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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-05
A Nice Person.

There is something in the very air of
a nice person which inspires YOU with
confidence, makes you talk without fear
of malicious Misrepresentation you
feel that you are reposing upon nature
which God has made kind, and created
for the benefit and happiness of society.
It has the effect upon the mind which
soft air and a fine climate has upon the
body.
A nice person is clear of little, trump
cry passions acknowledges superiority,
delights in talent, shelters humility,
pardons adversely, forgives deficiency,
respects all mems rights, is never long
and never wrong, always knows the
day of the month, the name of everybody
at table, and never gives pain to any
human being.
If anybody is wanted for party, a
nice person is the first thought of ; when
the child is christened, when tine daugh-
ter is married-all the joys Of life are
communicated to nice people the hand
of dying man is always held out TO
nice person.
A nice person never knocks over wine
or melted butter, does not tread upon
the dogs foot or modest the family cat,
eats soup without noise, laughs in the
right place, and has q watchful and at
tentiye eye"
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Marching On.

Prof. Riley, the state entomologist,
says that the ravages in western Mis-
souri, are indeed alarming. He explains
that the young hoppers will not be
ready to take the wing until the 18th of
June. For a whole month the farmers
of Missouri will have to stand the
scourges. The only approximate relief
that can be gained is through a war of
determination, and farmers all over the
state are called ON to fight them with
rollers, ditching, burning, drowning,
and continual fawing. The professor
recommends to the state authorities to
offer rewards for the destruction of the
grasshoppers by the quantity. Abont
the route of the swarms after becoming
full-winged, there are the most contra
dictory opinions. The most probable
and popular belief is that they will
move westward, northward, and to some
extent, eastward from this state. A
large firm of Wholesale grocers to-day
received by express from the western
part of the state box which, upon
being opened, was found to be com
pletely full of grasshoppers. Accom-
panying the package, was a letter from
heavy debtor, who said unless the
hoppers were received in liquidation of
his account, he saw no way of ever pay
ing his Indebtedness, as these were all
there was left, or in prospect, of the
product OF his section. All the whole
sale houses in st. Louis are receiving
letters by the hundred from their west
ern Missouri creditors, declaring their
total inability to meet their paper, on
account of the plague. The formation
of relief commission, and a thorough
for the work surely in pros
pect, are already being agitated here
81. Louis Special.
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The Altar for the New York Cathe-
dral.

A correspondent of the Boston Daily
Advertiser writing from Rome, says: 81
saw few days ago the altar which is
under the marble workers hands, and
which is to be placed, when finished, in
the New York Cathedral. It is Italian
gothic, and will be dazzling, COL
lection of the most precious marbles.
There are small triple columns of por-
phyry and verd. antique; other little
columns of exquisite malachite; white
merble screens dispered in precious
porpbyry, verd-antique, oriental alabas-
ter, malachite, gallo antico, apis-lazuli,
etc Six little white marble statues of
the Apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke,
John, Peter and Paul stand between
beautiful columns of glittering mala
chite. The tabernacle is incrusted with
precious marbles The basreliefs on
the altar front are in white marble; the
Agony in the Garden the Clearing of
the Cross, on either side, and the Last
Supper in the center. It is a superb
work. It's only fault is the quantity of
,'etail. 1t lacks unity it has no effect
as whole. and am afraid its wonder
full exquisite workmanship will be lost
in a large cathedral. Still it is not yet
completed. 1 saw it only in parts,
there fore my judgment or criticism is
premature. When seen close at hand
it must, however, be admired. 1t is
fine enough to put under glass; rich in
color, precious in material and most
delicate in execution"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-05
ONE BY ONE

