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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06
The Piano OF the Future.

A new thing in music 1t has re-
Gently been ascertained that by the ap-
plication of electric communication any
number of pianos can be performed
upon simultaneously by the person who
touches the keys of the central one. It
is proposed by this means to fill every
nook and corner of the centennial expo
sition buildings with melodies. In fact
the discovery or invention, whichever it
is, was arrived at by some genius who
was delving about for something with
which to create a centennial sensation.
The idea is, of course, a novel one,
brims over with suggestiveness.
Let there be a mammoth instrument
located in city upon the same princi-
pie as our gas tanks and reservoirs.
The community might tax itself for the
purpose, and issue municipal music
bonds. Then let there be q musician
engaged both day and night to manipu-
late the keys. By system of tele-
graphic connection every parlor that
could boast of a piano would echo the
refrain. The flow of melody would, o
course, be subject to some sort of valve,
and could be turned off or on at pleas
ure, just as we do our gas and water.
A meter might be SO constructed as to
indicate the number of feet of music
furnished at a given time. Truly, an
era in piano-playing is drawing upon
us. When che thing is all perfected, it
will no longer matter whether or
not we have musical SONS and
daughters at home in order that we
may have music at home. Serenadine
will be discounted entirely. When
bedtime comes, full head of Straus,
or Vedi, or Donizetti, or Offenbach, or
Will 8. Hays, might be turned on, and
as the sweet sounds filed the house
from garnet to cellar the whole family
might be waited serenely into dream
land. But if about midnight the cor
poration musicians should take notion
to try little Warner, what howl would
startle the doing moonl
MARY was the proprietress of dimin-
utive, inoipient sheep, whose outer Gov
ering was as devoid of color as CONCEALED
vapor, and to all localities to which
Mary perambulated, her young South
down was morally certain to follow. It
tagged her to the dispensatory of learn
ing, one diurnal section of time, which
was contrary to all precedent, and ex-
cited the cachination of the seminary
attendants, when the children perceived
the presence of young quadruped at
the establishment of instruction. Con
sc quentIy, the preceptor expelled him
from the interior, but he continued to
remain in the Immediate vicinity, and
tarried in the neighborhood without
fretfulness until Mary once more be-
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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06

charge of comrades. It seems to have
got into the country without detection
by custom officers by being packed in
small compass. In a damaged condi-
ton it has at last been rescued, and st.
Anthony of Padua, after more adven-
lures than usually fall to the lot of his
associates in the calendar, will find his
way back to the shrine from which he
was torn by sarcrilegious hands.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06

A WEE BIT girl in Cusco, Wis, while
at the breakfast table, few mornings
since, made loud and repeated calls for
buttered toast. After disposing of
liberal quantity of that nourishing arti-
Gle, she was told that too much toast
would make her sick. Looking visit
fully at the dish for a moment, she
thought she saw way out of her diff
entity, and exclaimed: "Well. give me
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06

THE queen of England's daughters
are examples to the rest of the fashion
able world in industry and taste. At
the royal Swiss cottage each of the
princesses has garden which she cul.
tivates with her own hands. They have
learned to cook, and they frequently
sit down to meal prepared by one or
the other. Louise, wife of the marquis
of Lorne, is a clever artist.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06
Grecian Brigandage.

Writing of brigandage in Greece, the
Cincinnati Gazette says: "The main
object of brigandage is financial one.
The robbers are in want of money, and
the best way for them to turn an honest
penny is to steal it. When they cap
ture travellers they help themselves to
watches, money, and jewels, and any
thing else that may be of value. But
the end is not yet. They take the cap
tives into the mountains and hold them
for something more, and they are care
full to squeeze out as much as possible.
If the victim is a wealthy nobleman or
some other purse proud aristocrat they
think it will be worth about 91O, 900 to
release him, but if he is some ordinary
mortal with no influential friends in
Athens, a hundred or two hundred
pounds will be sufficient. The foreign
residents and travellers who happen to
be in Greek or italian city when ran
som is demanded for some unhappy
wretch are frequently compelled to raise
money to meet the demand. There is
a great deal of complaint at this, and
much of it is we'll founded. why
should l. said a gentleman to me in
Naples, be compelled to pay some
thing every little while to get one of my
countrymen out of the hands of the
brigands? I wouldn't venture where
the scoundrels could catch me, and I
wouldn't allow any of my friends to do
so if I could prevent it. But along
comes some reckless fellow never saw,
goes into danger, and is captured. Then
1 am appealed to on the ground OF hu-
mainly and all that sort of thing, and
asked to help release him. 1t is his own
fault if he is captured. If he had stayed
away. as do, he would have been safe,
and not compelled to appeal to strang-
ers. If q man meets with an accident I
am willing to help him, but 1 think it
hard to be asked to contribute for man
who has deliberately and with his eyes
open walked into trouble"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06
The Travels of st. Anthony OF Padua.

