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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-03

The Indianapolis Sentinel is the
happy defendant in two libel suits, dam
ages being laid in each at the respectable
sum of $50 The suits are based
upon the publication by the Sentinel of
certain alleged facts which came to light
in the course Of an investigation into the
management of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
The Imaginative Sex.

Mr.. T. W. Higginson believes in i'm
agination, and that women excel in that
high province of mind. He says: "I
rejoice that in women, at least, here, as
in Germany, the imaginative faculty
still retains it's hold. I remember that
when Mr.. Emerson was lecturing IN
Boston, many years ago, an eminent
lawyer declined going to hear him on
the ground that Mr.. Emerson was so
hard to comprehend but he added,
my daughters understand him and
they CO. The remark was generally
quoted by the lawyers admirers as good
satire, and by Mr.. Emerson's admirers
as good praise. Let any one notice in
our high schools, where boys and girls
recite together, which sex cares the
most for literature; and he will find
that if literature is of any value, the
preference affords grounds on which the
intellect of women may be defended.
Cotton Mather says that Arms sup
ported his blasphemies by first convert
ing five hundred virgins thereunto and
most of our poets have first won their
way by enlisting an admiring constitu-
ency Of women. The imaginative dis
position is there, in the feminine ma
ture but if women have not criticised
MS protouuuiy dAu oIcoIoo do SAnnAys
even in literature and art as men, it is
owing to other causes, often expounded
and forming q part of the general in
tellectual encouragement under which
they have labored. Woman has at Last
fought her way into the field of fiction
and now stands at its head, both in
quantity and quality Of work but it is
true, even here, that she has fought her
way throughsneers and Encouragement.
It is a significant fact that the two
greatest living masters of fiction are
women who have found it for their adj
vantage to write under the names of
Eliot and George Sand.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
The Head Of the Table.

Many q hardship and badge of con-
tempt has been changed to an honor by
using it discreetly and wearing it nobly.
The place of lady HOSTESS at the head
of the table is said to have been first
assigned for reasons less creditable to
the men than we had supposed.
In Queen Eizabeth's time the fashion
came into vogue of placing the princi-
pal joints and pieces of meats at the
head of the table, above the salt, in
order that the chief guests might re-
gale their eyes with the promise of
good cheer before them, and also be
conveniently served to the choicest cuts.
This custom involved the necessity of
carving the meats after they had reached
the table therefore the ladies were
invited to sit at the head of the board,
that they might perform the service
which had before been delegated to the
professional carver.
1t was thus from no desire to compli-
ment the fair sex that woman was, in
the beginning, promoted to the most
honorable place at the table. It was
for the selfish convenience of her lord,
and not for her own dignity, that the
position was accorded to her and as,
in medieval society, she ministered to
her guests by preparing dishes for their
enjoyment, often bearing them to the
table herself, SO she now, in the capac-
ity of carver, continued in the rank of
servitor..
But, with the tact which is her dis
tinguishing characteristic, she has grad
ually converted the oarver's stool into
throne of state, and assumed the right
to preside over the company through
of u1,inh nvsnfno11v authorized
her only to help them with food.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
ROpaace of the Sea.



- A-t ermen.
The Baltimore Sun publishes an in
teresting story from one of the men
rescued from the ice off the cost of
Newfoundland and brought to Balti-
more by the steamer Nuremberg. The
party are all Irishnen, or of Irish de-
scent, and comprised nearly the entire
able bodied male population of the
little town of st. Marys, Newfound-
land. When returning to shore in the
evening of the day on which they board
ed the ice-bourd brig, they found the
ice had parted about a mile from shore,
leaving a space of half q mile of clear
water, when night came on, with q storm
of rain, sleet, and finally snow, incapac-
itating several OF tho party I; and when
morning dawned seven corpses were
counted. A heavy mass of ice twenty
feet square aoated near, upon which
nine of the party got, hoping that it
would drift towards shore, and they
could save themselves.
When it had hoated three hundred
yards from the ice upon which were
their comrades, it grounded, and the
unfortunates remained upon it for three
days and nights, during which time six
of them. All the food they had in that
time was small white fish which was
frozen in the ice.
Tbs eighteen men remaining, after
the nine 6oated of, made their way to
the abandoned brig. ALI expected to
die in her, and some had lost their
senses before reaching her. The ice
moved for a week in sight of land, and
the fisherman were on her ten days.
The narrator says he has a family of
six children and some of those who
died leave families as large. The ten
men will be taken in charge by the
British consul to-day and be sent home.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
Chinese Science.

