The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-13
ADVERTISING RATES.
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
THE Indian remedy for removing the
dandruf- the scalp.
INDIA has now 8, ZOO, 900 acres of land
devoted to cotton cultivation.
WHEN Boston man takes Russian
bath he imparts a. dark stain to sixteen
| gallons of water.
THERE are only three women in Mil
waukee who can direct an envelope
straight without first drawing line
with pin.
A "pLE1sE hefp the po-r" box in
Philadelphia received only four cents
during the yesr 1874, and three of these
were very thin cents. ..... j., 5-...- L
A CALHoRsIA man advertises for a
wife, beauty no object, but wants her
friends to deposit 81, 500 with him as
security for her good behavior.
THE danger of dabbling in French
politics is shown in the fact that more
than 20, 600 persons have been arrested
in France for iasurreetionasy commun-
ism. I'll ..t..,...,.lf f
An elephant is ], 227, 1856 times larger
than flea, but yet there are. women
who growl at paying two shillings to
visit menagerie and, will turn a feather
bed over for half day to hunt flea. {
ALL the axes and buck-saws found in
the ruins'of Pompeii are of light make,
as if constructed for women's use.
Those old ancients knew their little
business. s t.-s ,t....,i-.li- . -
4 PARIS merchant who refused toad
vertise was challenged by an editor and
shot. The-msn-who-suys anything
against advertising deserves to be shot
on the spot. .-.4....., ..t -..-.
ADMIRAL PORTER says we have no
navy, and that there are a hundred
iron clads in Europe. any one of which
is capable of destroying in action our
whole fleet combined. 4f'iH CO s'i'f,
THE Indians at PstosKy, according to
the Clam Lake News, have the follow
ing expressive if not elegant saying for
one of the Grand Rapids and Indiana
railroad employee: s".Vgh. much talk,
id little do.
VAsoUEz, the noted bandit of Califor-
mia, has been convicted of thirty seven
and distinct murders. We al
ways said that when man goes into
any kind of business he ought to do his
best to make success of it.
IF you wish to drown yourself, kick
and splash about as violently as You can,
and you viii soon go to the bottom.
But If you remember you are lighter
than water, and il you calmly and
steadily refrain from drawing your
breath while under the water, keep your
head raised, ana your arms under, You
will soon learn to float and swim like
duck. .. ...-.l 20, d
KATE, in a note from Brooklyn, ex- "a
presses her wonder that men generally :.
are not better killed in the art of look
ing at pretty woman in the street-cars. :
She says that all girls are pleased to.
have their attraction recoe nized in a
certain gentle way-the eyes lingering .
for an instant only-but- a pro-
longed stare from a man, no matter how
handsome he may be, excites nothing
but feeling of annoyance and disgust.
STATISTICAL tables show there are in
the whole world about one hundred and
sixty four cities with 100, 900 inhabitants;
nine with over LOCO, 900; twelve with
from /, OOO, 600 down to 500. 900; twenty
with from 600, 900 to 400. 900; thirty.
three with from 200, 600 to 300. 900; and
ninety with from 100, 900 to 100000.
The aggregate of these>large cities COM
prises so, 900, COO or INHABITANTS, that is
to say the wenty.eighth part OF the en-
tire population of the globe.
TIE Paris gossips call the marriage
of Mile. Giulia Strakosch daughter of
Mr.. Maurice Strakosch, and niece of
Patti, Marquise De Csux, with M.
Ernest Bourdillon, young and rising
advocate of the Cour d'Appel, splen-
did match-a love match in the bar
gain, thing not always found in
France. M. Bourdillon. is handsome
young fellow, OF. very polished man
ners, and will Ger. ainly make his mark.
Mile. Strakosch is a sweet and winning
young lady, who inherits the musical
,alents of her parents. A very large
md fashionable assembly assisted at
;he nuptial bensdiction at the Church
If Saint Augustin. IL ...-rts-.. d. -t
AN interesting relic of by-gone time
,ss lately disappeared with the death,
IN December %, Of Lord Byron's valet,
Falcieri,. at the age of seventy eight.
After the poets death, his friend Sir
John Hobhouse, afterward Lord Brough-
on, took Falcieri into his employ as
,ourier. Before long. however, the
courier returned to his former calling,
md continued to serve as valet with
Isaac Disraeli, author of "The Curl
,sities of Literature" and father to
he present Prime Minister, until his
masters death. In 1852 LORD Brough-
on got him berth as messenger at the
BOARD of control. He was q very
pleasant, obliging person, and as assist
mt to the head office-keeper, the po-
tie old italian, with his broken Eng
ish, was often held in friendly chat by
hose who came across him in the way
If business.
IRON IN THE CoLoRING MATTER OF
and Jolly, in
memoir presented to the Paris acad-
my, have proved: First, that the iron
,xists in the blood disks in the state of
. tribaric phosphate. Second, that the
lematin does not contain iron-what
.lready Chevreul observed when he
tated that the composition of the COL