Curiously enough, the missing frag-
ment of Murrillo's appearance Of the
Infant Christ to st. Anthony of Padua"
has turned up in New York. The prin-
cipal figure was cut out from the pic
ture, brought to this city and sold for
$3.50 to Broadway picture dealer.
Fortunately the dealer knew the work
and was able to secure it at once, and
he has honorably turned it over to
tho representative of the Spanish gov
eminent residing in this city. The
original theft was, most likely, commit
ted at Seville by some of the Spanish
handitti and sent to this country in
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06
A Threatening Fashion.
THE THISTLE TAX.

A Paris correspondent writes GA
bint-a prophecy of coming fashion 1t
is projected in the highest world of the
gentlemen and ladies who create our
fashions that it may become possible
to entirely dispense with all underskirts
uhatauar Ii, THAR atoad kiub&Iu a.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06

IT looks little strange to the Mis-
souri, traveller who knocks at door to
have the man open it, push shotgun
out and inquire what's wanted, but the
owner of the shotgun knows his bust
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06

G HAIRLESS W. FLUMMER, Newark
N. j., society-duck, had to pay Miss
Grace f. Plummer, belle of the same
city, for "hugging her on the parlor
sofa, kissing her every time they met,
and going to sleep on her shoulder, "
the net sum of $1,000; but, as this sort
of thing went on for sixteen months,
the bill was not excessive. Nice girl,
Miss Plummer.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06

GA CLERGYMAN suggests ocean i'm
mersion as preferable to cremation FL
says: Funeral steamers might be
provided, which, proceeding to dis
lance from land, could deposit the re-
mains beyond the reach of Dissertation,
and whence injury could not result to
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06

I.
ANTICIPATION.
"Iu take the orchard path, she said.
Speaking lowiy. smiling slovly: =
The brook vas dried within Its bed,
The hot aun flung Aane Of red
Low in the west - forth shs sped.
Across the dried brook-course she went,
Singing lowly, smiling slowly:
She scarcely saw the sun that spent -----
It's fiery force in swift descent
She never saw the wheat was bent.
The grasses parchod. the blossoms dried,
Singing loviy. smiling slowly:
Her eyes amidst the drought espied
A summer pleasance far and wide,
With roses and sweet vio,sts pied.
II.
pzAProrxrxxxr.
But homevard coming all the way,
Signing lowiy, pacing slowly:
She knew the bent wheat whitening lay,
She saw the blosso1a dry decay,
She missed the brookiet's play
A breeze had sprung from out the south.
But sishisx re I.dinG slowly,
She only felt the burning drought;
Her eyes were be. I'D aasehsA hsr mouth:
Yet sweet the wind blue from the soulful
And whsn the Wind Sro.hf wssoome rain, /.
SIN sighinR Rwiyspscpg slowly, 81
She never saw the lifting grain,
But only-s long oSeAard lane.
Where she had waieDd an In ynini .sszZss.-s
-Nord Perry.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-09-01
IsLA DE c UBA.

