The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
SUNDAYS II 1876,
THR Moex.
FROM ALL SOURCES

The public debt statement for De
millions of dollars.
Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, IN his
message to the Legislature, gives rather an
encouraging exhibit as to the condition and
prospects OF the state, but frankly acknowl-
edges that the city of New Orleans il bank
rupt-
The outlook in the coal mining re-
gions of Pennsylvania is unusually gloomy.
In the Schuylkill district eighteen thousand
men, and in the Wyoming fifteen thousand
are out of employment In the Lehigh dis
trict the operatives are working from one to
three-quarters time.
MIR. and Mrs. Lane, and several
children, arrived in Memphis from Mississippi
the other day without money enough be-
tween them to pay the january interest on six
and-a-fotfth cents worth of Tenn. ssee bonds
They took rooms" in an old, diInpidated
house, ~here they had neither food nor fire
On Thursday an infant Lane came into the
world to see how the rest of the family were
getting along; on Sunday another put in an
appearance, and on Monday q third waltzed
in among them. On Monday-but the wires
are down, and we don't know what happened
on Monday-Lo1isrWe Conrier-.JourRdl.
Should the reign of legality be
Northumberland long as Marshal Mac
Aahon remains at the helm it will not be
interrupted-the senate may come to play a
conspicuous and effective part in the future
destiny o. France. Acting in conjunction
with the executive, it may battle the con-
spiraeies OF slemagogues. 1t may, however,
act as arbitrator between the passions of
parties in the other chamber. Those who
argue from the impotence Of other French
senates in times Of crisis and disorder to It's
impotence during normal and tranquil
period argue from false analoyics.-London
Noaidrd.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., has
written letter to the Quincy Partiot on the
subject of the education derived from the
reading OF miscellaneous books. Mr..
Adams, who is one of the trustees of the
public library Of the town, says that four
hfths of the book eduation we all have is ac-
quired from miscellaneous reading. Schools
and school teachers have nothing to do witt,
it; but it is home acquired. He considers
the reading Of book, in itself, the poor mans
university. In referring to circulating and
public libraries, and the kind of literature in
most demand, he says that three-fourths of
the demand is always for the most vapid and
sensational book"
Almost every day we hear of some
horrible accident caused in descending pits
vaults, and into wells for the purpose of
cleaning them out. Generally they result in
the death of more than one person, as those
who, in the hope Of rescuing the one who
as just descended, enter into the deadly
atmosphere are likewise overcome by it.
These sudden checks to the liberalization of
the blood producing death, are owing not to
the absence OF part Of the oxygen in the air.
but to the presence OF carbonic acid. By
taking the precaution to lower a bucket Of
quick lime and water, which would remove the
earbonic acid by absorption, before entering
such places, these accidents could be pre-
vented and many lives saved.
The dial of the great Westminster
clock is twenty-five feet in diameter, cover
ing exactly four hundred square feet. The
weight has Il fall of one hundred and seven
ty-hve feet. 1t is the largest dial with min
ute hands in the world, although the clock
at Michlin has dial of greater size. There
L-e FIVE bells for Ginning the quarter and
striking the hours, the largest of which
weighs over thirteen tons, with q harmer
weighing four hundred pounds. 1t takes
over ten minutes to wind up the movements,
while the striking part, including the quar-
ter chimes and the hour, take five hours
each, at a cost Of $500 a year. In eighty.
three days in the year the clock varied only
enc second.
The following statement of the
quantity of ova sent out from the McCloud
river salmon breeding establishment APP
pears in the San Francisco Bulletin: Sent
to Connecticut, 10000 eggs; to Massachu-
sets, 10000; to Rhode Island, 100000; to |
New York, 10000: to New Jersey. 10000 to |
Pennsyivania, $4,000 to MARYLAND, 500 900: |
TO Virginia, $4,000; to Michigan, 10000 |
to Illinois, 10000; Wisconsin, 10000; Ia |
Minnesota, 10000; to Iowa, 800 600; to Colo |
RADIO, 10000; to Utah, 100000; to Kern and |
Truckee rivers for Gala, 10000; to New |
Zealand, 5000; to Canada, 5000; for the |
United States fish commission, 1000, 900
now Matching mt the establishment for Sacra-
nento river and tributaries, 100000. The
Total number of impregnated salmon eggs
AIKEN was $4,000. The above shipments
made over eighty bushels liz bulk, and il
ook $50 bushels of moss from Mount Shasta
n pack them in. When packed they
weighed ten tons and filed 156 boxes feet
quare by s inches in depth.
a hand-bouquet recently purchased
Or New York belle, composed Of sirplsnts,
r. ,sl neal roses, lilies Of the valley, violets,
inA roses, and other choice flowers, though
M n small aEa.r coet $50 stare bouquets