The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-24
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
| A FASHION editor reports that ths
Easter bonnets have a hurricane deck,
a bell tower, signal lights, birds Of
Paradise, quail, Welsh rabbits and
flower gardens ad lib.
A BELL has recently been cast in Ger
many weighing 80, 900 pounds. 1t was
made from cannon taken from the
French during the late war. 1t is for
the Cathedral church at Cologne.
SPRING brings Joy to the heart of
western editor, who sings: "Soon the
dusky squaw will be seen straining
maple sugar through her winter stock
ings."
When q common Japanese goes into
the presence of an office-holder he must
say "Great and distinguished child
of the sun, deign to put your foot
upon my neck" There's some pleas
urs in holding an Office in that country.
A REE-YEAR-oLD youngster saw q
drunken fellow " lacking through the
streets of Lowell, the other day.
Mother" said he, did God make
that man?" She replied in the affirm
alive. The little fellow reflected q
moment and then exclaimed, "I
WOuluu U uhFo 0Ouo IL
A PARTY who was looking at q house
in the sixth ward the other day, said he
couldn't afford to pay so much rent.
"WeIl, look at the neighborhood, re-
piled the woman. "You can borrow
hat-irons next door, coffee and tea
across the street, -four and sugar on
the corner, and there's big pile of wood
belonging to the school-house right
across the alIev II
TIE removal of substances from the
ear may be accomplished by doubling
q horse hair in the form of q loop,
and, placing the patient upon the
side, passing the loop into the ear as
far as it will 60, then turning it gently.
The substance will generally come out
in the loop after one or two withdraw
ais. The application will do no dam
age If the hair be carefully used.
GounD's st. Louis Directory for 1875,
just out, gives the population of that
city at four hundred and ninety thou
sand on January 1, 1875. Increase in
the population since the census, fifty
seven per cent, or more than ten per
cent, yearly. Business and manufac-
lures of the city better in the aggregate
han ever before in spite of the general
Annual value of products
IF manufacture, two hundred and thir-
;y-nine million dollars. Very satisfac-
;ory figures.
Ar a recent blast at Crarae Quarry,
over thirty thousand tons
Of granite were dislodged at q single
explosion. A bore thirty feet losg was
1riven into the rock, and was then con-
;inued at right angles for twenty-five
ieet, when it was again sunk distance
IF one hundred and sixty feet. Here
oowder-chamber WAS formed, and q
,harge of five thousand pounds of gum
powder intro duced. The result was
entirely satisfactory; the blast was one
If the largest ever fired.
SOMEBODY wants to know "who
wrote that article" in the Houston
Tex Telegraph, and it promptly re-
spends thus "The man who wrote
hat article early in life was hard
working blacksmith later he was deck
hand on a steamboat, then he was
cowboy on the frontier, but Of late
. prize-fighter. He only became an
,ditor to reduce his flesh by starvation
70 as to become more of success in
lis peculiar line" The Telegraph re-
viewed no further inquiries.
ROUSSEAU once wrote, eff it were
,nly necessary for you to hold out your
numb in order to cause the death of an
wealthy mandarin in China,
whose heir you would be, are you sure
hat you would not extend your
ihumb?" This passage one day at
racted the attention of Henri de
Lacrois, young Frenchman Of excel
emit family, but whose brain had been
, little affected by the loss of his for
;une, He thought, eff could stretch
mt NV thumb and that would be
enough to kill my uncle and cousin,
,hould become very rich." In sort
If hallucination he extended his arm
;oward the photographs of his relations
md said, "Let them die, so that may
inherit" Fifteen days later his uncle
md his cousin were carried on by
,vphoid fever. Within the last SIX
months remorse preyed upon Lacrolss
snfeebled intellect, and he imagined
hat his spell caused the death OF his
relatives. He heard voices from all
tides of his room calling, "Thou hast
xiIIed us Thou hast killed us DE
delivered himself up to the police and
,sked to be executed. He died few
laws ago in an insane asylum.
THFREisno danger Of our being claim
3u DIV 0Yuucy O11hen . eSOHAAAO -
ington, if we say that somehow-We
re not bound to tell how-she railroad
brings rain. Would it not be wonderful
{ that brace of iron bars across the oon-
inent should literally interpret that
pleasant Scripture. "And the desert
hall blossom as the rose'f And it
ooks like it. The old devices for arti-
icial irrigation are growing useless,
nd territory hitherto unproductive IL
BEGINNING to do something for man.
md this, not because of the pioneers
o whom the railroad has made the
Iesert possible and accessible, but be-
ause of its direct influence upon the
Innate. Rain clouds west of the
Rockies, that have never spoken loud
vord within the memory of man. are
ow talking as audibly and emphati-
alIy as if thunder had been their
nother-tonguef from babyhood, and rank
egetation is growing where nothing was
yer before sown but fire. The vast
ystem OF iron network and the hair
ines of telegraph, about enough to
nake a snare to catch the planet, have
disturbed the electrical equilibrium,
nd the results are seen in the new and
ovel phenomena of thunder and show
rs.-Benj. +. TAYLOR.