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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
A Discovery at Athens.

The Athens correspondent of the
London News writes Some workmen
engaged in taking ballast from the bed
of the river Ilyssus discovered two
large pieces of sculptured marble be-
longing to the very best period of
Grecian art. One is a sepulchral mon
ument, very much mutilated, represent
ing two figures, one seated and one
standing in the usual manner, but the
heads and limbs are wanting. The
other, though not perfect, is a truly
magnificent work, perhaps one of the
finest extant. It consists of a group in
very high relief. An old man, venerable
with age, simply clad, leaning on his
staff, is addressing a young peasant al
most nude, and in the very prime of
life, whose fine figure and splendid an
atomical development the artist had so
wonderfully displayed that the marble
seems to breathe and palpitate with
life. Besides these there is a gray
hound, full of that springy motion SO
we'll known to Landseer, and a little
lad entirely naked-probably slave
seated on a stone with his head resting
on his hands placed on his knees, q
picture of most profound repose. Some
imagine the group to represent Gdipus
mquiring the way to Athens. This is
probable. But it is quite impossible
to convey any adequate description of
the expression of the several figures, or
their attitude or eloquent features.
This piecs of sculpture will certainly
become farlous."
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
Chinese Books.

Printing book in China is done as
follows Two pages are written by one
trained to the business on q sheet of
thin paper, divided into columns by
black lines, and in the space between
the two pages are written the title of
the work and the number of chapter
and page. When the sheet has been
printed it is folded down through this
space, 80 as to bring the title, etc,
partly on each psge. The sheet, when
ready for printing, is pasted face down
ward on a smooth block of wood, made
usually from the Fear or plum tree.
As soon as it is CRY the paper is rubbed
off with great care, leaving behind an
inverted impression CT the characters.
Another workman now cuts away the
blank spaces by means Of a sharp
graver, and the block, with the charac-
iers in high relief, passes to the printer,
who performs his work by hand. The
two points he has to be most careful
about are to ink the characters equally
with his brush, and TO avoid tearing
the paper when taking the impression.
From q god wooden block some IT,
600 copies may be printed, and when
the characters have been sharpened up
q little, it is possible to obtain 6. 1000 or
10, 900 more Impressions.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

with that trial which WAS SO memorable
an event in England's history of that
day. The story Of the boy Austin, the
protege of Caroline. and whom her enc
mics under the promptings of George
did not hesitate to allege Was her illegit-
innate child, is fully given, as we'll as
an elaborate account of the events which
Immediately preceded the funeral OF
that unhappy lady when the horse
guards charged upon the people who
declared that the funeral cortese should
pass through tho city.
This we presume is the book indi-
Gated in the dispatches, and OF which
we presume at least fifty copies can be
found in London if they were demanded.
The Greville book has excited q desire
for this kind of literary pabulum, and
if reprinted with few additions and
portraits, it will in all probability, have
an immense sale in the United Slater,
although we are supposed to be repub-
lican-, We seem to be very anxious to
learn of the shortcomings and peccadil-
los of our royal cousins across the
waters. The Greville and Hamilton
books are OF the same class and treat
of the same men and women and times.
While the one is desperately bitter and
full of merited hatred, the other turns
the leaves of the same profigacy with
velvet pawr.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
Dress Making as High Art in Ger
many.

An enterprise quite original in its or
ganization is about to be started in Ber-
lin which is indisputably calculated to
interest all educated women every where.
Under the spe cial guidance of the Ber-
lin Protection for Women" founded
by Mrs. Martin of that city, a nun Der
Of educated women have formt i soci-
ETY., the end and object of which is TO
render dress making more strictly
speaking, the making of all articles of
female wear--a branch of industry Tor
the higher classes, anc thus import TO
these works of the needle art higher
significance than ever before conceded
to German hands. This first " Atelier,"
as they call it, (studio or work shop, if
you please connected with this protec-
ton union is presided over by the wife
of ply stefan residing in the capital.
Seconded by a select circle of ladies, by
their exquisite trimming AZ well as their
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
Treating the Wrong Disease.