The Chinese have been astronomers
longer than we have. We have OBJ
servations dating back two thousand
years, a. to the position OF the ecllptic.
Their astronomy appears, however, to
have been very little more than q record
of events, until the empire was CON-
quered about A. d. 1900 or 1850 by q
new monarch, who brought with him
the astronomy of Eastern Asia. They
have an equatorial instrument at least
SIX hundred years of age. It consists
of circle in bronze tipped up towards
the north pole, another circle at right
angles that carries u pointer, playing
around upon the edge of this circle.
In little building are tablets concern
ing the celestial bodies, and also some
memorial tablets of some of the early
Jesuit missionaries, who held the post
of imperial honor in China. On the
top of the wall is the observatory
founded in 1880 or 1910 by the Jesuit
astronomers, who imported some of
from Peking, about q dozen Of those
servation. They don't look much like
modern Instruments, and they are only
occasionally resorted to by the Chinese
savant. To astronomers they are very
curious as works of past astronomy.
Here is q quadrant of Chinese work
manship. Among others is q globe
with the stars set in gold-a beautiful
piece of bronze workmanship. The
Chinese quadrant has an armillary
sphere to determine latitude and longi-
tude. Their large sector can be pointed
in any direction, and will determine the
angle of any two bodies in the sky.
In the quadrant from Paris the French
workmanship in bronze does not excel
the Chinese. The observing chair runs
around the circle pier precisely in the
same way as the observing chair IN the
Cambridge dome runs around there.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

MODERN MEDICAL DIsoovERY.-It is
claimed that disease, with q few ex-
ceptions, has been conquered by the
research and intellect Of enlightened
men; and yet q noted professor of New
York admits that "of all sciences, med
icine is the most uncertain" and that
thousands are annually slaughtered
in the sick room" Certain "schools I"
of medicine are in existence, one of
which "makes the patient i'll, in or
der to claim a cure and another ad-
ministers "sugar-coated bread pills, /"
relying upon nature to effect her own
cures. DR.. J. Walker, OF California,
an old and respected physician. tried
both modes of treatment and both
failed. He then appealed to natures
curative-herbs and now enjoys rug
ged health. He has given the benefit
of his discovery to the world, in the
shape of Vinegar Bitters, and since
its introduction has sold q quantity
almost large enough to make . small
harbor, or to float the "Great Eas-
tern" It's curative properties are at
tested by grateful thousands.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
A Great Volcano.

