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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-13
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-13
THE GRAPHIC,

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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
Mother Songs.

The Chicago Tribune is responsible
for the following: "Say, can you sing
that-er lovely new song, the-er-um,
about the fellows mother, you known
said an indefinite but agreeable young
man the other evening at small social
gathering to the prima donna of the oc-
casion. (Which young man, and what
about his mother?" answered the lady,
because there is good deal of mother
in the ballad literature of the present.
"I-er-don't exactly know, you know,
um," replied the young man. "Was
it Mother, kiss me in my dreams, or
Just before the battle. mother or
'Lemme kiss him for his mother or
Thinking, mother dear, of you,' or
Mother, come back from the echoless
shore, or Dear mother, I've come home
to die which," responded the girl.
"No, no." said the enamored youth;
"none of those; its something about the
old woman's getting old. Oh, | know"
he concluded, with burst of relief,
conviction, and intelligence; cit begins
Mothers teeth are falling out" The
assembled company rose with cnthu-
siasm and unanimisy, and were just
about hanging him to the front gate
post, when his quick perceptions enabled
him to discover that the title of the piece
was Fathers hair is turning gray"
The young man stated in justification
that he had Il poor ear for music and a
bad memory for dates.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
How to Sleep.

The endless difficulties, pcrplexities
and Estates of mind" into which writer's
upon hygiene are constantly getting us
with their contradictory notions about
what we shall eat, and what we shall
drink, and wherewithal we shall be
clothed, is something fearful to contem-
plate. 1t has long since been said that
if man partook of food which all
agreed upon as perfectly healthful, he
would starve to death directly. 1t seems
to he the delight of some writers to over
throw the few principles which por-
ton of mankind have considered be-
yond a question. For example, sleep
ing with the window open has long
been regarded as 1.-THE" thing to do in
order to live long and happy, and some
of lis has endured martyrdom for the
sake of principle, and dressed and I'M
dressed, and shivered and shook in our
determination to live according to the
rules of health. But all to little pur-
pose, if the following is correct: DR..
Hall says: Cold bedchambcrs always
.imperil health and invite fatal diseases
Robust persons may safely sleep in a
temperature of forty or under, but the
old, the infant or the frail, should never
sleep in a room where the temperature
is much under fifty degrees of Fahrcr-
heit. All know the danger of going
direct into cold from i; very warm
room. Very few rooms, churches,
theaters and the like, are even warmer
than seventy degrees. If it is freezing
out of doors it is thirty degrccs-the
difference being forty degrees more.
Persons will be chilled by such il change
in ten minutes, although they may be
actively walking. But to lie still in
bed, nothing to promote the circulation
and breathe for hours an atmosphere of
forty and even fifty degrees, when the
lungs are always ninety eight, is too
great change. Many persons wake
up in the morning with inflammation of
the lungs who went to bed well, and are
surprised that this should be the case
The cause may be often be found in
sleeping in room the window of which
has been foolishly hoisted for ventila-
ton. The water cure journals of the
country have done an incalculable III
jury by the blind and indiscriminate adj
vice of hosting the window at night
The rule should be everywhere during
the part of the year when fires are kept
burning, to avoid hosting outside win
dows. 1t is safer and better to leave
the chamber door open, as also the fire
place-then there is draft up the
chimney, while the room is not SO likely
to become cold. If there is some fire
in the room all night the window may
be opened an inch. 1t is safer to sleep
in a bad air all night with tempera-
ture over fifty, than in a pure air with
a temperature under forty. The bad
air may sickcn you, but it cannot kill
you; and cold air can and does kill very
often.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