Many times women call upon their family
physicians, one with dyspepsia, another witt
palpita.ion. another with trouble Of the
breast, and another with pain here aud there
and in this way they all present alike to them
selves and their easy-going and Indifferent
doctors, separate and distinct diseases, for
which he prescribes his pills and potions, as
Stunning them to be such, when, in reality,
they are all sym toms caused by some uterine
disorder and while they are thus only able
perhaps to palliate for time, they are ignor-
ant Of the cause. and encourage their practice
until large bills are made, when the suffering
patients are no better in the end, but probably
worse for the delay, treatment and other com
plications made, and which roper medicine
directed to the cause would have entirely re
moved, thereby instituting health and comfort
instead Of prolonged misery.
From Miss LoRINDA E. ST. CLAIR, Shade
Athens county. Ohio:
''Dr. r. v. PIERCE. Buffalo, N. Y.-You,
Favorite Prescription is working almost like 9
miracle on me. 1 am better already than
have been for over two years."
From ELLA A. ScHAFEn, EVANSVILLE, Ind:
"Dr. PIERCE-I received the medicine you
sent mo and began using it Immediately. Al
a result Of the treatment feel better than
have for three years.
From Mira. JOHN X. HAMLIN, Odell. Ill:
"Dr. PIERCE-The FavoIite Prescription has
done me good which 1 am very thankful for.
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is sold by
dealers in medicines.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

DIR. WALKERS Vegetable Vinegar Bit
ters.-Business men, worn by care and
sedentary habits, often suffer from con-
stipation of the bowels, until the evil
consequences of such a condition are
realized in extreme debility, nervous
ness and prostration of the vital ener-
gies of the system. And it may be
safely asserted that a majority of the
female sex are little better than in
valids, from the same cause bnt by
using DR.. Walkers Vinegar Bitters,
this natural aperient and tonic brings
back the vigor and buoysncy of health,
happiness and beauty. Pure blood is
essential to sound health and long life.
No chronic disease, sores, ulcers, skin
eruptions. glandulous swellines. dis
charges from the ear, sore eyes, sores
or cankers in the mouth will ever sp
pear if the blood is pnre. To secure
this take DR.. Walkers Vegetable Vine
gar Bitters. It is the great blood puri-
fer and life giving principle, increas-
ing the power of digestion, and excit-
ing the absorbents into healthy action,
whereby all impurities of the system
are carried of.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
PhOtOgrapbing the Stars.

The Photographic process, as applied
to the stars, appears thus far to have
disappointed, to . considerable degree,
the expectation which scientific men
originally entertained concerning it,
though the question is certainly legit-
innate one, whether those expectations
were not immoderate.
The two principal sources of error by
which this process has been found to be
affected, are SPOTS on the glass plate, or
impurities IN the coating in the neigh
borhood of the images, and slight de-
partures from symmetry in their form,
this having been noticed from the very
first, on the plate being exposed too
long to the action of the light. 1t is,
however, confidently anticipated, from
the improvement already made in
this direction, that, by the exer-
else of still greater care in reg
ulatipg the time of exposure, the
symmetry of the images will be ad-
equa ely. secured. A microscopic e1-
animation is effectual in most cases, in
distinguishing accidental spots in the
coating, or on the glass, from the mole
cules which, by their aggres alton, show
the action of light.
Ono of the most formidable of the
difficulties which have been experienced
in the extensive application of photog-
raphy to this purpose, is the Efficient
sensitiveness of the process and it
was early found, that. unless photo
graphs of stars as low, at least, as the
eighth magnitude could be obtained, its
use would necessarily be restricted to
comparatively few double stars.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
Oxford and Cambridge.