They gathering homewArd from every land,
One by one.
As their weary feet touch the shining sand,
One by one.
Their brows are enclosed in a golden crown,
Their travel-stained garments all laid down,
And clothed in white raiment, they rest in the mea
Where the Lamb loveth his chosen co lead,
One by one.
Before they rest they pass through the strife,
One by one.
Through the waters of death they enter life,
One by one.
To some are The floods of the river still
A. they ford their way to the heavenly hill
10 others the waves run fiercely aud Wild
Yet all reach the homo of the undshled,
One by one.
We, too, shall come to that rivers side,
One by one.
We nearer its waters each eventide,
One by one.
We can hear the noise aud dash of the stream
Now and agsiH in orr lifes deep dream;
Sometimes the floods DER the banks oerhow,
Sometimes iii rppes the small waves go.
One by one.
Jesus! Redeemer, We look TO Thee,
One by
We lift up our voices trembingy,
One by one.
The waves of the river dark and cold.
We know not the spots where our feet may hold;
Thou who ddst pass through the deep midnight,
Strengthen us, send us thy staff and the light,
One by one.
Pant Thou Thy feet beside as we tread,
One by one.
On Thee let lean each dropping head,
One by one.
Let but Thy mighty arm round us be twined,
Well cast all our cares and fears to the wind.
Saviour! Redeemer! with thee in full view,
gadsomely. shall pass through,
OHe by one.
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and when it is may we be there to sect.
Well, you'd better believe it wasn't
long before that wedding came off,
but we didn't risk it in a church again.
And we might have admitted the tradi-
tional five hundred friends. for we had
become celebrities but Bessy wanted
quiet wedding, averring as reason
that among five hundred people there
must of necessity be one or more luna
tics. Miss Spicer was gracious and
stood up with us again, but John
Charles had taken his departure to
realms unknown, SO we had to put up
with an ordinary man. The wedding
came off this time without an inter
ruption and don't fail to look in upon
us, Tom, and wish lis Joy"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-05
AbOrieines of New Mexico.

In Bancroft's account of the native
races of the Pacific states the following
facts are given in relation to the Indians
of New Mexico The disparity in phys
ical appearance between some of these
nations, which may be attributed for
the most part to diet, is curious. While
those who suDsist on mixed vegetables
and animal food present tall, healthy,
and muscular development hardly ex-
celled by the Caucasian race, those that
live on animal food, excepting, perhaps,
the Comanches, are small in stature,
wrinkled, shrivelled, and hideously
ugly. All the natives of this family,
with the exception of the Apaches
proper, are tall, wellbuilt, with muscles
strongly developed, pleasing features,
although at times rather broad faces,
high foreheads, large, clear, dark-color-
ed eyes, possessing generally extraordi-
nary powers of vision, black, coarse
hair, and, for a wonder, boards. Taken
as whole, they are the most perfect
specimens of physical manhood that we
have yet encountered. While some,
and particularly females, are of light
copper color, others again approach
near to the dark Californian. Women
are generally plumper, inclining more to
ODtbily buhH tu0 uoI. iOOLuo COLuelV
girls are spoken of among them, but
they grow old early. In contra distinc-
ton to all this, the Apaches proper. or
Apache nation, as we may call them,
are slim, ill-developed, but very agile.
Their height is about five feet four to
five inches; features described as ugly,
repulsive, emotionless, flat, and APP
preaching the Mongol cast, while the
head is covered with an unkempt mass
of coarse, shocky, rusty black hair, not
unlike bristIes. The women are not all
behind the men in Hgliness. and pleas
ing face is a rarity. A feature common
to the family is remarkably small feet
in connection with which may be men-
toned the popularity which obtains ON
the Lower Colorado of having the large
toe widely separated from the others,
which arises probably from wading in
bottoms. All the tribes whose
principal subsistence is meat, and more
particularly those that eat horse and
mule flesh, are said to exhale peculiar
scent, something like the animals them
selves when heated. Among American
tribes of the tropics it would be inter
esting to ascertain whether there is
real foundation for the accounts of
fair tribe, with light hair and blue eyes,
in Costa Rica, the so-called Gnatusos
said to be descendants of English mutt
neers from Sir Francis Drake.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-05

The BULLET IN CARRUTH's BRAIN. -
Carruth, the Vineland, N. j., editor
who was shot through the head by
Landis. still lives, and his case is re-
markabIe in the annals of surgery. His
homeopathic doctors, who were called
in the case to the exclusion of one of the
most celebrated surgeons in Philadel-
phia, have given him but one medicine
since the begi nning. They have admins
tered arnica internally with the view TO
prevent inflammation, and have not yet
attempted any surgical operation. The
The orifice of the wound is in fact con-
tracted, and the use of the probe is con
sidered injudicious. The ball is sup
posed to have lodged near the eye upon
the skull, and should it become en-
cysted there is hope that the patient
may recover. That he still lives and is
cons cious is either marvel of nature
or a triumph of medical skill.
The taxable wealth of Texas ia said
to have been increased thirty three per
cent. in four years.
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Longevity Of Jews.

