The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-25
FROM ALL SOURCES.

FROM ALL SOURCES.
1t is said that the late William b.
Astor in his will leaves the bulk of his prop
erty to his two sons, and not to h,s eldest son,
as previously reported his daughters are
amply provided for in the testament.
There is no lead in a s'lead pencil"
Red lead is an oxide of lead, and white lead
Is a carbonate of the same, black lead is
neither metal nor the compound of mteal.
Is form of carbon.
In the Senate, Mr.. Morton intro
duced resolution proposing an amendment
TO the constitution looking to the abolition
OF the electoral college, and to have the pres
'dent voted for directly by the people.
There is said to be detachment of
Cuban rebels that are commanded by a wo-
man. who, dressed in a riding habit and
mounted on fiery, untamed steed, leads her
troops :" to glory or the grave" with the dash
and bravery of Ceur de Leon.
The London Builder recommends
people who transplant trees to mark the
north side of each tree with chalk before it
IS taken up, and replace il in its natural po-
sltion A large proportion will then live, as
In ignoring this law of nature transplanted
trees generally perish.
Boss Tweed got tired of boarding at
the Ludlow street Jail and walked off the
other day. 1t is unnecessary for the wires
to bring the news that he has not been heard
oil SINCE The Sheriff and his subordinates
nad no doubt planned all that too well be-
forehand- The Boss did not get off without
help, and knew where he was going.
In addition to section of one of the
"great trees" of California, which will be
one of the features of the Centennial Exhi-
bition, an Oregon mill-owner proposes to
furnish for exhibition fr-plank, twelve feet
vide and one hundred feet long a spruce
plank eight feet wide; a cedar seven feet; a
lareh seven feet; and hemlock five feet.
The suspension of the mining oper-
ations in the SchuylkilI coal region of Penn
sylvania will throw about $4,000 miners out
of employment The leading operators state
that IL is not likely business will resume I O.
fore spring, and it is therefore probable that
we will have during the winter the usual re-
cital of assassinations, coffin notices, destruc-
tion of mining works, etc.
There was lately shown at the rooms
of the society of art, in London, a piece of
milk Hsolidified by the Hooker process" and
weighing one hundred pounds, and which
-has been exposed to the action of the air
for four years and three months" The Agri-
cultural Gazette, of that city, SAYS that s.its
quality was still so excellent that in few
minute il was resolved, by churning, into
good fresh butter"
The late w. B. Astor's millions have
not yet been accurately aseertained. He left
100000 to the Astor library, for the purchase
of books; $4,000 to charitable institutions;
$4,000 to the American Bible society; slO,-
600 to four family servants, and $500 a year to
he widow of Benjamin Aston. The immense
balance of his fortune is distributed among
his own family. w. B. was not as charitable
man as was generally supposed.
Little is generally known of the
production of quicksilver. How many are
aware of the fact that California produces
nearly as much of this valuable mineral as
all the remainder of the world? Spain pro-
duced last year So 900 TASKS of about seventy
fve pounds each, Austria 5000 TASKS, Italy
2,500, Borneo 1000, California 5000. This
year the production of California promises
to be nearer $1,000 TASKS.
1t used to be the boast of the founder
of the New York Herald that his main de-
pendence was on the characteristics and
washerwomen, and that as long as they con-
tinued to send him their advertisements,
nobody else could destroy his business. The
income of his successor, in great part derived
from the same sources, has recently been
publicly stated to amount to nearly three
quarters of a million of dollars year.
The New Orleans Republican COM
plains as follows: New Orleans contributes
largely to the support of Partisan folly. Ask
for the owners Of property below Canal
they live in France. They. have no money
for public improvements, they pay taxes
only upon compulsion, and they rail always
against the government of city and state.
The poor tenants pay rents, and the absent
landlords spend the substance abroad. New
Orleans is peculiarly cursed with absenteeism.
This was the case before the war; and it is so
now. Our city is continually being drained
to build up Paris.
The Winchester Arms Company are
TO have novel rifle range at New Haven. A
deer has been made of boiler iron, hung upon
pivots and mounted upon wheels to run upon
track seventy-fve feet long, which is to be
placed upon an inclined plane. The deer
being started from . lie end of the track will
travel rapidly, with Looping motion, which
viii be sustained by simple arrangement of
springs. The marksman, standing at dis
lance, will fire at the deer while It is i'm mo-
ton and passing behind trees and blinds ar
ranged to make the hitting more difficult.
DIR. Lambert, in recent lecture in
Boston, showed statistics to prove that, con-
: trary to the popular opinion, the people of
the new were longer lived than those of the
old world. The English girls, SO often spoken
of for blooming cheeks and robust forms,
owed these qualities to their outdoor life,
the damp coldness of their island, and their
fondness for the national beverage, beer. The
fact was, the women of this country were
lOnger-liyed than the English women. There
probably was no place in Europe where SO
many old people could be found in proper
tion to the population as in New Hampshire:
and three out of every four of the people who
had reached the age of ninety years in New
Hampshire were women. The constitution
of woman was substantially the same as the
constitution of man, and the duration of
their earthly existence, as general rule on
the American continent was the same.
Mr.. Huefs theory of the water To-
connective has excited considerable interest.
He thinks it mistake for ships to have to
force their bulk through the water, meeting
thereby the large opposing surface and a
sliding frictien over the whole of their i'm
merged surface; this he holds to be, In fact,
as much of an error as It would be to dis
mount raHWay cars from their wheels and
drag them, like sledges, along the rails He
boldly argues that vessels should be mounted
on rolling drums; that these drums should
give principally the power of fotation, and
that they should be driven round as paddles
to move the ship forward. In this way there
would be a floating locomotive mounted on
its supporting wheels or rollers the vessel
would offer no resistance but rolling one to
motion; the whole of the supported weight
OF the ship would be used as useful pressure
to give adhesive FRACTIONAL effect to the rolle.s
and high velocity attained.
Uncle Sans Real Estate.
The report of Commissioner Bur-
dette, of the United States general
land office, contains the following state