A statement of the incomes of the two
great universitits of Oxford and Cam
bridge will, in this day OF college en-
dosments, we doubt not, be read with
interest. The university of Oxford has
an income of s47, 900; the colleges and
halls. s336. 900 the university of Cam
bridge, s34, 900 the colleges and halls.
G306.OOO For the year 1871, Exeter
college, at Cambridge, with an income
of Ella. 600, had from $50 to $50 under
graduates; Merton, with Ell, 600 q year,
had "a undergraduates; and Ballot,
with $4,000 a year, had AS. At Cam.
bridge, Trinity collage, with ESQ, 600 a
year, had AS undergraduates; Kings,
with 924, 600. had but 81 and Corpus,
with $4,000, had $50. Oxford has 1853
fellowships' with an average value of
g26O year while Cambridge has $40,
with an average value of ESQ. Oxford
has in all "a colleges, and Cambridge
IL. Oxford spends some cas-, 900 year
on pr1fessorships and Cambridge
g17,OOO.
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG was
born in South Carolina. Her whole life
has been devoted to music. Her
mother, who always accompanies her,
says that ut tho age of ten months her
daughter hummed a plantation air which
had been daily sung to her by a oolored
nurse. But while Miss Kellogg has
great natural gifts, her life has been
one OF great study, and she has gained
her present high position in the musical
world only by great and continuous
effort. Her intention is to remain on
the stage four years longer, devoting
herself to the establishment of English
opera, after which she will retire to en-
Joy the fruits Of her, labor.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
The Counts Choice

The Troy Times says: "Syracuse,
briny, picked, and wrinkled as it is,
does sometimes turn up fresh, ripe,
wholesome sensation. Its last is one OF
decided interest in the social line. On
the Goth of December Count Tinus Ed
wsrdus, N. B., from Oassel, Holland,
put up with his two servants. ~ the
Temperance hotel. just oppog Bis
hotel, in the Downer block, lives 4 hle-
chanic named Mitchell, who was blessed
with a pretty sixteen -year-old daughter
name1 Efie. With her the count
quickly became acquainted, and the
result was wedding on Tuesday last.
The bride was elegantly dressed, wear
ing q sky blue silk, trimmed with ap-
plique lace costing $3.50, a present from
her grandmother. Orange blossoms
also added their beauty to that Of the
bride, while a fine diamond necklace
and fine gold watch and chain, pres
ents from her husband that is, helped
to complete her loneliness. But not
satisfied with these, q fine cluster dia-
mond ring was placed on her finger,
while in her dress pocket she found
81. 600 in gold, and just before the GER
emory a certificate Of deposit in one of
the city banks for $40. 900 was handed
this lovely girl by her generous count.
This formed her marriage portion but
as he has an annual income of $75, 600,
she may not be obliged tc draw very
much from her portion. The happy
couple will visit the Holland home of
the count in the spring. but Syracuse is
excited over the rumor that they will
settle in that city. This mechanics
daughters good fortune is in pleasing
contrast with that of the wealthy young
ladies who go to Europe in search of
tilted husbands, and bring home PEN
niless frauds to prey upon the fortunes
of their toiIip9 fathers.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

Kangaroos is own brothers to possums,
cos the she ones has got watch pockets
on their stummeckses to carry their
young ones in, but possums can't jump
like 'em.
Once two me1 were travelling on
horseback in Ostralia, wen kangaroo
bust out of the bush and jumpt eileen
over them and was lost to site in the
bush on the other side of the road.
One of the men he puld up as friten as
he cud be, and he said to the other, did
you cher see such monstrous berd in oil
yure life, bless my soul thot it was 60
ing to carry us up to its ness But the
other Teller wich had been in the country
a week longer than him trid to laughp,
and said bird your gran mother, it wus
only jus one of the pforming animules
wich has escape from a cercie, you ct to
see some of our curcusses. Jus then
the kangaroo, witch had come roun to
the rode in front of 'em, and was hop
pin abot on its hine legs like a roben,
was see hi the man wich had spok las,
and he looked long vile, and then he
sed wassunt you saying some thing
about herds JUS now, vel, wot do you
think of thut Teller?
The kangaroo jumps because its hine
legs il SO much bigger than is kneeded
for wokken, and Uncle Ned says if it
didden jump it wud be lettin most of
its cappitile ly idle. Its fore legs is
sent much use Except tn scratch its
nose wen it itches, but its tale is the
offiest part of it. It is made long and
hevy SO that wen the kangaroo jumps
it vii 60 steddy like a cite, but give me
balloon.
A man had a pet kangaroo, and some
thing was the matter with its tale, and
a friend of the man said you must out
it of, I've been in Ostralia and kno,
and wen it is heeled you mus take the
patent into the open air and tuch him
up with q hot fern to make him take
exercise. The man he done it, but he
tried whipping instead of the hot fern,
but the poor kangaroo wich had loss
his tale jus set still and wudden move,
SO the man he plide the fern, and the
kangaroo he Civ leep hier than hous,
but not having any tale to balance it, it
wrled over and over, and wen it cum
down it broke its neck. Wen its owner
tole the other man wot had happened
the other man said my good Teller, lime
very sorry, but no doubt you had the
fern too hot. oil you need is practis.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
Injurious Literature.