- In her interesting work, "The Ha:
waiian Archipelago, Miss Isabella Bird
tells of a journey she made to the great
volcano of Mama Loa. This mountain,
which is situated somewhat to the
south of the centre of the island of Ha-
waii, is the highest active volcano in
the world, rising to q height of ID, EGO
feet. The whole of the south side of
Hawaii down to and below the water g
edge is composed of its slopes, its base
being $50 miles IN circumference. ''Its
whole bulk above height of 8, 900 feet
is one frightful desert, though vegeta-
ton, in the form of gray ichens, little
withered grass, and q hardy aspleuium,
extends 1000 feet further up. During
Miss Birds visit to the summit, the
thermometer registered IL degrees of
frost. The crater Moknaweoweo is six
miles in circumference, IL 900 feet long,
5000 feet wide, with precipitous sides
800, feet deep The crater appears to
be in a state of constant activity, and
at times overfows, Carrying destruction
to the Lowest levels of the islands.
Since white men inhabited the islands
there have been ten eruptions from
Mauna Loa.- OF the. condition of the
crater the following description of what
she saw on her visit, accomplished
amid hardships that few men would
care to undergo. will give the reader a
vivid idea: "When the sun had set,
aud the brief red glow of the tropics
had vanished, . new world came into
being, and wonder after wonder flashed
forth from the previously lifeless crater.
Everywhere through its vast expanse
appeared glints of fre-fires bright and
- in, Ii 70 bIoat I'm r
naces fires lone and isolated, unwink-
ing like planets or twinking like stars !;
rows of little fires marking the margin
of the lowest level of the crater fire
molten in deep crevasses fire in wavy
lines fire calm, stationary and restful
an incsndescent lake two miles in
length beneath deceptive crust OF
darkness, and whose depth one dare
not fathom even in thought. Broad in
the glare, giving light enough to read
by at distance of three-quarters of a
mile, making the moon look as blue as
an ordinary English sky, its golden
CLEAN changed to a vivid rose color,
lighting up the whole of the vast preci-
pices of that part of the crater with
rosy red, bringing out every detail here,
throwing cliffs and heights into huge
black masses there, rising, falling,
never intermitting, leaping in lofty jets
with glorious shapes like wheatsheafs,
corruscatinq, reddening; the most glo-
rious thing beneath the moon was the
fire. fountain of Mokuaweoweo." On
the east flank of Mauna Loa, about
4 600 feet in height, is the crater of
Kilauea, which, Miss Bird says, has
the appearance of a great pit on a roll
ing plain. "But such a pit It is
nine miles in circumference, and its
lowest area, which not long ago fell
about 300 feet, just as ice on a pond
falls when the water below is withdrawn,
covers six square miles. The depth of
the crater varies from 800 to LOO feet
in different years, according as the
molten sea below is at flood or ebb.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
The Dictionary Business.

Had the photographers anything to
do with melting the present spelling
match mania Certainly the dictionary
business must be looking up of late.
At any rate the idea is an excellent one,
and it ought to be popularized. When
city superintendent of education and
editor of an educational journal out
west confesses that he has all his life
labored under the delusion that cal
lege" is spelt with 3D." and the chief
of the New York associated press comes
to grief on the word innuendo," and
ex-senator Carl Schurz spells "pianis-
simo" with one "s," and ex-senator
land ex-Vice- Presidential candidate)
Gratz Brown gets foored on "cosmo-
the necessity for spelling
matches is tolerably apparent. In this
an incident about General
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
How Pianos are Injured.

There are more pianos injured by inn
proper tuning than by legitimate use
and the consequent natural wear of the
instrumental. The frame of good piano,
fully strung and tuned, is made to resist
tension equal to about seven tons.
This severe strain relaxes as the strings
recede from pitch, but is renewed when
the piano is tuned, and it is frequently
discovered, as result of this repeated
process, that the frame is bent or bel
lied and, at the hands of tuner lack
ing Judgment, an instrument of this
stage is soon injured beyond remedy.
With reasonable use, piano is expected
to remain in good condition for seven
years, and the best makers will SO guar
antee their instruments but the incum-
petence of some tuners Injuries thou
sands of instruments in few years.
In tuning piano, the correct method
is to begin in the centre of the inStru-
ment, on middle @. Yet many tuners,
when leaving middle @, instead of going
down the scale and tuning the lower
notes first-thus Immediately bringing
the greatest tension to bear upon the
frame, and forming q solid foundation
upon which to operate-will 60 up the
scale, beginning with the highest notes,
leaving the bass strings until the last,
with the invariable result that, when
the tuning of the lower portion of the
piano is completed, the upper octaves
are decidedly away from pitch. Every
time piano is tuned in this manner it
increases the liability of bending the
frame, and renders the instrument more
difficult to tune and keep in tune.
Many tuners do not carefully note the
condition of the frame of a piano, and
adapt their treatment to the circum-
stances of the case, with full knowl-
edge that bent, weakened, or very old
frame will not stand the extreme tension
or sustain the strings at the high pitch
which can be put upon and borne by a
frame and wires which have never been
injured through ignorance or neglect,
and bear no special marks of time or
use. There are very few pianos, even
those of the best description, that will
stand at concert pitch. Were the mat
ter generally understood by the owners
of pianos, they would consider it
greatly to their interest to have their in
struments tuned by persons in whose
hands there is the least possibility of
accident or ipjury.''
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