According to statistics, gathered in
France, Algeria and Prussia, the Jewish
race is remarkable for longevity and
immunity from disease. Its mean aver
age duration of life exceeds that of
Christian races by about five years.
This tenacity of life is due to the in
beritance of a sound physical constitu
tion and to the watchful care of the
mother over her offspring. These two
causes insure the Jews comparative
security from maladies that decimate
other races. Tschudi states that the
plague of 1916 did not affect the Jews
of any country. Frascati asserts that
they completely escaped from the cpl
demic of typhus in 1906. Rau mentions
that the same immunity from typhus
was observed at Langeons in 1924.
According to Ramazzi, they were free
from the Intermittent fevers prevailing
at Rome in 1851. And, according to
Degner, they suffered nothing from the
dysentery that ragged at Nimenguen in
1916. 1t is said by other authorities
that Group is extremely rare among
Jewish children, and that they have
very little scrofala.
On the other hand. M. Ribaut says,
in his work on "Heredity," that inter
marriage has exerted q baleful influence
on the Jewish race by sowing the seeds
of mental disorders. He declares that
the number of Jewish deaf-mutes is
enormous, and that idiocy and insanity
are very frequent. According to table
of German statistics quoted by this au-
thor, there is one idiot in Silesia to $50
Catholics, TO 408 Protestants. to 514
Jews in Wurtemberg, 20 4, 41S Catho-
lies, to 3 POT Protestants, to 1908 Jews;
and one lunatic in Bavaria to 908 Catbo-
lies, to 967 Professionals, to 514 Jews in
Hanover, to 500 Catholics, to GAL Pro
testants, to 1877 Jews in Silesis, TO
1855 Catholics, to 1 1854 Protestants, to
624 Jews; in Wurtemberg, to zoos
Catholics, to 2,028 Protestants, TO ,544
Jews.
The mortality among Jewish children
in London from one to five years of age
is rated by DIR. Stallard at ten per cent,
while among Christian children it is IA
per cent The average duration of life
of the Chris ian in London is 81 years,
and that of the Jew, 1863
1t is an interesting fact that there is
larger proportion of boys born to the
jews than to the Christians Prof
Waltz gives 100 female to 2O3 male
births among the Jews in Berlin 100 to
l2O In Livorno and 100 to Ill through
out the Prussian dominions.
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CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, JUNE 5, 1875.

lection, long the glory of his residence
IN the Rue du Cherche-M Midi, and su-
premely rich in French pictures of the
eighteenth century, to the Louvre the
Rue DIES Artists sinks the general in the
particular and becomes the Rue Gayar-
nj Fragonard is to be commemorated
on the corners of what was the Rue
Philbert Delorme the Rue Chariot
takes the name of the great painter
Troyou; and the Rue des Vignes, the
name of the sculptor of Washington
and Voltaire conjunction strangeD
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-05
" by Men Become Bald.

Because they wear close hats and
caps. Women are never bald. Some
times, from long confined headache,
heat in the scalp, bad hair dressing and
| some other causes, women may have
| bare spots here and there but with all
these combined, you never zee woman
| with bare, shiny, bald head. And
YOU never see man lose a hair below
where the hat touches the skull. 1t
will take it off as clean as you can shave
| it down to exactly that line, but never
hair below, not if he has been bald
fifty years. The common black stiff
hat, as impervious as sheet iron, retains
the heat and perspiration. The little
ton to the hair that the seed wheat does
to the plant above ground, become
weak from the presence of the
moisture and heat, ard finally be-
come two weak to sustain the hair. 1t
falls out, and badness exists. A fur
cap we have known to produce complete
badness in single winter. A man
with a good head of hair needs very
little protection where the hair grows.
Women who live much within doors,
and who are, therefore, susceptible to
the cold, oil their hair and plaster it
down hard and fiat upon their skulls, so
as to destroy nine-tenths of its power
as a n-conductor, have worn for years
postage stamps of bonnets stuck on the
back of their skulls, and then going out
of furnace heated parlors, have ridden
hours in very cold temperature
without taking cold and without com.
plant.
Man, with his greater vigor and
habits of outdoor life, and with his |
hair not plastered down, but thrown up |
loose and light, could no doubt go to
the north pole, 80 far as that part of his
person is concerned, without any artif-
cial covering. And yet we men wear
immensely thick fur caps, and do not
dare to step ont into chilly atmos-
phere a moment lest we take cold. 1t
is a silly, weak and really serious error.
The Creator knew what he was about
when he covered mans skull with hair.
1t has very important function in pro-
1t will never occur in any
man who will wear a common black
high silk hat with five hundred holes
more hole than hat. This costs moth
ing; the halter will do this for you
when you purchase your hat. If the
nap be combed the wrong way, and
after the holes are made it be combed
the right way, no one will observe the
The hat will wear quite as
long-the matters say considerably
it is dry instead of
moist in brief, there is not single
objection to it, while it will certainly
prevent badness and keep The top of
the head cool and prevent much head
ache
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-05