Asf resume los sucesos de la pri
mera quincena de agosto nuestro res
petable co'ega ell DiariO de Ia Marina
cuya collection nos ha traido ell Mocte-
s@na0:
Vamos condensar, dice, segun quin-
cenaimente acostumbramos, los hechos de
armas ocurridos en- las Villas, Centre y
Oriente, para que nuestros lectores de la
Peninsula sigan paso paso todos los su-
cesos de esa guerra que, hace seis amos,
ensangrienta los campos de Cuba. Los
parties de Estado Mayor General de este
Ej6rcito y las .notscias publicadas por
nuestros cOegas del interior son Ell 6nico
gufa de este "Revista. Veamos 10 ocur-
rido en- Cinco Villas, sea desde Ia Inca
de la Macagua a 10 trocha de Moron al
J6caro. .-Segun datos ofciales, que vie
ron la luz en- 81 del pasado julio, en- los
dias 26 y 27 del mismo mes, la coIumna
del coronel Herrera bati6 dispers6 & las
psrtidas insurrectas de Maxine Gomez y
CarrilIo, compuestas de 600 a 700 hom-
bres, en- Manacas y orilla izquierda del
rio del mismo nombre, causandoles el
primer dia tres muertos y algunos heri-
dos, Y el segundo z muertos y un creeido
rdmero de heridos, que retiraron; sin mo-
yedad por DuestFa parte.
Ell teniente coronel Barba, con su CO.
lumna, bati6 ala partida de Cecilio Con
zalez, compuesta de 130 insurrectos, en-
ell potrero Escarra y monte Turquino,
causandoles bajas Que no pado apreciar
por 10 avanzado de Ia hora; pero, segun
declaration de IN presentado cen arrDas
caballos, murieron dos titulados oicia-
les y algunos mas, apodo.dndose las tro-
pas dc caballes, armas Y municionea;
nuestros saldados no tuyieron que lamen-
tar haja a!suaa En- 81 mismo dia fu6
alcanzada otra pequrna partida, en- Via
iaoas, la que Sc hi2o dos nnertoa.--F'ue-
ron atacadoa -en Ia noche del 28 dei pa
sado julio los destacamontos de Rosa
Maria y Constaneia, jurisdiction de Be
meaios, Vigorosamente rechazado ell enc
migo por las fusrsas que Ia guarneeian,
dsie deatrQ de u esEaesda del primer
$50 49, ~ ~e~r-s s~ "a So
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-09-01

solteron, .aqusllo era una delicia. Con ma
nifestar que a las cinco de la mansna
termin6 ell bale, va Sc puede calcular
cuan animado estarfa. El mismo dia las
GALES eran recorridas por comparsas y
multi ID de masearas suetas, algunas
vestidas con macba originalidsd todas
seguidas de su correspondence acompa-
Ilamianto de muchaches.
Lo mas singular, y 10 que ciertamente
os honrcsiaino para 10 habitantes de
Puerto Rico, es que en- todas estas diver
stones populares no sabemos haya habido
un herido, nj IN hurto, nj borrachos por
las GALES, Esto habla muy alto en- favor
dc Ia buena indole de los hijos de Borin-
quen.
E domingo pr6ximo tendra lugar en- ell
teatro ell dltimo bale de la tenporada.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-09-01
CARTA DEL PRETENDIENTE

Para sola2 y entretenimiento de nues
tros lectores publicamos nn documento
celebre, debido Ia plnma del pretcndien-
te, que, segun las senas. la maneja tan
bien como la espada Ell documento es
NADIA mencs que una csrta dirigida 4
S. M. ID. Alfonso XII, en- la cual Sc ha
bis de conciencia de debcr, cuando to-
davla no Sc ha seea 10 la sangre infcua-
mente derramada por los secuaees del os-
cufantismo, no solo en- luchas mobiles y
francas de- adyersarios armados, sino de
inermes prisiOneros y psvf6cos ciudadanos
euyas hecatombas regiatrarG Ia historic
con esp2nto.
Es curioso que reclame de las dltimas
disposiciones adoptadas por al gobierno
eepafiol contra los carlissas, el mia-ao cue
ha sancionado con su aqtliesconcia los
actos mas crueles y sanguinarios y las ra
pinaa mas vandAlica-; pero ya sabemos
hasta que extreme sueien ileyar los cisgos
partidarios de la reaocion y 81 ahaolutisme
au descaro y despreoaucion,
La misIYa a. sgasa2 pQE 9sisA pQates'
aaseezs% &. SO y 1--s-r -
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-09-01
G ACErILLAs S.


El pueblo Sc di0ierte. .--~Hace amos Que
no Sc han Observable en- esta temporada
tantas diver8iones como desde San Juan
& Il fecha. To1os los dias fessiyos hasta
el de Dc Santa Rosa, 80 de agosto, ha
haaito aaimadas comparsas de mascaras
por las GALES, y bales en Ell teatro en-
otras parties, y concurrencia q los espee-
tSculos p6bieos Todo demuestra que es-
tas habitantes est5n tranquilos, Y que pa
saron ya los dias en- que entire elIos reina-
ba general zozobra.
FL bale que 81 domingo tuvo Iugar en-
el teatrol % nos dice que ha estaaQ sober
bio El bello sexo afgy6 alN con = s'n
eagstal d !aI msae cue. il deer Dc NJ
80
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-09-01
Hasta aquf oI colega habanero.