for black silk suit for 10. these two
years. And just at this very time,
| above all others, have wanted it, and,
what is better, there actually seemed a
probability of getting it until this last
tax bill doomed up. And now my
black silk is to be swallowed up by this
cormorant, the internal revenue man
may it choke him until he is the color
Of my hopes and my silk. Yes, |
wished that suit above all things this
winter, because Mabel Moore, my near
est friend, is to- have one, and because
-because-I might as well confess it,
Frank san would look positively ma
jestic in Il silk robe; that was already
Il quecnly-looking girl, and that with
this addition, | would look nothing less
than an empress. Frank seems very
fond of Tom; and yet he is more than
five years older; at any rate, he is con-
stantly dropping in and asking about
his last specimens of birds, bringing
him book, or even slip from news
paper, or something hearing upon his
speciality. We have always been init
mate with Franks family, but l never
remember his coming so often to our
house as he docs now, and is of course
more companionablc Frank is a
handsome fellow, and is always so polite
to mother and me. He told us last
night that he had been assigned to the
first desk at Coleman's, which promo
ton gives decided addition to his pay
Franks taste about ladies' dress is cX-
cellent, and he admircs Il black silk
more than anything else. He hap
pened to mention last night that the
Moores invited him TO spend Tuesday
evening with them, and that he found
them so very agreeable as family.
Query: When Mabel gets her silk,
will they not invite him around again,
and will he not find them still more
agreeable? OF course, Frank is moth
ing special to me, but would enjoy so
much having opinion of my silk, and
hearing him say if 1 did really look
like an empress. Besides, 1 know he
likes Mabel better than any of the
girls in the town except myself, and l
can not for the life of me help thinking
that when she wears her 'dimpling
silk" as the poet styles it, and 1, as
usual, my brown merino with the over
skirt heightened, of course) she may
outrank me with him.
But here comes mother, with her face
a shade paler, and those two lines be-
tween her brows deeper than when she
went out, so | know she has had to
make Il sacrifice of that one hundred
dollars which she has accumulated, al
most cent by cent, to give me that
dress, and she must not know that
have been all this while talking about
my troubles.
Well, must say
"The hopes of youth fall thick the BLAST"
and if Frank goes much to the Moores'
this winter, and takes Mabel to the
Choral Union oftener than he takes me
will it not be that she looks so elegant in
her silk, and look so old-timey in, my
brown merino?-.Sunny South.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
SCIENCE AND ART.

THE ZODIACAL IIGHT.--DurIng his
residence in the island of jamaica in
1868 and 1869, NJ. Houseau assiduously
observed the zodiacal light for six
months consecutively, and has now
communicated the results to the Bel
gian academy. M. Houzeau has for
more than thirty years devoted great
attention to this pulling phenomenon,
and he is fortunate in having now OBJ
tanned such fine series of observations,
the boundary of the zodiacal light is
having been carefully determined by
him on 56 nights out of the 179. As
far as these results go, it appears that
the zodiacal light is not appreciably in
clined to the ecliptic, and does not APP
proach to coincidence either with the
plane of the suns equator, as Cassini
supposed, or with that of the moons
orbit, as Jones has more recently sug-
gested The observed deviations from
the plane of the ecliptic are explained
by M. Houzeau us the results of greater
absorption of the light of the lower or
southern side by our atmosphere,
which is, of course, less transparent
near the horizon. From these obser-
vations, NJ Houzeau concludes that we
must reject both the hypothesis which
regards the zodiacal light as an append
age of the sun, and that which assign
it to the moon; and since, if it were a
ring round the earth, it would be seen
as complete arch in the sky crossing
from the east to west, the author is
driven to the conclusion that it is Il fam
shaped sector, somewhat similar to the
tail of comet, spreading from the
earth towards the sun, thinning off
each side of this direction, so that it
extends to about 400 on the side to-
wards which the earth is moving, and
go or TOO on the other side. This
must, of course, be modified, if we ac-
cept these observations in which the
zodiacal light has been distinctly traced
right across the heavens from east to
west; but M. Houzeau's conclusions are
founded on his own observations alone.
For the period of his watch there was 4
sensible diminution Of brightness, the
zodiacal light being seen in January,
1869, as readily as a fourth-magnitude
star in twilight, while by June it was
not so bright as the fifth magnitude.
From observations on his voyage to
Rodrigues and back, with the Transit of
Venus Expedition, Mr.. Burton has
been led to very different conclusions.
He was provided with il binocular spec
troscope devised by himself specially
for this work, and with this he deter
mined the spectrum of the zodiacal
light to consist of continuous band
with a bright line in the yellow Corning
the boundary of the spectrum on that
side) and dark line in the green.
This same spectrum was given by every
part of the sky unoccupied by the Milky
Way, most important observation,
which, in combination with the change
of form of the zodiacal light seen when
the observer passed from $. to n. lati-
tudes, shows, according to Mr.. Burton,
that it reaches and probably surrounds
the earth. From the spectrum seen, as
well as from the fact of polarization in
a plane through the axis of the zodiacal
light, Mr. Burton further concludes
that it is emitted by matterpartly liquid
and partly solid, intermixed with gas.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
The Religion We Want.

