The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-01
GR1TE IND GAY.


George Eliot says: at is well
known that in gambling, whether of the
business or holiday sort, man who has
the strength TO leave off when he has
only ruined others is reformed charac-
| ter"
An English journal says that rolled
iron sheets .0015 of an inch thick have
lately been made at Warrington SO fiex-
ible that they bend almost as easily as
paper, and yet so tough as to be torn
with difficulty.
"A little Boston boy was inconsolable
at the loss of toy balloon that escaped
from him and went towards the clouds,
the other day, because, as he said, it cost
him twenty-five cents, and he didn't
want God to get it for nothing.
"A Masonic jewel, costing nine hun
bred dollars, was presented to Albert
Pike, the sovereign commander of the
ancient and accepted Scottish Rite
Southern Jurisdiction, recently in Wash
ington. The presentation was made by
Hon. Robert Toombs, of Georgia
Somebody has imported from Paris
a very novel and elegant rosewood bed
stead with headboard twenty feet high,
inlaid with mother, father and all the
others of pearl! In the footboard is
musical box, and by pressinga mob with
your foot you can be played sweetly to
sleep .- ...-.,
GA CANTANNA."
From that hundredcitied west,
West that grows like weed possessed,
Ranges down on all my doors
Country cousins, countless scores;
In posish, in posish
To enjoy the exposish;
Come to stay, come to stay,
While loud voices rise and coll
"Put some more cots in the hail."
Weltering my children cry,
Sweltering, my children cry.
AS they wonder to and fro:
Well, this is indeed a go"
While their guests of both the sexes,
Move about from day to day.
Doing buildings and annexes.
The forty-fourth annual report of
the American Baptist Home Mission
society shows fair balance in the hands
of the treasurer. The receipts for the
year ending April l, 1876, for mission
and educational purposes, are S175,534,
a falling, off of S25, 900 from the previous
year. The permanent trust fund amounts
to 500, 900; the conditional trust fund to
500, 900. t..F. e.. -.-.,
The whole number of Presbyterian
churches organized in the synod of the
Pacific since 867 has been seventy-three;
in the synod of Colorado, forty-three;
making, in both synods, one hundred and
sixteen. During the same period forty
.wo church buildings have BEEN erected
IN the Pacific synod, andtwenty arenow
being built. a,.f.l - ~,l,
1t is said that. a Hindoo weaver has
invented "a sort of loom by which he
IAN sew coats and pantsbloons, and all
other dresses whatever" and the process
Dy which this is done is thus described
~ a person who has personally inspected
,he invention: CAT first he cuts the
cloth into shapes and puts. these into his
Dom; and they come out we'll sewed,
md the seams are quite unperceivable,
unless we touch them by our hands and
they are like thick threads. The cloths
are sooner and better sewed than by the
,ewing-machine."
Egyptian women have the prettiest
hands in the world, and both American
md Partisan ladies are noted for the
beauty of their hands and feet. The lat
ter, who are exquis:tely nice in every
detail regarding the adornment of their
person, give particular attention to their
fingers and nails. Those who are able to
,fford it, have person called manicure
to prepare their hands every day. The
process takes something like half an hour,
md the result gives the soft skin, hand
some almond-shaped nails, and the white
half moon which is outlined on the low
,r part of the nail next to the skin.
From twelve to thirty dollars month is
earned by an experienced manicure, and
about six hundred persons, both men
and women, are said to follow that pro-
fession in Paris alone. '~