The New York Tribune remarks that
parents, in the days when Sanford and
Merton and Peter Farley furnished tho
boys library, knew that their sons were
being made into prigs, perhaps, but, at
least, decent prigs and gentlemen.
CHOW they watch Tom and Joe lay
down their spelling books and regale
themselves at will with the heroic deeds
of O-year- old Jack Shepherds or Cap
tain Kidds, it may be even with the
Beecher trial, and ,ub their hands de-
lighted at 'the boys taste for read
ing"
The deeds of the boy murderers AID
burglar, are dramatized to reach a
lower class who cannot read. The
mayor of Philadelphia, it is said, asserts
that he could rid the jails Of twothirds
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
Effect OF Exercise.

It is found by observation that the
effect of training" or the persistent
useo gymnastic exercises, is to enlarge
the heat and lungs both in size and
capacity. Archibald McClaren, super
intendent of the Oxford gymnasium,
and author of "Physical Education, ;"
says: Zone of the army officers sent
to me to be instructed in gymnastics
gaired five inches in girth around the
chest in less than three months" Tha.
this growth is not explained by the
mere enlargement of the pectoral mus
cles is proved by the increased volume
OF air which the lungs are enabled to
expire, as is demonstrated by the spi-
rometer, and post mortems abundantly
show An increased capacity as we'll as
size in the heart and large blood YES
sells. The lungs increase both in length
and breadth, forcing the ribs outward
and the diaphragm downwards. It is
for this reason that athletes and gym.
nasts are enabled to make prolonged
and violent exertions without getting
out of wind. The capacity Of the heart
and central arteries being enlarged,
they can accommodate more blood.
Their oontractile power being increased
by this new demand upon them, they
are enabled to send on the current
through the lungs with increased veloc-
ity, and thus by their greater capacity
are able to oxygenize the blood as fast
- it is supple to them. and SO no con-
gestion takes place, and no inconven-
fence is felt. The normal capacity of
the lungs of an adult male il about two
hundred (20O) cubic inches. It is COM
puted that an enlargement of three
inches around the chest gives an in
crease Of fifty cubic inches Of luDg
CAPACITY.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

handsome make, the first productions of
society are generally admired. The
ladies of the " Atelier" seem to have
drawn sharp lines as to the qualifica-
lions for admission in regard to educa-
ton, as we are informed that only such
will be permitted to join them as have
in their possession certificate of having
passed the first class of some higher
female seminary. Moreover, those Ia
dies who desire to learn dress making
simply for their own use, and do not
wish to be accomplished, so that as a
matter of business they may be able to
act in the capacity of principal of
some "Ate:ier" in smaller towns, will
be instructed by regularly examined
and passed teacheIs.-Berlin National
Gazette.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

of the juvenile criminals in the next
year if he could Danish certain plays
from the boards of the variety theatres
and put certain books out Of print. We
only suggest these facts to mothers and
fathers (the editor says). It is their
part to clear the jails in future; no
MAYOR can help them"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
A Darwinian COnundrum.

An Irish correspondent writes to Ma
ture combating the Darwinian theory
that this bright coloring of many ami
mails is accounted for by sexual selec-
ton, and concludes his letter as fol-
lows: elf the love of beauty is an
animal instinct, then Darwinian prin-
ciples would require that the struggles
of the males for the possession of the
most beautiful females should develop
beauty in the females by natural se,e,-
ton. Bat we see that the contrary is
what takes place-beauty is developed
in the male. the fighting ser. We're a
Darwin among birds to watch the ways
of the human race, he would probably
feel certain that the love of dress and
ornament am )ng woman is alt 6 ,the r
due to desire t. become attractive to
men, and he would think those natu-
ralists unsatisfactory, and perhaps mys-
tical, who guessed the truth, that the
love of ornament is a natural and
healthy human instinct, not confined to
either sex or to any age, but stronger
in youth than in age. and stronger in
woman than in man."
The st. Louis Republican intimates
that Harriet Bsecher Stowe knew che
was writing an infamous lie when she
wrote the Byron scandal. Take out
your front teeth, Harriet, and stand
right up to him.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
!. GH0PPER.
WATERS NEW SCALE PIANOS