We want religion that bears heav-
lily not only on the Exceeding sinful
ness of SIM" but on the exceeding ras-
cality of lying and stealing; a religion
that banishes small measures from the
counters, pebbles from the cetton-bags,
clay from the paper, sand from the
sugar, chicory from the coffee, alum
from the bread and water from the milk
cans. The religion that is to save the
world will not put all the big strawber-
ries at the top and all the little ones at
the bottom. 1t will not make one-halt
pair of shoes of good leather, SO that
the first shall rebound to the makers
credit and the second to his cash. 1t
will not put Jouvin's stamp on jenkins
kid gloves; nor make Paris bonnets in
the back-room of Il Boston milliner
shop; nor let a piece of velvet that pro-
fesses to measure twelve yards come to
an untimelv end at the tenth. 1t docs
not put bricks at five dollars thousand
into chimneys it contracts to build with
seven-dollar material; nor smuggle
white-pine into floors that have paid
for hard pine; nor leave yawning cracks
in closets where boards ought to join.
The religion that is going to sanctify
the world pays its debts. 1t does not
consider that forty cents returned from
one hundred cents given is according to
the Gospel, though it may be according
to law. 1t looks on Il man who has
failed in trade, and who continues to
live in luxury, as a thief lie Christian
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
SUBMlS SION.

The sparrow sits and sings, and sings;
Softly the sunsets lingering light
Lies rosy over rock and turf,
And reddens where the restless surf
losses on high its plumes of white.
Gently and clear the sparrow sings,
While twilight steals across the sea-
And still and bright the evening star,
Wrinkles above the golden bar
That in the West lies quietly.
Oh, stcadfastly the sparrow sings,
And sweet the sound, and sweet theitouch
OF woons winds; and sweet the sight
Of happy natures deep delight
In the fair spring desired SO much!
But while so clear the sT1rrow sings.
A cry Of death is in my ear;
The crashing of the rivpn wreck.
Breakers tlrit sweep the shulderinGssieck,
And sounds Of agony and fear.
How is it that the birds can sing?
Life, is - full of bitter pain:
Hearts wrun1 with hopeful grici:
Woe is so long and Joy 50 brief
Nor shall the lost again return.
Though rapturously the sparrow sings,
No bliss Of nature can restore
The friends who's. hands claSped warm,
Sweet souls that through the night and storm
Fled from the earth for evcrmor-.
Yet still the sparrow sits and sings,
Till longing. mourning. sorrowing love,
GRIPPING to find what hope may he
Within deaths awful mystery,
Reaches its empty arms above.
And, listening, while the sparrow Sings,
And soft the evening shadows fall,
Sees through the crawdin- tears that blind,
A little light, and seems to find
And clasp Gods hand, who wrought il all.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

