or b feet
inches high, measures 10 feet from
tip to tip, and weighs 5000 pounds.
AT the recent meeting of the ma
tional executive committee, at Louis
Vile, the object of English co-oPera-
ton was discussed, and also the pro-
iect of national centennial encamr-
ment. The fruits of the discussion
have not yet transpired.
The man who lives right and is right
has more power in his silence than an
other has by his words. Character Is
like bells which ring out sweet music
and which. when touched accidentally
even, resound with sweet music.
There is no other one way by winch
friendship NAV he so quickly broken