Political affairs in France can not be
half so exciting as the kilograms would
have us believe. The prefecture of the
Seine has found leisure to occupy itself
with the good old sport of changing
the names of the Paris streets and it
is a pleasing illustration of the respect
IN which the arts are held in France that
the government has given the artists
their share OF these mnGcipal honors
The Rms Saint Paul ID TO be known
hencrf"itb as the Rue Henri ReenauIt
the Rue du Chen'in de Fer becomes the
Rue Lacaze, in honor of the great
amateur who presented his superb col
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ALL.
NOT LOST.

The look Of sympathy, the gentle word
Spoken 50 low that only angel heard
The secret art Of pure self-Sacrific.,
Unseen BY men, but marked by angels eyes:
These not lost.
The sacred music Of tender strain,
Wrung from potts heart by grief and pain
And chsnted timidly, with DOUBT and fear,
To busy crowds, who scarcely pause to hear:
These are not lost.
The silent tears that fall at dead OF plight
Over soiled robes. that once were pure ard white;
The PRAYERS that rise. like incen~e from the soul
Lonstug for Christ tn make il clean and wholes
These are no. lost
Inc harpy DREAMS that gladden~d all our youth.
Mnen OF ans had less Of SILT end more OF truth
Ire chndhooi's faith. SO tranquil and so sweet,
winch sat IKE Mary at the Masters feet:
These are not lost.
The kindly plans devised for others good,
So seldom gnes<ed. little understood;
The quiet, steadfast love that strove to win
some wanderer from the ways Of sin:
These are not lost.
Not lost. Lord for, in Thy city bright
Our eyes shall see the past by cearer light,
And things lore hidden from orr gaze below
Thou wilt reveal, and shall surely know
Thy were not lost
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-05

The PROFESSIONS AND THE PREsI-
DENoY.-The confident prediction by
SO old and intelligent a statesman rs
Hon. Alexandria n. Stephens that the
next president of the United States will
be Journalist, suggests the inquiry rs
to how the different professions have
Jared in the past in the distribution of
that honor. A hasty review of the list
will be found to result somewhat as
follows:
WASHINGTON, soldier Tyler. lawyer.
Adams lawyer. Polk. lawyer.
Jefferson, lawyer. Taylor, soldier.
Madison, statesman. Fillmore, lawyer.
Monroe. lawyer. Pierce, lawyer
J. Q. Adams, lawyer. Buchanan, lawyer.
Jackson, soldier. Lincoln, lawyer
Van Buren, lawyer. johnson, lawyer.
Harrison, soldier. Grant, soldier.
1t is true that Jackson was a lawyer
as we'll as a soldier judge as well as
a general--but as it was his career as
fighter that made him president, he is
credited to that profession. So Pierce
was brigadier-general in the Mexican
war but he didn't distinguish himself
peculiarly as warrior, so We apply to
him the correlative of the proposition
that we apply to his great democratic
predecessor. 1t should, perhaps, be
explained with respect to Madison that
he studied law, but seems TO have been
drawn into public life too soon to make
any progress in the practice.
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The Secret of EIOUuence.