We propose to give our young read
ers a few ''points' with regard 70 the
candy question. The next tine that
your mother predicts that you will
not have a tooth in your head from
eating so much candy, reply pleasantly,
but firmly, that Henry, Duke of Beau
fort, for forty years ate nearly pound
of sugar-candy daily, and yet died at
the age of eighty witha full set of per-
feet teeth in his head. If this is not
enough, crush your parent completely
by remarking coldly that every school
boy knows that Cleland, in his "Insti-
tutes of Health" mentions a MIR. Nal
lory, who was extremely fond of sugar
and addicted to its use, and who reach
ed the ripe age of 100 years, having
had good teeth until he was four-score,
and then actually cut new set! lfyour
father comes to your mothers relief
assure him that teeth have been soaked
in syrup for Il whole year without any
perceptible effect, and that the best
authorities now say that sugar is good
for children. Now, if this isn't a fire.
brand we don't know what is.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
House Decoration.

House decoration has only within the
last ten years been studied as an art i'll
e,vr, the large oitiv- of this country. 1t
is no wonder, therefore, that the mass
of householders have scarcely as vet
learned its alphabet. Before they be-
gin to learn it we would suggest two or
three maxims so apparent as to be plat
itudes; the first of which is, that beauty,
while it begins in cleanliless, by no
means ends there; and, secondly, that
it has no Unborn relation Whatever to
the style or fashion; thirdly. that in
default of good models, nature is the
best teacher, although we confess it re-
quires some culture or a native gift of
insight to understand her lessons The
farmhouse builder, with his unlimited
swash of white paint, could have learned
some truths from the woods, or even the
well-tramped road beside him. He will
nowhere in nature find permanent,
glaring, white coloring, in masses. The
hue of the earth, pale grays, browns,
yeliows, may give him hint OF Il base
of color for his walls: and for their re
lief, the darker shades of the moss, OF
weeds, which he may study on any damp
stone or fence-rail The peculiar graf
ifcation to the eye given by the price
less work of Turkish and Persian looms
is caused by precisely he same combi-
nation of colors rs those OF the lichen
in October on the bark of an old tree
1t is popular rule, too, with house
keepers, more ambitious than aesthetic
in their tastes, to buy IL carpet or wall
paper, which Of itself " furnishes" a
room. Nature, as they may see hv
looking out Of the window, has chosen
her carpet and drapery Of quiet monot-
onous tints, to serve as Il background
for small and fine effects. We can dc
little more than suggest this subject tc
readers, with the remark that room
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
A SIGH.

How can live, my love, 81 far from thee,
Since far from, thee nv spirit droops and dies
What is there left, my love, for me to
Since beauty is concentrated in thine eyes?
NV only life is sending thee my signs,
Which, sweet birds fly home from deserts lone,
Fly swift to thee each swift moments flies,
Uprising from the current of my moan.
But closed is still thy hear, of steiI-,
And my poor signs drop murdered at thy feet;
For which while in grief do sigh and groan,
New hosts arise to meet death sweet.
Then love- give scorn for ii love thou didst give,
How could love thee in thy sight and live?
VIRGINIA VAUGHN.
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CANTON MISSISSIPPI, NOVEMBER 49, 1879

without Il well-marked meaning is a
body without soul; but that the slight
est intrusion of pretension or assertion
of wealth into that meaning only gives
vulgarity as soul to the body, and
makes it offensive, when it night have
been on dull. -Sc,iJmer's Montlih
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
A Truthful Pilot.