Hasta aqul oil coiega haoaner0.
Suprimimos las noticias que da sobre
el departamento Oriental porque esas las
insertanos nosotros hace ounce dias, to-
mandolas de La BanderG EspQi5ola En-
su n1nero del II anade ell Diofi0 10 81
guiente:
Sagun noticias ofciales, Ia columna E!
nando del general Campillo, bati5 en Ia
Sierra, jurisdiction de Manzaniilo, las
parti3as de los cabecillas insurreot6s Cruz
Bello y C6spsdes, les cause 6 muertos
vistos en- los ouatro enoueutros que soatu
70 con ellos, quit6ndoles ademas caba
los, 3 malos y armas de fuego, y te-
niendo la fuerza de la coiumna 2 heriaos.
NADIA mas Do importancia encontramos
sobre Il guerra en- los eolegas dc Ia isla
hermaua
Ell oro SC ootiao 81 10 de sgosto 1870,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-09-01
Toa-baja 28 Agosto 1875.
Sr. Director de BoLETIN.
CdNdido pradOs.

Muy Sr. mic: Con extranoza he yisto
el sueIto inserto en- la gacetilla del peri6-
dico de su digna direction de fecha 25
del actual referente al abono de sueldos
de los Empleados de este pueblo; digo
con extraneza, puesto que, todos los
Empieados Sc hsllan solventados de ellos
hasta fin de JUNO, 1Itimo mes del ano
econ6mico en- ejercicio; no estando del de
Julio. porque siendo ell primer mes del
ec6nomico que empieza q regir no es
possible proceder al cobro y por consigui-
te al pago, hssta tanto que formados los
repartos Y aprobados Sc reciben lenan
los Iibros talonarios, en- cuyas operacio-
nes Sc pasa mas de un mes; siendo esta
regla general en- casi todos los pueblos
que no tienen sobrantes en- GAIA por ha.
llarse sus presapuestos al dia como esta
ordensdo. Sin embargo de este, la guar
dia de 6rden p1blico, civiles de la Alcal-
d}a y los Bagajes del mes de Julio tam
bien Sc hallan pagos; pues estos, Sc les
sotvent6 de los arbitrios de muitas ma
trlculas, por ser sueldos de poca c0nside.
racion como 10 es ell referido inereso.
Este supuesto solo me resta manifestar
q que ell que suscribe ahora siempre
IA procurado como ell que mas, secundar
las disposiciones que manan de nuestro
digno Excmo. Sr. Gobernador General.
que en- ell POGO tempo que llcvo al frents
de este pueblo, pues fui nombrado en-
Febrero de este ano, he satisfecho no
pocas atenciones atraaadas que Sc halla-
ban en- descubierto. Amante de Ia YER
dad como 10 es U. no dudo que dara ca.
bida en- ese peri6dico de au direction, a
esta mi csrta como contestacion las
preguntas que Sc hacen; para deiar Ell
buen nombre del Empleado en- eli lugar
que corresponds, pues dicho suelto puede
dar lugar interpretations.
Sin mas de o. quedo su alto y S. S,
B,S.M.
Enrique Comes,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-09-01

Mapas de D,gour. -Vendense en- Ia i'm
prenta La Marina del Sr. Solves, frente
a la Zaragozaua, los siglientes:
El de la isla de Cuba de rs centfmetros
de alto por 1'O7 de ancho. Contiene mu-
chos detalles, y pianos topografcos de la
Habana, Santiago de Cuba, Puerto Prln-
cipe Trinidad. Ei de Espana con solo
res, tamano metros 1'O7xl'45a Tiene 80
vistas de las pr;ncipales capitales y monu-
mentos. Colecciones de mapas generates
de Europa, Asia, Africa, ambaa Ameri-
cas-, Oceanfa y un mapa-mundi cen ell
itinerario marcado de todas las lineas
de vapores del mundo y cuadros esta-
dIsticos de cada nacion. TamafO, metros
IO6x0'75.
Diehos mapas merecen recomendarse
por la limpieza de su grabado, por 10 mo-
dernos por 10 baratos.
Como es sabido, ell estudio de Ia geogra-
fla, es I'm conocimiento hoy mas indispensa-
bic que nunca, pueslos paises Sc han acer-
cado unos q otros por medic del vapor = la
electricidad sin ella no Sc comprenden
bien los acontecimientos de que nos da
noticia la prenss. FL Sr. Solves hace un
verdadero servicio al pals popularizando
los mapas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-09-01
G O M U MIC A D o S .
Toa-baia, y agoato % de 1876.
Sr. D. Jose Perez Morris.
Puert1-Rico.