The liver is the great depurating or blood
cleansing organ Of the system. Set the great
housekeeper Of our health at work, and the
foul corruptions which gender in the blood
and rot out. IS it were, the machinery Of
life, are gradually expelled from the system.
For this purpose DR.. Pierces Golden Medical
Discovery. with small daily doses Of DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets are pre-
eminently the articles needed. They cure
every kind Of humor from the worst scrofula
to the common pimple, bletch or eruption.
Great eating ulcers kindly heal under their
mighty curative influence. Virulent blood
poisons that lurk in the system are by them
robbed of their terrors, and by their persever-
ing and somewhat protracted use tho most
tainted system may be completely renovated
and built up anew. Enlarged glands. tumors
and swelliDgs dwindle away and disappear
under the influence Of their great resolvents.
Sold BY all dealers in medicines.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

Scott, revived. He had drawn up the
rough draft of an order, in which the
word wagon" occurred. The general
inserted one sg" too many, and his
clerk, on discovering it, timidly asked
on what authority he spelled "wagon
with two "g's." "On the authority of
Lieutenant General Scott, commanding
the armies of the United States, sir"
Numbered the pompous old general.
The clerk, at least, thought the author
ity sufficient
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
The Reason Of 1t.

Says a New York paper New York
is crowded with rich unmarried men,
afraid of the expense of supporting
these gilded butterflies. There is q
bachelor at the Sixth Avenue hotel
whose income is $4,000 a year, and
still he says he can't afford to get mar
ried. He's proud fellow, and says as
a single man he can have the best
horses, best room and best box ct the
opera.
eff should get married." he said,
Z" I should have to stint myself or over
draw my income"
"How is that ?" asked friend.
"Well, now, come into the parlor and
I'll show you. You see, ladies' are ex-
travagant nowadays. They dress SO
much more than in Europe. mean,
they don't wear rich diamonds like the
women of Florence and Milan, but they
wear such rich dresses, 1aces, shawls
and furs. Now, I'm proud, and I would
not want my wife outdressed, SO I have
to keep out of the marriage business. !"
do you see that lady there?" he
said. pointing to a fashionable caller.
eyes"
"Well, she has on $40O panniered,
wattaued, polonoised, brown grosgrain
dress, and I wear a $50 coat. She
wears 81, 200 camel's-hair shawl, and
a $500 set of sable, while wear $40
overcoat. She wears $40 bonnet.
while wear an 50 hat. She wears 5000
worth of point applique and point au-
gile, while I wear q Sc shirt. Her shoes
cost $15, and mine $12. Her ordinary
morning jewelry, which is changed
every year, not counting diamonds, cost
$4OO; mine>cost $50"
- swell, how does it foot up ?"
"Why, the clothes she has on cost
50, 225, and mine cost $206, and that is
only one of her dozen outfits, while
only have-say three. The fact is, :"
said he. growing earnest, I" couldn't
begin to live in q prown-stone front
with that woman and keep up appear
ances to match-carriages church din
ners, opera and seaside. for 500, 200.
I'd have to become a second-rate man,
and live in an 18.foot house, or with
draw over TO Second avenue, and that
I'll be hanged if I dol" and he sluug
his fist down into nice silk hat in the
excess of his earnestness.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

A PRETTY Recommendations of our
young readers may like to try the ex-
pertinent OF making hanging garden
of sponge. 1t is pretty novelty. Take
white sponge of large size, and SOW it
full of rice, hemp, grass and other
seeds /; then place it in a shallow dish,
in which a little water is constantly
kept, and as the sponge will absorb the
moisture, the seeds will begin to sprout
before many days. When this has
fairly taken place, the sponge may be
suspended by means of cords in the
window where a little sunshine will GU
ter. 1t will thus become mass of
green foliage, and should be refreshed
with water daily so as to be kept moist.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

The Great Texas Real Estate and Gold Dis
tribution takes place 18th OF May, when 81, 900
acres of choice land in the best portions Of
Texas, near the principle railroads; Is houses
in Houston population 20, OO0) and 2 325 prizes
in Gold Coin will be given ticket holders. The
enterprise is Endorsed by the City Council Of
Houston. Send 81 to J. E. FosTER, tho man.
ager, at Houston, Texas, for ticket, circular,
descriptive pamphlets and maps Of Texas.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