A truthful Pilot.
The passenger, who was going down
the big river for the first time in his
life, secured permission to climb up be-
side the pilot, grim old grayback who
never told lie in his life.
'Many alligators in this river?" in
quired the stranger after a look around.
"Not so many now, since they got
to shootin' 'em for their hide and tai
Ter" was the reply.
"Used to be lots, eh?"
81 don't want to tell you about EN-,
stranger" replied the pilot, signing
drearily.
"Why?"
"'Cause you'd think l was alvin to
you, and that's sumthin' l never do.
| kin cheat at keerds, drink whisky or
chaw terbacker, but / can't lie"
''Then there used to be lots of 'em?"
inquired the passenger.
'Pm most afraid to tell We, Mister,
but I've counted 'leven hundred ally
CATERS to the mile from Vicksburg cPar
down to Orleans! That was years ago,
afore shot was ever fired at EN-"
"Well, l don't doubt it" replied the
stranger.
"And I've counted 3,459 of 'em on
one sand bari" continued the pilot
at looks big to tell, but government
surveyor was aboard, and he checked
'em off as | called out"
81 haven't the least doubt of it,"
said the passenger as he heaved IL sigh.
'Tm glad o that, stranger Some
fellers would think | was liar when
Pm telling the solemn truth. This
used to be paradise for allygatcrs,
and they were so thick that the wheels
of the boat killed an averaged of for
ty-nine to the mile"
''Is that so?"
'True as Gospel, Mister! / used to
almost feel sorry for the cussed brutes,
cause they'd cry out even most like a
human being. We killed lots Of 'em,
as | said, and hurt pile more. |
sailed with one captain who allus car
ricd thousand bottles of liniment to
throw over to the wounded ones!"
''He did?"
"True as you live he did. l don't
spect I'll ever see another such kind,
Christian man. And the alIygators
-k,aa1r- e-Nn,.oy J...rv, and ~
know Capt. Tom, and they'd swim out
and rub their tail agin the boat and
purr like cats and look up and try to
smilew
"They WOULD"
'SOlemn truth, stranger And once
when we grounded on IL bar, with an
opposition boat right behind, the ally
CATERS gathered around, got under her
stern, and bumped her clean over the
bar by a grand push! 1t looks like a
big story, but l never told lie yet and
| never shall. | wouldn't lie for all
the money you could put aboard this
boat"
There was a painful pause, and after
while the pilot continued:
"Our mines gin out once, and a
crowd of allygaters took towline and
hauled us forfy-fivc miles up stream to
Vicksburg"
"They did,"
"And when the news rot along the
river that Capt. Tom was dead, every
alligator in the river daubed his left
ear with mud a. Il badge of mournn'
and lots of 'em pined away and die,il"
The passenger left the pilot-house
with the remark that he didn't doubt
the statement, and the old man gave
the wheel a turn and replied:
''Thar's one thing | won't do for
love nor money, and that's make liar
Of myself. | was brung up by good
mother, and I'm going to stick to the
truth if this boat doesn't make
cent = TichsLug Heruld
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

Two of the law students, on certain
sabbath, strayed into the church where
they were strangers. They walked the
whole length to the pulpit, and not Il
single pew was opened, or Il single seat
offered to them. With quiet dignity
they turned, marched out again, went
about mile to the school, and then,
returning with chairs, made their APP
pearance in the aisle. They had no
trouble after that time in finding open
doors in that church.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

RUSSIAN INDUsTRIEs.-In 1866 Rus
STA had one hundred foundries and
machine shops, only fifty-two of which
were provided with steam. At the
present time there are three hundred
and sixty-two of these establishments,
seventy-nine of which are exclusively
occupied with the manufacture of agri-
cultural implements. Statistics arc to
hand concerning one hundred and sew
enty-nine shops only; these employ
46, 1928 workmen. In 1865 there were
two hundred and twenty-five locomo-
tives made in Russia; last year the
number was seven hundred and ninety
eight. A large number of English
workmen are employed in Russian en-
gineering shops, but they complain OF
being treated as naturalized Russian
subjects; that is to say, their personal
rights and liberties are but little re-
spected
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

There's nothing like knowing what
to do i'll sudden emergencies. The
other morning, when man fell over
board from the Fulton ferry steamer,
a long haired man who sat reading a
newspaper rose up and called out:
stop her-back- ahcad-throw
him a plank-stop the boat-givc him
a rope-lowcr boat where's life
preserver? stop this boat" The vic
tim was saved. OF course he would
have been drowned but for the efforts
of the long-haired man.