An admirer of Mr.. Bright writes to a
Manchester paper that he has discov-
cred the secret of the power this great
speaker possesses of riveting the atten-
ton of his audience. This he believes
to lie in the fact that he uses moposyl-
tables very largely. The grand pas
sage in Mr. Bright's speech on the
Burials bill describing Quaker funeral
begins, "I will take the case of nv
own sect" and on counting the words
of that remarkable Grafton it will be
found that out of one hundred and
ninety words one hundred and forty
nine, more than seventy five per cent. :,
were monOsyllables. On this it is
urged that those in charge of youth
should teach them the use of monosyl-
tables. An American journal lately
mentioned a school where such pains had
been taken to instruct the boys in the
art of public speaking that if they had
learned nothing else they had acquired
the greatest contempt for all the de
vices OF stump oratory. The course of
study prescribed left to the imagina-
ton, bnt doubtless includes the traus.
lation into monosyllables of the pom
derous verbiage which passes current
in most political assemblies as gen
uine eloquence. 1t would, however,
be cruel to insist on the introduction
of such teaching into any of the
" standards" Many are obliged to
speak who have less to say than Mr..
Bright, and to them the sesquipedalia
Uerbo are Indispensable PdH Man
EnzsffC.
" YoCNG ladies are growing colder
and more selfieh every day." sad vet
ran cynic, "nnd how fe . dc We find
now who love a man enough to hang
around a barber shop for Il lock of his
hair
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-05

MARK TwAIN's UMBRELLA. The
following advertisement appears III
the Hartford Coursnt: Two hun
bred and five dollars reward. At
the great base ball match on
Tuesday, while 1 was engaged
in hurrahing, a small boy walked of
with an English made silk umbrella be-
longing to me. and forgot to bring 1t
back l will pay s. for the return of
that umbrella il good condition TO my
house on Farmiugton avenue. L do not
want the boy On an active state). but
will pay $500 for his remains.
SAMUEL l.. CLEMENS.
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Skating Bellies.

Mr.. Conway writes of skating Kinks in
England and says A noted belle of
Brighton is at this moment laid up by
an accident suffered at the rink. All
her upper teeth were pressed through
her under lip, the teeth becoming dis
located, and she has been under the
combined attention of the surgeon and
the dentist for a week. A second
beauty has broken her thumb, and a
third her leg; but they are reported to
be heroic, feeling that they have suffered
for great cause, and complaining only
that some little interval must elapse
before they can again fly over the rink:
One thing was especially observable, I
thought, that no company of English
ladies ever appeared out of doors in
such really beautiful costumes before
1t is true that when 1 selected, by invi-
tation of q Brighton friend, the lady
that seemed to me the most beautiful
and the best dressed. was informed
that she was an American but the
complacency with which learned this
did not prevent my saying that there
was not an ugly or addressed woman
among the gallant six hundred. There
was not a highly colored, not sensa-
tionaI, not 'loud" dress among them.
The dresses were short, though not SO
short as is usual among fair skaters in
America, and they we're all free from heav-
mess. There stood on the sides of the
rink, looking on, a few ladies dressed
in the eight" French fashion, which is
Just beginning to appear among lis, but
that fashion was in sharp contrast with
the loose draperies of the skaters. If
the new fashion should become general
over here there will have to be special
l.
it is difficult to see how, in the tight
style, any of these young danes could
perform the graceful curves and brave
evOlutIons which now excite so much
admiration. l am told that the physi
clans declare that for sanitary advan-
tages the seaside air and bath are of
little importance compared with this
new exercise, which is gradually finding
its way to all places of resort.
QUEER TEXAS RIvERs.-The rivers
running into the Gulf of Mexico from
Austin, the centre of Texas, to Mexico,
fills one with astonishment. They burst
out tt the foot of the GuadalOupe noun
tains, full fiedged rivers. Streams of
crystal water large enough to run the
largest mill wheels burst out of the
solid rocks. Lately 1 forded the San
Marcus river ten rods below it's source,
and it was three feet deep, seventy feet
wide, and ran with great velocity. SO
it is with the Rio Grapde river below
Fort Quitman, and with the Cebelo,
Medina, San Antonio, San Pedro, Soiado
and Guadaloupe. They oil burst out
of the ground full fiedged rivers, cold,
clear and full of ice. L found quite
large rivers in Colorado and Kansas,
last winter, which disappeared in the
sand at one place, only to emerge and