Muy Sr. mio: enteraao de la gacetilla
inserta en- su iiustrado psri6dico ndmero
100, referente eatar atragados los sael-
dos De este pueblo, en- el que tengo Ia hon
ia de ser director de la Escuela p6blica
de ninos, hago presente, que solo Sc me
adeuda ell mes dc Julio pr6ximo pasado,
segun manifestation del Sr. Alcalde dele
gado, no Sc me ha podido satisfacer por
no estar terminates los documentos refs-
rentes al cobro.
Igual manifestation hago de la profeso.
ra pGblica, pOr ser la esposa del que sua-
oribe.
Es ouanto ae le ofreoe a su muy ateato
y S. s.
Q. B. s. M,
Cdadido prddOs.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-09-01

Cobze.-Se ha interumpido la comuni
nicacion telegrafca entrc Cayo-Hueso y
Punta- Rasa.
Los despachos Sc enviarAn del primer
punto al segundo en- un vapor especial.
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-05
An UnfashiOnable Wedding.

The London Nesos says: A somewhat remarkable wedding took place @ few days since at St. Georges church, Old Brentford. The bridegroom, laborer at the gas works, not putting in an ap- pearance at the appointed time, the sex ton was dispatched in search of him, and found him smoking his pipe, coming out of neighboring inn, coatless and with his shirt sleeves tucked up, having ap- parently just left off work. On telling him that they were waiting, the man hastened to the church in his shirt sleeves. The sexton observing that the only persons present besides Jones was the bride and her maid, asked who was to give the bride away, when Jones re- piled: "You can do that, guvner." At
 first, it is said, the clergyman hesitated about going on with the ceremony, but finding the parties appeared really seri- ous, he conducted the service in the usual manner, the sexton kindly under taking the duty of giving away the bride. The ceremony being over, the edding party adjourned to the inn, and after partaking of refreshment, the bride proceeded to her new. home, while the bridegroom returned to his work.
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-05
The National Cemeteries.

The report of the officer in charge o1 the national cemeteries of the United States will be sent to Congress with the message and documents. It will be a very interesting paper, and will give the condition of the various cemeteries, now numbering between seventy-fve and eighty, in the country. A correct state ment of the number of interments in these cemeteries has never before been made, and there has always been a doubt as to the number. It is now as- certained to be something over 300, 900, and is divided between the known, and the unknown about equally. In March, 1878, Congress appropriated million dollars for the purpose of erecting mar bic headstones over the graves of the known soldiers. The work of setting these stones goes on rapidly, and will be entirely finished within year. Twenty five cemeteries have been already pro- vided. The granite monument ordered by Congress at cost of $1O, 1000, to be erected to the memory of 11,7OO un- known dead at Salisbury, N. O., has been finished, and will be set in 8 short time. It is an obelisk, about forty feet high, including the base. A wreath surmounts the top, and on the face, in closed in 8 circle denoting immortality, are the words ssPro Patria." Be- heath, in raised characters upon draped pail, are the figures II, 700, denoting the number of unknown soldiers buried there.
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-05
Earth Worms.

These insignificant and unattractive
 creatures are of the greatest benefit tc
 the fields which they inhabit, though
 many have supposed to the contrary.
 They are very humble but efficient ser
 wants of the agriculturist; and far from
 lnjuring his meadow and his garden,
 they devote themselves with praise.
 worthy assiduity to turning over the soil
 to greater depth and more thoroughly than can be done with the best apph- ances known to science. These animals
 (for so they are classified by the natural ists) are scarcely more than animated tubes. They seem to live by taking earth and earthly substances in at one end and passing them out at the other. This simple process of digestion is aid ed, however, by mucuous secretion {; and the worm has habit, when he has filled himself with earth, of ascending to the surface, turning around and working himself back again into the ground. This operation unloads him and the process repeated by millions of his fel- lows cannot but have highly beneficial effect upon the quality of land. It is said by MT. Darwin that these worms have been. known to cover field to the depth of thirteen inches in the course of eighty years. "A slow process, to be sure, but so are all the processes of na- ture. This, however, is not all that they do. They carry their shafts and their galleries to depth of several feet, and cross and intersect in all directions, loosening the soil, opening it to the air and water, and, in short, doing all that they con to help vegetation, without preying upon it or injuring its roots in the slightest degree.