The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-03
ADVERTISING RATES.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
SOME observer who has noticed thu
effect of great religious awakeningI
might do the good cause a service bJ
publishing the number of old debit
that are paid after each revival. There
are scoffers who affect to believe that il
an amount has been overdue a very
long time no religion in the world will
make the debtor hunt up and pay the
man he owes.
AN English picture collector recently
bought an enormously valuable cold
master" on the Continent, and, in or
der to get it into England under light
duty, had q modern "daub" painted
over the old master. When they
washed off the daub the old master
went with il. and left behind a portrait
of George III /; 80 it wasn't a very old
| master.
The most potent poison yet discov-
| cred is osmium, q species of metal,
twenty pounds of which is sufficient to
poison the entire population of the
world. One-thousandth part of grain
of oemic acid set free in q volume of
air of one hundred cubic yards would
possess such deadly influence that all
the persons respiring this air would be
nearly killed. Osmic acid is 80 much
the more dangerous that no counter
poison is known against it. To what
good uses such terrible poison can be
applied is not stated.
The rattlesnake, the most dreaded
reptile of America, is bravely attacked
and killed by the antelope. The man.
ner of attack is curious and effective.
As soon as the snake is discovered,
the male antelope commences trotting
swiftly round the enemy, seemingly
with the purpose of confusing it.; then
springing high into the air, and bring
ing his four sharp hoofs together, as he
descends with all his weight upon the
snake. The instant he touches it he
separates his feet with a quick move
ment, and tears it to pieces before it
has time to strike.
THE southern baptists have Joined
heartily in the plan proposed by the
American Baptists education commits
sion for the celeb alton of the APP
preaching Centenary of American In
Dependence. The Nashville Advisory
committee, which met Feb. %, passed
resolutions urging the formation of
state committees in the states it repre-
sents, namely: Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri. Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, and Texas. The COM
mittee recommended the endowment of
the Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary, and of the denominational insti-
buttons of learning in each state.
MARY E. APRONS was advertised by her
husband in San Jose, California, as
having left his bed and board without
Just cause, and so forth. Mrs. Arbons
in a card, In which she said
that she had been married ten years,
and in that time had cooked about ten
Thousand meals, spent fifteen thousand
hours over ahot stove, borne six children,
MIXED COWS over ten thousand times,
and performed other heusewifely duties
in proportion. She adds: al have
drawn the picture very mildly. have
made allowances for my sickness, when
I have had help, something after the
way that farmer wonld hire q horse if
bis own was sick aud unable to work.
I had nothing when / went there, and
nothing at the end of those ten years of
,ervitude."
In the Malavan Peninsula large apes
IF naturally intelligent breeds are en-
oloyed by their masters much in the
same way that human slaves are made
use of in some parts of Africa. The
palm is valuable for its fruit,
but this is very difficult to procure, SO
The landlord Of tope of palms trains
his apes to climb the trees and Judi
,iously pick The richest nuts for him.
The apes seem to delight in the work.
The apes thus employed in the neigh
oorhood of Singapore and Penang are
bred in Atchin, and the owners timer
ate and hire them out. They go up
he trees with line attached, and obey
The command of their masters, choos-
ng the proper fruit. They twist the
nut round and round till it falls down
rom its stalk, when the feat is hailed
IN the part of the apes by jumps and
,huckles of evident satisfaction.
OUR secretary of legation at st. Pc
ersburg has a Deutsche-sounding
Schuyler. 1t has been said of
ate that on account of his curious and
leep dives into Russian matters, Prince
iortschakoff had asked his recall. The
aying is denied from st. Petersburg.
t is significant fact, however, that
he Russians are extremely bitter
,gainst the Germans, and all that
macks of a German sound. They
ave 80 far received all their civilization
imported by German heads and hands,
nd manifest tendency to kick out
Yard from their own sterility. Clever
Germans monopolize their big and diff
ult jobs and places, could not be done
,ithout, reside in the country, and
ecessarily excite jealously. Todtle-
en-, tho defender of Sebastopol, was
and by that fact was a target
Dr. the national Slavonic spleen.
THE American traveller in England
an scarcely have failed to notice the
of railway stations along
le road by flower. beds and pretty lit.
9 gardens. These cultivated areas
re commonly the unused land lying
ong each side of the track at the en-
ance to the station. Occasionally
,ere is a somewhat fantastic taste ex-
ibited by the station-master but a
w freaks of design may we'll be par
oned in view of the healthful ambition
lat led to them. These garden-spots
scome matters of pride and zeal with
le station masters; they employ what
ould otherwise be idle hours; and
,nce they are not only a char n to the
aveler, but a means of agreeable
lange to the otherwise monotonous
titles of thu railway officials. We
lould be glad to see in America as
evalent taste for flower culture as
Ids almost everywhere in England.
Ostrich Feathers.