Gre the best made; The touch elastic, and
WAFER = COSCER 10 JRG Ms
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in.t!ntion oJ me Human VOICE: PtISs :.
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Pianos, $40 10 S4ns arxans, o. 40 StG3
monthly sfssr arst Deposit. AZ GNT-
hinisfers Schools. Lodges. etc. Especial Undue !.
ments to me TRACE; ul1s, Il, ID S g Z,
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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

No TIME To BE Losr.-In the in
cipient stages of consumption, the first symp-
toms are generally a hacking cough pains in
the difficulty of breathing-or oppres-
sion OF the lungs. Something should be done
at once to check the cough. allsy and heal the
irritated parts. Aliens Lung Balram will
break up the cough in an incredible short
time also prevent the formation OF tubercles.
VIII re tubercles are once formed the disease
is hard to cure. For sale by all medicine
dealers
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

IT Is now generally admitted by hon.
est physicians, that when once the consump-
ton is fairly fastened upon the lungs, TO hui
man power can rave the patient from death.
They also say that about fifty per cent. of
those who die from this disease can trace the
cause to a neglected cough cold, which
might have been cured by small bottle of
Liquid Opodeldoc, or what is the same thing,
Johnson's Anodyne Linment.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
A luxurious " HOTEL"

A correspondent says: ga great and
puissant Turkish banker in Paris is
building himself stunning hotel that
is even making Paris talk. Madame's
suite of apartments is already finished,
and said to be beyond any thing ever
dreamed of by Llis or 'Vathek.
The walls of the cabinet de toilette are
covered with Louis XVI. cretonnes,
and the ceiling is formed by the same
material, drawn into the center in tho
shape of an immense sun. From the
middle hangs night.lamp of Bohe
milan glass and Venitian gold When
this is Lit and the curtains drawn you
cannot fipd the door unless you happen
to know madame intimately. On one
side the room is washing toilet with a
marble top, two yards and a half in
length. completely fitted out with all an
etfgante can require. A wardrobe is
placed opposite, with three compart-
ments, and three mirrors for doors.
The center is false and opens into the
bathroom, which is a wonder of con-
venience, luxury, and artistic elegance.
The bath-tub is of CArrara marble, and
the carving. the inlaid woods brought
from Constantinople, and the tinted
porcelain bricks wainscotting the apart-
melts, are pronounced of the purest
taste. There are Turkish baths, and
baths pure all simple in this miracu-
Of
oratory are equally perfect in design,
the latter being furnished with tapes
tries wrought by Nine. Fl. s own hands.
The mountains as of the most exquisite
ebony. But one thing regarding Mr..
HIS own grand hotel has singularly
escaped observation it is petite but
modern seraleio. as yet unoccupied.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

Cur this notice out and bring 1t with
you. We are authorized to refund the cash to
any person or persons who shall buy ana use
Parsons Purgatiye Pills and fail Of relief and
satisfaction.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

Preferred FEATHER BED.-1ou
know that the barn swallows build their
nests under the caves or sometimes
among the rafters of barns. These
nests are always built of mud, and usu-
ally neatly lined with fine hay or straw.
But it seems that some swallows pre- fer
IA lining of feathers. A bird friend of
mine found an empty nest, beautifully
lined with fine white chicken feathers.
Thinking the lest a curiosity, and not
being a swallow himself, he pnlled it
carefully down. (He thought il wasn't
cruel 20 do this, because no eggs had
yet been laid, but he was mistaken
In a few days hs found that the swal-
lows had built another nest in the same
spot, ard also lined with the same sort
Of feathers. So it is evident that NJ
Iea,t this pair of swallows preferred
feather he'd to II straw he'd.
Nicholas.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20

DR.. Tutt's Expectorant checks inham-
nation aud assists the lungs to expei the irrnAng
matter which accumulates in the bronchial tube.