A FRIEND of ours who is chief clerk
in the Governmental Dlspensary, says that no
medicine chest is now complete without john
sons Apodyne Liniment We always sup
posed it was prescribed by law; il it is not, it
ought to be, for certainly there is nothing in
the whole nadte,-id medicd of 30 much import
ance to the soldier and the sailor as Johnsons
Anodyne Linimept
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

ARE you aware that the premonitories
Of consumption are coughs, colds, bronchitis,
pains in the side and chest, difficulties Of
breathing, etc.? If you permit there .ymp-
toms to run on tubercles will be the result,
cure these diseases, use Aliens Lung Balsam
without delay. For sale by all medicine
dealers.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

VETERINARY surgeons all over the
country are recommending SheridAn's Cavalry
Condition Powders for the following trouble in
horses: Loss Of appetite, roughness Of the
hair, stoppage Of bowels or water, thick water,
coughs and colds, swelling Of the glands,
worms, horse all, thick wind, and heaves.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

With persons desiring to exchange Southern or
Western LANDS. deprecated corporation bonds
debts fanny kind for 81. Louis property. bargains
procured for investors In st. Louis properly, and
clients. W ksroOTT HE1HAM a RAIN1Y. ounse-
lors retained to prosecute all IL igaton pertain
ing to titles, corporations, etc. b. B. WADDELL,
Investing Agent. SIG Pine L treet ct. Louis Mo,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

Patented 1873. The best Elastic Truss
Made only by Pomeroy & Co., IA B'dway,N. Y.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

DO mot Despair Your cough can be cured.
DR.. Tutts Expectorant IL the remedy. Thousands
attest its efficacy. Try It.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

The Hot SPRINGS OF KANSAS "A dis
patch from Washington states that
the suit for the possession of the Hot
Springs of Arkansas has been decided
in favor of the government. This will
be good news for the people living in
the struggling village, paying high
rents to claimants of the soil without
being afforded the poor protection of
even a town corporation. The lands
in dispute embrace four sections, tax
ing in the two mountains, all the hot
springs, and the greater portion of the
valley, with the "rat hole" as the CEN
ter Of attraction. The government will
probably establish large hospitals in
the valley, and give long leases upon
portions of the grounds for the erec-
ton OF hotels. residences, etc. If the
government acts wisely in the matter,
the springs will in a short time become
the most populous watering place in
the world.-,St. Louis Democrat.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
Strange Matches.

It is an historical fact that Frederick
of Prussia formed the idea of compel
Ling unions between the tallest of the
two sexes in his dominions, in the hope
OF having an army of giants. The
reader viii, in all probability, recollect
the following ludicrous incident. It 80
happeneds that, during a rather long
ride, the king passed a particularly
tall young woman, an utter stranger.
He allghted from his horse, and insisted
upon her delivering letter to the COM
handing officer of his crack regiment.
The letter contained the mandate that
the bearer was instantly to be married
to the tallest unmarried man in the ser.
vice. The young woman was somewhat
terrified, and, not understanding the
transaction, gave an old woman the let
ter, which was conveyed to the COM
handing officer. and this cid woman
was, In q short time, married to the
handsomest and finest man in the crack
regiment. 1t is not necessary to say
that the marriage was an unhappy one
particularly so to the old woman.
In this connection comes another an.
ecdcte. A rich saddler directed in his
will that his only child, q daughter,
should be deprived of the whole of the
fortune unless she married saddler.
A young earl, in order to win the bride,
actually served an apprenticeship of
seven years to saddier, and afterwards
bound himself to the rich saddler's
daughter for life. But the union was
anything but a happy one; the bride,
neither by birth nor breeding a lady,
reflected little credit on her bride
groom's choice and repeated quarrels
we're followed by separation. So il ia
with all unequal matches gold and
brass won't unite. Common sense says,
" Young folk, marry within the boun-
diary OF your social and religious circle. I"
There is, then, no reasonable ground
for complaint and recrimination. Many
matches which might, with ordinary
prudence, have proved at least moder-
ately comfortable, SO far as regards the
dispositions of the parties, have, through
the inequality OF their social relations,
proved miserable, because, like the
Prussian king, they did not we'll con-
slder what they were about.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17

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